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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A Middle English form of steep.

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Examples

  • Mongols still loling their arse off when they remember how Chinese tryed to make their stepe and waste Land to "green oase with Bamboo and happy smiling pandas" back in 50-70ens..

    John Mauldin's "geopolitics of China" Sun Bin 2008

  • Doe you not see great trees, whose toppes doe rise aloft, aboue high hilles and stepe mountaines, soner shaken and tossed with blustering windie blastes, than those that be planted, in fertile dales and low valleis?

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • By blacke is vnderstand ful of darkenes & consequently stepe downe and verye depe.

    A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry

  • Either way the leafs need to stepe it up and so do the people at the toronto sun.

    Toronto Sun 2010

  • Ferrara, or whiche bee builded upon a Rocke, or upon a stepe hille, as

    Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498

  • Vnde et * « * stepe legas apnd Homemiii, aliofqiie: QOTPIA.

    Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel .. 1792

  • And take onyons and mynce horn and put hom in the pot, and set hit on the fyre and let hit sethe [boil], and take bred and stepe hit in wyn and vynegur, and drawe hit up and do hit in the potte, and pouder of pepur and clowes, and maces hole [whole], and pynes, and raysynges of corance [currants], then take and parboyle wel the hare, and choppe hym on gobettes [small pieces] and put him into

    Mistress Margery Emily Sarah Holt 1864

  • 7 The entrance therof narrow, and set in a stepe place, so that on the right hand there was fire, & on the left depe water: 8 and there is one onlie pathe set betwen them, that is, betwen the fire and the water, so that the pathe can not conteyne, but onlie a mans steppe.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2 Anonymous

  • 7 The entrance therof narrow, and set in a stepe place, so that on the right hand there was fire, & on the left depe water: 8 and there is one onlie pathe set betwen them, that is, betwen the fire and the water, so that the pathe can not conteyne, but onlie a mans steppe.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

  • (if they could find any stepe to ground their malice on) then any other whosoever.

    Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts William Bradford 1623

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