acclivity

Example Sentences

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This was a small hill-town, girt by a ruinous wall, and buckled with crazy towers, which topped an acclivity on the right of the valley, and commanded the road.

From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Weyman, Stanley J.

Two cyclists skimmed along the sluice-road, taking the next steep acclivity with all the rush they could get out of their headlong free wheel down the steeper, and somewhat dangerously winding, hill before.

From The Heath Hover Mystery by Mitford, Bertram

Then the acclivity ends, and surmounting the roll of its brow a great flat wooded space, with here and there the distant hump of a mountain jutting against the sky, lies spread out in front.

From Fordham's Feud by Mitford, Bertram

They had gone but a short distance up-stream when, as they ascended a slight acclivity, Bill was seized with intense excitement.

From Settlers and Scouts by Strang, Herbert

Chepstow stands on the side of an acclivity, overlooked itself on all sides by loftier hills, so that from every part of the town a different view is obtained. 

From The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble by Ritchie, Leitch