acclivity

Example Sentences

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To gallop horses already blown against that steep acclivity would have been to kill them.

From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne

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

In the rear was a narrow pass, with a steep acclivity on either side.

From Legends of The Kaw The Folk-Lore of the Indians of the Kansas River Valley by Voe, Carrie de

Off we whirred, along conventional seaside roads, and up, from the flat ground whereon Clacton-on-Sea stands, climbing a sensible but not difficult acclivity until we had almost reached Great Holland.

From Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by Vincent, J. E. (James Edmund)

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