acclivity
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Passing through a toll-gate I ascended an acclivity, from the top of which I obtained p. 604a full view of the castle, looking stern, dark, and majestic.
From Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery by Borrow, George Henry
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
She sate negligently in her saddle—the undulating outlines of her majestic form rendered more conspicuous by the movements of her palfrey, as it strained up the acclivity of the hill.
From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne
Instead, her eyes were fixedly bent upon the face of the acclivity opposite—more particularly on a riband of road that went winding up through woods from Drybrook to the “Wilderness.”
From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne
The road running up the steep acclivity was of no great width—nothing resembling the broad macadamised “turnpike” of modern times.
From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne
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