declivitous

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Its chasms resemble the declivitous shores of the sea; the wind often fills them with snow; the paths are almost impracticable, the descent is so rapid and slippery.” 

From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Huc, Évariste Régis

The road proved quite as rough and declivitous as its reputation.

From Alias the Lone Wolf by Vance, Louis Joseph

It was immediately drawn tight, and by its aid we gained the bank, and began ascending the side of the barranca, composed of rugged, declivitous rocks, affording but scanty foot-hold.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 by Various

Rapid 'twixt banks declivitous, they seek The ocean.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.

Everywhere on the declivitous waysides, tow-haired, blue-eyed children guarded herds of goats, as their forbears had done in the days of Vercingetorix, the Gaul.

From The Mountebank by Locke, William John