declivitous
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But four miles inland the bed becomes rugged and declivitous, and the mountain walls close in, forming a most magnificent cañon from 1,000 to 2,500 feet deep.
From The Hawaiian Archipelago by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
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 J. J. Howard
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 Évariste Régis Huc
The road proved quite as rough and declivitous as its reputation.
From Alias the Lone Wolf by Louis Joseph Vance
