declivity

Now we were east of the trail, meandering across a treeless declivity with no obvious route at our feet.

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2022

Fires in the region often start in this steep and inaccessible declivity, served by a single main road that meanders alongside the water.

From The Guardian ● May 5, 2020

A sharp declivity separated the rear of the patrol from those farther up the hill.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2012

In 1905, pilgrims carrying everything on their backs had assembled it near a declivity used for Christian worship since about the 11th century, and possibly for ritual murder long before that.

From Washington Post

Siddhartha wandered along a strange, twisted path of this last and most base declivity through the game of dice.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse

Tucked into this landscape are hidden canyons, plunging declivities formed by water and wind, spots the novelist Denis Johnson once referred to as the “secrets of the horizons,” and today I am heading for one.

From New York Times ● May 14, 2012

Dragging their mountain artillery through profound snowdrifts, up incredible declivities, they slowly encircled Rombak Heights, moving patiently from crag to crag to blast German machine-gun nests on crags opposite.

From Time Magazine Archive

He knew, in Yeats' phrase, their dark declivities.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Jack was pointing to the high declivities that led down from the mountain to the flatter part of the island.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

They are found in depressions on the declivities of which they grew, and they lie with the top lowest, always falling toward the bottom of the valley.—Vaupell,

From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh