acclivity
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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
With beating heart and throbbing pulse, Newbold himself bounded up the acclivity after the stranger, marking as he did so evidences of the other's prior ascent.
From The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado by Brady, Cyrus Townsend
He had been able to see over it, only by standing back upon the sloping acclivity of the counterscarp.
From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne
Jautor is surrounded by towering sierras, and we proceeded on foot up a rough goat-track, choked with strong brushwood, and leading up the steep southern acclivity.
From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Buck, Walter J.
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
Vocabulary lists containing acclivity
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce
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"A Horseman in the Sky" by Ambrose Bierce
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The Return of the Native
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