acclivity

Straight and white it showed to the acclivity by the Roman ruin.

Yet there was hope, for just ahead and above him he saw a gentle acclivity rising toward the summit of the canyon rim.

It is a large village situated on the acclivity of a mountain and lies on a river.

At eight o'clock it descended the farther slope, the acclivity of which was much less abrupt.

He and Langley came to the end of the street, where the ultra-violet pavement joined itself to the desert acclivity.

He stumbled to his knees and clawed his way up the steep acclivity that led to the surface.

Manfred toiled up the steep acclivity after him, still casting anxiety-stricken looks around.

The eldest settlements are acclivity, lane and also have adjoint buildings.

At last he walked his steed up the acclivity, carrying his rifle at the ready.

Riding up the gentle acclivity toward the city was a party of green warriors, mounted upon their great savage thoats.

Acclivity, in Kurdish, 1981.

With a wide sweep of hand, Lord Kian gestured at the great acclivity hemmed by the mountains.

"Quite elated at being so near the Happars, I pushed up the acclivity, and soon gained its summit.

Markley, seeing his companion's weird fate, also started toward the acclivity, with some dim instinctive idea of rescuing Morris from the inverted stream.

Skill, insight, and power steadily flow to them; and, apparently without effort, they climb step by step the steep acclivity where influence and fame abide.

For a considerable distance on either side of the stream, the acclivity was hollowed and worn smooth as if by landslides or a process of slow attrition.

About 90 hectares of vineyards with up to 83% of acclivity make the site one of the largest contiguous southward slopes at the Moselle.

The glades of the forest, and the acclivity which leads to it, were in full view of the Royal army, but presented the appearance of a deep solitude.

The Victoria soon descended the slope opposite to the Rubeho, skirting an acclivity covered with woods, and dotted with trees of very deep-green foliage.

One after another the five crawled through the small aperture and following the corridor ascended an acclivity, lighting their way with candles taken from the den of the carnivores.

The description from 1848 goes on to say that he 'has a handsome seat here, called Hylands on the western acclivity of the valley, commanding extensive views.

Without the town, on the acclivity of Hymettus, there is a rocky recess which he pointed out to me as the spot where he would wish to repose."

Toward noon, ascending a slight acclivity, Shoz-Dijiji was suddenly confronted by the head and shoulders of a white man as they topped the ridge from the opposite side.

Flagmen are stationed upon every mile of the road, generally at the curves, or upon a slight acclivity, where a view of the track for some distance can be had.

They saw the bouldered crest of the acclivity flowing far beneath them; and then they were floating, floating, ever higher in the moonlight, above leagues of dim desert.