sloping upward

The knife should always be applied directly above a bud, and sloping upward from it.

Rather was it a pyramid, four-square, broad at the base, sloping upward not steeply to the apex.

This street seemed to run directly to the summit of the mountain, sloping upward at a sharp angle.

Still gently sloping upward, the path lead them out into a vast clearing, girdled on all sides by great trees.

Sloping upward from the bay on one side, and encircled by a dense primeval forest on the other, the village stood.