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Off we whirred, along conventional seaside roads, and up, from the flat ground whereon Clacton-on-Sea stands, climbing a sensible but not difficult acclivity until we had almost reached Great Holland.

From Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by J. E. (James Edmund) Vincent

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 Cyrus Townsend Brady

From the ridge of this acclivity we could watch the cloud shadows, violet and purple, sweeping over wide moors, and by their subtle contrasts bringing out the soft shimmering of the distant sunlight.

From The Further Adventures of O'Neill in Holland by J. Irwin Brown

Here and there, as the horses go more slowly up a gentle acclivity, you turn round to reconnoitre a little, and find that there is a charming view behind.

From Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches by Helen C. Black

Valrennes posted his men behind two large trees that had fallen across the road on an acclivity, and, from this position of vantage, inflicted considerable loss upon the invaders.

From Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 by William Dawson LeSueur

On the other, there rose a range of blue, solitary hills, towering, as they receded, into loftier peaks and bolder acclivities, till they terminated on the snow-streaked Ben Weavis.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 by Various

Does it grow on steep acclivities, or does it seem to prefer gentle slopes or level ground?

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer

This hill, like many South African acclivities, is a natural defence, very steep, and covered with stone, and low bush or scrub.

From The Cape and the Kaffirs A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland by Harriet Ward

The moat is filled up, and, with the acclivities of the ramparts, is made a public walk and garden.

From England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel by Joel Cook

Little or no vegetation is seen on them; and their acclivities, covered for miles with graves and tombs, serve as the necropolis of this vast city.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various