acclivity

When the advanced trenches of the enemy started, volleys came also from the ridge of the acclivity leading from the river-bed to the emplacement of the nine-pounder Krupp.

From The Siege of Mafeking (1900) by J. Angus Hamilton

Declivity, de-kliv′i-ti, n. a place that declines, or slopes downward, opposite of acclivity: inclination downward: a gradual descent.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

It extends about 2 m. along the river bank, occupying a slight acclivity which reaches its summit at Windmill Hill, whence extensive views are obtained of the river, with its windings and shipping.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various

To gallop horses already blown against that steep acclivity would have been to kill them.

From No Quarter! by Mayne Reid

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 Mayne Reid

Straining up acclivities, floundering through swamps, struggling with the rapid currents of rivers, this detachment succeeded in penetrating more than two hundred miles into the enemy's country, and to within twenty-five miles of Burlington Heights.

From The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2 by Joel Tyler Headley

Their road lay around the head of St. Inigoe's creek, and soon became entangled in dark, woody ravines and steep acclivities which presented, at this hour, no small interruption to their progress.

From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by John P. Kennedy

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

Above the trees the climb became harder and the ground of the roughest, stony acclivities choked with brushwood.

From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Walter J. Buck

This pair strolled out through the wooded acclivities of the park which looks down over the city and, between blossoming redbud trees, found a spot favourably secluded for their interview.

From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck