acclivity

Their horses were not Saladins, and the best of them had become blown in their gallop against the steep acclivity more than a mile in length.

From No Quarter! by Mayne Reid

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

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

He had been able to see over it, only by standing back upon the sloping acclivity of the counterscarp.

From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid

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

A few miles to the south-east of Wilmot Horton River the cliffs are six hundred feet high, and present acclivities having an inclination of from thirty to sixty degrees, formed of weathered slate-clay.

From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by John Franklin

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

Up the narrow acclivities leading to these mesa crests the Mokis must bring all provisions, all water, their ponies and donkeys.

From Through Our Unknown Southwest by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut

The sandstone predominates in some parts of the range, forming small cliffs, underneath which there are steep acclivities of sand.

From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by John Franklin

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