acclivity

Example Sentences

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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 Reid, Mayne

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 Brown, J. Irwin

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 Hamilton, J. Angus

The steep cliff on the right was also scaled, several rifle sub-divisions of the 49th climbed the acclivity up to La Cluse, and the Colberg Grenadiers advanced to the foot of Fort Neuv.

From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Helmuth, Count

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 Vincent, J. E. (James Edmund)