declivitous
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Everywhere on the declivitous waysides, tow-haired, blue-eyed children guarded herds of goats, as their forbears had done in the days of Vercingetorix, the Gaul.
From The Mountebank by William John Locke
But four miles inland the bed becomes rugged and declivitous, and the mountain walls close in, forming a most magnificent cañon from 1,000 to 2,500 feet deep.
From The Hawaiian Archipelago by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
The road proved quite as rough and declivitous as its reputation.
From Alias the Lone Wolf by Louis Joseph Vance
It was immediately drawn tight, and by its aid we gained the bank, and began ascending the side of the barranca, composed of rugged, declivitous rocks, affording but scanty foot-hold.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 by Various
We hesitated for some time whether we should undergo the fatigue of travelling over such declivitous mountains without any palpable reward.
From A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition by William A. Ross
