acclivities

The simplest things will become steep acclivities.

Les Miserables 2008

Happily these acclivities wound up the interior of the volcano and favored their ascent.

The Mysterious Island 2005

Happily these acclivities wound up the interior of the volcano and favored their ascent.

The Mysterious Island 2005

Would the interior acclivities of the crater be practicable?

The Mysterious Island 2005

Would the interior acclivities of the crater be practicable?

The Mysterious Island 2005

Over the course of the next hour he watched them disappear and reemerge, light and fleet on the straight-aways, plodding and stealthy on the sharp bends and acclivities.

Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

Over the course of the next hour he watched them disappear and reemerge, light and fleet on the straight-aways, plodding and stealthy on the sharp bends and acclivities.

Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

Over the course of the next hour he watched them disappear and reemerge, light and fleet on the straight-aways, plodding and stealthy on the sharp bends and acclivities.

Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

After Ellena had quitted this pastoral camp, no vestige of a human residence appeared for several leagues, except here and there the towers of a decayed fortress, perched upon the lofty acclivities she was approaching, and half concealed in the woods.

The Italian 2004

There were now a great many well armed natives around us, and though they were very kind and friendly, I did not like the idea of their occupying the acclivities immediately above us — at all events, not during my contemplated absence from the party.

Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1 2004