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- noun Plural form of
declivity .
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"declivities" or "slopes" (R.V.), i.e., the undulating ground lying between the lowlands (the shephelah) and the central range of hills.
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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Drops of water cling to her neck and shoulders, the declivities of her collarbones.
The Right Thing Robert Boswell 2011
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An artist friend made a detailed drawing based on the photograph and the view from the ground, giving me a somewhat better map of the choicest aeries and declivities.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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An artist friend made a detailed drawing based on the photograph and the view from the ground, giving me a somewhat better map of the choicest aeries and declivities.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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An artist friend made a detailed drawing based on the photograph and the view from the ground, giving me a somewhat better map of the choicest aeries and declivities.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Water fills the ruts in the roads, the declivities in the plankboard steps.
The Right Thing Robert Boswell 2011
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An artist friend made a detailed drawing based on the photograph and the view from the ground, giving me a somewhat better map of the choicest aeries and declivities.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Hidden up to the west in several cosy declivities are small hill farms, cowering in their pastures beneath the sheltering embrace of sycamore, oak and holly – holdings like Steps farm where octogenarian Clifford Gould still lives and works and goes shopping on his tractor.
Country diary: Staffordshire Moorlands Roger Redfern 2010
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Sharp, rocky eminences began to rise around them, and, in a short time, deep declivities and ascents, both formidable in height and difficult from the narrowness of the path, offered to the travellers obstacles of a different kind from those with which they had recently contended.
The Talisman 2008
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From behind they rise in rough, uneven, and heathy declivities, out of the wide muir before mentioned, between Loch Eitive and Loch Awe; but in front they terminate abruptly in the most frightful precipices, which form the whole side of the pass, and descend at one fall into the water which fills its trough.
chained_bear commented on the word declivities
"Along the shore, a shelving beach ran up to rocky declivities and beach and rocks were packed with seals."
--Walter Noble Burns, A Year with a Whaler, 146–147
April 28, 2008