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  • The exceptions are saturated stratiform clouds in narrowly bounded mountainous regions, where upsloping terrain may trigger significant precipitation, and where statistical evidence is growing that winter seeding does enhance the snowfall.

    Weather as Weapon Langewiesche, William 2008

  • They are climbing a long, gently upsloping hill not much different from hundreds of others they have climbed.

    The Dark Tower King, Stephen 2004

  • Once out of the square and on the cobblestones of the upsloping side street, he could make out the walls ahead on his right.

    The White Order Modesitt, L. E. 1998

  • On the other side of the lake at Marden Court the high road, sunk between a low wall on one side and the upsloping land on the other, ran directly eastward and westward, joining eventually a second Great

    Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker Marguerite Bryant

  • The upsloping layer from the north would hang out again, with an even brow; but between this smooth cornice and the upper edge of the talus the snow looked as if it had been squeezed out by tremendous pressure from above, like an exceedingly viscid liquid -- cooling glue, for instance, which is being squeezed out from between the core and the veneer in a veneering press.

    Over Prairie Trails Frederick Philip Grove

  • Unconsciously Claire had hesitated before dashing at each sharp upsloping bend; had lost headway while she was wondering,

    Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • And the torii are visible everywhere, and tower higher, before the approaches to villages, before the entrances of courts guarded by strangely grotesque lions and foxes of stone, and before stairways of old mossed rock, upsloping, between dense growths of ancient cedar and pine, to shrines that moulder in the twilight of holy groves.

    Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • There was no wall on the upper side, but a huge pile of broken rocks, upsloping like the moraine of an eternal glacier; and through the openings between the rocks, the river came billowing out.

    Lilith, a romance George MacDonald 1864

  • We then remounted hammock and struck the 'true coast,' a charming bit of country, gradually upsloping to the north and east.

    To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • This spells a possible break of the upsloping trendline.

    FXstreet.com CMS Forex 2010

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