Declivity

Sufetula was built one hundred and fifty miles to the south of Carthage: a gentle declivity is watered by a running stream, and shaded by a grove of juniper-trees; and, in the ruins of a triumpha arch, a portico, and three temples of the Corinthian order, curiosity may yet admire the magnificence of the Romans. ❋ Unknown (1206)

At the bottom of the declivity was a pond of water bubbling and steaming. ❋ James De Mille (N/A)

On a shelf or cup of the declivity was a little clump of vegetation, and in the midst of it welled up a thin stream of water. ❋ Unknown (1896)

The declivity is the greatest of the whole river with the exception of the First Granite Gorge of the Grand ❋ Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh (1894)

"First imagine to yourself a superb position, a steep mountain, bristling with rocks, furrowed with ravines and precipices; upon the declivity is the castle. ❋ Unknown (1892)

Box Wood in the greatest abundance grows on its top and Western declivity being planted originally by the Earl of Arundel in the reign of ❋ Unknown (2009)

A few hundred yards from the trail was a steep and narrow declivity like something out of a Tony Hillerman story. ❋ Annie Proulx (2011)

As soon as the animals had scattered, he devoted himself to the significance of that declivity which he felt to be there but could not see. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"The whole is a sweet Spot of Earth, not a Span hardly uncultivated with Sugar-Canes; all sides bend with an easy declivity to the Sea, and is ever green," was how one visitor described the island in the 1730s. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Mush-on! you Siwashes! he cried, attempting, in a vermicular way, to kick at them, and discovering himself to be tottering on the edge of a declivity. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Let me study Law upon Box Hill; P.S. Remember that the chief and most striking circumstance belonging to the Hill is its sudden declivity. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But again, after the car rested a minute, the light, dry earth began to crack and crumble away from under the tires, rolling in a miniature avalanche down the steep declivity into the water. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I therefore came back through Dorking and crossing the Mole at the bridge on the road leading to Rygate I clim'd up the Hill on its south side; it is composed entirely of chalk and its southern front steep enough to tire any one with a tolerable stock of perseverance: they have contrived to cultivate part of its declivity which I should not suppose would answer ploughing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Our republic may have had a material expansion and growth; but every observing and reflecting American, whose memory goes back, as mine does, over fifty years, sees that in all else it is tending downward, and is on the declivity to utter barbarism. ❋ John (2009)

Five years in narrow walls had unfitted me for the enormous declivity of the stairway, for the vastitude of the prison yard. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Three sides were thus defended, the steep declivity at the rear precluding attack from that direction. ❋ Unknown (2010)