declivities

• As this spot presented a natural pause between the laborious ascent already accomplished and the immense declivities which lay before them yet to be climbed, they named it Le Repos, and halted there for a short rest. —  Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
• Gaily they gallop down the easy declivities, their horses snuffing eagerly the fresh air of the morning, but their ragged [168] banners too wet with the dews of night to flaunt upon the zephyrs that, newly risen, scarcely move their wings. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Life Of Schamyl, by J. Milton Mackie.
• A mile and a half from us, two minute black specks slowly traversed the face of one of the bare glaring declivities, and disappeared behind the summit. —  Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7
• The park with its three long avenues lay before them, and the steep declivities which ran down from it to the river Leen were covered with woods, broken here by some old tower which had withstood all attempts at its demolition, and there by a jutting mass of grey rock, looking scarcely more solid than the rock-like masonry of the tower. —  John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea
• Gaily they gallop down the easy declivities, their horses snuffing eagerly the fresh air of the morning, but their ragged banners too wet with the dews of night to flaunt upon the zephyrs that, newly risen, scarcely move their wings. —  Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia

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