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.”

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• “At the bottom of the declivity was a pond of water bubbling and steaming.”

  The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX

• “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.”

  The Golden Fleece

• “The declivity is the greatest of the whole river with the exception of the First Granite Gorge of the Grand”

  The Romance of the Colorado River

• “First imagine to yourself a superb position, a steep mountain, bristling with rocks, furrowed with ravines and precipices; upon the declivity is the castle.”

  English Villages

• “Five years in narrow walls had unfitted me for the enormous declivity of the stairway, for the vastitude of the prison yard.”

  Chapter 22

• “Three sides were thus defended, the steep declivity at the rear precluding attack from that direction.”

  THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS

• “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.”

  WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE

• “A few hundred yards from the trail was a steep and narrow declivity like something out of a Tony Hillerman story.”

  Simon & Schuster: Bird Cloud

• “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.”

  The Guardian: Colonial riches in Barbados

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