steepnesses

He followed their steepnesses to the Mese, the avenue that, branching, ran from end to end of the city.

The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989

He followed their steepnesses to the Mese, the avenue that, branching, ran from end to end of the city.

The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1988

In that it is builded upon hills, Tunbridge Wells is like Rome, and in that its fashionable promenade is under the limes, like Berlin; but in other respects it is merely a provincial English inland pleasure town with a past: rather arid, and except under the bracing conditions of cold weather, very tiring in its steepnesses.

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

The road in perpetual curve between its little stone parapet and the broad flank of the hill rose and fell under the deodars; Innes took its slopes and its steepnesses with even, unslackened stride, aware of no difference, aware of little indeed except the physical necessity of movement, spurred on by a futile instinct that the end of his walk would be the end of his trouble -- his amazing, black, menacing trouble.

The Pool in the Desert Sara Jeannette Duncan

To her there was magnificence in the lustrous stars and the steepnesses, magic, rather terrible and grand.

The Lost Girl 1907

At whatever high elevation we were at, this was really hard work, even though all we were doing was going up and down the glacier a few meters at a time, learning foot positioning for different steepnesses and terrain (snow or ice).

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We went to the office of The New York Tribune -- my father's relations with that journal were actual and close; and that was a wonderful world indeed, with strange steepnesses and machineries and noises and hurrying bare-armed, bright-eyed men, and amid the agitation clever, easy, kindly, jocular, partly undressed gentlemen (it was always July or August) some of whom I knew at home, taking it all as if it were the most natural place in the world.

A Small Boy and Others Henry James 1879