From the top of a steepish ascent beyond the Osharugawa there is. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
The view ended at some steepish hills, three or so miles distant. From Wordnik.com. [Strip Jack]
But my street has houses on one side and a steepish hill down to a creek on teh other. From Wordnik.com. [u can’t - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
I changed down into second to climb a steepish hill and forgot Norton's box driver's instructions. From Wordnik.com. [Forfeit]
We're sort of on the top of a steepish hill, so most households mow near the top, and let the sides go wild. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
As he pushed the chair up the steepish rise of the knoll in the park, he breathed rather quickly, through parted lips. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference
The Residency is on a steepish hill in the middle of an open valley, partially cleared and much defaced by tin diggings. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Chersonese and the way thither] Reference
Another slip-rail lowered, they drew up at the foot of a steepish hill, beside a sandy little vegetable garden, a shed and a pump. From Wordnik.com. [The Getting of Wisdom] Reference
At a pace which forced me to run hard, we climbed a steepish slope, till ahead of us we saw the bald green crown of the meadowlands. From Wordnik.com. [Prester John] Reference
Wolds, and have before us a steady rise, followed by three steepish descents with their corresponding rises, till, as we approach Holbeck. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
Route past the den of iniquity and vice AKA the "racino" or slot-machine parlor, thence to the airport, up a steepish hill, and back homewards. From Wordnik.com. [Bye-bye] Reference
Then you need to go above the highway, be prepared for a steepish not probaly flat lot, steps etc. and .. depending on the area paying some bucks!. From Wordnik.com. [Ajijic neighborhoods] Reference
Went across to the airport and back, and even the steepish climb out of our downtown valley didn't make me want to take off my fuzzy Polartec jacket. From Wordnik.com. [Sunday roadkill report, with added marching morons] Reference
Winding up a steepish rise through a region which seemed crowded with dug-outs and piles of stores, we gained the crest where we had been urged to extend. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918] Reference
Burj Lisaneh stood up like a sugar-loaf, while to our half-right steepish slopes covered with fig trees, not yet in leaf, rose up to the heights of Tel Asur 3318 feet high. From Wordnik.com. [The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919] Reference
Happily neither mules nor loads were at all damaged, but it was a steepish hill, as on our returning and trying to climb it we had to dismount and hang on to the horses 'tails. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
The road is a decent descent, although steepish: from thence turning abruptly at the Bamean valley, we cross the river, which is of considerable size, but fordable, although rapid. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
After a bit, I found myself going up a steepish sort of slope. From Wordnik.com. [The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories] Reference
With a wave of his hand he indicated a steepish knoll that rose up on their left. From Wordnik.com. [Shoe-Bar Stratton] Reference
While they descended, necessarily one by one, the strait and even steepish stairs, she said. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter V. Book VII] Reference
At length, just as dawn was beginning to break, they found themselves facing a steepish cliff of rough rocks. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Aviators in Africa] Reference
There's a log or something across the road, if it's a coach, or else the driver's walking his horses up a steepish hill. From Wordnik.com. [Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields] Reference
The man peered at me suddenly, and leaned forward to shorten his reins, for we were on the edge of a steepish dip downhill. From Wordnik.com. [Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales] Reference
Mrs. Bazalgette did not know how; so it sidled in a pertinacious and horrid way toward a long and steepish slope on the left side. From Wordnik.com. [Love Me Little, Love Me Long] Reference
In obedience to his own orders, MacRummle went up to a part of the stream where a high cliff on one side and a steepish bank on the other caused it to flow in a deep channel, not much more than a couple of yards wide. From Wordnik.com. [The Eagle Cliff] Reference
“Well, miss, there be a steepish bit of road, and a many ockard cornders; I should say ‘a might do it in two hours and. From Wordnik.com. [Springhaven] Reference
There’s a log or something across the road, if it’s a coach, or else the driver’s walking his horses up a steepish hill. From Wordnik.com. [Robbery Under Arms] Reference
Unfortunately with ‘wichcraft’s steepish prices, unless you go for one of their breakfast all day options or soup, you’ll be over the Midtown Lunch limit. From Wordnik.com. [Black Shack & ‘wichcraft Now Serving Beer | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan] Reference
Where I’m less sure about it is when you’re pootling along in a town or – in my special circumstances – climbing up a steepish hill in a residential zone. From Wordnik.com. [My other tractor is a Porsche « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog] Reference
It was a steepish bank. From Wordnik.com. [The Wouldbegoods] Reference
You know that steepish hill?. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
We rolled down a steepish incline, on to the. From Wordnik.com. [A Boy's Voyage Round the World] Reference
"steepish, b'gad, steepish!. From Wordnik.com. [The Amateur Gentleman] Reference
It’s not too rough, but it’s steepish.”. From Wordnik.com. [Died in the Wool]
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