The simplest things will become steep acclivities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Miserables] Reference

Would the interior acclivities of the crater be practicable?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysterious Island] Reference

In some places it ascended in gentle slopes, in others by abrupt acclivities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Home] Reference

Happily these acclivities wound up the interior of the volcano and favored their ascent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysterious Island] Reference

It is romantically situated, and many elegant dwellings stand upon steep acclivities, commanding views of grand and attractive sceneries.    From Wordnik.com.  [By Water to the Columbian Exposition] Reference

In the progress of my undulating, I ascended about four or five stupendous acclivities, whose perpendicular sides scarcely permitted me to gain the ascent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Present Picture of New South Wales (1811)] Reference

Besides fasting and prayer, the more devout flagellated and slashed themselves and others with knives and thongs, and carried heavy crosses up steep acclivities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Astral Worship] Reference

After crossing three rather important channels, I turned to the N. E., and fortunately came upon the river, where the ground was very open, and the acclivities gentle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia] Reference

The first step in the new movement was to carry Chapultepec, a natural and isolated mound of great elevation, strongly fortified at its base, on its acclivities and heights.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference

She did not know the hills or ravines, the canyons descended or acclivities so toilsomely climbed, and, therefore, had not a guide in the world to raise or depress her hope.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Furnace of Gold] Reference

On the left hand rose the craggy sides of the Islet of the Calf, here rent wildly into deep black chasms, there lying low under long sweeping acclivities of grass and heath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Armadale] Reference

The upper town is built on the acclivities and summit of a rock which rises abruptly from the river to the height of 180 ft., and gives the town a very picturesque appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

The Dee formed noble ornament to its sweeping valleys; while the noble acclivities were clothed with promising woods, opening by rich vistas to a wide extent of champaign country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference

Although the soil is naturally moist and clayey, and half bottom land, from the work of gentle acclivities, rising on either hand, yet I have given the plants a liberal watering in the evening.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

Vaguely the one straight street of Borealis was indicated by the lamps, like a thin Milky Way in a meagre universe of lesser lights, dimly glowing and sparsely scattered on the rock-strewn acclivities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bruvver Jim's Baby] Reference

The mountain itself is now covered, both base and acclivities, with flourishing corn fields, fruitful orchards, and handsome residences, above which, to the very summit, trees grow in luxuriant variety.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation] Reference

Hitherto, the path has been rugged, wild, and rough, interrupted by steep acclivities, rocks, and big stones; but this avenue has a smooth and level floor, as if the sand had been spread out by gently flowing waters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference

Their acclivities sparkle with terraces of corn and fruit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tancred Or, The New Crusade] Reference

Clark's crows and the mountain jays were abundant on the acclivities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Rockies] Reference

On their left, close to the sea, the acclivities were so abrupt that the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Soldiers Gallant Deeds of the British Army during Victoria's Reign] Reference

France is a land of plains, and glades, and gentle acclivities; Savoy is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851.] Reference

Barricade of trees with sharpened branches directed toward an enemy. acclivities.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the United States, Volume 4 (of 6)] Reference

How much steeper the acclivities were than they had seemed to be when I came down!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Rockies] Reference

Before and behind the house rose sudden acclivities, thick with autumn-tinted trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Agatha's Husband A Novel] Reference

Here and there, towers were perched high up on acclivities which seemed almost inaccessible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Innocents Abroad] Reference

One of the first birds met with on these unpromising acclivities was the spurred towhee of the Rockies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Rockies] Reference

Mules are less liable to the malady probably because they ascend the acclivities more slowly than horses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests] Reference

Flocks of sheep hung browsing on the acclivities, whilst a numerous herd were dispersed along the river's side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents] Reference

By the first of June they have ascended above timber-line to their summer home amid the treeless slopes and acclivities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Rockies] Reference

It is diversified with beautiful acclivities, hills and mountains, some of which will be noticed in the course of this work.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of New Brunswick] Reference

Sherman got into action early in the morning, and fought his painfully difficult way slowly up the rugged acclivities in his front.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the United States, Volume 4 (of 6)] Reference

With a seasick motion it undulated over the green acclivities of the road, and finally drew up beside the great horse-block at the gate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia] Reference

Continuing our route, we bid adieu to the realms of poverty and barrenness, and entered a cultivated vale sheltered by woody acclivities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents] Reference

The hues of evening were spread out, like a rich tapestry, above and behind the long unpicturesque line of hills, the lower acclivities of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference

In many places from nine to eleven thousand feet up the acclivities of the mountains they were seen flitting among the pines or the quaking asps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Rockies] Reference

While Audubon's warblers kept themselves for the most part among the pines on the slopes and acclivities, the little black-caps preferred the lower ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Rockies] Reference

Such was then, as now, the range of unrivalled objects which the Pincio commanded; but the noble terrace smoothed over its acclivities, which recalled the memory of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3)] Reference

As we approach Lyons, the hills on either side come nearer and finally shut in the river between two steep acclivities, from which much building-stone has been quarried.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851.] Reference