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The simplest things will become steep acclivities.† (source)acclivities = upward slopes or grades (as in roads)
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The spot was a vale between two gentle acclivities, and the road, still adhering to its Roman foundation, stretched onward straight as a surveyor's line till lost to sight on the most distant ridge.† (source)
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As the banks, with few exceptions, rose abruptly from the water, even where the mountain did not immediately bound the view, there was a nearly unbroken fringe of leaves overhanging the placid lake, the trees starting out of the acclivities, inclining to the light, until, in many instances they extended their long limbs and straight trunks some forty or fifty feet beyond the line of the perpendicular.† (source)
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Not for some time did he grasp the wonder of that acclivity.† (source)
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The clump of laurel in which the criminal lay was in the angle of a road which, after, ascending, southward, a steep acclivity to that point, turned sharply to the west, running along the summit for perhaps one hundred yards.† (source)
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As to ascend That steep, upon whose brow the chapel stands (O'er Rubaconte, looking lordly down On the well-guided city,) up the right Th' impetuous rise is broken by the steps Carv'd in that old and simple age, when still The registry and label rested safe; Thus is th' acclivity reliev'd, which here Precipitous from the other circuit falls: But on each hand the tall cliff presses close.† (source)
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Hard-Heart had already crossed half the bottom, which lay between the acclivity and the water.† (source)
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It embraced hillocks, pits, ridges, acclivities, one behind the other, till all was finished by a high hill cutting against the still light sky.† (source)acclivities = upward slopes or grades (as in roads)
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Just below it leaned a tottering crag that would have toppled, starting an avalanche on an acclivity where no sliding mass could stop.† (source)
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On the 18th of June, 1815, the rains had still farther increased this acclivity, the mud complicated the problem of the ascent, and the men not only slipped back, but stuck fast in the mire.† (source)
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It prompted the matron to say that she would walk a little way—as far as to the point where the acclivity from the valley began its first steep ascent to the outer world.† (source)
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The young Mohican gave a shout of triumph, and followed by Duncan, he glided up the acclivity they had descended to the combat, and sought the friendly shelter of the rocks and shrubs.† (source)
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The particular wind-row of which we are writing lay on the brow of a gentle acclivity; and, though small, it had opened the way for an extensive view to those who might occupy its upper margin, a rare occurrence to the traveller in the woods.† (source)
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He had traversed the greater part of this depression, and was climbing the western acclivity when, pausing for breath, he unconsciously looked back.† (source)
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Rainbarrow had again become blended with night when Wildeve ascended the long acclivity at its base.† (source)
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On one hand it was soon bounded by the acclivity of the hill, while the lake, on the other, served as a guide.† (source)
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