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Hours later, I found the pass at over 18,000 feet, a sharp declivity between two minor summits.
When he walked, he walked as though he went down a declivity.
The declivity of different geometrical shapes creates lively combinations and gives the solid panel a modern and stylistically rich beauty.
Difficulty of access, harsh climate and declivity should also be taken into account.
Beetles are 3-4 mm in length, dark-brown, with four spines at each side of the elytral declivity.
In so doing, they have shorten the length of their course, increased their erosive power through higher declivity and rapidity of flow.
The elytral declivity has four spines at each side, the third is largest and distinctly capitate.
Correction of declivity is possible and common, yet it requires more efforts.
The Brahmaputra River, one of the great rivers of the world, pours down from Tibet, in a steep declivity, into Assam, down toward Bangladesh and the Bay of Bengal.
You may wonder how a landscaped, 1.5 metre-deep declivity in a royal park can be anything but a stark physical fact.
We did find mounds on either side of a declivity among the trees, and its barely visible path could once have been a roadway.
Following the sandy beach we will be able to gallop until we reach the declivity of the hill of Velia-Elea once home of the Eleatic school founded by Parmenide and Zenone.
The speed of the flow accelerates with the declivity of the slope.
But the declivity of the valley does come to an end.
The less marked slope from a declivity point of view.
In the cliff area, slope declivity and the narrowness of surface available for construction are such that the base of many granaries is to be supported by pillars or stone walls.
The GIS environment aided by remote sensing data processing and integration permit the creation of a number of derived maps, such as declivity maps and geotechnical classification.
Examples from Classical Literature
Increase in the declivity or the volume of a stream increases its velocity and therefore its transportive power.
Behind them, down the declivity toward the village, the people were gathering.
The declivity on which these woods are finishes in a mountain, which rises above the whole.
Descending a steep declivity, we posted ourselves, I at the top, and Higgs and Orme a little way down either side of this vlei.
Five years in narrow walls had unfitted me for the enormous declivity of the stairway, for the vastitude of the prison yard.
The lurches grew sharper, and Miss Schuyler gasped now and then as she felt the sleigh swing rocking down a long declivity.
The same sharp declivity was noticed by Berryman, and has been observed in the several attempts to lay the cable.
Straight down you go, no matter of how breakneck a character the declivity may be.
The declivity was not great and the torrent was otherwise placid.
The declivity marks the end of the precipitous gorge of the Niagara.
The steepness of the declivity made it necessary for Orso to dismount.
He took it and threw it down the declivity a little below where he sat.
He at length reached a point where he could see down the declivity.
I was working on the declivity which led to the Val d'Etretat.
After descending a rather sharp declivity, our feet trod the bottom of a kind of circular pit.
On they went, descending a steep declivity of the highroad to the bridge.
The hills, though of great declivity, have a sward to their tops.
The most abrupt declivity of these mountains confronts the Zanzibar coast, but the western slopes are merely inclined planes.
He then waved his hand for them to follow, and threw himself down the steep declivity, with free, but careful footsteps.
The declivity was so small, that I walked near a mile before I got to the shore, which I conjectured was about eight o'clock in the evening.
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