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Driving blind, he came over the hill to find his ball on a gorse-infested slope.
Pits that run horizontally into a hill slope or cliff following material into the slope are known as adits or drift mines.
It was located within the wall, on the lower slope of the acropolis, not far from a series of cisterns for collection of water.
The hole was about eighteen feet across and lay just over the rim of a low hill that rose in a long gentle slope from the side of our farm.
After climbing a steep rise for about twenty minutes the road crested, then began to slope downwards, taking a more westerly direction.
The original watercourse was blocked by the scree slope we had just climbed over, and now the water disappeared into a scary narrow fissure.
He let the slope on the driveway pull him down to the level pavement, juddering over the stony concrete.
Adjacent to the cove is the wall, which drops to 50m before becoming a sandy slope.
Without benefit of poles or much of a slope, I waggled my arms back and forth to get going.
The helices have a radial slope and converge at the intracellular bundle narrowing.
You also want to be sure you don't set up your trailer and the generator in an area that might be subject to washouts or runoff from a slope.
This problem with the sediment trap technique is probably restricted to the continental slope and shelf and will not occur over abyssal depths.
For shelter, the Byzantine occupantslived in houses and caves built into the western slope of the acropolis.
The ground angled suddenly upward, and he staggered as the abrupt slope surprised him.
A ski slope, like the old Astroturf at Veterans Stadium, is the place knees go to die.
Two of the raceways will have a 1-percent slope, while the other pair will have a 2-percent slope, to check the effect of slope and flow on algal production.
Nobody else thought that his patch, on a 60-degree angled slope, was viable as a vineyard.
Historically, conservatives treated the minimum wage as an affront to free labor and a step on a slippery slope towards statism.
The orographie impact of the Andean Cordillera can be seen clearly, enhancing rainfall on the east slope and forming a rain shadow on the west slope.
Halfway up the slope Kevin's legs finally gave way and he collapsed.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The collegiate church which stands on a green slope looking towards the sea is one of the most interesting in Cornwall.
That line is stretched from the east to the west along the northern slope of the carpathian region.
The cascade at the bottom of the slope appeared a mere span in height from where they were now.
A catslide roof is one in which the slope at the rear extends nearly the whole way to the ground.
There appeared to be no ascent the one way or the other, and no slope on either side.
It lies at an elevation of about 500 ft. on the bleak northward slope of the Chiltern Hills.
But Craig shook his head lazily, and Wade, cinching his loosened belt, limped with aching legs down the slope.
After that he lighted the fuse, and, clambering down the slope of rock, saw Gordon.
They came up over a rise and looked down a gentle slope toward the brown twisting snake that was the Big Muddy.
There was no bare earth to take or hold footprints, and there was a climbable slope.
Actually, however, none of the clines has an even slope and the possibilities for subdivision therefore are limited.
She did not look back once, then, nor as she clomb the long slope to her home.
Rather a dull valley lay below, backed by the slope of the coastward downs.
But the angler is baffled at the outset by the presence of a steep slope behind him.
The Californian biotic Province dominates the biotic aspect of the coastal slope of the range.
And at the top of the slope I saw a black hole, and got off my pony to look in.
Agar and blood serum are frequently used in the form of slope or slant cultures.
The bluejacket had discovered them, and was leaping down the steep slope in hot pursuit.
It stands on the extreme points of a range of hills, which slope upwards and command the north-east angle of the Balla Hissar.
But all hearts were gladdened by the welcome sight of some argali, or Siberian sheep, on the slope of a hill.
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