Descending a steep declivity, we posted ourselves, I at the top, and Higgs and Orme a little way down either side of this vlei. |
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Five years in narrow walls had unfitted me for the enormous declivity of the stairway, for the vastitude of the prison yard. |
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The same sharp declivity was noticed by Berryman, and has been observed in the several attempts to lay the cable. |
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Straight down you go, no matter of how breakneck a character the declivity may be. |
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Increase in the declivity or the volume of a stream increases its velocity and therefore its transportive power. |
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The lurches grew sharper, and Miss Schuyler gasped now and then as she felt the sleigh swing rocking down a long declivity. |
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Behind them, down the declivity toward the village, the people were gathering. |
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The declivity on which these woods are finishes in a mountain, which rises above the whole. |
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Yes, a small declivity to the south, yonder on my hill, gives me twenty hogsheads. |
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A wild young mare, in her restlessness, strayed to the edge of a declivity. |
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The declivity of the road was gradually becoming more gentle. |
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He took it and threw it down the declivity a little below where he sat. |
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He at length reached a point where he could see down the declivity. |
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I was working on the declivity which led to the Val d'Etretat. |
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After descending a rather sharp declivity, our feet trod the bottom of a kind of circular pit. |
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On they went, descending a steep declivity of the highroad to the bridge. |
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The hills, though of great declivity, have a sward to their tops. |
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The most abrupt declivity of these mountains confronts the Zanzibar coast, but the western slopes are merely inclined planes. |
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The declivity marks the end of the precipitous gorge of the Niagara. |
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The steepness of the declivity made it necessary for Orso to dismount. |
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After they had half mounted the declivity, one was sent back. |
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The declivity was not great and the torrent was otherwise placid. |
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He then waved his hand for them to follow, and threw himself down the steep declivity, with free, but careful footsteps. |
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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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The ground was still on the incline, its declivity seemed to be getting greater, and to be leading us to greater depths. |
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On the declivity of the Atlantic basin the first streams, branches of the North Platte River, already appeared. |
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He was edging his way gingerly around the corner of a precipice where the upper edge of a sharp declivity of ice-glazed snow joined it. |
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The flat top of the mountain may have had about twenty feet in breadth at this point, and, on the other side, the slope presented a less declivity. |
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This declivity swept down a couple of hundred feet, into a gully which curved around and ended at a precipice eight hundred feet high, overlooking a glacier. |
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A slight declivity ended in an uneven bottom, at fifteen fathoms depth. |
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As Woola and I approached the bottom of the declivity the ground became soft and mushy, so that it was with the greatest difficulty that we made any headway whatever. |
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