Then he chuckled gleefully as they followed him silently down the steep slant.

As the boat struck the incline it shot upward into the air at a steep slant.

They yelled hoarsely at Shadd, who halted on the steep slant some twenty paces above them.

Then, holding to the lasso, he walked up the steep slant, hand over hand on the rope.

We scrambled down it; ended in a very steep slant, and finished at a sheer tangle of cedar-roots.

Fortunately it hung to the port side with a rather steep slant to the rail, which was not high.

It was slow, irritating, strenuous toil, for the way was on a steep slant, rough and loose and dragging.

True the aircraft was tilted upward, for she was still climbing on a steep slant, but they had gotten used to this.

Four claw-footed arms deployed, digging into the rock to carry him down the side of the sinkhole, angling away at a steep slant.

She opened her eyes and saw before her a steep slant between massive stones, leading down to a wide channel of running water.

Travelling on a steep slant, there was no vibration, no mechanical noise; scarcely the suggestion of movement, except for the muffled swish of the air.

He flung the limp form over his shoulder and began desperately to claw his way up a steep slant towards the saloon-door and the companion-way.