There seems, however, a gradual ascent of the ground towards the west.

Now it was running almost level, and presently he noted a gradual ascent.

Up a gradual ascent a few hundred feet beyond stood the Judge's mansion.

Jonathan bounded across the brook and with an easy lope began the gradual ascent.

It seems to have a large base, and to rise with a gradual ascent.

On the contrary, there has been, through the series of oscillations, a gradual ascent.

Leaving the river behind them, they began a gradual ascent.

At the place Jondalar chose to start, the overhang had collapsed, providing a gradual ascent.

At sunset there were indications of a snow storm, in the gradual ascent of the thermometer.

Gilbert pressed his horse rather swiftly up the gradual ascent, and they soon gained the summit.

Suddenly, after a gradual ascent, I was on the edge of a moat, thirty feet deep.

Again they faced the west, dog leading, man following, and addressed themselves to a gradual ascent.

During the morning the surface was gently undulating, but it mounted in a gradual ascent until nightfall.

Their way continued as a gradual ascent until they reached a tableland which they crossed that afternoon.

Their progress was slow, owing to the dark, but the going was easy enough with a gradual ascent.

This shows the gradual ascent of the path from the river to the top of the bluff.]