All around, troopers retreated, backing up the rising slope, edging past boulders.

The fine old farmhouse is ideally located on a rising slope of ground.

The fields climbed a rising slope that allowed a magnificent view of the haze-shrouded lowlands.

To his left, just before the courtyard, was a gently rising slope of green grass.

She walked the rising slope of Coral Way, the sun warming her neck and cheek.

Below was a little valley and beyond a long, gently- rising slope with snug farmsteads scattered along it.

The land at the bay's back was a massive, rising slope that extended all along the shore.

About one in the afternoon, we climbed a rising slope, and from its brow looked down upon Stockholm.

The trail, narrow and indistinct, mounted the last slow- rising slope; the pinyons failed, and the scrubby pines became abundant.

At last only a long, gently rising slope separated the fugitives from that labyrinthine network of wildly carved rock.

From here there was a long gentle rising slope to the top of a hill that was crowned by houses.

There was not a turn of the road, not one rising slope, that did not mean some memory of Elise.

The old Napan captain picked what seemed a random narrow mud trail that led up the gently rising slope of the shore.

Neither had that which caused her to go out alone into the dark night and look up beyond the slow- rising slope to the stars.

The lagoon, or stretch of shallowing water, was a clear pale turquoise over the rising slope of the beach, probably because of the sand floor.