Usage of "acclivity" | TermGallery

portugués

declive

catalán

ascensió

español

ascenso

An upward slope or grade (as in a road)

descent

ascenso

Uso de acclivity en inglés

Straight and white it showed to the acclivity by the Roman ruin. 
 The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu 

Three times the girl rose and stumbled onward, up the last acclivity. 
 The Furnace of Gold 

Grove Lane is a long acclivity, which starts from Camberwell suburban dwellings. 
 In the Year of Jubilee 

Silently the Spanish troops began to ascend the steep sides of the acclivity. 
 Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 07 (of 15), Spanish 

A goat-herd fed his flocks on the acclivity of mount Parnassus. 
 Lives of the Necromancers 

A young officer approached from below, climbing breathless up the acclivity. 
 The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst o... 

For these shores very rarely form themselves into any picturesque acclivity. 
 The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 / Vo... 

Here I stand, beside a solitary lamp-post upon a suburban acclivity. 
 Essays in Rebellion 

At last, she sank down on one of the rocky steps of the acclivity. 
 The Great Stone Face, and Other Tales of the White Mountains 

Two women climbed together up the great acclivity of Griante. 
 The Red Redmaynes 

The man cocked his piece, and bending low began cautiously to mount the acclivity. 
 Openings in the Old Trail 

Wallace ascended the steep acclivity on which Roslyn Castle stands. 
 The Scottish Chiefs 

Ascending a steep acclivity, I found myself at last in an open, rocky country. 
 Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women 

Hard-Heart had already crossed half the bottom, which lay between the acclivity and the water. 
 The Prairie 

Thither the Frenchmen repaired, pushed through the dense semi-tropical forest, and climbed the steep acclivity. 
 The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 / A Magazi... 

Trecastagne, nine miles from Catania, is seated on the acclivity of a high volcanic mountain. 
 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20,... 