An upward slope or grade (as in a road)
1 Straight and white it showed to the acclivity by the Roman ruin.
2 Three times the girl rose and stumbled onward, up the last acclivity .
3 Grove Lane is a long acclivity , which starts from Camberwell suburban dwellings.
4 Silently the Spanish troops began to ascend the steep sides of the acclivity .
5 A goat-herd fed his flocks on the acclivity of mount Parnassus.
6 A young officer approached from below, climbing breathless up the acclivity .
7 For these shores very rarely form themselves into any picturesque acclivity .
8 Here I stand, beside a solitary lamp-post upon a suburban acclivity .
9 At last, she sank down on one of the rocky steps of the acclivity .
10 Two women climbed together up the great acclivity of Griante.
11 The man cocked his piece, and bending low began cautiously to mount the acclivity .
12 Wallace ascended the steep acclivity on which Roslyn Castle stands.
13 Ascending a steep acclivity , I found myself at last in an open, rocky country.
14 Hard-Heart had already crossed half the bottom, which lay between the acclivity and the water.
15 Thither the Frenchmen repaired, pushed through the dense semi-tropical forest, and climbed the steep acclivity .
16 Trecastagne, nine miles from Catania, is seated on the acclivity of a high volcanic mountain.
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