With beating heart and throbbing pulse, Newbold himself bounded up the acclivity after the stranger, marking as he did so evidences of the other's prior ascent.
This acclivityformed the eastern ascent of the long ridge of high ground called Epipolæ.
Passing above the city, he effected a landing where the acclivity was a little less steep than at other places, and the troops dragged themselves up, and actually brought with them several pieces of ordnance.
We mounted theacclivity past rows of well-kept manis, which had the appearance of broken-down walls, with red-painted inscriptions chiselled out of the blocks of schist and framed in red.
There is nothing significant or exceptional about their being armed, it is true; but what their object is in stepping almost on my heels for the whole distance up the acclivity is beyond my comprehension.
As the old man was speaking, he raised his heavy rifle to his shoulder, with a facility a little remarkable for his years and appearance, and without further words led the way over the acclivity to the adjacent bottom.
Hard-Heart had already crossed half the bottom, which lay between the acclivity and the water.
Pickett's men got far up the acclivityand many were soon among the enemy.
Hill ascended a little acclivitynear the turnpike to make some observations.
As it is, to give the Vallum the advantage of an eminence in resisting a southern foe, the Wall relinquishes a portion of the acclivity which it might with advantage have taken.
He had been able to see over it, only by standing back upon the sloping acclivity of the counterscarp.
She sate negligently in her saddle--the undulating outlines of her majestic form rendered more conspicuous by the movements of her palfrey, as it strained up the acclivity of the hill.
The road running up the steep acclivity was of no great width--nothing resembling the broad macadamised "turnpike" of modern times.
Emerging at length from the deep and overshadowed valley, a steep hill raised its crest in advance, but still up the stony acclivity the feet of the mettled steed rattled rapidly, and flashed fire from the flinty path.
A block, nine feet two inches by six feet and a half, and four feet thick, was hurried up the acclivity to a distance of 150 feet.
In stormy winters, huge blocks of stones are overturned, or are removed from their native beds, and hurried up a slight acclivity to a distance almost incredible.
Without the town, on the acclivity of Hymettus, there is a rocky recess which he pointed out to me as the spot where he would wish to repose.
She dwelt in a cottage whose trim grass-plat sloped down to the waters of the lake of Ulswater; a beech wood stretched up the hill behind, and a purling brook gently falling from the acclivity ran through poplar-shaded banks into the lake.
The glades of the forest, and the acclivitywhich ascends to it, were full in view of the royal army, but presented the appearance of a deep solitude.
At places the acclivity was so steep that we were compelled to scramble over the rocks on all fours, and were glad to stop frequently and draw breath and rest our tired limbs.
A high ridge of snow, which we surmounted with not a little pride and exhilaration, lay on its eastern acclivity within a few feet of the crest, a white crystalline bank gleaming in the sun.
Lured by the lyrics of the green-tailed towhee, I climbed the western acclivity a few hundred feet, but found that few birds choose such dry and eerie places for a habitat.
Almost every conspicuous rock on the acclivity bore evidence of having been used as a lookout by the little sentinel.
Then up a steep stony acclivity to a higher elevation, another of the great steps or terraces which compose the Bohemian side of the mountains.
The acclivity was still however rather too much, and over went the cart, carrying the shaft bullock with it, and depositing all my instruments etc.
Their horses were not Saladins, and the best of them had become blown in their gallop against the steep acclivity more than a mile in length.
Instead, her eyes were fixedly bent upon the face of the acclivity opposite--more particularly on a riband of road that went winding up through woods from Drybrook to the "Wilderness.
To gallop horses already blown against that steep acclivitywould have been to kill them.
The Victoria soon descended the slope opposite to the Rubeho, skirting an acclivity covered with woods, and dotted with trees of very deep-green foliage.
At eight o'clock it descended the farther slope, the acclivity of which was much less abrupt.
In the immediate neighbourhood of Kilburn on the gentle acclivity rising towards Wilsden Green, stood a noble mansion in the midst of a spacious park.
The young Mohican gave a shout of triumph, and, followed by Duncan, he glided up the acclivity they had descended to the combat, and sought the friendly shelter of the rocks and shrubs.
Let the ascent to it be not by steps [16] but by an acclivity of raised earth.
It is evident that the ball at P will have a greater tendency to fall by gravitation towards O than it would have at p, because the acclivity of the arch descending towards O at P is greater than its acclivity at p.
It is always much less dangerous to mount an acclivity than to go down it.
