He strode down the declivity toward the rear of the Notch at a break-neck pace, over rocks and through brambles, followed by his little retinue in tumultuous disorder.
At the foot of the declivity they mounted their waiting animals and took to the road at a lively trot, round a bend and into the Notch.
They swept the populous declivity with gusts of grape and canister, the whirring of which could be heard through the thunder of the explosions.
Just beyond it, on the declivity of a hill, over the ridge of which the wall passes, crowning it with two mouldering towers, lies the Protestant burying-ground.
On a steep declivity of the Orontes are to be seen two tablets, each of which is divided into three longitudinal compartments, inscribed by the arrow-headed character of Persepolis.
Its rough but sharp declivity had then scarcely been remarked.
The gradual progress by which he went slowly down the declivity towards his present position we cannot pretend to trace accurately.
After climbing some way up the steepdeclivity of the mountain, Costal and his neophyte halted by one of these boulders.
Mounting again, we rode round to the south of Coressus, passing along a regular street, with the remains of paving and curbing, parallel with the southern wall of the ancient city, which ran along the declivity of Mount Pion.
Heyward had given one of his pistols to Hawkeye, and together they rushed down a little declivity towards their foes; they discharged their weapons at the same instant, and equally without success.
The arch of Titus is situate on the easterndeclivity of the Palatine Mount.
These houses are three stories high; their foundation is on the lava, which has formed here a sort of hill, on the declivity of which they are built.
The declivity is found, and the soul must fall (not into sin, but into a privation of the previous degree and of feeling).
You drag away in your fury all that comes in your way; you feel nothing but the declivity down which you are hurried, and you think you are lost.
The declivity is found; they must be precipitated from slope to slope.
The torrent has no longer either a declivity or a movement: it is in repose, and at its end.
Laura sat motionless, watching the winding road, which, like a long, undulating ribbon, led up the declivity out of the valley.
A ride of eighteen Italian miles brought us to the town of Tivoli, lying amidst olive-woods on the declivity of the Apennines, and numbering about 7000 inhabitants.
The residence of the late Lady Hester Stanhope can be seen in the distance on the declivity of the mountain.
After having traversed many a weary rood of, to him, before untrodden ground, the venerable minstrel of the house of Wallace, exhausted by fatigue, sat down on the declivity of a steep craig.
A few of them led the old man on his way, as far as the western declivity of the hills, and then, bidding him good speed, he took the remainder of his journey alone.
They had, in fact, reached the garden, which lay on the eastern declivity of the mountain, and before them was the colossal old pile.
We had not gone far before we were aware that our journey would be attended with perils; the passage gradually grew narrower, and the declivity on each hand awfully precipitous.
Standing upon its summit, the spectator looks down upon the village, a little to his right and upon the long declivity stretching between the crest and the town.
Rising from their places in the little graveyard and the grove, the brigade rushed forward, the rebels breaking and running in confusion down the declivity which they had but just ascended with such confidence, and across the little stream.
Normandy and Picardy had taken positions in the rocks dominated by the heights of the mountain, upon the declivity of which were raised the bastions of Gigelli.
Like phantoms they seemed to enlarge on their departure from the earth, and it was not in the mist, but in the declivity of the ground that they disappeared.
The term also means the fall or declivity of a deck, which is generally of several inches.
A minute later they stood on the brink of the declivity and saw the mower lying upon its side among the stones thirty or forty feet below them.
A third man stood on the brink of the declivity holding a blazing pineknot.
It was not quite as easily handled as the other barrel, but his strength sufficed, and it was soon bounding down the declivity after its companion.
The sound was no sooner uttered than Pigeonswing made a grasp at the sentinel's knife, which however he did not obtain, when the two closed and fell, rolling down the declivity into the darkness.
The land has a very fine appearance when tolerably near, having a gentle declivity toward the sea, and mantled over with wood.
I took the shortest way down from Otto's Height, crossing the rough declivity and the fields that stretch far up the lower slope of the hill, and made a circuit to Findlater's monument at the upper extremity of Carlsbad.
In the western declivity the ruddy granite is cut in two by a stratum of basalt, which broadens as you descend, its surface cut up by pale gray veins resembling a network.
Some years ago Carlsbad was scarcely accessible by vehicles coming from the interior, so abrupt was the declivity of its western hill.
As these words rang out over the rocky hillside in a clear sweet voice, two men who were climbing the steep declivity paused a moment and looked at each other.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "declivity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: decline; descent; dip; downgrade; downhill; drop; fall; grade; hang; hanging; hill; incline; ramp; slope
