The shelvy banks of "Hollingworth" consist of irregular tiers and slopes of pasture, meadow, and moor lands.
Fear then this forceful arm, and hear once more, Death stands between thee and that shelvy shore.
The narrow shelvy path ran in short zig-zags down the face of the mountain, and naturally supposing it to know best, I followed its example.
A bleak defile, a pass in mountains deep, Whose whitened summits wear their morning glow, And dark banditti winding down the steep Of shelvy rocks, pointing their guns below.