The buckboard went slithering down the slipperyslope of clay, struck a log bridge at the bottom with a resounding thump, and broke an axle clean across.
Illustration] As we get south nearer Aden the sand spits tail out south and slope off inland like wide glaciers, through which appear dark coloured rocky islets.
He had been up on the side of the mountain, which was here a long grassy slope as smooth as any of our well-tended lawns, extending upward to where it joined the dense pine-forest which covered the upper portion of the mountain.
I could have snapped at him with a downward shot, as I was on the slope above him; but as the distance was great, I decided to try and get nearer.
There were two fine rams in particular that we could see about a mile and a half from camp occupying the slope of a rocky point or promontory that jutted out from a spur of the range.
Again he fell, but, the slope aiding him, he struggled up and went stumbling along.
The herd raced forward over the rolling hills, and in what seemed a very short time we rushed down a long slope on to a wide flat, in which was a prairie-dog town of considerable extent.
Its site lay within the territory of Caonabo, who ruled over a great district, his capital town or village being on the southern slope of the Cibao Mountains.
Heaps of stones were piled up to show that they had taken possession of this spot for his sovereign, and as they went down the farther slope they carved on many trees the name of King Ferdinand of Castile, as the lord of this new land.
The royalists occupied the crest and slope of an opposite ridge.
We thought that they would open fire in a minute, so climbed up the slope between them, and lay there to watch what would happen.
We cheered; the grass and stuff flew up in front of the muzzle; the gun jumped back and slid forward again, and we dashed up the slope to see where the shots had gone.
His body fell on a little slope and rolled among some bushes.
The Confederate force seemed to incline to the side of the valley, opposite the slope on which he lay, and he was hopeful that the fact would keep him hidden until the masses of his own people could charge into the gap.
In this case a very slight slope will incline the horse to take his right leg, and on the side of a steep hill he can scarcely avoid it.
Then through the Grille d'Honneur and between two stone dogs at the foot of the slope that led up to the ruins of the Grande Château.
I gave Fatima's bridle to Cæsar and told him to wait for me while I walked down the green slope into the Park of Sylvie.
But her milky skin was delicious, her eyes were alive, her chestnut hair shone, and there was a tender slopefrom her ears to the shadowy place below her jaw.
He looked rather too obviously at the cream-smooth slope of her shoulder.
He came back and told me that there was nothing but bread-fruit, and that we could not eat, so we had to make our way to the cocoa-nut wood, which we did by descending to the beach and climbing up the slope as before.
But I had no sooner got to the top of the slope above the lake than I heard the same barking and yelping and snarling as before, and in the same direction.
Then we crept round from this side of the mountain until we overlooked the long slope of blackish rock that ran down to the beach on which we had landed, and we descended slowly on the left side until we came to a strip of woodland.
The mountain we called simply The Mountain, though to Billy it was always Old Smoker; the slope leading up to the crater we called Rocky Hill, and the wood beneath Bread-fruit Wood.
Accordingly we gave a pitch of about four feet to our roof, thus forming a fair slope on each side to carry off the rain water.
I was up in an instant, and springing to Billy's side I saw that the men were dragging up the slope from the wood a long sort of hurdle, very like our drawbridge, only longer and stouter.
When we had gone a good way up, very toilsomely, I saw with great thankfulness a slope to our left hand, which seemed to lead away from the barren lava to living soil.
We could not see our hut, but a great part of the island between it and the sea, to the westward and southward, was open to our view, and of course the mountain, and the long slope that ran downwards from the crater to the archway.
But the mere grass slope does not much help the effect of the house, far or near; a house standing on a grass slope always has the effect of sliding down a hill.
On such a slope effectual drainage is easily accomplished, and the greatest possible benefit obtained from the sun's rays.
The westernslope of the little hill was fixed upon, and already the flowers they loved so well are blooming over them.
Hereupon the fellow very nimbly ran across the road, turned, nodded, and vanished among the trees and underbrush that clothed the steep slope down to the valley below.
Then he, too, descended the slope of the hill and mounted his pony.
A little later she looked again, and the flat was no longer there, for they had reached the crest of the slope and their trail had wound them round to a broad level, from which began another slope, several miles distant.
He rode down the long slope of the rise and struck the level, traveling at a slow lope through a shallow washout.
All was still and restful on the hill-slope above the beautiful Paramatta River, and from the window there was a scene of peace that seemed to hinder the possibility of trouble existing on this earth.
Then on and on, uphill slowly, down the far slope at a good gallop, with the chaise dancing and swaying about on its C-springs, and time after time the whole affair nearly being thrown over upon its side.
It was only one blow, but it was given with the full force of a strong arm and had the weight of a well-built man rushing down a steep slope to give it additional force.
She had found herself on a slope which her nature forced her to descend to the bottom.
I lifted a knee carefully, set it on the edge, and so crawled up the slope again.
The hollow was only a break in the steepslope of the hill.
The next day's work was similar to the first, except that, soon after starting, on ascending a slope they saw a small herd of deer some eighty yards away.
It wur sartin we couldn't hold the slope if they made an attack.
A stranger would have thought from the perusal that every miner on the Pacific slopemust have been making a fortune, so brilliant were the accounts of the gold that was being obtained in every mining camp.
The height of the butte above the broad valley would be about three hundred feet, and the slope was covered with trees and undergrowth, until it terminated abruptly at the face of a wall of rock fifty feet from the summit.
Stay under that tall palm-tree through the night; Rest on the mountain-slope By the couching antelope, O thou enthroned supremacy of light!
So, while she laughed and chatted with her women Bhanavar lifted the circlet, and made her countenance wholly bare even to the neck and the beginning slope of the bosom, and fixed the circlet to her head with the Jewel burning on her brow.
Now Ruark pursued them, and was lost to Bhanavar round a slope of the mountain.
The forty acre property acquired in this single transaction almost equals the entire Bahá’í international endowments purchased in the course of sixty years in the vicinity of the Báb’s Sepulcher on the slope of Mount Carmel.
The slope thundered with their hoofbeats as they came straight toward the river.
Savage tribes do not linger over a battlefield that is finished; yet as he reached the bottom of the slope his heart began to beat heavily again, and he was loath to leave the protecting shadow of the pines.
The plain before him was invisible, and the forest on the slope behind him was a solid robe of black.
The slope on which he stood was merely a sort of gate to the higher mountains, or rather it was a curtain hiding the view.
As he went down the slope became steeper, but once more the pines, sheltered from the snows and cruel winds, grew to a great size.
As they passed the crest of the range and began the descent of the slope toward the enchanted valley, a mule deer crashed from the covert and fled away with great bounds.
Two warriors passed on the slope of the hill and Dick, ceasing his work, shrank against the trunk of the tree, but they went on, and when they were out of sight he began again to pick at the knots.
He ran up the slope at his utmost speed for a hundred yards or more, and then remembering in time to nurse his strength, he slackened his footsteps.
Dick soon reached the summit and looked down the far slope into a valley three or four hundred yards deep.
But it was not quite so steep as it had looked in the distance, and in the faint light Dick saw the trace of a trail leading up the slope among the pines.
In a boyhood spent on an Illinois farm, where the prairies slope up to the forest, he had learned the ways of wood and field, and was full of courage, strength, and resource.
He was free, but he staggered as he walked a little way down the slope of the hill and his fingers were numb.
While the slope which he was ascending was fairly steep, it was easy enough to find a good trail among the pines.
Dick knew that extensive rocky formations must mean a cave or an opening of some kind, if they only looked long enough for it, at last they found in the side of a slope a place that he thought could be made to suit.
But to-day we were to go past the hall and lunch on a green slope under the trees, (was it just the spot where Mr. Pickwick tried the cold punch and found it satisfactory?
Oh, there's a wooden house on a slope looking down a bluff at the edge of a great plain, from which you look over the Blue Mountains.
He must be dreaming again and going to fall from his horse, which was ascending the rapid slope the farther side of the gully.
This was addressed to a little flock of small green birds which flew whistling and chattering more than chirping up the slope toward the level land above.
The mean annual temperature of the European countries on the southern slope of the mountain axis is from 60 deg.
There was a time before Theophilus when the Serapion might have been approached on one side by a slope for carriages, on the other by a flight of a hundred marble steps.
On the southern slope of the mountain axis project the historic peninsulas, Greece, Italy, Spain.
