The ground sloped gently upward from the low banks to the cliffs, which here retired inland, leaving a small plain, on which it was easy for us to land.
They turned and led the way to the house through the gardens, orchards, and shrubberies which lay on the rising ground that sloped gently upward to our dwelling.
It sloped gently to the water's edge, and in the center was a cluster of smooth, water-worn stones.
The top of the gorge sloped on this side into a valley, and following this for some distance they finally reached more open country.
The roof had a pitch at the back and sloped to meet the kitchen, which was only one story in height.
The wide, gable roof sloped down to the stud of the first floor, giving but little room in the chambers above.
From Loma to the camp, a distance of some fifteen miles, the mountains slopedgradually to the river and there were a few adobe houses occupied by Mexicans.
There were no square for a parade ground but all buildings faced toward the canon, of which at this point was not abrupt but sloped gradually to the bottom.
The officers' tents were in line facing this lake, and at the back ground sloped gradually to the river about a half-mile away.
These, when filed down to the proper thickness, must be laid, one by one, in a narrow groove made in a piece of hard wood, and the barb struck up with a chisel or the sloped edge of a knife.
We then pointed one end of the iron chunk and sloped the upper end, by hammering on the anvil, to a wedge form.
Each cheek of the timber should be smoothly and evenlysloped off to about the proportion shown in the illustration representing the wedge.
The rolling country sloped steadily upward from the river to the chain of hills farther to the east.
Looking to the east, the rolling ground slopedupward toward a chain of hills; to the west, beyond the river, the country lay level to the horizon.
But even this would be of little use to a foe, for the brickwork was cracked from the parapet right down to the water's edge, and the whole building sloped outwards, as if even the firing of a cannon would send it toppling over into the river.
Agnes lived on a broad and pleasant quay that gently sloped towards a noble river.
This was a tall, fair-haired German, with powerful shoulders, and strong arms that sloped to the finest of sensitive hands.
The shore sloped gradually down to the lake's edge in a smooth sweep of grass sward which met the water without any break.
Upon a piece of smooth grass sward, nibbled quite short by rabbits, which slopeddown to a brook of brown and amber water, sat Lewin, the minter.
They flitted noiselessly among the dark trees, silent amid the noble aisles and avenues which sloped down to the lake.
In this the roof sloped toward the outer walls, as shown in the cinerary urn mentioned in section 189, and the water was carried off by gutters on the outside, the compluvium collecting only so much as actually fell into it from the heavens.
From either crest the cornfields sloped gently to the marshy sources of the creek, hidden by tall timber and dense undergrowth.
Before the right and the right centre the green pastures, shorn for thirteen hundred yards of all obstacles save a few solitary cottages, sloped almost imperceptibly to the brook which is called Young's Branch.
Northward the ground sloped gently down to a clump of trees, of a species unknown to him, tall, with slender trunks, which it seemed to him he could climb as easily as the masts on the Maid Marian.
We were on a wooded hill-side, which sloped gently to the south-west.
Soon we gained a point or crest, from which the ground sloped gently to the east.
Our course lay off the road, down a very rocky and rugged ravine which sloped away towards the sea.
I could see by the dim light of the single torch which Murgatroyd held upon the margin, that the roof of the cave sloped sheer down upon us as we sculled slowly out towards the entrance.
And you, sir, your musquetoon should be sloped upon your shoulder, and not borne under your arm like a dandy's cane.
On either side of the track steep winding glens sloped downwards, lined with yellow gorse, which blazed out from the deep-red soil like a flame from embers.
All along the front, it sloped to the dell; at the end of the house, it sloped more gently and to greater distance down to the banks of the river.
However, a few steps brought us to a receding level bit of ground, where there was a break in the bank; the shore fell in a little, and a wooded dell sloped back from the river.
We had passed through the grove of oaks on the further side of the house, and then found the beginning of a dell which, like the one by which we had come up a few hours before, sloped gently down to the river.
The forehead was narrow and sloped backward from the brow, denoting animal instincts.
From the high bank where they stood the land sloped and narrowed gradually until it ended in a sharp point which marked the last bit of land between the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers.
It led through groves of trees and presently I found a little clearing where the bank sloped gently and was covered with soft moss.
He was tall and blond and rather lithe; his shoulders sloped forward like a boxer's.
From where he stood the cliff sloped down to a white strip of beach that reached out into the night as far as he could see, hemmed close in by the black gloom of the forest.
He turned before the look that came into her face, and led her about the circle of fire to the side of the mountain that sloped down into the plain.
It sloped gently upward and was quite dry, thus accounting for the preservation of the massive oak beams that acted as supports.
There was a good bottom, depth in plenty even for diving, and the banks on one side, at least, sloped back sharply and were covered with a fine growth of pine and hemlock, interspersed with white birch and a good deal of hard wood.
East, beautiful meadows and fields, arrayed in flowery green, sloped to salt marshes or sandy banks of the Sound, or ended in the long white beaches which extended far into the sea.
It was on a little eminence which slopedgradually to the lake, in the most pleasant part of the village.
