Eastward, above the slopes of Sila, stood a moon almost at its full, the yellow of an autumn leaf, on a sky soft-flushed with rose.
The valley narrowed; it became a gorge between dark slopes which closed together and seemed to bar advance.
Behold them rising, silent domes and pinnacles and towers, from the burnished mirror of the noonday sea: how the sunlight flashes on their pearly slopes and fills their deeply cloven valleys: how dewy bright and glistening they are!
The mountainslopes above are clothed by them with light as with a raiment; clinging to knoll and vale and winding creek, rippling in hoary undulations to the wind, they wrap the hills from feet to flank in lucid haze.
The slopes of Pozzuoli were green with herbs, over which no lava had been poured.
I know of an old man too, on the slopes of Ben Bulben, who found the devil ringing a bell under his bed, and he went off and stole the chapel bell and rang him out.
A little girl who was at service in the village of Grange, close under the seaward slopes of Ben Bulben, suddenly disappeared one night about three years ago.
But they are always there, at the bottom of the ditches, on the slopes at the very edge of the road.
The terrain slopes steeply away from us for a hundred yards or so, then rises again to a summit, which marks the horizon a mile away.
In consequence of the long and severe winters the villages are built on gentle slopes of the hillsides in which the houses are excavated.
Very few birds and no other animals were seen during our walk over the rich mossyslopes to-day.
Upon the green slopes our sportsmen found nothing but a few ptarmigan and a hare.
The scenery is charming, lofty hills of trap rock, with unusually rich slopes (for the 70th parallel) descending to the fiord, and strewed with boulders of gneiss and granite.
Upon the moss-clad slopesmany fragments of quartz and zeolite were met with.
The outline of the western land is very distant; it is of considerable but uniform elevation, and slopes gradually down to the strait, which is between 30 and 40 miles wide.
The parvis of the cathedral, which slopes downwards from the choir to the western door, rendered easy the cleansing process which followed in the early morning, when floods of water were thrown upon the pavement.
It was not without a feeling of sincere regret that, on the last evening of my stay, I ascended one of those slopes to take a farewell view of the venerable pile.
The Bina'an stream drains the southern slopes of Mount Sinuma'an and the northern slopes of Mounts Talipao and Kumaputkut and empties into the Bay of Tu'tu'.
The northernslopes of Mount Tumangtangis and Mount Dahu, and the crest of Bud Datu are covered with grand forests, while the crests and lower slopes of Bud Agad and Bud Pula are partly cultivated and partly covered with tall grass.
It drains the southern slopesof Mounts Tumangtangis, Pula, Dahu, and Kumuray.
The meadows were spangled with flowers and weeds, and the heather slopes towards the sea began to light up.
With the exception of a rowan-tree, and a walnut-avenue in the Parsonage garden, these were the only trees to be found for miles round on the windy slopes facing the open sea.
Perhaps, had the day been fine, the sea smooth, the sky cloudless and blue, and the green slopes of the mainland bright with cheering sunshine, my answer might not have been so uncompromisingly in the negative.
Where the mountains do not intervene, the land slopes gradually down to the sea.
Within the last few years men have killed deer on the slopes of Tamalpais and looked down to see the cable cars crawling up the hills of San Francisco to the south.
On the slopes of Telegraph Hill dwelt the Mexicans and Spanish, in low houses, which they had transformed by balconies into a semblance of Spain.
The slopes of Tamalpais are crowded with little villas dotted through the woods, and these minor estates run far up into the redwood country.
On Eperquerie Common I got down, and led Gray Robin cautiously over the long green slopes among the cushions of gorse and the waist-high ferns, and down the rocky way to the knoll above the landing-place.
We looked round at Sercq, at the cracks in the headlands, and the green slopes smiling in the sunshine, and the white tongues of the waves as they leaped up the cliffs.
Here, where the heights of Herm run down in green slopes to the long flat beaches, I drew the boat well up and crept to the other side of the Island, keeping as close to the high ground as I dared.
From that position a tract of ground (now fields and closes) slopes downwards, so as to form a depression between it and the spot occupied by the Lancastrians.
The dancing flames she did not understand, but she understood the ponderous crashing, and growls, and savage cries which came from those black thickets and slopes of tumbled rocks.
Grôm's sagacious eyes noted the fertility of the level lands at a distance from the fire, and of the clefts, ledges and lower slopes of the tumbled volcanic hills.
The glories of His love With life and light supernal are waiting there above, And up the slopes of shadow our weary feet shall climb To kiss the smiles of rapture beyond the tears of time.
One heart of love and two glad lips of song have lifted many a mediocre soul up the slopes of happiness to the bright, eternal morning.
It lit up the scarped hills above the woody slopes and slowly, like a white curtain, the mists of the valley lifted, showing the shiny levels of the inland lakes.
Out on theslopes near the stream reclined groups of natives, chatting, singing, smoking, or silently regarding the moon.
Rain-clouds hung over the mountains, throwing deep shadows across the slopes that but for this relief would have been too bright for the sentimental beauty that usually identifies a tropical island.
Grouped on the hill-slopes of Saint Florent, more than fifteen thousand spectators followed with their gaze the flotilla, in the midst of which they saw the Duchess of Berry, standing, visibly agitated.
An immense multitude covered theslopes about the Champ-de-Mars.
His face was babyish in slumber, despite his wrinkles and the red spectacle-dents on the slopes of his nose.
It will be well to mention also the excavations made on the slopes of Mount Hymettus, and in the ever-famous plains of Marathon.
Mascaro"), thinks that this dolmen was not erected by man, but that a long slab of stone has slipped down the slopes of the mountain and rested on two natural supports.
Through the loopholes in the leaves, Upon the yellow slopes of far-off farms, I see the rhythmic cradlers and the sheaves Gleam in the binders' arms.
The best that grew could be gathered from mountain-slopes and in the crevices of rocks.
They seem for all the world like scared dogs; and a dog when he slopes off with his head down, his tail atween his legs, and his back so mean it won't bristle, is a caution to sinners.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slopes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
