Slopes

Examples

• The bottom slopes, you know, very steep. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The slopes on both sides were also covered with a heavy growth of timber. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The water lies between two very sharp slopes, with little branch valleys, and God knows where the drift will take you. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Blue evening had fallen over the cradle of snow and over the great pallid slopes. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The army took up positions along the slopes of the mountains south of the city, as far west as Tacubaya. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• At last he came to the great shallow among the precipices and slopes, near the summit of the pass. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• In like manner the guns were drawn by hand up the opposite slopes. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He knew he was following the track towards the summit of the slopes, where was the marienhutte, and the descent on the other side. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• After her attentive survey of the wild slopes and hollow ravines a gesture of impatience escaped Eustacia. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The Holy Therns abide upon the outer slopes of these grim hills, facing the broad world from which they harvest their victims and their spoils. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• He went over the snow slopes, to see where the death had been. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• To follow each of these spurs with intrenchments, so as to command the slopes on either side, would have lengthened their line very much. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• When one speaks of conifers in the Mesozoic the reader must not think of the pines and firs that clothe the high mountain slopes of our time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He looked round in terror at the snow, the rocking, pale, shadowy slopes of the upper world. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The lower slopes of the eminence melted imperceptibly into a grassy plain, the place of the meeting of three rivers. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• A continuous line of impregnable fortifications circles the outer slopes of the Mountains of Otz. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• It stood like a rock that had rolled down from the last steep slopes, a rock that had taken the form of a house, and was now half-buried. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• There shall be cottages in the dark ravine, and cottages on the lonely slopes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The pins are put into a vibrating hopper, which slopes slightly towards the sticking machine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They explored the great slopes, to find another slide. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He turned up the hill, and stumbled blindly over the wild slopes, having lost the path in the complete darkness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The greater part of the debris and rubbish brought down from the mountain slopes by the spring rains owes its origin to the fact that water expands when it freezes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Then we will go up to the point above the side path; and, from there, you know, the cliff slopes down sheer two hundred feet. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Then the tanks would grind clanking up those two slopes and after them would go his two brigades. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• They signalled to him that there was no movement on the other slopes. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Round him upon the slopes of the Barrow a number of heathmen and women were reclining or sitting at their ease. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• When the moon came out again we could see white villas on the shore on the slopes of the mountain and thewhite road where it showed through the trees. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Fifty to one a lady's--slopes a good deal, and the end of the letter 'n,' long and hasty. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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