Steeply

Examples

• The lake was blue and fair, the meadows sloped down in sunshine on one side, the thick dark woods dropped steeply on the other. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Across the street, which sloped steeply, was another hotel with a similar wall and garden. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• As they came up, still deep in the shadow of the pines, after dropping down from the high meadow into the wooden valley and climbing up it on a trail that paralleled the stream and then left it to gain, steeply, the top of a rim-rock formation, a man with a carbine stepped out from behind a tree. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The road climbed steeply going up and back and forth through chestnut woods to level finally along a ridge. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Let us sit here, Selden suggested, as they reached an open ledge of rock above which the beeches rose steeply between mossy boulders. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The road went down a long grade below the ch鈚eau and then turned to the right and went down very steeply and paved with cobbles, into Montreux. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.

Edited by Flo