How To Use declivity In A Sentence
- The deformation of level foundation is generally symmetric of road central line and the deformation of slope foundation is mainly concentrated on the border side of the declivity.
- At the bottom of the declivity was a pond of water bubbling and steaming. The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX
- Mush-on! you Siwashes! he cried, attempting, in a vermicular way, to kick at them, and discovering himself to be tottering on the edge of a declivity. THE MAN WITH THE GASH
- These geognostic relations of an instrument intended for the measurement of time -- this property of the pendulum, by which, like a sounding line, it searches unknown depths, and reveals in volcanic islands, * or in the declivity of elevated continental mountain chains, ** dense masses of basalt and melaphyre instead of cavities, render it difficult, notwithstanding the admirable simplicity of the method, to arrive at any great result regarding the figure of the Earth from observation of the oscillations of the pendulum. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
- Among these is the _belier hydraulique_, newly invented by MONTGOLFIER, by means of which a stream of water, having a few feet of declivity, can be raised to the top of a house by a single valve or sucker, so disposed as to open, to admit the water, and shut, when it is to be raised by compression. Paris as It Was and as It Is
- If the declivity is gentle, it can be drained by sodded, concave avenues; but if too steep for that, it must be benched or terraced, which is more expensive. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
- This declivity runs between detached villas and stone walls, sheltering prim gardens, right on to the west end of the esplanade, which is, in fact, a continuation of it. The Man Who Lost Himself
- Five years in narrow walls had unfitted me for the enormous declivity of the stairway, for the vastitude of the prison yard. Chapter 22
- The spring was at the bottom of a narrow declivity at a place where the sandstone met a harder formation of limestone. THE JOE LEAPHORN MYSTERIES
- But again, after the car rested a minute, the light, dry earth began to crack and crumble away from under the tires, rolling in a miniature avalanche down the steep declivity into the water. WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE
