How To Use Declivity In A Sentence
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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.
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At the bottom of the declivity was a pond of water bubbling and steaming.
The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Five years in narrow walls had unfitted me for the enormous declivity of the stairway, for the vastitude of the prison yard.
Chapter 22
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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
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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
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Canyon, because the declivity within it is so great and the water descends with such tremendous velocity and continuity that he thought the term rapid failed to interpret the conditions.
A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872
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Five years in narrow walls had unfitted me for the enormous declivity of the stairway, for the vastitude of the prison yard.
Chapter 22
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There was not room for the two of them in the slight declivity left by the moving of the flagstone.
THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
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Even when the river is able to maintain its right of way it may yet have its declivity so lessened that it is compelled to aggrade its course continually, filling the valley with river deposits which may grow to an enormous thickness.
The Elements of Geology
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Their private apartment rising to a two-storey townhouse overlooking the golf course and encompassing vistas that include the Nephin mountains and a gradual declivity of agricultural land that snuggles in the Moy estuary.
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Hours later, I found the pass at over 18,000 feet, a sharp declivity between two minor summits.
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The whole is a sweet Spot of Earth, not a Span hardly uncultivated with Sugar-Canes; all sides bend with an easy declivity to the Sea, and is ever green," was how one visitor described the island in the 1730s.
Colonial riches in Barbados
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When he walked, he walked as though he went down a declivity.
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Sufetula was built one hundred and fifty miles to the south of Carthage: a gentle declivity is watered by a running stream, and shaded by a grove of juniper-trees; and, in the ruins of a triumpha arch, a portico, and three temples of the Corinthian order, curiosity may yet admire the magnificence of the Romans.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Admitting that the sharper declivity of the Kanab would enhance its power of corrasion, nevertheless we should expect to see it approach the Grand Canyon by leaps and bounds, like the
The Romance of the Colorado River
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Pallid and mad, he swift upsprang, and he tore up a tree by its lusty roots, and down the declivity, dashing with rapid leaps, panting and wild, he struck the ravisher on the temple with the mighty pine.
Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity
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Again: — Pallid and mad, he swift upsprang, and he tore up a tree by its lusty roots, and down the declivity, dashing with rapid leaps, panting and wild, he struck the ravisher on the temple with the mighty pine.
A Review of 'Alroy'
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On a shelf or cup of the declivity was a little clump of vegetation, and in the midst of it welled up a thin stream of water.
The Golden Fleece
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Dr. Baumann says that the lake at Riabba from which the spirit Uapa rises is more holy, and that he is small, and resides in a chasm in a rock whose declivity can only be passed by means of bush ropes, and in the wet season he is not get-at-able at all.
Travels in West Africa
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A few hundred yards from the trail was a steep and narrow declivity like something out of a Tony Hillerman story.
Bird Cloud
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Castlereagh, Gwydir, and the Dumaresq, with the many minor interfluent waters, which doubtless takes place upon those low levels, forms one or more noble rivers, which may flow across the continent by an almost imperceptible declivity of country to the north of north-west coasts, on certain parts of which, recent surveys have discovered to us extensive openings, by which the largest accumulations of waters might escape to the sea.
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete
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The declivity is the greatest of the whole river with the exception of the First Granite Gorge of the Grand
The Romance of the Colorado River
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At the end of six hours, and late at night, we passed to the right, the ruins of an ancient city standing on the declivity of the mountain and still bearing its original name Amata (Arabic).
Travels in Syria and the Holy Land
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First imagine to yourself a superb position, a steep mountain, bristling with rocks, furrowed with ravines and precipices; upon the declivity is the castle.
English Villages
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The Brahmaputra River, one of the great rivers of the world, pours down from Tibet, in a steep declivity, into Assam, down toward Bangladesh and the Bay of Bengal.
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Set in the Catskill Mountains, the canvas's foreground depicts a logged-over declivity through which runs a thin trickle of water that carries the viewer's eye toward a farmhouse barely visible in the shadows.
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A hundred metres to the north is an ancient cairn/wind shelter sitting on the edge of the declivity which leads to Scope End.
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At the end of six hours, and late at night, we passed to the right, the ruins of an ancient city standing on the declivity of the mountain and still bearing its original name Amata
Travels in Syria and the Holy Land
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For a long time she stood on the edge staring down into the declivity.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
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Three sides were thus defended, the steep declivity at the rear precluding attack from that direction.
THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS