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Definition of Declivities
1. declivity [n] - See also: declivity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Declivities
Literary usage of Declivities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Physical Geography by Francis B. Fogg (1857)
"declivities or MOUNTAINS. Mountains, whether insulated or in groups, ...
In general, this inequality in declivities takes place only because the chains of ..."
2. A Biblical and Theological Dictionary: Explanatory of the History, Manners by Richard Watson, Nathan Bangs (1832)
"On the declivities of the mountain grew the vines which furnished the rich and
fragrant wine which Hosea celebrated, xiv, 7, and which may ..."
3. Winter: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1887)
"... not over them, had apparently slid down all banks and declivities, making a
uniform, broad, hollow trail there, without any marks of its feet. ..."
4. History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon, in by Philippe-Paul Ségur (1825)
"Behind them, from the summit of the declivities on which the town was situated,
their advanced guard poured their fire on ..."
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