A comfortable slope is 5 contour lines in 1 centimetre, or a gradient of 17°.

The spot where they were perched was fully sixty feet above the road, and the slope below was next door to perpendicular.

The slope up which the infantry had to advance was a series of almost perpendicular terraces, and the riflemen could only make the ascent by climbing up each others' backs.

The general slope of the mountain at this part was less than forty degrees, and snow had accumulated in, and had filled up, the interstices of the rock-face, leaving only occasional fragments projecting here and there.

" The whole slope in front of the hut was a trickle of water, threading the dying stalks of dock and ragwort, and hurrying down to add its dirty pittance to the small yellow torrent rushing along the greasy strip of clay that in happier days was the path.

A slope of 1° is a rise of 1 foot in 57.

But here I should tell to you that the slope was nowise steep; but did seem as that it should never cease.

Night thickened perceptibly every moment, yet still while the eastern slope of every roof was jet black, the western slopes were bright, and here and there at the distance the light turned and waned on upper windows.

The slope became steeper; ledges of rock, little at first, became larger and more frequent; he came to bluffs that barred his progress, slow and painful at best; he was forced to search to left or right for broken places where he could climb.

But the slope was the nearest and the way to it was the safest, and there was no time to wait.

The slope leading up to the rock and swinging around in front of the town is an addition of recent years.

That is not the way to Torre Garda at all; and that slope is solid ice.

Immediately on the other side the ground rose in a gradual slope up the Messines hill, and about three-quarters way up this slope were the German trenches.

Some slippery pine-needle slopes we had to run across, for light quick steps were the only means of safe travel.

And Thor, if he explained to him at all, told him that winter was very near, and that these slopes were their last feeding grounds.

The steep slope at the junction of the two valleys is the site of the city of the Jebusites, the most ancient part of Jerusalem.