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1. When, to let her have a measure of his manhood, he pushed her down to his declivity, her innate love prompted her lust into reciprocation
2. Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind have kept this man from dying?" By this time they were standing before the family tomb, a small natural cave, or declivity, in the ledge of rock which rose up some thirty feet at the far end of the garden plot
3. " Arriving at the steep declivity of the Sphinx, the camels breaking to a long-111
4. He went over the brim of the declivity and began to climb down
5. They stood perched on the face of the declivity, under the trees
6. Heyward had given one of his pistols to Hawkeye, and together they rushed down a little declivity
7. He had rolled down a declivity of twelve or fifteen feet
8. He then waved his hand for them to follow, and threw himself down the steep declivity, with free, but careful footsteps
9. " Franz and the count in their turn then advanced along the same path, which, at the distance of a hundred paces, led them over a declivity to the bottom of a small valley
10. Two other men descended after Danglars forming the rearguard, and pushing Danglars whenever he happened to stop, they came by a gentle declivity to the intersection of two corridors
11. But before the obstacle they were approaching, Vronsky began working at the reins, anxious to avoid having to take the outer circle, and swiftly passed Mahotin just upon the declivity
12. Recovering her reserve, she sat without replying, and thus they reached the summit of another declivity
13. Our columns ought to have begun to appear on an open declivity to his right
14. In that fatal valley, at the foot of that declivity which the cuirassiers had ascended, now inundated by the masses of the English, under the converging fires of the victorious hostile cavalry,
15. Marius was descending this declivity at a slow pace, with his eyes fixed on the girl whom he no longer saw
16. “All that were left of the baggage-wagons after the passage of the Beresina, including the Emperor’s, had to be finally abandoned near the Tamari post-house at the foot of an ice-covered declivity on the further side of Vilna
17. The young man uttered a fierce cry of despair, and galloped madly down the declivity
18. Several fine specimens were observed on the western declivity of the Look-Out Mountain, but in no instances in large masses or quantities
19. And judging from the degree of its declivity, the perpendicular height cannot be less than seventy-five feet
20. This fact will give a good idea of the degree of the mound's declivity
21. Our guide conducted us to the foot of a steep declivity, where we left our horses, and with some difficulty ascended about 70 yards
22. Dörpfeld maintains that the ancient orchestra and the later Agrippeum theatre near by, mentioned by Philostratus, 192 lay in the depression between the Pnyx and the Hill of the Nymphs, but considerably above the foot of the declivity