| 单词 | slope |
| 例句 | Just a sloping field down to the creek. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “There is a spring halfway down the slope,” said the angel, “just above those trees.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She held up the phone to show the lucky guy grinning on the slopes. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Gradually the branches thinned and the ground beneath him began to slope. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The canoe rose up on the crest of a wave, and the next thing I knew we were roller-coastering down the slope, faster and faster, headed straight for the rocky protrusions. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Everyone called it the Leaner because, despite being pretty sturdy, it looked like it was tilting down the slope of the mountain. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Without slowing down it drove past the place where they had pushed Elinor’s car over the slope and disappeared around the next bend. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Upstream, it sloped down to a grassy path between the trees and the water. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We follow the road here along the eastern slope of the mountains. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He peered ahead into the dark cleft, and left and right up the great, cavern-pocked, boulder-tumbled slopes where trees crouched with their roots half in air. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The sea was still some way off, but the hills were lower, and vines grew on the slopes rather than the undergrowth and trees that grew on the hills around Capricorn’s village. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I walked on and on, over fallen trees I had struggled over hours before, down slopes I could now only dimly recall. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Almost before they could grasp that he was alive, he had recrossed the entire upper slope of the combe in a single dash and bolted in among them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There's just the slight gradual slope, the birds, the sameness to the trees. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z On a rocky mountain pass, on the southernmost slopes of Mount Belly, the witch-queen reined in her goat-drawn chariot and stopped and sniffed the chilly air. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z After a while, they noticed that the ground seemed to be sloping downward, though the trees were as thick as ever. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z She thinks the guest room where she will be staying—which is really a former hayloft shaped by a sloped roof—has “two lopsides.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z For a moment he caught a glimpse of swarthy men in red running down the slope some way off with green-clad warriors leaping after them, hewing them down as they fled. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He watched them disappear over a ridge, and in a few minutes he saw the lead cow reappear on the far slope, still following the fence line. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Aragorn looked at the pale stars, and at the moon, now sloping behind the western hills that enclosed the valley. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Slowly, it starts rising—the vinegar reacting with the baking soda and making carbon dioxide—and now bloodred lava is bubbling over the sides of the volcano, spilling down the slopes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The city of Kiev stretched in front of her, climbing up a gradual slope to a plateau that overlooked the lower city and the river beyond. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Will and Lyra moved down the slope until they were close enough to speak to them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Not rain, but running water, somewhere away on his right, beyond the point where the ground began to slope. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The story is almost certainly untrue, but Galileo did do something equivalent: he rolled balls of different weights down a smooth slope. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Enough to get me to Ninth Mile if I roll down slopes.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z ‘He is steering a straight course now for the halls of Théoden under the slopes of the White Mountains,’ said Gandalf. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Cole took off at a dead run down the slope. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “We better get going,” she said, leading them on foot slowly up the slope toward the ridge, away from the direction Kyril Montana had taken. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z One careless, superb gesture, and I would be hurled into motion down the slope toward the small khaki spot in the sidelines, among the spectators, which was Buddy Willard. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Mark hadn’t noticed the walls of the mountains to their sides getting taller, and the slope was gradual enough that he didn’t really feel like they were descending very quickly. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The lower slopes of the mountain are washed with gentle rains, and the air remains cool and fresh all year, and the volcanic soil produces rich crops of com. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He rolled and tumbled with them for almost an hour; then he ran down the slope, turned, and stopped. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as near perpendicular as a slope can get without actually being a rock climb. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He walked down the long slope in front of him toward that one battery that was still firing toward the blue line. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Kaede began to creep down the slope, the rope snaking between them like an umbilical cord. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “Now if I change the slope that way...minus 1... now what I mean to do is make the line go straight.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Word of that flag-raising flowed down the slope as fast as a stream of sweet water. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I sat down to rest on a broad, sloping ledge, but after a few minutes a deafening boom! frightened me back to my feet. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The flood hurled them across the junction and into St. Aldate’s, where the downward slope of the street let the water rush on with even greater speed. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z She maintains that Lopsang hauled her up the slope very much against her wishes. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z They were heavy constructions of plywood, a sanded dowel for backstroke starts, puke-green carpet torn from somebody's basement stapled into the sloping tops for traction, and lane numbers spray-painted in orange on the backs. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z I saw the town with the hill and the old castle above it in a cup in the hills with the mountains beyond, brown mountains with a little green on their slopes. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z We decide to move down the slope a few hundred yards and continue circling. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Between the edge of the burned forest and the mountains, a rocky slope of heavy boulders and scree was littered with scorched and twisted metal: girders and struts that had belonged to some complex machine. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Taking a firm grip on the mitten, he flattened his ears in spirited fellowship, dashed down the slope and up to his den. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Out of the corner of her eye, she spied swirls of golden light appearing here and there on the dewy slope, but when she looked closer, they melted into wisps of gray. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z While numerous loud threats were exchanged, and some halfhearted pushing and shoving went on, Ruby Archuleta lazed over to a grassy slope, sat down, and bemusedly smoked a cigarette. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The floor of the loft had a slight downward slope. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z “Quick! Quick!” cried Malcolm, and led them running down the slope towards the other side of the inn, towards the front door, towards safety. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z A magpie, seeing some light-colored object conspicuous on the empty slope, flew closer to look. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The ground kept sloping up and the cows ran up the hill. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z They reached the top of the slope and saw before them the barns and the farmyard. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We saw Kostor, which is four miles high, from foot to crest; the huge slant of its western slope hid the peaks north of it, some of which go up to thirty thousand feet. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Weary creases ring the queen's eyes, and sadness slopes her shoulders forward over the sleeping princess. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Women could not make it down the icy slopes and therefore missed days of wages they sorely needed. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The ground was rolling and uneven here; soft and muddy near the river, rising in a gentle slope toward the kingsroad, stony and broken beyond it, to the east. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They galloped across the meadow and up the slope. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The group swung around and moved down the slight slope, going slowly through the grass. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Down below, Brooklyn grew taller and denser as it sloped toward the river. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He scooted down a gravelly slope to a pier jutting out over the shallow water. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z He stopped the car, and I could see that the edge of the road bordered a vertical slope that crumbled into vacancy, a fall of perhaps two thousand feet. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The sun, when you see it, shines high; there is no slow bleeding away of light into the darkness, as on the polar slopes of Earth where cold and night come on together. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Eagerly the two youngsters dropped their bikes and scrambled down the sloping riverbank to watch as the bargelike boat passed, its open deck heavy with wooden containers of various sizes. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The rolling cart rattled and banged and careened its way down the slope till it was right beside the spring. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z It barked once and then they were out on the open slope with the dog running mute behind them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z At the very rear, so far away that they could hardly be seen, were the percussion instruments, and lastly, in a long line up one side of a steep slope, were the solemn bass fiddles. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z No noise of the falls could be heard, for a long southward slope lay now between them and the ravine in which the stream flowed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Where they had been grassy and sloping away gradually, the banks were steeper and cut away, exposing the dirt and mud. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z I step on dry stones that rise above the trickle to get across to the other side, and I walk up the slope of Mr. Bender’s yard. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The rover, while descending down a seemingly ordinary slope, drove off an invisible ridge. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Father had left about thirty feet between Dragonwings and the crest of the hill where it sloped sharply for some hundred feet before opening on the ruin of the Esperanza estate and our barn. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The crowds on the highway and sloping hills are not so frenzied yet. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Jasper sloped in to join us, too warm in the sun, his tongue lolling from his mouth. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z It was at the bottom of the slope behind the trees. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The rumbling continued as we ran back down the slope. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z A few minutes later, the two scholars looked up from their climb to watch the three griffins flying up a nearby slope, carrying the royal party. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Down the slope was a tumble of dark, rounded shapes, and then another slope rose beyond that. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z There was a subtle evidence of fatigue, and strain, in the slope of his shoulders which I, a veteran of many sleepless nights, recognized immediately. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Finally flat ground gave way to a gentle upward slope of bushes, saplings, and rock. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked across the lawns to the clearing in the woods where the valley sloped to the sea. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The coyotes nuzzled along the slopes and, torn with sorrow-joy, raised their heads and shouted their feeling, half keen, half laughter, at their goddess moon. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Long slopes they climbed, dark, hard-edged against the sky already red with sunset. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z In seconds I’m off the slope, moving on the level, closer to the border crossing. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z They could see the fallen soldiers on the slopes below them. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z I was in a field that sloped down steeply not far in front of me, and I could see the lights of some village way below in the valley. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z In a single leap she cleared the ledge and then flew down the slope. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Nok ran down the slope, using her staff to brace herself. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z It took me forever to decode Van Houten’s sloped, scratchy script. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z In the draws the smoke coming off the ground like mist and the thin black trees burning on the slopes like stands of heathen candles. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The neat thing about the slope of the street was the restaurant signs that jutted out from the graceful buildings on each side. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z The slope plummeted eighty feet, straight to the roof of an apartment complex built into the hillside. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The shelter—a basic, three-sided affair with a sloping roof—looked crowded, and a dozen or so tents were scattered around the open ground. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The slope lengthened until a new balance point was reached, one defined by the complex interactions of countless tiny particles and their ability to maintain an angled shape. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z At last she saw a modern building that nestled against the ground, down a low sloping hill. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Monet and his friend continued deeper into the cave, descending a slope, until they came to a pillar that seemed to support the roof. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They were still going downhill, which should have made traveling easier; but the ground sloped at just the wrong angle—too steep to jog, too treacherous to let her guard down even for a moment. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Then, just as I was starting to wonder if we’d need climbing gear to get onto the island, its steep cliffs sloped down to meet us. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Glaucus was a fisherman who was fishing one day from a green meadow which sloped down to the sea. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters, the slope of a shoulder, the angle of a hip. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z When Shasta went through the gate he found a slope of grass and a little heather running up before him to some trees. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The army of the Scyldings and all their allies stretched off in the darkness as far as the eye could see—down the slopes of the hill, down the stone-paved roadways, away into the trees. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon there could be no doubt: three or four tall black figures were standing there on the slope, looking down on them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He was hooked to the rail to keep himself from washing overboard, but still the huge blue-green waves that surged over the bow and poured off the sloped deck were astonishingly powerful. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z It seems every person on the slopes takes a deep breath and sits up. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Narrow lanes climb both slopes and come together in a great ring of elm trees which encircles the flat summit. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z After school hours there were the gardens to weed, and the first crop of flax to harvest in the hilly slopes above the town. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z But before he could go on down to the little wood, there came an exclamation from Balthamos, and Will turned to see his outline dart across the slope toward—what? The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The mighty voice rolled out upon the valley, each flutelike bark echoing from slope to slope. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I reach this conclusion only seconds before I hear someone running down the slope toward me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Neel didn’t bother to rub out their footprints as they climbed the lower half of the trail that sloped up the bank. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Pima got herself under his arm, supporting him, and started helping him down the slope of the deck. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The land sloped to where the one battery was still firing uphill into the smoke. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The densely packed rectangles of the houses are seen from above, while the mountain is shown in profile, its slope covered with dots representing blobs of lava. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They became widely separated as they straggled up the slope. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As we walked down the sloping driveway, I noticed she was shivering. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Approximately square, the cave’s only room was big enough to lie down comfortably in any direction, although the gray-brown ceiling sloped down toward the back, making it hard to stand in a lot of places. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z The barren slope stretches for three hundred miles from the Brooks Range to the Arctic Ocean, and for more than eight hundred miles from the Chukchi to the Beaufort Sea. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They had gone little more than a mile into the forest when they came upon another stream flowing down swiftly from the tree-clad slopes that climbed back westward towards the mountains. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z By night they had reached the feet of the westward slopes, and there they camped. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z A minute later they came into her line of sight: dirty, sweaty men with sloping shoulders and stooped postures. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z They jumped it and went up the opposite slope. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Its steep slopes still bore the marks of humanity. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z We were working on a slope and I could look down toward the cabin. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z All she could be certain of was that the terrain was still sloping down. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z A sloping mound of rocks and dirt, floor to ceiling, cut off the tunnel. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “You mustn’t ever tell anyone about the Spinney,” Gram had whispered, taking my hand and leading me down the sloping hill to the glade. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The sun had passed over the stone mountains when Kino and Juana struggled up the steep broken slope and came at last to the water. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z On a steep slope, a paved road runs parallel to our route, bordered with pines and a stone wall. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z As we follow the meadow down the last steep slope of the mountain range, I see a patch of evening primroses near a stone fence. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I keep my plate, toss my drink, and pull myself atop the shed one-handed before clambering onto the sloped roof of the house. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z A path led through the rough field, at the back of the house, and beyond this were only more fields, sloping this way and that, overlapping like so many pillows. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z He inched himself on his bottom, like a shy crab, toward the tip-top of the slope, to the highest spot, where he sat, washed in sunlight, surveying the kingdom that was Snowberger’s. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z For the first half hour I obediently herringboned up a small slope, pushed off with my poles and coasted straight down. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z It was a circular, sloping patch of ground, with a steep gravel driveway looping around it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Dried grasses rustled as a wind gusted down the barren slope, raising several strands of Kaede’s hair. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The ground was sloping downward now, and becoming more and more like a rubbish dump. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Like gray boulders the bulls sat on the pebbly slope. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z A blue powdering of forget-me-nots and fine, fat yellow primroses punctuated the green of the slope as the two children walked up the hill toward the Frobishers’ little mausoleum. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z To the left, across gently sloping sageland, the gorge opened for a startling instant. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It opened southward, leaning back into the slope of round Dol Baran, the last hill of the northern ranges, greenfooted, crowned with heather. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I nod and follow him up the slope to his house and we sit in two chairs on his back porch looking out at the pond and my own house on the other side. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z To her left the slope fell away into the dark, and far below was a glimmer of white and a thunder of water from the cataract of Saint-Jean-les-Eaux. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z No more inns now, among these appalling slopes of snow and granite. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z When you try to calculate the slope of a tangent line, zero wrecks your approximation process. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The three companions now left the hill-top, where they might be an easy mark against the pale sky, and they walked slowly down the northward slope. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She had a big round face and a body that sloped out from her neck like a pup tent, and she was so black that night seemed to seep from her skin. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He followed the faint whimper, and it led him down the long slope. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The villages form a ring of human settlement around the volcano, and the ring is steadily closing around the forest on its slopes, a noose that is strangling the wild habitat of the mountain. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They slogged all day down the southfacing slope of the watershed. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z They were only a few feet deep, wind-hollowed scoops, but they sloped slightly downward and back. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z The enemy had high ground on each wing, but in the center there was a long slope. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The ground doesn’t slope down enough for it to be a basement. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z A cutting had been made, at some distance from the Hedge, and went sloping gently down into the ground. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Tom gave Henry a push up the slope, toward his truck. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z A cold wind flowed down behind them, as they turned their backs on the Redhorn Gate, and stumbled wearily down the slope. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z They ventured cautiously into the long sloping passage, digging in their heels to prevent themselves sliding right down as Guosim probably had done. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The ground descended in a slope toward the edge of the Wood, and when she approached the downhill portion, she knew where she was. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Only Katahdin, with its rocky upper slopes and startling muscularity, offers anything that looks faintly intimidating. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z We were going through farming country with rocky hills that sloped down into the fields. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z There isn’t a slope on that side of the hill. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The cows had scattered by now, but the other bulls still sat quietly on the slope. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z It was not long until the first of the brothers from the Shadow Tower began wending their way up the slope. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Angling through one curve of the slope to another. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The lawn climbs a slope se_veral yards in front of the summerhouse, and in those days, as today, four flagstones embedded into the grass served as steps by which to negotiate this climb. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z She left the palace grounds and continued down the sloping avenue, and when she neared the sounds of the crowd in the City Square, she went on. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The boat tilted, the deck melted under my feet and sloped toward the water. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Its steep slopes were grass-grown; but all was grey in that hour, for the sun had gone, and far below lights twinkled in the homes of Men. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Down from their hiding-place they went, and then turning south they steered as straight a course as Gollum could find across a long broken slope that leaned up towards the mountains. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The wind, soft and cold, clicked through tree branches and stirred the bushes that sprinkled the slope. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The land sloped up into a slight hill, which was great for looking down on the houses. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Roy shut his eyes and felt like he was floating on the sunny slope of a cloud. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When he was sure she was watching, he ran down the slope with it. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Then on the rise of a dune he heard the sea, louder again, not behind him but in front: the dunes sloped down again to another shore. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Disregarding him, Gwydion motioned for them all to descend the slope. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z “We have to go up the slope, I know that: but you must show me the ditch.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We fly down the slope, and the nerves in my stomach flutter up into my throat, like I’m about to puke. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z They had explored the small dell and the surrounding slopes. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z They sat within the graceful slopes of dunes, tucked away from the road and the few cars and jeeps going by. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The rain has turned the metal into a slippery slope—and I almost slide off during my landing. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A hundred yards down the slope, something rustled through the woods—snapping branches, crunching leaves, hissing. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “It started with me going down one of those kiddy slopes.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He pointed to a wide expanse of rock that sloped back into the darkness on one side of the pool. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Our bug-out is a small A-frame structure—the mirrored side walls slope so that they reflect the higher reaches of trees, instead of reflecting people who might be approaching. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The quad was on a slope, and a lot of them were running down it very fast, bunched up together, playing jets. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z We'll push the car down the slope—they may not notice it in the dark, and even if they do, they'll think we went off the road. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z On the slope, Taran believed he could make out something round and white. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z In the view of the white authorities those days, sloping shoulders were one stereotype of the Coloured physique. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Sapphires decorate the slopes of her bright eyes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Before them, as they turned west, gentle slopes ran down into dim hazes far below. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The girl had to grab on to the spindly trunks and branches clinging to the slope to keep from falling backward. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z My feet slip in the sloping gravel—it’s like running in sand, and I overcompensate by pitching forward. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z As he scrambled down the rocky slope, his thoughts raced. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z They had reached the Mountain’s foot on its northern side, and a little to the westward; there its long grey slopes, though broken, were not sheer. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Study the slope of his nose, the way his eyes crinkle in the corners from his broad grin like the eyes of sleepy cats in the sun. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z We crunched past the little houses perched precariously on the nearly vertical slope on both sides of us. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Ahead, and a little to their right, there was at last a slope: a slope downward and hummocks of rock on each side. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z They turned up slope and half crawled, half climbed into the thicker cover of the trees. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The slope was slick with wet grass, and they slipped and skidded, their feet sliding out from under them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Behind the little rise she had found herself on, the land sloped gradually down and then up again; the fullest view lay in front, across that immense prairie. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z They hastened up the last slope, and stood breathless beside her. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Some of them hit warriors scrambling up the slopes. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z I noticed the way the roofs all sloped at the same angle on one street, then shifted to a different angle on the next. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z A well-manicured lawn gently sloped away from the patio and down to a walkway. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Ralph sketched a twining line from the bald spot on which they stood down a slope, a gully, through flowers, round and down to the rock where the scar started. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Though Vincent's forehead slopes more, “the shape of the nose & the structure of the head are identical.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z To the southwest of that little crater is a gentle slope into Schiaparelli Basin. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z At once he set off with long deliberate strides through the trees, deeper and deeper into the wood, never far from the stream, climbing steadily up towards the slopes of the mountains. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The bright sun cast sharp shadows on the slope as Luna hurried down. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Three guys and one girl were trudging up the slope, just their heads visible. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z She stepped backward uphill, the steep slope forcing her step to be a small one. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The road wound farther and farther into the hills, going up and down as the slopes by the roadside grew steeper and steeper. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z As they went on the gully became ever shallower and the slope of its floor more gradual. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The marchers approached down the slope of the bridge, walking slowly and silently. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z It sloped at weird angles and was slimy with moisture. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Because terraces soak up more sunlight than steep slopes, maize can be grown at higher than usual altitudes on them; irrigation similarly increases the area available for maize farming. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When it reached a certain point which he had fixed, beside a bare branch, he roused the others and led them up the slope toward the elms. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He wagged his tail and led her down the hill, through the sedges, and up the long slope to the wolf den. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He went with slow, reluctant steps up the slope to the mausoleum, avoiding the still-damp blood, and opened the door. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z It may have meant “stone upon stone,” which describes the rocky slope rising from the bank of the Hudson that the prison is built upon. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They started dragging him down the slope of the mountain. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Thousands of arrows coming up from both slopes! In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z It sloped up gently northward, and at its bottom went the bed of a now dry and withered stream. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z On such a surface, and going up and down slopes and gullies, we found it best to go one in harness pulling and one behind pushing. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z There were cunning steps cut into the slope all the way down and set with flat stones. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z The ceiling so sloped he could stand only in the spot closest to the door. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He first met Fischer and Hall on the slopes of K2 in 1992, where his competence and easygoing demeanor left a favorable impression on both men. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The world of plants is a slippery slope. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Across the desperate eatery, through the rain-greased windows and beyond the access road that bounded a strip of sloping littered grass, ran the Interstate. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Mountain streams, whose water ran cold and clear, made winding lines of sparkling silver as they danced down the slopes into the distant valley lands. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z I had not seen the Bainsizza before and it was strange to go up the slope where the Austrians had been, beyond the place on the river where I had been wounded. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z He could see them grazing in the next field, further up the slope. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z At once she rolled away, before the witch could shoot another, and tumbled down the slope toward the monkey. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z They strolled down the slope towards the water. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Their house stood on the lower slope of Catoctin Mountain, overlooking the town, above a sea of apple orchards. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Through pain-dazed eyes Mrs. Coulter looked down at the mountain slope. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She stepped backward uphill, the steep slope forcing her step to be a small one. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The slopes 500 ahead of us were being blanketed with bursting shells that threw up geysers of fiery sand. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He helped Mole, who was dripping and coughing, up the slope and into the hemlock. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The ground began to slope downwards very slightly now, and although the clearings were much wider, the foliage got more tangled, in some places there were nettles and clinging ivy, as high as their knees. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Cole picked up the large rock and started up the slope. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z I leapt from my bed, and—thunk!—cracked my head on the sloped ceiling. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, that’s true,” she said, and they moved up the slope, Will carrying his rucksack and Lyra happily carrying the little bag she kept the alethiometer in. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z There are no real hills in Chicago, but the park used to be a quarry, so it has a decent slope. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The grounds are sloping, white tiles carrying the sounds of their feet as they run. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z We couldn't climb straight down, and we couldn't take the more gradual slope that led down close to the boathouse, because we'd still come across him. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z For the next two hours we ascended an incline pitched as gently as a beginner’s ski slope, eventually arriving at the bergschrund that delineated the Khumbu Glacier’s upper end. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z I sat on a sloping embankment and waited. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z To the left, pine-clad slopes, frowning cliffs, narrow gorges, and blue peaks stretched away as far as the eye could reach. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z He had begun to walk slowly back up the slope. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z At the bottom of the slope we discovered a kind of tunnel that went right through the bank from one side to the other. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She pulled it over her head and stood there with the bandage sloped over her forehead. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There are crops, animals grazing on the slopes, workers in distant fields. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The trail began at her tree house in one corner, and it followed the slope of the mountain as it tumbled toward the north. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Soon they were leading their ponies in single file over the rim and down the long northward slope of the hill, down into a foggy sea. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z They were struggling on the slopes, pikes thrusting against another wall of shields, these oval and reinforced with iron studs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Hours later, within sight of the Abbey walls, Chickenhound discovered a slope that was not too steep and started to pull himself up out of the ditch. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z You and Muthu helped us stretch the other end of our tarp from the wall to the ground and weight down the bottom edge with stones to make a sloped roof. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z There was even a shower in the head, and the walls and floor of the tiny space sloped down, following the curve of the hull, to a central drain. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Memory was a slippery thing—slick moss on an unstable slope—and it was ever so easy to lose one’s footing and fall. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z As I come down a slope, I see a green car parked in the tall grass near a beaver dam. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked toward the hill and saw the broken Union corps falling back up the slope. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now, there’s one you’ve never seen before!” said the Match-Man proudly, pointing to a painting of a mountain covered with snow and its slopes simply littered with grasshoppers sitting on gigantic roses. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z We passed Flo’s dark house and then the tall juniper tree that stood where the hill sloped down to the bridge. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He pointed down the eastern slope of the battle ridge. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z From 22,000 feet to 25,000 feet the standard route ascends a sheer, treacherous ice slope known as the Lhotse Face. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z And Denman, to his credit, was ultimately willing to acknowledge his shortcomings when they arrived on the slopes of the mountain and reality stared him in the face. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Ahead of them a sloping lawn rose directly out of the floodwater and led smoothly up to the white facade of the house, the columns and the pediment. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z When they spoke again it was to discuss whether they ought to sleep on the bank or retreat back up the wooded slope. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Soon they all stood once more on the flat shelf at the head of the steep slope where they had felt the first flakes of snow the night before. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Each boy stands with his hand on the shoulder of the taller boy ahead, creating a big long slope of arms. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Helplessly, they watched the procession of specks move down the slope and disappear inside the city. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Trees and houses appear, scattered on the slopes, clustered into villages and towns. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z From the slope leading down to the beach, we could see that there were already some people swimming. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z I had gone out several times on snowshoes, gathering strength and getting practice by waddling around the slopes of the snowy vale that hid our tent. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z On one side, there was a sloping garden of rosebushes and stone benches, ending at a round gazebo by the edge of a stream. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Soon the golden mountain slopes were covered with lush green grass. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The driveway sloped down, and I was in the street when Paul finally eased up. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z As he spoke, Silver and Acorn appeared lower down the slope, followed by Thethuthinnang. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Before long they saw the marching line approaching: the Ents were swinging along with great strides down the slope towards them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The ground began to slope upward, and the tangle of barbed branches we moved through became less dense. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z They collected firewood from the north side of the slope where it was not so wet, pushing over whole trees and dragging them into camp. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The road slopes upward, climbing the flank of a hill. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The ground was rocky, but the rocks were thick with moss and pine needles, and the slopes they climbed were not precipitous. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Most of the migrants want to stay on the grassy slope by the tracks where they catch outgoing trains, where they can hide in huisache or mesquite bushes if there is a migra raid. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z This made it quite easy to move around, except that the slopes above the valley were very steep in places, and I slipped several times on the loose, gravelly soil. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z With my plans solidly made, I released the brake and we began coasting down the slope. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z This pit, like the others, had a sloping ramp that allowed entry. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Scrub grass and thorny bushes covered its lower slopes; higher up a jagged tangle of bare rock thrust steep and sudden into the sky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They had gone some miles, and the road was at last running down a long slope into the plain, when Frodo’s strength began to give out and his will wavered. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z As the sun sank lower and touched the edge of the cloud belt on the horizon, Hazel came out from under the branches and looked carefully round the lower slope. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The kid had already graduated from the bunny slopes, and I didn’t even know there was such a thing as a bunny slope. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z To see him toiling up the slope inch by inch, his breath coming fast, the tips of his hoofs clawing at the ground, and his great sides matted with sweat, filled everyone with admiration. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Slowly the downs drew near; It was still an hour before noon when they reached them: green slopes rising to bare ridges that ran in a line straight towards the North. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z In their jackets of bristling skins they seemed wild beasts rather than men, as they spread in a wide arc across the slope. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Before she had dressed, however, the crystals had melted—all but a few on the north sides of the slopes, that spoke of things to come. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Every time her head moved left or right I thought it was about to roll down her sloping shoulders like a boulder down a hill. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra cried, and hurled herself down the slope at him. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Then without another word he turned away from the lights and voices in the fields and tents, and followed by his three companions went round into his garden, and trotted down the long sloping path. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The recent proliferation on the slopes of Everest of latter-day Wilsons and Denmans—marginally qualified dreamers like some of my cohorts—is a phenomenon that has provoked strong criticism. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Smith spent the day sitting under the slope of the shed row roof. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z At a point where the stream flowed about forty feet below the road she pulled over and guided the children down a fairly steep slope to the water. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no path here, the slope was steep and slippery with gravel, and Kate—unlike her pursuers—was dragging a ladder and carrying someone on her back. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z We made a wide turn and pulled in behind the other wagons that was up against the slope of a hillside. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, as it bubbled through the nib, it came a little thick, so that the name Rebecca stood out black and strong, the tall and sloping R dwarfing the other letters. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I drive down the empty, sloped parking lot to the main strip and take the left into town. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Luna traversed the slope, watching her footing, as the map advised. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The edge of the woods was a few hundred yards away, up a slope of grass that was horribly exposed. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z From where we stood, you could see down the grassy slope behind our house, on past Dad’s shop and the dock, to the creek. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z A little farther along, the road sloped up into darkness. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The interior voice nagging me not to be a fool—to save my skin and take off my skis and walk down, camouflaged by the scrub pines bordering the slope—fled like a disconsolate mosquito. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z I turned, as I always did, and looked down the slope of our hill to the green of the river, and I raised my eyes and saw the town of Guadalupe. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They were on the top of a sloping bank, and the Road, now dim as evening drew on, wound away below them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z If he had realized this, he might not have classed it light-heartedly as a “Not-hawk”—that is, anything from a wren to a pheasant—and continued on his way up the slope. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Enough new snow had accumulated that I feared a massive slab avalanche had released on the slopes above, but when I spun around to look I saw nothing. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The floor began to slope sharply, and Gregor found himself backpedaling to avoid stepping on the roach leader. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Harry went next; he crawled forward, headfirst, and slid down an earthy slope to the bottom of a very low tunnel. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Miig pointed with his chin to a dark smudge, only visible through the trees by the geometric slope against the slash of branch and leaf. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z To their left, a green lawn sloped toward a line of woods. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The hill offered com-manding views, and the slopes were precipitous to the north and west and only slightly more gentle to the east. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He came quickly up the slope, his great mouth open, the young bull close behind him. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z When the slope eased a little bit, they lowered themselves down on their backs, kicking in heel holds as they descended for a thousand feet to the sea. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Wearily they followed him, climbing the long slope, until they came out upon the top. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z In a way, it seemed as though this was the longest part of the journey—from the top of the bluff to the bottom of the slope. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Two women were passing by with dogs on leads, and although it was completely stupid, we both stopped talking until they’d gone further up the slope and out of earshot. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The slope of the bars of honey-colored sunlight decreased; they slid up the bushes, passed over the green candle-like buds, moved up toward tile canopy, and darkness thickened under the trees. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Taran tried to turn his mount’s head but Melynlas, in a shower of pebbles, slipped from the trail to the steep slope. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Many of the trees that had lined the gracious and pleasant walks of the Common were cut down, and the smoke of countless cook-fires hung heavily in the humid air upon those denuded slopes. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I was too far down the slope to see that flag, but some of the Marines farther up from me saw the Stars and Stripes go up and started shouting and celebrating. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The tea was in smaller bins: beautiful bins with sloping covers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Her kierie was raised, and she looked seconds away from dashing down the slope to beat some honesty into the impostor below. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z She headed up the sloping ramp that curled around Isihlangu’s walls. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z As they went along, they talked less and less; the path sloped relentlessly upward, and they needed their breath just for breathing. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The boys, trudging up the slope with pots and dishes, didn’t look especially happy. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s the only stream with a slope steep enough to make a waterfall and close enough to be reached before evening.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They gust down the slope of the roof, skitter across the parapets, stick flat in tidal eddies down on the beach. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z With her finger, she finds the nicks on the houses sides, the slope of its roof. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The snow sloped out all the way up the mountain, but it wasn’t too steep where I was standing. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I rode down a long sweeping slope where a scattering of huge, ragged-topped liveoaks stood about in grass so tall that it dragged against the underside of Jumper’s belly. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z It crossed the wash and wound its way up the slope, disappearing into the grass. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z To the east, forested slopes stretched away to a vast, barren plain. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Arion rode the glacier like a highway, zipping across the ice, leaping crevices, and skidding down slopes that would’ve made a snowboarder’s eyes light up. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Three hundred feet from the bottom of the ice slope, Chen abruptly keeled over and lost consciousness. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Someone knocked me down; I pushed Brinker over a small slope; someone was trying to tackle me from behind. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Where the dim bare slopes that they had crossed should lie, he thought he saw groves of trees. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z As Douglas suspected, the Court in Terry had begun its slide down a very slippery slope. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Side by side they studied the road, which sloped gradually down toward the south. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z At Verplancks Point the land was not steep, but sloped gradually down to the water. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The clouds parted just long enough to reveal the top of the mountain below them: a spearhead of black rock jutting from mossy green slopes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The rough, weed-covered ground of the combe sloped away below them, a long dip bounded on the north by Caesar’s Belt. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z On every side of me the red and blue and white jacketed skiers tore away down the blinding slope like fugitive bits of an American flag. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z We start to move down the sloping trail. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z They camped that night on the sheltered slope of the last barrier of mountains. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z With cap in hand and shoulders sloped, he followed, walking over a rug so soft and deep that it seemed he was going to fall at each step he took. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z At last, as they began to climb a steep slope, he stopped and yawned. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Rolling over onto her stomach, she started backing down the slope feet first, looking ridiculous in her robe and slippers. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z One of the white guys in my company yelled over to me from where he was pinned down by enemy fire on the north slope of Motoyama, a ridge in clear view of Suribachi. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z They drove across a small bridge spanning a creek and climbed a shallow slope. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Two or three soldiers were starting to struggle up the slope. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He was ten feet from the edge of the pit when we caught him and hauled him back up the slope. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Many people were farming slopes that were practically perpendicular. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He sent word for a battery to move down the slope in front of him, to fire uphill and protect Pickett as he retreated. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z By afternoon on steep slopes the snow was mostly gone. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Yossarian and Milo were covered in their bower by tissue-thin tiers of sloping green and largely surrounded by other gray chestnut trees and a silver spruce. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “No kidding,” muttered Ron, as the passage began to slope upward. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The slope of the cone forces one side of the slice to have a slightly smaller cross section than the other. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When we arrived, damp and uncomfortable from Francis’s sodden car seats, cars lined the road on both sides, as if for a rural dance or bingo night, sloping gently into the grassy ditch. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Thereupon he resumed his trudge up the slope, the lonely and unfamiliar terrain, remote from everything; nothing lived here except himself. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The center was domed with two slots graven into either slope. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z We walk down a sloping promenade and along curving pathways, headed for the palace. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “Amaroq,” she called again, then ran down the slope and climbed to the wolf den. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He was on the slope below the soldiers. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Soon some of the boys were rushing down the slope for more wood while Jack hacked the pig. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The last thing I saw before I slammed my door was the sight of my father standing there before his half creation, alone, shoulders sloped, his figure turned in my direction. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They crept down 200 yards, feeling the angle of the slope grow easier with each step. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z They had not gone ten paces before the entire slope, weakened by the downpour, collapsed with a loud roar. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Joaquin’s grip on the steering wheel was tight, but Grace could see the sad slope of his shoulders and neck, the way he seemed to almost hang his head. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He rode to a rail fence, stared down a slope, saw a battery a long way off, down in flat ground beyond the peach orchard. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And then the floor before him sloped downward, and he could see the source of the light: It was Mom. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The seaward side of Storm's End perched upon a pale white cliff, the chalky stone sloping up steeply to half again the height of the massive curtain wall. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Sand shifted out from under our feet as Smitty and I tried to scramble up the steep slope. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z They went up the slopes of the cone-shaped peaks in the summer, when the deer were reddish brown, the hair short and shining while they browsed in meadows above the treeline to avoid the heat. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The Tanzanian field staff are wonderful at following the chimps, even through the most difficult places and up the steepest and most treacherous slopes. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The basalt highway led gradually downward, and after a while the slope increased, so the creatures could freewheel. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The structure continued to topple until it hit the mountainside with a thunderous boom and rolled down the slope in pieces. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Two more were going after Hodor, lumbering clumsily down the slope. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Where before the green dale had lain, its grassy slopes lapping the ever-mounting hills, there now a forest loomed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Strider now turned their course again north-eastwards, and on the sixth day they reached the top of a long slow-climbing slope, and saw far ahead a huddle of wooded hills. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Ahead of them the broken ground sloped down toward a grove about a quarter of a mile away. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z They skimmed up the sloping side, dodging a few boulders and hardscrabble trees, until they reached the top. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The slope of the line in our example is 1, since the rise is 5 and the run is 5. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z They were moving laboriously over the tumbled and broken rocks toward the foot of the slope. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I give her my mother's face—thin sloping nose, light brown freckles, a pink bow of a mouth. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Ducking through a low doorway, we entered a narrow, slope- walled attic. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z On the far side of the bridge, there was a tiny path leading down a steep slope. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z The Inka homeland, uniquely high, was also uniquely steep, with slopes of more than sixty-five degrees from the horizontal. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The smell drifted up the slope with the breeze; heaps and pools of green-black-brown-white dung lay among the broken beams, the scattered thatch. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z In the dying light, they walked down a steep slope toward the vehicle. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Hazel covered the distance down the slope in a few seconds. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The slope continued steeply downwards and the rocks on either hand rose to the height of cliffs. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Are we near? the boy would wonder, as Hodor clambered up a stony slope, or descended into some dark crevice where drifts of dirty snow cracked beneath his feet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Long tree-clad slopes rose from the lip of the dingle, and away beyond them, above the fir-trees of the furthest ridge there rose, sharp and white, the peak of a high mountain. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Already the sun had left the valley to go climbing up the slopes of the Gabilan Mountains, and the hilltops were rosy in the sun. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “It doesn’t flow as fast as the spring comes out, so it gathers in these pools...They’ve gone in there,” he whispered, indicating a little group of trees at the foot of the slope. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z However, there seemed to be nothing to worry about—the ditch led down the slope and that was the way home. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I go to the arched windows of Mother Ermentrude’s chamber and peer out into the night There, wooded hills, lit by the moon, slope gently beyond the convent walls. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z And the heap would roll down the slope and lodge against the fence, like the scarecrow rolled along a bean row until it caught in the brambles at the edge of the garden. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Through it a worn path passed and dived suddenly down a long steep slope. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Xan turned her back on the swamp and followed the trail up the slope, toward the crater where the volcano had opened its face to the sky so long ago. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Before them the turf, dotted with white flowers sloped down to the brow of a cliff. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z He was making his way up the slope through thistles and knee-high grass. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He climbed back a little way up the slope and shaded his eyes to look. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z At the end of the slope, and across a wide meadow, was the stronghold of the Long Knives. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z I slam the car door and run down the street, my speed picking up as the road slopes down, blocks and blocks, straight to the ocean. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z They walked up the slope to the house. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z The sand they stood on was soft, and the slope of the dune nearby was inviting. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Several times they spotted small bunches of mule deer moving along the upper meadow slopes near the tree line. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He himself looked so sad and dark as he spoke that no one made any reply, and after a few moments all six rabbits made their way up the slope in silence. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no sloping hillside as there had been in Rook Hill; here the land was flat, and between the house and the trees was a meadow, the grasses golden and knee-high. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Northwestward stalked the dark forest of Fangorn; still ten leagues away stood its shadowy eaves, and its further slopes faded into the distant blue. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Fifteen years after the eruption, the ravaged slopes were dotted with trees and woody shrubs: red alder, lodgepole pine, willow bush. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The ruffians came tramping along the East Road, and without halting turned up the Bywater Road, which ran for some way sloping up between high banks with low hedges on top. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Ged went a few paces up the slope away from the others and turning said in a clear voice, “Jasper! Whose spirit shall I call?” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z As he stood up to return, he looked back up the slope. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z There, choosing a gap between the watchers, he passed like an evil shadow out into the night, down the slope and away westward towards the river that flowed out of the forest. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Here was a hush in the night, moonlight and shadows, a thick carpet of dead leaves underfoot, densely, wooded ridges sloping gently down to the streambed, the underbrush thinning as the ground fell away. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He’d never realized it before, but the land there sloped away from his family’s house, so he had a clear view of acres and acres that once had been covered with trees. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z The lakeward edge of the island was steep enough to discourage hippos, but the landward side sloped gently into the water. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I walk farther down the slope until I am stopped by the pond. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z I watched as the slope of the South Lawn gradually turned a lush and vibrant green. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The slope is much steeper than it had seemed. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z A vast meadow sloped down for at least a mile before flattening into another mile of wide green floor. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The road was just like he said, sloping downhill. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m not sure, Leper, but I think there’s one at the bottom of the slope.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Above Maria Isabel’s hut, there are mostly lush green slopes where it is too steep to build even the smallest place. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “I can only guess she might have gone down the slope.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z They had raced across the uneven western slopes above the river. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z It was like looking down on to a sloping cloud-roof from above. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z When the slope got steep he turned the wagon around, so it went ahead and he was pulling back on it. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z And just then Pax saw a movement below him—a broad-shouldered alpha with black and gray fur emerged from the brush halfway down the slope and marked a sapling beside him. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Presently they came out into the garden-court which sloped downhill in a number of terraces. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The bank was a muddy slope covered in ragged weeds. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z The camp is at the bottom of a narrow, winding path that slopes to the river. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The tunnel sloped down and I could hear a loud roar, like a river of metal. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He was crossing the brook, going up the slope toward the lane, toward the place where Hazel and he had come upon the notice board. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It had sloped up so high onto Mr. Newton’s house that when Turner got there the next morning, Mr. Newton had crawled out the second-story window and was shoveling off the roof of his porch. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Up a slight slope, across an expanse of vacant lots, a modern church, quite large, stood in a lazy pall of white smoke—St. Ignatius, I assumed. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z In the Helena National Forest and on the western slopes of the Big Belt Mountains, then in other areas of Montana and down into Idaho the forests looked as though they had been scorched. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z His back is purplish-brown in the dim light, sloping downward from the gentle hump of his shoulders. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Forty-five feet above me the wall eased back onto the sloping summit shoulder. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There, the surface was about the size of Snowberger’s big front parking lot, only, unlike the Snowberger’s lot, the top of Listening Rock gently rolled and sloped. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z After dressing, Cole walked to where Edwin’s ancestor rock had stopped when it rolled down the slope the day before. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z As we walked up the path to the porch, I had an odd urge to climb onto the long slope of the roof and lie there, alone and away from everything. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z She clambered on his back again, and he set off down the broken slope, walking steadily and not pacing any more. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Ogden had broken into a reluctant trot due to the steep downward slope. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Almost immediately, the tunnel sloped down and down and down, growing colder and damper with every step. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Parker Head had become a curved slope lolling easily and lazily up against houses and over fences, leaving a bare patch now and again to show just how high the snow had reached. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Arrows from the west slope arced and flew down the east slope. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The land ahead rose in long shallow slopes, barren and pitiless, towards the desert that lay at Sauron’s gate. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Then, halfway down the next slope, a bright yellow plane rips overhead. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z It was steeper than this hillside below us here, and the slope seemed to be regular, as if men had made it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The wind carried volcanic ash and forest fire ash and ash that no one wanted to identify down the slope of the mountain and deposited it in the streets. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Upwards it wound, coiling like a snake, boring its way across the sheer slope of rock. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I pulled in behind the approach to a concrete bridge, but couldn’t find a level place on the sloping roadside. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I was concerned only with struggling up the slope of the hill. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The sloping walls of her prison were a canvas for her morbid inquiries, particularly between sundown and Martin’s late-night visit. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I sketch, adding contours to capture the sloping land, trees, no trees, some rocks and boulders, collapsed logs. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Insurgent capitalism frightened the government of North Korea, which fretted publicly about a slippery slope to regime change and catastrophe. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The walls are made of stone, and the ceiling slopes, so I feel like I am descending deep into the heart of the earth. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The sleeping face of Gaea appeared on the side of Half-Blood Hill—her massive features formed from the shadows on the grassy slopes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The mountain’s lower slopes were blanketed with green trees. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z It was only when he’d been walking for several minutes down the pathless, rocky slope that Will realized his hand wasn’t hurting. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Behind it rose the first gentle slopes of the hill clad with trees, and trees marched away westward along the curving shores of the lake. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The ground sloped upward, and the ceiling sloped downward. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Beyond the archway sloped a road, lined with trees of gold and silver. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z There was, instead, the subtle curve of the cupped hand—the metal flesh sloping gently upward to form a kind of great shallow bowl so that you couldn’t simply walk off the edge. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z As we approached the base of the mountain the land took a downward slope. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The accident happened only a hundred yards from a slope where Roy and his father were sledding. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Walk along the muddy shore until the ground begins to slope up and get firmer and drier beneath our feet. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z But as we came up the gentle slope we heard the shouts of swimmers. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z This one has sides that are straight up and down, no slope at all. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z South of the Wood the land sloped down in fertile, rich farmland toward the sea. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond the narrow tunnel, the earthen walls opened into a long field with gently rising slopes on either side, like seating for spectators. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Joe made a big noise going down the slope; he let rocks roll under him and everything. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z More than a hundred buildings nestled dramatically on the rocky slope, linked by a maze of narrow paths and catwalks. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z I stood at the top of the ski slope on Mount Pisgah, looking down. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Burnt forests for miles along the slopes and snow sooner than he would have thought. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z They hurried along with all the speed they could make, and after a mile or two they saw the Last Bridge ahead, at the bottom of a short steep slope. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The walls felt, to their surprise, smooth, and the floor, save for a step now and again, was straight and even, going ever up at the same stiff slope. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The parlor came next, where the furniture, loose and sloping with age, was set about helter-skelter. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z With a shout they shoved off and slid all the way down the slopes, down to the foothills and the boulders. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z We fill up our water bottles and climb the little slope to our den. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He took a direct path away from the truck—straight up the slope of the wash. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z At the edge of the lawn, behind the building, there was a line of underbrush and trees sloping down a hillside. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The glass structure was set in the center, and the lead sloped slightly downward all around toward a gutter inside the parapet, with square drainage holes in the stone for rainwater. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Here the huge cliff-face sloped backwards, and the path like a snake wound to and fro across it. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z By now, Taisin recognized parts of the fortress—the long, sloping corridor; the cavernous ceiling hung with icicles sharp as swords; the endless ranks of golden cages. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z They had just dismounted to lead their ponies up the last steep slope, when suddenly Frodo stopped. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It was a skyless world, in which his eye, through dim gulfs of shadowy air, saw only ever-mounting slopes, great walls of stone behind great walls, and frowning precipices wreathed with mist. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z And farmholds spread over the land, first in the valleys and then up the foothill slopes, small wooden houses roofed with redwood shakes, corrals of split poles. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z To her left the slope fell away toward a landscape of olive and lemon groves, of poorly tended vineyards and abandoned windmills, lying hazy in the evening light. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He turned and looked behind him and saw that the slope on which he was standing belonged to a range of far higher mountains. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z “We’re just trying to make the world a little sweeter,” Duke said after the Dog Squad rolled the bad guy down the slope and turned him into a giant snowball. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z We staggered outside and stumbled up the slope of the hill toward the main path to the gates, the music still pounding in my ears. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z He informed the commanding officer that not only was it an imposition to have stand-up desks, but that they sloped so steeply that the books fell off. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Chamberlain looked, saw a dark slope before him, rock behind him, ridges of rock to both sides. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z At the entrance to the court he turned to the right, stepped over the stream, and strode away southwards along the feet of great tumbled slopes where trees were scanty. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z It was just a sloping building covered with corrugated tin panels hammered together. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He sprints down the slope toward the creek, and we all follow, stopping where the stream cuts across. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z The room faced the yard and overlooked the long, sloping garden, which was filled with flowers: bright red geraniums, sweet-smelling mignonette, and purslane with red, orange, yellow, and pink blossoms. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z As quickly as they could they scrambled off the beaten way and up into the deep heather and bilberry brushwood on the slopes above, until they came to a small patch of thick-growing hazels. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z As I hiked the slope, I prepared a defense against whatever accusations they were going to make. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Finally they reached the top of a steep slope, where the path ended in a curtain of green goo. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The Cities lay on the other side of the forest, down the slow, southern slope of the mountain, where the land became stable and flat. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z To their right, a slope of rough stones, loose and precariously balanced, rose high into the dusty gloom. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Between the copse and the brook, the slope was covered with pale lilac lady’s-smocks, each standing separately in the grass, a frail stalk of bloom above a spread of cressy leaves. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I noticed for the first time that his smile was lopsided, his mouth sloping up on one side. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It was almost upon him before Bigwig turned and began to limp up the north slope of the combe toward the trees of the Belt. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazel led the way down the slope of the run and up toward the bramble curtain. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The snow sloped down toward the canyon and I tried to stop. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The tunnel in front of them continued to slope down, and a few feet in front of them, it was full of water. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The garden sloped right down to the river. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Five hundred feet above the South Col, where the steep shale gave way to a gender slope of snow, Namba’s oxygen ran out, and the diminutive Japanese woman sat down, refusing to move. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The sage — low-growing and shrubby — could hold its place on the mountain slopes and on the plains, and within its small gray leaves it could hold moisture enough to defy the thieving winds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The bank is steep, and Booth must be carried down the slope. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The stockade was situated just at the bottom of the slope which dropped down into the encampment. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The route took us up the gently sloping floor of the Western Cwm, the highest box canyon on earth, a horseshoe-shaped defile gouged from the heart of the Everest massif by the Khumbu Glacier. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He saw several white markers on the slope below them. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z He had to stop to steady them, staring up at the grassy slopes of the Great Barrow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They followed him as he stepped lightly up the grass-clad slopes. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Milton stopped at the crest of the slope to look down at the hockey field. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The ground slopes, and there’s this concrete ledge that curves around the courtyard. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z And he bussed down the slope in a blur of petulant green. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z A house with a sloping red roof and a barn where cows mooed, a sheltered well right in front. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Part of the slope was in shadow, for the sun was sinking ahead of them, and Hazel, who wanted a warm, sunny spot, went on until they were quite near the lane. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Kind of go slipping as I run round the porch and come down the short slope. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z The features of the wanted woman were hooded and indistinct, but there was no mistaking the slope of her shoulders, the matted bear-skin cloak. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I scrambled back down the slope and walked through the tall grasses till I got to the edge of the trees. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Robert was out there under the shed, reclining in the shade against the sloping keel of the overturned boat He was reading from a book. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Far down the slope he could see the two trackers; they were little more than dots or scurrying ants and behind them a larger ant. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z In a few minutes it was creeping up the lower slope of the distant mountains, making that young world every moment softer. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Yet he labored on, struggling up a long, dim slope. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Then, careful to rest my hair over my right cheek, I headed down the slope. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The nearest was only about two miles away, but there was no trail to it and it was down a perilous slope through the woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Before him, then, the slope stretched upward, and above it the brilliant sky, and beyond it, cloudy, and far away, he saw the skyline of New York. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z They run on trails between the graves and dash headlong down the slope. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The sparrow’s claws screeched and grated on the roofing slates as the weighted rope pulled her downwards on the steep slope. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “If we were walking to school, we’d turn that way,” James said, pointing down the sloping street. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The roof slopes down to two low windows on one side, letting in some light. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Even at her most distracted, Sarai’s feet kept track of the slope, and knew to stay in the palm’s flat center. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She ran her finger along the slope of my nose and smiled a sad kind of smile. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z None of them answered, but my father, who was one of those hidden among the rocks, came forward down the sloping beach. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z She surged through the stormy sea, lunging into wave troughs and then climbing their slopes before plowing down into the next deep liquid ravine. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Abstract concepts like “slope” and “undefined” clearly didn’t come easily to her. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z When the alpine sun filled Awkaypata, with its boldly delineated horizontal plain of white sand and sloping sheets of gold, the space became an amphitheater for the exaltation of fight. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I ran across the asphalt, which sloped toward the corner of one of the buildings. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Still, on the stony slopes of hills she found many small tsenza bushes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z At last the tunnel began to slope upward and Harry saw a sliver of light ahead. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z And if there’s one thing my dad hates, it’s slippery slopes. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z A long sloping valley marched inland, dotted with scraggly olive trees and limestone boulders. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They were going down a slope, and Shadow, confused, wondered if they had already been that way. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Feeling very ill, I climbed the slope again, throwing myself down on the mat in the hut. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Ahead rose the baleful crags of Dark Gate, its twin slopes blazing crimson in the dying sun. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z I sat down across from her, my back against the cold sloping porcelain. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z I sprinted through the Thicket tunnel, turning right whenever I could, and the floor began to slope upward. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z I picked up a rock and sent it clattering down the slope of the hill-like mound. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Kohl pencil marks map the changes I'll make: higher cheekbones like her mother's, a button nose like her father's, and deep sloping eyes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Crazy Horse saw warriors scrambling up the western slope. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Aileen led me around the back of the arts building and down along the edge of the woods toward the pep rally field and then down the slope to the football field. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The path went on again from the door, and turning to the right again across the level space plunged down a thick wooded slope. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z With the melting of the last of the twilight there grew a kind of expectancy and tension, as though it were thawing snow about to slide from a sloping roof. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Dug into the slope a hundred feet below our camp, in an equally precarious setting, were the tents of most of the other teams—including Scott Fischer’s group, the South Africans, and the Taiwanese. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He walked with Iorek up the slope toward the cave, where the fire glow still shone warmly in the vast surrounding dark. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z A gibbous moon rose above the shoulder of 27,824-foot Makalu, washing the slope beneath my boots in ghostly light, obviating the need for a headlamp. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Laboriously they climbed a sharp slope and halted for a moment at the top. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Today there are different flowers, drier, more defined, the flowers of high summer: daisies, black-eyed Susans, starting us on the long downward slope to fall. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Flatnose made his way down the slope, clumsy as a bear. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z They drove a short way up the mountain and pitched their tent in a clearing of moist green grass that sloped down to a stream. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After scrutinizing my client’s shoulders, which sloped down sharply, he nodded to the other officials and upheld the appeal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They kept to themselves as much as possible, gardening, raising chickens and pigs and goats and even some sheep, only going down the slope to the village out of necessity. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I thought of my clumsy hands and feet and the slope of my shoulders. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Slow rivers of fire came down the long slopes towards them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z In a few paces he was alone, and a few more brought him to the top of the slope. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Quite out of nowhere, just over the crest of a tiny slope, the grassy field broke out into a graveyard. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z “If we were walking to school, we’d turn that way,” James said, pointing down the sloping street. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z It was indeed a lovely spot, trees and grass and a sloping hill. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z At 8:32 A.M. on a Sunday morning, May 18, the north side of the volcano collapsed, sending an enormous avalanche of dirt and rock rushing down the mountain slope at 150 miles an hour. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Nobody is on the slopes where I spent the whole day with my family. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z From where we stood, we could see farms on the lower slopes of the mountain. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He pointed, and they saw that what they had at first taken to be boulders lying at the foot of the slope were huddled bodies. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Even the wilderness is carefully husbanded there, and though that forest had been logged for centuries there were no waste places in it, no desolations of stumps, no eroded slopes. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z And now the peach had broken out of the garden and was over the edge of the hill, rolling and bouncing down the steep slope at a terrific pace. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z And as she watched it tumble down the steep slope toward the sea of grass, she realized she must follow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Her walk had not taken her through Flea Bottom, so its denizens had packed onto the lower slopes of Aegon’s High Hill to see the show. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Straight up the slope they charged towards the watchers. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z An enormous wave crests high on the hill, topping the trees and roaring down the slope. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Cade and I followed the muddy wheel ruts through the waist-high grass down the slope of the river’s embankment. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z It was a platoon of Welsh Guards in good order, rifles at the slope, led by a second lieutenant. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It is actually the attic with long, sloping walls, and I cannot stand straight in many places. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He raced back up the slope, scrabbling over low stone walls, and pelted through the sheepfold, past the garden and through the cloister, still gripping his apple branch swords. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The last part was the worst: a rocky slope where it was easy to miss your footing and slip. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The first thing that caught my gaze was the gleaming stretch of beach on the southern slope of the sandspit. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew I could not drag him up the slope to the shelter of the hut, so I tore off branches of sea grape and put them over his body. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z At the top of the slope Buckthorn was already leading the way into the beanfield. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Its land slopes upward, along the rise of a hill, covered in dense clusters of evergreen trees. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Will climbed as the vent sloped up, up, up to the second floor of the Emporium. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Mr. Weasley’s car was thundering down the slope, headlights glaring, its horn screeching, knocking spiders aside; several were thrown onto their backs, their endless legs waving in the air. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Etienne takes Marie-Laure’s hand and together, beneath the low, sloping roof—the record spinning, the transmitter sending it over the ramparts, right through the bodies of the Germans and out to sea—they dance. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Coming to a downward slope, Uncle Jet jumped into the driver’s side and steered the slow-moving truck for a few minutes. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He poled the boat over to the rock slope. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z A short way beyond the way-meeting, after another steep incline, a flying bridge of stone leapt over the chasm and bore the road across into the tumbled slopes and glens of the Morgai. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The car rolled slowly round and round the sloping curves. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Farther down the sloping meadow he found a ruined ox yoke left by a careless peasant which would burn long and well. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z He opened the door to let himself out of the crypt, walked back up the gentle slope to the path without looking back. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z The whole complex was somehow shocking, alien to the sloping hills and fields. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z On either side were very steep slopes and deep gullies. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The trees that used to shade the big, sloping yard—they’re gone, too. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z If there was a Mount Olympus in the new American republic, all the lesser gods were gathered farther down the slope. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Hazel was watching Fiver as he took in the sight of the field, when Buckthorn drew his attention back to the foot of the slope. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When she felt a little cleaner and her thirst was satisfied, she looked up the slope again, to see that Will was awake. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Every day, the carpet of leaves on the forest floor has grown thicker and brighter, and today I actually slip on them and go sliding down the slope. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z She couldn’t bear it; she put the spyglass in her pocket and began to run down the slope. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I pointed at an equation that defined the slope of a line. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z As soon as a wagon’s front wheels hit the sloped wooden tracks, the man guiding its pole leaps out of the way. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z As they began to climb its first slopes they looked back and saw the lamps in Hobbiton far off twinkling in the gentle valley of the Water. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Ralph paddled backwards down the slope, immersed his mouth and blew a jet of water into the air. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The arrows from the east slope arced and flew down the west ridge. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z But when they emerged back into the light long hours later, the eagle was waiting for them, perched on a dead tree a hundred feet up the slope. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She reached them just in time: her friend Atal was waiting, and as Mary scrambled on her back, Atal beat the road with her feet, speeding away up the slope after her companions. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z At one time he must have been immensely strong; now his great body was sagging, sloping, bulging, falling away in every direction. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Unlike the eastern shore, where Camp Green Lake was situated, the western shore did not slope down gradually. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Already six people had died on Washington’s slopes in 1996, with the year barely half over—quite a sobering statistic—and there was plenty of room on the board for more. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Mark squatted behind a different tree from Alec this time and leaned his head out to take a look down the long slope. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The flock dutifully began trudging back up the slopes toward the cave. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z In order to distract him, Will asked why the buildings in the village sloped. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And all three were on foot now, for a horse could not climb the last steep slope. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Across the street, which sloped steeply, was another hotel with a similar wall and garden. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Frodo thought he could hear the voice of Gandalf above, muttering words that ran down the sloping roof with a sighing echo. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z With Fiver beside him, he led the way out of the ditch and down the slope. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Drawing their cloaks more closely around themselves, they set off up the sloping lawns. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z At that moment a fine rain began to fall and he heard it come toward him, seeking him in a light patter up the slope. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind the tributes across from me, I can see nothing, indicating either a steep downward slope or even cliff. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z After a time the ground rose sharply, forcing him to clamber on hands and knees up a wooded slope. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The zeppelin was descending fast, making for the slope directly below them. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Forty men from Company E crawled on their stomachs up the rocky slope that was almost vertical at the top, avoiding any trails for fear they were mined. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Deep into wet pits of clay, into sticky ditches, up slippery slopes I would struggle with the pail. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She tried to walk forward, away from the log, further up the slope and back toward the heart of the party, but she slipped and went down into the dirt and the leaves. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Between Westerly and Mystic, the tracks are at an angle, embedded into the sloping land, so that the whole train threatens, ever so slightly, to topple over. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The shoulders of the mountain to their right sloped down to bare hills. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Instead they slope at the edges, but still I like the dress. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Now they moved at double time, still on land that sloped upward. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z They walked up a gentle slope, moving through the trees. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z One of the does, coming up the slope a little way behind, stamped and turned to bolt. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z With its bleachers set into the slope and its natural acoustics, it was a perfect mini-Epidaurus. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They liked to line up their candy along the low handrail that ran along the far side of the sloping porch. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Looking up the slope of the southern face of Kostor, on which we had been infinitesimally crawling all day, I saw a queer rock-formation a quarter mile or so above the road, a castle-like outcropping. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Gliding down a ski slope, I was outdoors, in motion, and unrecognized—all at once. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The blue uniform tumbled away down the slope. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She shook her head to clear away the thoughts and marched down the slope. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z People lived there, and battles had been fought against the Mexicans on the slopes. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Dismay stood, majestic, washed in sunlight, near the edge of the rock, on the tip-top of the slope, like he always did when he first got there. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Before she realized what was happening, the lane began to curve at the bottom of the slope. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z There was no place to pitch a tent here, I noted uneasily—only steep, wooded slope going up on one side and down on the other. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z We scampered about the hilltop chasing each other or sat on a sloped ridge where there was a good view of the airport in the distance. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The slope of the hill is simply the height—half a mile—over the horizontal distance you have driven—one mile. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z There was soft grass on both sides of the river, and beyond the grass, trees and bushes sloped up to the bases of the cliffs. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z There was a path, but how he was to get up the slope to it he did not know. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z They had been riding up a gentle slope toward a line of brightly colored pavilions on the height. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Why can’t we create the roadblock somewhere else? Couldn’t we bomb the slope of a mountain or the road itself?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The slopes and low hills that fell gently toward the river only appeared welcoming; underneath vines, carpet grass, wild grape, hibiscus and wood sorrel, the ground was as porous as a sieve. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They were in a deep dark passage that seemed still to go up before them, though at a gentler slope and without steps. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She pulled him up the slope, scrambling until they reached the top of the ridge. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z They lived mostly in Staddle though there were some in Bree itself, especially on the higher slopes of the hill, above the houses of the Men. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It’s a giant building with a ski slope covered in snow, and giant fans on full blast to keep the air cold. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z They was running down the slope after me, and there’s the river in front of me.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Below them the snowy slope disappeared in the darkness. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z On the other side of the lighthouse, towards the South, the ground fell away in long slopes of heather to a chain of ponds. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind him, hastening down the long slopes, were a thousand men on foot; their swords were in their hands. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Cari and Beto grabbed his arms and led him down the steep slope to where the river washed up over a sandy bit of shore. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The hospital is a compound of beige stone buildings situated on the crest of a softly sloping hill. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z As Ma and Pa drove the cattle onto the slope toward the river, I stood in the door yard, waving madly with my coat and John’s to shoo stragglers toward the road. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z The twins climbed up the slope and said their good-byes to Wash, but Naomi turned away without saying anything. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z But it seems possible that in the years preceding the outbreak of Marburg virus in Germany, a hidden outbreak of the virus occurred on the slopes of Mount Elgon. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He drove over the levee and down the long slope of cobblestones to the river’s edge and the horse plunged wildly in. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The ground gets way firmer and easier to run on and it’s sloping more downhill than it is up, which may be the first piece of luck we’ve had. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z What slopes rose on above us I never looked up to see: nothing to see but rain falling. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Then he turned, without a word, and together they walked back up the slope of the meadow. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z He ascends, falls at a slope, strikes the rebar and returns to the ground. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The passage here was lower and seemed to slope still farther down. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z According to the old legend, she lurked in the dark forests that covered the slopes of St. Helens, the mountain that rose up over this whole valley. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z They were picking their way down the slope, going slower than Percy but with a lot more control. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z All day long his small bedroom, his bathroom and the cubicle wedged between them he called his study had baked under the southern slope of the bungalow’s roof. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He had seen them come out of the trees and begin to march up the slope and when he closed his eyes he could still see them coming. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We’re walking across the wild fields southeast of town, those ones that slope down to the river and head on toward the swamp. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z When she recognized the gentle slope that descended past the last few trees into the clearing behind the old house at Rook Hill, she almost sobbed with relief. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He whipped the mare into a dead run, crouching low over her neck, trying to guide her over the rocky, uneven terrain, down the steep slope of a ridge. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Away to their left, the bank sloped down again into clumps of alder, among which the stream could be heard chattering over gravel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing but what you might expect: pink, tumbled boulders with guano layered on them like icing; and a steep slope up to the shattered rocks that crowned the bastion. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z He ran behind the car for as long as he could, until it hit the slope and began bumping down to the bottom. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z At one end, heaped high against the sloping ceiling, were the folders and exercise books from the last months of his preparations for finals. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They ask us to smooth and shape and carve each slope of their bodies like warm, freshly dipped candles. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z He tramped steadily down the hill slopes without even turning to see whether Taran and the others were able to keep up with him. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The tall stone marker was nearby, and several white markers were on the slope. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Watch closely: Lefty, setting his derby at a rakish angle, walks down the sloping streets of Bursa. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Once through the hedge he turned south and, keeping close beside it, led them down the slope. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z His sloping shoulders were bent forward and he walked heavily on his heels, as though he carried the invisible grain bag. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z This island didn’t slope gradually into the water. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Along the grassy slope of the cemetery I saw my father approaching. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z The floor beyond the opening sloped down to a central chamber. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z On the right of the stream there was a long slope, clad with grass, now grey in the twilight. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Beyond it, Harry could just make out the ghostly shapes of hundreds and hundreds of tents, rising up the gentle slope of a large field toward a dark wood on the horizon. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z At the foot of the mile-long slope, there was a stand of the great trees, and nearby a river meandered on the level grassy ground. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Because of the clouds, the ground blizzard, and the flat, fading light, I couldn’t tell slope from sky. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There were a bunch of trees, one bank full of scraggly bushes where bits of trash had caught, and another bank with a more gradual sandy slope. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She was in her silkworm cocoonery, high on the slope of Mount Olympus in Asia Minor, when her heart, without warning, missed a beat. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Long slopes ran swiftly down to where the river spread in stony shoals between high grassy terraces. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I decided the best way to right it was to take advantage of the slope and roll the trailer over its nose. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Without seeming to, Will was memorizing the exact layout of the cave: the shape and size of every rock, the slope of the floor, the exact height of the ceiling above the sleeping girl. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The leaves were falling, rolling in dusky clouds, and the conifers on the slopes were crusted with snow. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I wish I could take a picture of her in this huge chair with her matching outfit, ringlet curls, and sloped nose. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He was off, slowly enough, down the slope, but when Hazel stamped for him to stop he did so at once. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z My guides lead me into a narrow corridor with a ceiling that gradually slopes higher and higher. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They made their way slowly and cautiously round the south-western slopes of the hill, and came in a little while to the edge of the Road. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z They were crouching on the slope, too frightened to move. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z A broad, slow-moving river wound through rich grassland in the middle distance, and at the foot of the long slope, among copses of small trees and rows of vegetables, stood a village of thatched houses. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z No one had thought much before about the backyard’s downward slope, but that had counted too; she had rolled a bit before coming to a stop, which helped. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z A tall sloping R, with the letters de W interlaced. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z In front of their feet, the ground swept away in a long, gentle slope. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z They were driving through mountains now, the slopes on both sides of the road rose ever more steeply, and there came a point where the houses looked not just unfamiliar but really different. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The straps of Max's backpack start to slide as her shoulders slope downward. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z A gust of wind rushed through the orchard, bringing ice off the white slopes, and more blossom scent. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z He lay back on the slope of the pit, but that did not ease the sense of burden that was on him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The two of them were with other warriors on the west slope of a ridge. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The host passed through the breach and halted on the sloping sward above. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The northern side of Lodge Trail Ridge sloped down to a wide gully. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z He bowed low, and mounted his pony, and followed by his friends jogged slowly down the gentle slope behind the hill. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Behind the hospital was a wide, sloping lawn, bordered by flower gardens. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Half an hour later, we turn onto a quiet street sloping up a hill and stop in front of a hotel near the top. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The sun hangs low in the distance, casting their snowcapped peaks in light shades of pink, and their wide, bare slopes in deep blue. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I wonder—if I came here long enough, mapped every step and slope, would I feel safe? Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z She was causing the terrain to shift around them - opening new trenches, changing the slope of the land, throwing up new walls and columns. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He pointed, smiling, toward the mountains, some of whose slopes were spangled with sunlight. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The city had grown around them over four centuries, cascading down the slopes and then sprawling out over the flat landscape of farms and meadowlands below. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z As once again the day wore to its end they came to long treeless slopes, where the land rose, swelling up towards a line of low humpbacked downs ahead. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Indeed, one could instantly get a sense of the overall shape and slope of the mountain. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Laia and I burst from the building and skid down a grassy slope. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He led the way down the slope, his shadow stretching behind him on the grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They climbed slopes so steep and slippery it was nearly impossible to keep their footing. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Beyond that was the river and beyond the river a short slope covered with gardens. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The climb of the sloping roof was extremely treacherous. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The slope was already in shadow when Campion came running down with the news that he had come face to face with Blackavar and Holly in the upper part of the combe. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Half an hour later they were making a long traverse across a deeper slope that edged further to the north and delivered them at last to another valley, another little stream. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She stood watching them all the way to the foot of the slope. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z People drift off the slopes to return to their families. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Jenna asks, panting with the effort to keep her footing on the slippery slope. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z A few of the younger boys drifted off to play King of the Mountain on the slope between the upper and lower fields. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z In another instant, he was flung out at the bottom of a rocky slope. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z He stood and looked out over the barren slopes. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Luna shaded her eyes and looked down the slope. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z They topped each short slope only to find another above it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He turned and began to make his way back down the slope and thought better of it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z After making sure Ivan was gone, she pulled the cart at a trot across the road and down the slope onto her property. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Then he saw the little boy running fast and far ahead of him down a dark slope, the side of some vast hill. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The floor slopes slightly downhill, and the hallway is so narrow that Beth and I have to walk single file. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z I thought of the soft white dress in its folds of tissue paper, and how it would hide my flat dull figure, my rather sloping shoulders. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z An arm of the glacier has withdrawn from this slope within the last fifty or hundred years, leaving the planet’s bones raw to the air; no flesh of earth, of grass. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The river was six hundred feet below, down steep slopes and twisty passages, she explained, and the last part required climbing down a rope. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z This wasn’t so crazy: we’d pass older students bent over chess sets, in window seats or on the grassy slopes, and Ruth would often pause to study a game. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I forgot myself and climbed the slope, then walked along the ridge, letting the wind take me as I stared out at the expanse of crooked streets and stone courtyards. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Even as the old wizard spoke, the great horse came striding up the slope towards them; his coat was glistening and his mane flowing in the wind of his speed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “There ain’t none left,” I say, dirt giving way under my feet as we make our way down a slope. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z On either hand the walls sloped upwards, until they were fifty feet high or more, and along each wall stood an aisle of trees that also increased in height as they marched inwards. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I get an uncomfortable feeling like I'm sliding backward down a slope into a deep hole that I dug my own self. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Jimmy looked down the slope to the west and turned and looked down the slope to the east. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z As they reached the bottom of the slope, Taran heard the waters of Great Avren rushing like wind in a summer storm. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Suddenly the car’s not a limo anymore, it’s a padded elevator, and you’re going down the diagonal slope of the black pyramid, into its hidden depths—deep, deep underground. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Between the curtain of trees at every side, the ever-receding contour of rising slope before you, and your own plodding weariness, you gradually lose track of how far you have come. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z One morning, after almost two years of crossing, they became the first mortals to see the western slopes of the mountain range. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z With his leg, Peeta is too slow to make it down the slope in time. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The dry slope was dotted with rabbits—some nibbling at the thin grass near their holes, others pushing further down to look for dandelions or perhaps a cowslip that the rest had missed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z An entire section of wall had collapsed, leaving a slope of smoking rubble. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I can see our house as I make my way back down Mr. Bender’s slope. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z They moved on a bit from the bottom of the slope, just in case they had triggered an avalanche. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z We raced out of town in the spitting dark, vague blue outlines of cottages giving way to sloping fields, then charged up the ridge, sheets of water streaming over our feet, making the path treacherous. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z That crimped, tiny cursive, each letter sloping slightly farther uphill. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z At the top of the slope where the den was, Joe stood still and waited for a long time. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z But as Chestnutt led me down the gently sloping Thicket tunnel, this one with cherry-red flowers budding along the walls, I heard the echo of Gum Baby’s voice ahead of us. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z He followed Hollis's pink truck down a newly paved side street that sloped up precipitously, causing the Hearse's worn-out engine to rev for its very life. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Then the lane curved to the left and fell away, sloping steeply down a hillside, so that they had a sudden, unexpected view of a whole valley laid out in front of them. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z He turned and looked after it, and on the slope he saw old Samuel against the sky, his white hair shining with starlight. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She did not pull away from him, and as he tipped her back and back and back, he watched the hollow above her collarbone and the lovely slope down to the neckline of her dress. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z After climbing over an ancient wall on the other side they struggled on up the slope. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Ifemelu imagined him growing up, riding his bicycle down the sloping street, returning home from primary school with his bag and water bottle. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z And then everything was happening at once, too quickly: there was a burst of gunfire, and a cloud of acrid smoke billowed across the slope, though she saw no flames. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The slope was a gentle one, and the edge of the water was some feet further than the canoe could reach. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z With stamping and flashing of tails every rabbit on the slope dashed for cover. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There aren’t so many families and women crouching on the slopes. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z I stared at his car until it disappeared down the slope that led to Ikejiani Avenue. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “Ten paces away, down the slope,” said the dæmon. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They traversed the slope of the ridge till it dipped into the head of the valley, and there, sure enough, among ferns and reeds, a spring bubbled out of the rock. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Mathematicians say that the slope of the hill is 1/2. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It was empty now, but sweetly expectant of clean, white, well-behaved children and parents who would play there above the lake in summer before half-running, half-stumbling down the slope to the welcoming water. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z His back bent more than I thought possible, and then his feet went up and over the log, and he disappeared from sight, sliding into the thorny mess of darkness down the slope. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z "That's fine, Esther," he observed, as I negotiated my slope for the twentieth time. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z To his astonishment and terror, and lasting delight, Sam saw a vast shape crash out of the trees and come careering down the slope. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z They’d have no other way to start it save to push it and they couldnt get it fast enough to start on that slope. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Even in chains, Mormont looked dangerous, a hulking brute with big, thick arms and sloped shoulders. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Carrying the still sleepy Pantalaimon, she walked away from Will and sat down on the slope of a sand dune a little way off, so their voices wouldn’t wake him. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Less than an hour later, the trail led down a slope toward a muddy brook swollen by the recent rains. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z We began to retrace our steps down the slope, but we knew we still had time and didn’t hurry. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The trail maintainers in Maine have a certain hale devotion to seeking out the rockiest climbs and most forbidding slopes, and of these Maine has a breathtaking plenitude. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Alice, holding Lyra, had retreated further up the slope, but the open space was not very large: close-branched holm oaks with spiked leaves crowded in on all sides. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The falling stream vanished into a deep growth of cresses and water-plants, and they could hear it tinkling away in green tunnels, down long gentle slopes towards the fens of Entwash Vale far away. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z When they reached the closest approach of the hoverpath to his parents’ house, David jumped off and dashed down the slope. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The sun, emerged from its gray shrouds of clouds, shone with a summer brillance on the untouched slopes. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The trio scoured the lower slopes, poking and probing. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Skidding down the slick slope and leaping sharp switchbacks that twisted among the trees. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The entrance to the Citadel also looked eastward, but was delved in the heart of the rock; thence a long lamp-lit slope ran up to the seventh gate. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Streams and knolls and rocky slopes were marked. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z They were strung out on the south slope of a round lava rock hill, moving west along the fence line. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z They run down a slope and weave through trees before I can stop them. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z When I caught up to Emma she was standing near the plateau’s edge, gazing out at the countryside below, sloping green hills falling away to a distant plain. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The top of the climb brought several hundred yards of bare, gently sloping granite, like walking along a whale’s back. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z So instead of sloping off upstairs I went into the living room to watch Tomorrow's World on TV. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z They watched the van headlights emerge on the slope of the next hill: two fingers of light groping their way along an invisible road in the dark. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z His nose sloped slightly to the left, evidence he’d broken it once. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z They can’t see me, sitting above them on the slope, my skin camouflaged in ointment. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z They heard him falling over the brush and scrambling and clawing his way upward on the slope. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The electric engines were so quiet that one could hear avalanches grumble down immense blue slopes on the far side of chasms twenty miles across. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z So I reeled in my line and made my way up the slope, toward the highway. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Dicey held herself stiff until she heard the motor of the truck start, and then longer, until she saw the truck pull up the long slope before the school building and turn back to town. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z It did look like a fist, Jon Snow thought, punching up through earth and wood, its bare brown slopes knuckled with stone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Nor did Sam find any nook or hollow to shelter in: only bare stony slopes frowned over by the cliff, which now rose again, higher and more sheer as they went back. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z A cleverly built home, with one wall, a sloping roof, and two entrances. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Leaving the Ystrad behind, the companions climbed slopes steeper and rockier than any they had traveled before. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The noble bust, the sloping shoulders, the graceful neck, the dark eyes and black ringlets were all there;—but her face? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Approaching the sea the land had begun to slope gently, the hills were brushed downward, the earth was smoothing itself, and the rivers straightened for the final run to the sea. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Our bombardment tore up the beaches and the slopes of Suribachi, but there was no answering fire from the shore. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z After walking for two hours, they found that the ice field did slope down to the beach, but it was a steep descent. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I crawled forward, making my way down a gentle slope until my hand touched water again. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z And at one point during an impeccably white noon he closed his eyes and nearly fell asleep standing up in the middle of a sloping, unblemished snowfield; he almost died. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Along the terrace, then down the slope towards the sea—obliquely—to the end of the island where loose rocks went out into the water. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Many of the soldiers were running, crowding together on the narrowest part of the ridge, and warriors on both slopes were firing arrows at them. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The fog streamed up the wolf slope and enveloped the members of the pack one by one until only Kapu was visible. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a broad wooden deck on the edge of the lawn, right where the grass gave way to a slope of black lava rocks that lined the shore. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z But some figures stood alone, isolated by blank space like tents pitched on winter slopes or lampposts on white roads. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The cluster of buildings all had stacked-tile roofs that sloped steeply to the sky. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z It could have been the way his shoulders sagged, sloping down in a way that was so defeated. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “Look!” he said, pointing down the slope of the mountain. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z There were tracks scored along granite slopes, long and straight as if cut with a great U-gouge. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I run up the path, trot along the edge of the pond, then, placing my two feet together, leap goatlike down the slope to the millhouse. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z At the edge of the woods, he pointed down the slope to the clearing. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z They could either dive off the deck or walk down gently sloped ramps into the water. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The Protectorate sat at the bottom of a long, gentle slope, right before the slope opened up into the vast Zirin Bog. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Mesmerized when she said things like “slippery slope,” which, behind her lips, exposed the underside of her tongue. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z The room was small, an attic room with a sloping ceiling. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z One morning she had found some wild onions growing halfway down the south slope, and later that same day a leafy reddish vegetable that might have been some queer sort of cabbage. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He could even pick out the dots of furze bushes and stunted yew trees on the steep slopes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They were now in the palace garden which sloped down in terraces to the city wall. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Then the bank sloped up towards the hedge, there seemed to be no way of getting through. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Here the only hills were man-made highway bridges—smooth, gentle slopes of concrete. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Across the valley, clearly discernible among the bare trees on the opposite slope, he saw two familiar and beloved golden and white figures. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the column of soldiers and horses poured down the slippery slope. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z He crept down a slope to rocks and scattered trees by the sea. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z He raised his eyes with difficulty to the dark slopes of Mount Doom towering above him, and then pitifully he began to crawl forward on his hands. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The carriage picked up speed on the long, sloping drive up to the castle; Hermione was leaning out of the tiny window, watching the many turrets and towers draw nearer. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z There was also some other brush that did not feel like sea grape, but Timothy did not know the name of it To the south, the beach sloped gradually out into the water. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Gasping, Lee and Grumman forced themselves up the steep slope of rocks and scree. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The Marines had taken the mountain and as they climbed, one of those guys had found a metal pipe discarded on the slope. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Our store was at an intersection at the edge of town on a long, sloping hill. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The river was not yet frozen, and wheels were on the roads still, for it rained more than it snowed on this coastal slope even now in the year’s last month. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Wandering aimlessly at first in the wood, Frodo found that his feet were leading him up towards the slopes of the hill. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He’d talked of going to the mountains, of planting coffee on the forested slopes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z But is she approaching the summit, or is she actually on a slope that leads to a lower peak, from which she will eventually have to retreat and retrace her steps? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I find a bunch of nuts and make everybody wait while I move slowly up the slope, tossing the nuts ahead of me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “Be careful,” said Buckthorn, as Hazel and Blackberry set off down the slope. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Following Boukreev’s directions, the Sherpas quickly found the two bodies on a slope of gray ice freckled with boulders near the lip of the Kangshung Face. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The last slope had been steep and rocky. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z At the big juniper tree where the hill sloped to the bridge I heard Ultima’s owl sing. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z That night marks my life’s dark center, the moment when growing up ended and the long downward slope toward death began. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Head Buster lunged, head down, and Tendai stepped aside and threw him down the slope. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The slope of the hill rose gradually into the hills of juniper and mesquite and cedar clumps. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as they were down they went on again with Gollum leading, eastwards, up the dark sloping land. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z They rounded a corner of the library, skirted the concrete circle of Frosh Pond, descended a long grassy slope, and then crossed Montlake Boulevard, dodging a steady stream of black coupes, sedans, and roadsters. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z By Friday a number of the fourth- and fifth-grade boys had already drifted away to play King of the Mountain on the slope between the two fields. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z It is thus quite possible that he learned of this plant in Bree, where now, at any rate, it grows well on the south slopes of the hill. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Dozens more lay rotting on the slopes, and every third or fourth tree, it seemed, was leaning steeply on a neighbor. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z She shook her head, brushed the gravel and leaves from her skirts, and continued down the slope toward the town. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z What she had imagined before—the smooth, gently sloping path leading out—now seemed childish. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It was present in her strong jaw, in the slope of her eyebrows, in the perfect stillness of her form. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The hay came down like a mountain slope to the other end of the barn, and there was a level place as yet unfilled with the new crop. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The point of the computer program, which Schoenfeld created, was to teach students about how to calculate the slope of a line. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z East, west, north, south, everywhere he looked, the clouds rose up like black mountains, their tumbled slopes and collossal cliffs alive with blue and purple lightning. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The aqueduct is shaped like an upside-down trapezoid, with a steep downslope that abruptly levels off for twenty yards, then slopes upward again. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z We started up the road and then went across a meadow and found a path that crossed the fields and went toward the woods on the slope of the first hill. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z I hurry through the kitchen out to the veranda and down the slope to the pond. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z I sculpt it back to its original shape—high bridge, long slope. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z In each archway a windowsill at waist height was broad enough to lean on, and below them the pantiled roof ran down in a gentle slope all around to the gutter. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There were six of them below me on the slope, each sitting alone like a great chief, watching his herd of cows and babies. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The bull-dozed earth is heaped in ridges and slopes beyond the trench. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z She stood in a large wooden bin; starting at her feet and rising in a slope to the wall of the cave was a small mountain of grain. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z He took off after her but lost control as he headed down the steepest part of the slope. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Too exhausted to cope with the complexities of the rope work, Fischer slid directly down an adjacent snow slope on his butt. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Both Kendra and Seth turned in alarm at the sound of his hooves racing up the slope. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The bottle clattering after him down the slope. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It took us four days to move halfway up the slope, taking terrible casualties all the way. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z We walked under the hemmen-trees on the slopes above the Fastness, where there were no paths. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z It was Renee painstakingly figuring out the concept of undefined slope all over again. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z She could sense the tunnel ahead, sloping gently down for about three hundred feet, then opening into a large chamber. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They work with their husbands and sons, whether fighting in the army or sitting quietly on stony slopes to watch the border. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z On three sides the woods pressed upon it; but eastward the ground fell steeply and the tops of the dark trees, growing at the bottom of the slope, were below their feet. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Beyond it were slopes covered with sombre trees like dark clouds, but all about them lay a tumbled heathland, grown with ling and broom and cornel, and other shrubs that they did not know. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z For that guard they chose mostly archers who knew the ways of Ithilien and would lie hid in the woods and slopes about the meeting of the ways. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Below them a steep, icy slope slanted downward. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z But on this particular night, the glide slope was down. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The weathered slope was covered with dead grass, rocks and stunted olive trees. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Down the slope from our encampment lay Lake Champlain, where I vowed I should learn to swim before we finished our business with the planet Venus and returned to the city. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Between the sloping walls of the peaked roof, the attic was crammed with years of castoffs. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The passenger side of the car sloped down and stayed like that from then on. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Crystal’s tracks are quite obvious now that we know she has been here, and we are able to trot along as we follow her down the steep slope. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They stopped and waited, dotted here and there about the slope. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z High up above the tall cliffs were steep slopes upon which trees climbed, mounting one head above another; and above them again were grey faces of inaccessible rock, crowned by a great spire of stone. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Finally their movement stopped, though all around them smaller rocks were still tumbling and bounding down a slope that hadn’t been there a minute before. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Throughout the night they had ridden, as it seemed to Taran, down a long series of descending slopes. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z The shadows of the poplar trees had fallen across much of the lawn, but the sun was still lighting up the far comer where the grass sloped up to the summerhouse. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z They saw that they had only come some three or four miles into the forest: the heads of the trees marched down the slopes towards the plain. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He's made his camp underneath another rocky outcropping down the slope of a small hill. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z As Hazel and Pipkin reached the top of the slope, the first light showed clearly the farmyard and buildings. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As far as she knew, the monks had worked at desks with sloping tops in the scriptoria of their monasteries, but she kept this information to herself. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z In his leather windbreaker, his shoulders were powerful, but narrow and sloping. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The far wall, like her far wall, sloped to make the roof outside, and inside a perfect angle for his hawk eye stickers. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z When they finally crossed the bridge into Vermont, the sun came out and turned the leafless trees into silver against the deep green of the evergreen on the mountain slopes. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z This room has ceilings that slope downward toward the pillow of my bed. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z In wild terror, I ran along the bed of that dry wash, cut right up a sloping bank. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The most important property of a line is its slope, and to measure this, mathematicians look at how high a line rises in a certain amount of distance. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Snow was falling, the first of the winter here on the lower slopes of Gont. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z You’d notice them stretched out on grassy slopes on a sunny day or milling beneath the windows of certain buildings where inmates dropped food for them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He gestures for her to wait outside, and a moment later, he locks the door behind him and leads her and Max down streets narrow and sloping. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Riverbanks, hillsides, the cool sloped rooms under the pine trees—China provides her soldiers with meeting places enough. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Nor did the Witch waste any time gazing up at them; they saw her set off northward down the slope of the hill. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z We hung our towel between the two sloped tarp roofs, like a wall. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z They turned the corner and soon were driving along a high, grassy bluff that sloped down to a glistening river that flowed through the main part of town. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The nest starting to slope into the earth. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The slope climbed away above me, steeper all the time. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I tossed my bedroll and then took a good jump to clear the railroad ties, but when I hit the ground there was a good slope to it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Up the hillside to join them, scrambling over the sharp slopes. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Neither of us liked being on a road all exposed so anyone could drive up behind us at any time be-cause there was no place to hide without scrambling up a ten-foot slope. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I took pains not to send them tumbling down the slope. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Scattered on the grounds are clusters of small houses with sloped roofs. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I walked down the slope until I was far enough away that I couldn’t hear any music from the party. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z The road led out along the side of a ridge, and after a mile or so I saw the house that must be Leper’s, riding the top of the slope. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z A hundred yards away, at the bottom of the slope, ran the brook, no more than three feet wide, half choked with kingcups, watercress and blue brooklime. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The current master of Ashton Place had the same long and narrow nose, sloping forehead, and prominent, somewhat pointed ears depicted in the ancestral portraits that hung on the wall behind where he sat. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The window is crowded with women’s hats perched on gray, featureless heads, with sloping necks nearly a foot long. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The front of the Corps swung to face south, rolled forward down a slope through more cornfields. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The land before them sloped away southwards, but it was wild and pathless; bushes and stunted trees grew in dense patches with wide barren spaces in between. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Yet that was not true, for as we descended into the valley, a deer suddenly appeared in the trees ahead and went bounding off down the slope. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z I let him take a nap tied up in the shade of the big oak tree on the steep slope by the back porch. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Just to the West of the southernmost slope there was a great ring, where the turf had been torn and beaten by many trampling feet. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She heaved herself onto the muddy grass slope and set her forehead against the wet ground. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The hobbits rode on up a gentle slope, passing a few detached houses, and drew up outside the inn. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I started down a steep slope of feeling bad for myself. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Her forehead is high and smooth, her jawbones sloping and unusually long. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z As they groped their way past giant boulders, using their stolen pikes as walking sticks, Werfel cranked his spectacles to maximum magnification and looked back down the slope. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z It was actually three stories high ’cause the other end of the barn started on a hillside and this side was at the bottom of the slope. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As snow began falling and the temperature dropped, the men labored up and down icy slopes. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The tent sloped down to the ground, where its other edge was held down with an old car tire. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The Japanese had waited until we Americans had swarmed up the first slope and were like sitting ducks on the wide plain before the next terrace. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z She flattened herself like an obedient pup as he glided down his slope and up hers. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But beyond the souvenir kiosks in the cathedral square, most of the 44,000 inhabitants of Chamula scratch a living from the dry mountain slopes outside town. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z ‘I don’t know what it is,’ he said, ‘but I suddenly felt afraid. I durstn’t go outside this dell for any money; I felt that something was creeping up the slope.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It wasn’t high, and below it was grass, with a gentle slope away from the building. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It overlooked Baby Kochamma’s ornamental garden, the gravel driveway looped around it, sloping down towards the bottom of the slight hill that the house stood on. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, they lie flat on the ground, muskets pointed at the stream of blue uniforms picking their way up the grassy slope. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Its sides were mangy with the scars of logging, and the lower slopes were pitted with slate and marble quarries. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “It had been sent to another island to be repaired. So there was a notice to airmen that the glide slope was not operating.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Freddie yelled something unintelligible up the slope, and if it had been only me there, I might have waited for him to climb, just so I could knock him down again. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Kitum Cave opens in a forested valley at an altitude of eight thousand feet on the eastern slope of the mountain. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z One could see nothing but a grassy slope running up to a level ridge and beyond that the sky with perhaps a few birds in it. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z He set her down, and then he and Lina took hold of the boat and hauled it as far as they could up the slope of rock. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z We look out at our view of clouds framing the sky and houses packed on roads that slope into each other. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Harry stepped in, his head almost touching the sloping ceiling, and blinked. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z At the bottom of a slope, a creek curved across a low meadow. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z At five, they called a halt halfway up another slope. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Herbie killed the motor, and they both remained immobile for a moment, grinning stupidly through the windshield at the lovely stream and at the golden sunglow on pine tree tips rising along the slope beyond. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Peeta struggles to his knees and crawls down the slope. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z After taking an elevator to the top of the building, the visitor begins a leisurely descent down the gently sloping ramp. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Down their slopes the flame ran to the low-lying valleys and the dark forest lands, until all things everywhere were ablaze. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The volcano grew up seven to ten million years ago, producing fierce eruptions and explosions of ash, which repeatedly wiped out the forests that grew on its slopes, until it attained a tremendous height. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was fear that lay ahead of him, that lurked hiding from him or waiting for him among the slopes and forests of the island, and straight for it he steered. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z At low tide the shed sat on a sloping mud bank, listing twenty-five degrees from bow to stern. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z A cliff frowned upon their right; to their left rose grey slopes, dim and shadowy in the late night. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z They scrambled down a rock slope, dropped among flowers and made their way under the trees. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z He was usually gazing out of the window indifferently, as if he were looking straight through the mountains and trees, houses and rocky slopes passing by outside. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Tyrion arrived late, saddlesore, and sour, all too vividly aware of how amusing he must look as he waddled up the slope to his father. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Gathering from the slopes were tiny moving figures, now in the open, now lost in shadow. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Once more they set out to climb the slope of the mountain. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z They made camp in a sloping pasture rimmed by enormous oak trees and pines and nut trees, a stream moving down through the center, over steps of rock. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus the slopes of Everest are littered with corpses. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He had brought many men with him; indeed all the survivors of the foray were now gathered on the slope nearby, two or three hundred strong. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z They set to work near the top of a twelve-hundred-foot slope. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Afterward, they found a second ancestor rock so both could roll their anger down the slope. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z He ran out away from the last row of houses, on a slope leading down to a solid moving blackness. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Blore shrugged his shoulders and began to make his way up the steep slope to the house. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z At last, just as Hazel was about to run down the slope to Blackberry’s burrow, he saw him come out of his hole, followed by no less than three rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z His hand went to Adaon’s brooch, and he stared at the shattered hill slope with a look of wonder. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Along the way, it passed a small village strung out atop a sunbaked slope. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Will rummaged in the rucksack for the water bottle and a couple of biscuits, and handing one to Lyra, he went with her up the slope of the dune. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Hazel turned toward it and the rest began to follow him up the slope in ones and twos. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The board walk ended and he moved a little ahead of me as we descended a sloping path toward our first class. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Far up on the slope lay the body of the old bull. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Trees with old and twisted roots hung over cliffs, and piled up behind into mounting slopes of pine-wood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z To her right a scree of small rocks and gravel sloped up to a cliff of crumbling limestone. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z After a moment he heard the sounds of Penny hurrying after him, down a sandy slope to a circle of ragged tents. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z For a cold instant he shrank from urging Melynlas up the stony slope. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z A swan slid down its slope of air to meet its reflection. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Six of the seven reached the top, but during the descent a severe storm struck the upper slopes of K2, pinning the climbers in their high camp at 26,250 feet. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z With a grunt, he shoved it down the slope. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z A couple of miles farther, the glacier made a sharp turn to the east, we plodded to the crest of a long slope, and spread before us was a motley city of nylon domes. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Our alligators tried to make a quick crawl up the steep slope of the terrace so they could set up a fire line. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Its chief village was Bucklebury, clustering in the banks and slopes behind Brandy Hall. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Flocking birds, especially the seabirds nesting on the slopes of offshore islands in Newfoundland, are similarly attached, connected, synchronized. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z With a huge effort, as if she were pushing a boulder up a slope, Lyra forced herself to wake up. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The sim was well to the west by the time the slope began to flatten beneath the hooves of their horses. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Half of its farmland is devoted to labor-intensive, high-yield, irrigated rice agriculture, facilitated by abundant rivers flowing from the wet mountains onto sloping lowland plains. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The wind whips up another spray of sand off the shallow, windward slopes. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z It was true: the slope was getting easier, and it was even possible to climb slightly, up and away from the edge. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Fiver came hesitantly up the slope and stopped close to the man, who stood looking down into a deep, narrow hole sunk in the ground at his feet. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The roof, which sloped back, he said, was about six feet off the ground. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She gestured for them to follow and sprinted down the slope. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The trunk narrowed under him, the slope steeper, almost straight up, and wet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z So foot by foot, like small grey insects, they crept up the slope. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z They had already bundled their supplies together and pushed them over the cliff, where they slid down the slope until the bundles lodged against an outcropping of ice. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z We come over another ridge and start down a slope. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Without further discussion, we head down the slope. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z They came from the western slopes of the hill, silently, creeping through the trees as if they were hunting. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z "When the children were small. This closet was inefficient—deep and sloping—so I asked if he would close off part of it for a pantry and have the other part for storage." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Before them was a grassy slope that descended all the way to the dark, choppy waves that surrounded the island. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Custer had to turn and go that way”—Grandpa Nyles pointed up a slope going north. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z “Maybe I should go down first and get a rope from camp—” As I was in midsentence, Andy abruptly turned away and moved over the lip of the ice slope, leaving me sitting there dumbfounded. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z It was almost too narrow for a horse, and the mare sent a stream of pebbles and small rocks rolling down the steep slopes. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z And now those eyes were looking down at the last landscape they’d ever see: a barren slope of brutal tumbled rocks, and beyond it a forest on fire. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Around the little peak of the tent lay the snow, mounds, hillocks, swells, slopes, all white, untrodden. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z She had not tied her wrapper over her nightdress, and I could make out the downward slope of her breasts, the slight swell of her belly underneath the sheer fabric. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I stepped outside in time to see the two policemen, flanking my father, go up a rocky slope leading out of the yard. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z We went by compass, keeping as much to northward as the cut and veer of the great slopes allowed. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Down the mountain slopes it lay, spread before them with its green fields, its orchards, its forests, its rivers and lakes, where white sails drifted. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z A mob of men followed him up the slope, dirty and ' dented and grinning, with Theon and the Greatjon at their head. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They live in huts scattered along the sunken roads, in the woods, and against the slopes of the hills. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She went to look out the window and saw the sloping shoulder of the fortress, dusted with snow. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The outer fall was indeed no longer sheer, but sloped outwards a little. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z At length they came to land again upon the southern slopes of Amon Lhaw. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He trotted down the slope for the pack and brought it uphill, along with the radio, depositing them at the base of the large rock. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked farther up the slope and saw that the gap widened out again ahead. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The wishes of both men are to be granted on the dark rear slope of a small rocky hill called Little Round Top. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As Timothy said, it was shaped like a melon, or a turtle, sloped up from the sea to our ridge where the palms flapped all day and night in the light trade wind. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The slope was littered with brittle dead logs and broken branches, the debris of many cold, windy winters. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We whooped and ran off, past the plump, squawking chickens roaming the yard, away from the house, and down the soft slope of farmland that ran along the woods. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z On the right of the road a densely wooded slope fell steeply to the bank of a wide lake. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z We were in trees and tall grass As we sloped to the creek bottoms, the ground grew soggy underfoot. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Along its brink there now stretched a wide tumbled flat of scored and weathered rock, cut every now and again by trench-like gullies that sloped steeply down to deep notches in the cliff-face. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He stopped at one point, got his bearings, poked around a bit, then pointed down a slope. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z There’s nowhere for us to go now but up the slope to the right of us. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Day after day, the winter sun had melted the snow on the eastward-facing slope, and the night frosts had hardened it, until it was a solid, frozen, glittering wall. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The path was crooked, rocky, and potholed, sloping downhill like the last one, and it seemed to be heading for a patch of dark trees a little below them. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The wall of the lagoon formed a shallow slope, and where he’d fallen in, it had been no more than waist-deep. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The steep green hill was rushing toward them A moment later he alighted on its slope, a little awkwardly. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Her legs and neck are delicate, her body sloped and covered with markings like puzzle pieces. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Near the bottom of the hill, the slope gentled and the street began to widen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There was nothing to be surprised at anymore; the intention craft stood behind him, poised on the slope and perfectly level. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Piggy lay back against the sloping sand side of the pool. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z He watched as it crashed back down the slope. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z It sloped steeply downward and there were little railway tracks on the floor. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “You are sure? There was a slope from the front of the ship to the back?” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z A wide broken slope of tumbled rocks and ice, where a track had been laboriously cleared, led up to a crag outlined against the sky. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Those wagons regularly drove west toward the forested slopes, where they loaded wood for the stoves in the fort. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Straight ahead, the grass sloped down to a rocky beach. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z That tree-lined neighborhood at the top of the smaller slope must be the Crest, Magdalys thought, where all the affluent Brooklynites were said to live, promenading along the streets astride their graceful duckbills. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Here, at last, was Vincent, riding at a gallop down the long slope. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z If we can get onto it from the slopes of the nearer volcano, it may provide us a road up onto the plateau of ice. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The eastern slope was obscured from his view. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z He ran on, pell-mell, through the rain and down the winding path into the lower slopes of the graveyard, running until he reached the old chapel. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Hours before he was killed, Sefia’s father walked her down the misty slope to the blacksmith’s shop, as he had done every morning for four years, since her mother died. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z In the pale ray of the wizard’s staff, Frodo caught glimpses of stairs and arches, and of other passages and tunnels, sloping up, or running steeply down, or opening blankly dark on either side. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Now, as he watched him limping and staggering up the slope, it occurred to him that he might actually be wounded in some way. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z So Willard had orders to fly up Deerhair Canyon toward the wide open meadows and rocky, treeless slopes around the Little Baldy Bear Lakes. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They could not see the two dogs at all, only the steady furrowing of the sedge where, invisible, the dogs quar-tered the slope until one of them flung up his head to look back. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z I was nearly at the bottom of the slope now, but I was still high enough on the hillside to see over the walls of the stockade. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Malik runs up the sloped trampoline in the back and does a flip, and when he lands, he spins around and whips his ball at Ben-Ben. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z Dusk was settling in when we reached Birch Spring Gap Shelter, standing on a slope beside a muddy stream a couple of hundred feet downhill from the trail. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Secretly, I was relieved that I wouldn’t have to deal with getting Beck down the problematic slopes to come, most of which were not protected by fixed lines. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The slope of a woman’s cheek, lips in the midst of a whisper. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z We stood on a slope of a wooded hill, and the path wound away before us to a valley, by the side of a running stream. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Many of them were no longer sitting upright but sloped on their seats, mellowed by alcohol, languorous with ideas. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The night was black, the slope steep, stony, and uneven. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z By the time Luna reached the bottom of the slope, Fyrian was already asleep. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z He stood on the rimrock and looked over the edge, down on the dark evergreens and pinon trees growing thick on the steep canyon slopes. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The fog ebbed away as they climbed a sloping hill. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z On he toiled, up and up, turning this way and that to lessen the slope, often stumbling forward, and at the last crawling like a snail with a heavy burden on its back. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He has to brace himself against the sloping wall to avoid falling over. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z A long dark trench sliced through the steep slope of Isihlangu, stretching up into the clouds, where it disappeared. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The sickening thud usually came after a shot rang out. slippery slope. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They had gone only a mile or so from the cliff when the land sloped down into a wide shallow depression, where the ground was soft and wet. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Olakunde no longer bailed, for fear of the element roiling all around him; he gripped the gunwales and sat inclined as if the dinghy barreled down a slope. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The ten readers sat at long sloping desks. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a tiny space, dark and hot like an oven, with a ceiling that sloped down so you couldn’t stand up straight. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z Edwin stopped beside a long rocky slope that rose several hundred feet to their right above the shallow valley. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z It lay ten feet lower than the surrounding country, with sloping banks, and the snow had been swept off it. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The fireblackened boulders like the shapes of bears on the starkly wooded slopes. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Just coming over the slope of the hill were three dark figures. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Mary climbed the slope and looked back across the marshes, where the incoming tide laced a brilliant silver through the glistening dark of the mudflats and the reed beds. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The gleam of light from the shutter still shone white and clear on the golden coverlet of the bed, picking out clearly and distinctly the tall sloping R of the monogram. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The dark place was like a long tunnel with brick wall on one side and sloping roof on the other. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Behind me a gentle hill slopes upward and stitches itself to the mountain base. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z On a steep slope, I'd be lucky to get 40 kilometers. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z A dozen times a day they had to stop to free a wheel that had stuck in a rut, or double up the teams to climb a muddy slope. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He ran down the slope and over the brook. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Tally let her bare feet trip, and tumbled down the slope. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He stopped on the dazzling slope and said to Ama: “We must be very quick and completely silent. No noise, not even a whisper.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Sing how it bloomed two and a half centuries ago on the slopes of Mount Olympus, while the goats bleated and the olives dropped. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z On the other side of the gate a field sloped down very steeply so that it fell out of vision only twenty yards or so in front of me. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z He shouldered the pack, grabbed the bow, swung up onto it, and backed down its curved slope to the bridge. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Down the long slope of the windshield, I see a heavyset guy pull three cards out of his breast pocket. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry walked beside them in silence as they went down the sloping lawns to Hagrid’s hut on the edge of the Forbidden Forest. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Each bark bounced from slope to slope in the foothills like a rubber ball. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I grabbed the shield and we ran, but going up the slope of the pool was not as easy as going down. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z He worked his way down the side of the ridge, winding back and forth across the slope, the way horses did to keep their footing. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I felt something tug at my shoulder—no more than a tug—and I dashed onto the slope, and then began staggering upward, zigzagging from boulder to boulder to keep protection at my back. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But the viselike grip against my ribs eventually lifted, and then, fingers clasping a sloping ledge, I pulled myself out into a small grotto. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z At the summit of the slope she looked for the last time at the Dust stream, with the clouds and the wind blowing across it and the moon standing firm in the middle. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z All he could see of her was the back of her head and the slope of her shoulder. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z We spent the first night of our trek in the hamlet of Phakding, a collection of a half dozen homes and lodges crowded onto a shelf of level ground on a slope above the river. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The cemetery was up a slope to my left, and Purgatory Hill plunged down to the oak grove on my right. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z A few mountain cabins were incised into the steep slopes, but not many. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I walk up a gentle slope that leads to the bridge to get a long shot of Phil with the garden around him. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Even Ruth looked daunted that sunny day the minibus dropped us in front of the farmhouse, circled round the little pond and disappeared up the slope. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The homes of these islanders might soon lie in drifts so that only the sloped roofs of the beach cabins would show and only the upper stories of the larger houses. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Suddenly coming out of a belt of fir-trees it ran steeply down a slope, and turned sharply to the left round the corner of a rocky shoulder of the hill. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z On the other side, a baby palm tree sloped toward the sun. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z For the last minutes, laboring hard under the cart’s weight on the uphill slope, I did not think at all. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Suddenly the horns rang out louder and beyond mistake from above, over the top of the slope. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She remembers the muscles in her calves and the strength in her thighs, and she remembers the heat of the farmland and the slope of the mountains and the miles and miles she’s crossed. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Everywhere but on the north-facing slopes and in the shadowy ravines, the snowpack had melted down to bare ground, exposing the previous seasons rose hips and lingonberries, which McCandless gathered and ate in great quantity. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A swan’s reflection slid up its slope of lake to meet the swan. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He reached the foot of the slope, where the trees began, and laid the rifle down silently. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But the greatest moment of all was when the biggest hump broke like a small earthquake and out came the sloping back, the large, wise head, and the four baggy- trousered legs of an elephant. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z The western side of each ridge was steep and difficult, but the eastward slopes were gentler, furrowed with many gullies and narrow ravines. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The cart track crossed by a brick culvert and climbed the opposite slope to a five-barred gate in the thorn hedge. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He ran up the hill, circling around to get the advantage of the slope between him and his opponent. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z It slopes upward and the lights are dim, so I hold onto the railing. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The college lay in summer twilight, set back from the road by a long, sloping lawn. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The headlights faded and Dad’s silhouette sloped its way back toward us. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z From the rear of the court a stair sloped above them to a single high room overlooking the street. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z There were more and more of them on the slopes now, brightly color-washed, with flowers growing outside their doors. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z They came slowly up the long green slope, a ragged crowd of men. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z From afar it brought to mind a bad train wreck, as if scores of ghostly white boxcars had derailed at the lip of the ice cap and tumbled down the slope willy-nilly. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t apologize, he just stood still for a moment, fear ballooned on his face, openmouthed and unable to find that condescending glare down the slope of his nose he usually found for me. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z At the front, and on both sides, there was the lawn, sloping downwards to a gravelled drive, and then into the lane, and without any tree or flower-bed to relieve the bald greenness. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The high banks had been sloping down gradually, and now they came to an end, the water and the ground were level again. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z It sloped more than the ridge did and we got to the top fairly quickly. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z By this time a considerable number of rabbits was coming up the slope. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She could see it in her mind, the whole place, the slope, the trees, the tumbly barn against the hill. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z The room contained a twin bed under a sloping ceiling, a brown oval rug, a basin with an exposed pipe, and a chest of drawers. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The backyards of these houses fell away in green slopes down to a strip of sand, and then the blue Lake Erie, lapping all the way to Canada. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The land is divided between bare mountain slopes and fertile valleys that support both grazing and farming. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The narrow path changed direction often, winding up the slope and down again; here and there, near it or away off among the massive trunks of the hemmens, stood the small, forest-colored houses. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The buggy rolled between gullied slopes of red clay. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The land was beginning to slope upwards, ever more steeply; but the Orcs did not halt. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I can tell from his sloping shoulders and meek look that Gary's me. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z They scrambled up the slopes, some of them slipping and falling. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Shortly before 7:30 on a Tuesday night in December, Mr. Larson straightened his necktie, kissed his wife, then turned to walk down the sloped aisle of the high school auditorium. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z The ridge sloped down sharply for about a hundred yards. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Only now the soil is several inches higher than it was, sloping upward behind the ladder. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z A driveway climbs up a gentle slope before disappearing beneath a weathered wooden garage door. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z They were looking down a broken, rugged slope toward a cluster of wooden buildings beside a wide stretch of snow as flat as could be, which Lyra took to be the frozen lake. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z With heavy hearts, the little band made their way down the slope. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z They were black and bushy looking, and the ones on her left eye were higher up and sloped in a different direction. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything sloped away before him, flat roofs below flat roofs, down to the towers and battlements of the city's northern wall. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The snow was almost waist deep and the slope was very steep. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The ogress lumbered down the slope toward their hiding place, sniffing high and low. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He let go of Mark’s shirt and they took off in the same direction—up the slope, away from the fire. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z It was cold in the cell, the wind screamed night and day, and worst of all, the floor sloped. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The passages were sloping steeper and steeper downhill now. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Instead, the tongue sloped down into the whale’s throat. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The roof over the rink was concave, and because the great lawn sloped toward it, the entire building seemed sunk into the ground, the forest rising above it in the distance. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The slope of the mountain was in the way. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z It zigzagged diagonally up the slope, getting wider and skinnier as I went. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The alley down which he led them sloped so steeply that Meggie kept stumbling, and every time Elinor stubbed her toes on the bumpy cobblestones she uttered a quiet curse. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Soon winter rode on the back of the wind as it swept down the mountain slopes toward the village. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z I had failed to notice that the old bull was moving down the slope until I heard stones grating against each other. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z His right hand described the circle of the hills, the sloping fields and the mountains, and ended at his hat again. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The terrace sloped to the lawns, and the lawns stretched to the sea, and turning I could see the sheet of silver, placid under the moon, like a lake undisturbed by wind or storm. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The ceiling arches in jutting curves and slopes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The grass was wet and thick near the stream and they made their way up the opposite slope, looking for drier ground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Then they set off, beating the road with their lateral limbs, and urging themselves forward down the slope until they were moving at a terrific pace. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She leaned forward, resting against the slope of the angel’s hand to peer over the edge and follow the line of Sparrow’s finger down to the rooftops. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z We followed the river about half a mile before coming to an easier slope that led down to the water. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z It came tumbling down the slope of the small roof, dropping to earth like a stone, the arrow sticking in its leg just above the knee joint. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “Notice how all these passages are sloping downwards!” called Mr. Wonka. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Does the slope of the tangent line have any meaning? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Teddy Draper was the code talker farthest up the slope of Mount Suribachi. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z She scrambled forward onto the high, sloping ground above the wall. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Here at last the snow crown began,- Sky's weathered stones were rimed with frost, and long spears of ice hung from the slopes above. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They roamed over the green-coated slopes, running, sliding, calling out to each other with each new discovery, until they were exhausted. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Finally we got to the bottom of a slope and found ourselves in a large cave with huge stalagmite columns. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z A dark smudge of forest lay on the lower slopes before them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Plus, once you start giving things away for free it’s a slippery slope. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He hopped the stone wall, rode down the long slope. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We would crouch at the foot of the slope and look up—a distance of twenty- five feet or more—at the secret and fantastic anatomies of black, brown, yellow, and ivory men and women. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “It never entered my head to try to make a lot of bucks dig regular holes,” said Hazel doubtfully, as they returned down the slope. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A big, silent mansion with turrety things watched us from the top of the slope. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Meggie saw houses in the distance, scattered like toys on the green slopes. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The men climbing the slope had fanned out and were moving more slowly, because they saw the problem as well as he did. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The woods fell away and they came to scattered groups of birch, and then to bare slopes where only a few gaunt pine-trees grew. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z At the top of the rise Seth halted, staring down the gentle slope on the far side. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z When the moon came out again we could see white villas on the shore on the slopes of the mountain and the white road where it showed through the trees. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The box heels of her scuffed white sandals were worn away on the insides, and caused her feet to slope in, towards each other. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Then they sloped their huge clubs over their shoulders and marched to their battle position. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z They could already see over the tops of the low hills which lay northward on their right; beyond those hills a great moorland sloped gently up and up to the horizon. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Hard as they pushed and shoved, Elinor's car only rolled off the road but would not slide more than a few meters down the slope. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z It was pouring downward—pouring itself downward—in a glorious, relentless glissade over the meadow slopes on a straight path for the village. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z At the edge of the highway the ground sloped sharply. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z From here, after another listening pause, they began to make their way up the slope toward the northern skyline. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z From the ridge, the light seemed to cover all the slope below, drowsy and still. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He tried to run and his leg rebroke under him and he crawled up the ragged slope to the roadbed where it was happening. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Vernie and the rest of the family retreat across the grassy slope, toward the grave plot that was meant to be mine. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I crossed the access road and shuffled down the slope. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The two were barely out of sight before Dustfinger rose to his feet, soundless as a shadow, and pointed up the slope. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z One must remember to wake at first light, in order to diddle the savages-and he did not know how quickly sleep came and hurled him down a dark interior slope. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z In the twenties and thirties the loggers had come, and they stripped the canyons below the rim and cut great clearings on the plateau slopes. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She sloped her nose nearer to the counter. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z But this slope is steeper than any of the others. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z It was a long dark tunnel sloping down the side of the quarrystone. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Downward came the bird, lazily looping through the haze, gray in gray descending, gliding, a summer sledder down a slope of sunsmoke. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Their leader came on alone, riding a beast that seemed more goat than horse, from the surefooted way it climbed the uneven slope. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Bull had started down the slope now, his boards out, and he was descending, alive, alive, adrenaline reinforcing every platelet, every blood cell, and his mind radiating with its response to danger. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z While providing a small average slope into the crater, the ramp itself was rugged and bitterly uneven. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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