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Example sentences for "steep descent"

  • Akabe is a general term for a steep descent.

  • At thirteen hours is the bridge over the Jordan, called Djissr Beni Yakoub [Arabic]; the road continues in an easy slope till a quarter of an hour above the bridge, where it becomes a steep descent.

  • The march commenced with a steep descent, followed by a steeper ascent, then winding along, in and out, at an average elevation of 5,000 feet.

  • Our march commenced with a steep descent to the Gnee, a river of average size.

  • Our march commenced by a steep descent on the south face of the hill, the coolies proceeding by a more direct one to the north, but which was said to be difficult.

  • The march commenced with a steep descent, which continued until we reached the river.

  • In less than an hour we came to where the high barren prairie terminated, sinking down abruptly in steep descent; and standing on these heights, we saw below us a great level meadow.

  • We found ourselves at length at the edge of a steep descent; a narrow valley, with long rank grass and scattered trees stretching before us for a mile or more along the course of the stream.

  • At Hai-t'ang, which we reached after a steep descent, we took up our quarters in a new inn just completed and therefore clean.

  • A few yards to the right, it sank in a steep descent.

  • It stood toward the east side of the sinking ridge, which had a steep descent, both east and west, to the fields below.


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