What is "downslope"

Usage examples of "downslope".

They passed by the next dense cover, but at the one after that, Bin led him running through it downslope, and through a tangle of blowdown in the bottom, then a little way up the other side.

The crawler lurched downslope, blasting out a fine spray of lichenophagous bacteria.

The tussocky grass seemed longer on this long downslope - something to do with drainage, he wondered incongruously - and it seemed to wrestle with his tired legs, continually throwing the body too far forward, out of balance.

Natti was on the downslope of life, now, and that fact alone was enough to support his reputation as the wiliest and most effective death contractor in the business.

Graveled driveways linked the houses and main buildings, and dirt lanes led off up the hill through oaks and pines, probably to the wood lots that supplied firewood for the old-time kilns or possibly even to clay beds on the downslope beyond the rise.

I concentrated on keeping Cleaveheart in my hand as I somersaulted down through brush and bracken and somehow missed solid collisions with moss-covered stones and the few thick trees on the downslope.

Their bacteriologically sealed sanitary facilities had been just downslope.

Still tumbling uncontrollably downslope, arms and legs flailing in a feeble attempt to halt his plunge, he caught a quick, wild glimpse of the free-flowing creek the ascension of the rapidly rising browsers had exposed.

The sharp right turn into Pall Mall at the bottom of the downslope nearly sent them tumbling wheels over bucket down Cockspur Street, but the cherrypicker righted itself and hastened on.

The ridge showed as a red snake, pink downslopes on either side, a green line for the River Shabbulus beyond those and further pink upslopes after that.

Her motheror older sisterhas gleaming white teeth, azure ribbons woven into her black, waist-length braids, enormous almond eyes as shy and downsloping as a Chinese elm.

In those same Ruwenzori Mountains whose downsloping glaciers and lower alpine forests are now projected on Gaia's screen, Tanzanian soldiers butchered at least thirty percent of all the resident animals there for sport.

The little craft sat on downsloping delta wings that ordinarily nested against the Wayne's hull, and had intakes for gas-reactor jets.

The well that he'd seen also, just downslope of the dwelling, set right there next the trail where Bascom Hardy and his man waited.

The stubby brick pyramids of blast furnaces against a hillside, and the courtyard-and-siding arrangement of manufacturing plant downslope of them, all neat and tiny like a model on a table.