What is "upslope"

Usage examples of "upslope".

The Seerdomin commanders were wreathed in the magic, advancing now on foot ahead of their companies, marching upslope with an air of inexorability.

She could hear fighting upslope, along the embankment and perhaps beyond.

They were still over two thousand meters out when a brace of self-propelled antiaircraft guns peeled off to take up stations upslope of the road.

Even a few snipers and machine-guns upslope from the village could make field trenches untenable.

With a crashing and ripping of branches and underbrush, two parties of a dozen men each spurred their horses out and around on either side, heading upslope to cut the Fiernans off from the north.

Knowing she lacked any skill to aid those struggling aloft, Maia stumbled upslope across the slippery deck, toward the yawning darkness of the hatch.

Taking the boy by his armpits, Maia gritted her teeth and strained to drag him upslope three, four meters .

Patrel then set the horn to his lips and blew a clarion call that rang bell-like upslope and down, and spirits were stirred and hearts leapt with hope.

My company of Thornwalkers are there, upslope, awaiting the orders of the King.

They all turned and looked upslope behind them, to the lights and ant-murmur of the road out from Sandoral.

Slanting upslope in the direction of our gallant wog adversaries, just enough to hold a hundred-liter urn, you know, the type they use for oil and wine around here?

The tears show fresh metal and there is a gouged out furrow upslope from the river leading to it.

After that they went on, now and then having to climb upslope, cautiously, as cover thinned out.

He listed upslope toward the house lugging the two smaller fish on a line strung through their gills, and let Illyan struggle with the larger three.

The silk riding breeches fit her buttocks like skin, and the view as she toiled upslope ahead of him was enough to make any man forget himself.