He had been able to see over it, only by standing back upon the sloping acclivity of the counterscarp.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid
However, the last water cask was safely stowed, when the father arrived with the alarming intelligence, that a number of boats, full of men, were on the east coast of the island; and that a party, landed from one of them, were in the act of ascending the opposite acclivity.
"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX"
Alexander Leighton
On the steep acclivity our line of advance is narrow, so narrow that there is scarcely a foothold; nevertheless we have to follow for some six miles this thread of trail, which seemed to us by no means in excess of the requirements of the chamois and the mountain goat.
"Among the Canadian Alps"
Lawrence J. Burpee