As the road drops rapidly down the valley, one is lost in amazement at the temerity of the engineers who dared to carry a railway through this seemingly impossible gorge, with its gradient of nearly 200 feet in the mile.
"Among the Canadian Alps"
Lawrence J. Burpee
It was a gentle down-gradient now towards the town.
"Hilda Wade A Woman With Tenacity Of Purpose"
Grant Allen
It was the heavy, regular puffing of a powerful engine coming up a steep gradient, under full steam.
"Fantômas"
Pierre Souvestre Marcel Allain