His gaze roved up to the Steepening cliff behind the village, and he saw the way.
"One Purple Hope!"
Henry Hasse
He saw the stage once more climbing a distant ridge; then it was lost to him in the Steepening hills.
"Six Feet Four"
Jackson Gregory
Broderick bent forward suddenly, whirled his horse, drove his spurs deep into the grey's sides and in a flash had cleared the fallen log, shot around the bend in the road and, taking his desperate chance with all of the cool defiance of danger which was a part of the man, sent his mount leaping down the Steepening bank, into the willow thicket and on across.
"Six Feet Four"
Jackson Gregory