1 In the whole world there can be no more dreary view than that from the northern slope of the Sierra Blanco.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN 2 In a moment the young fellows had dismounted, fastened their horses, and were ascending the precipitous slope which led up to the object which had excited their curiosity.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN 3 To see him toiling up the slope inch by inch, his breath coming fast, the tips of his hoofs clawing at the ground, and his great sides matted with sweat, filled everyone with admiration.
4 Clifford steered cautiously down the slope of the knoll from the hall, and Connie kept her hand on the chair.
5 They went fairly quickly down the slope, the man with his hand on the rail of the chair, steadying it.
6 And the longish slope of her haunches and her buttocks had lost its gleam and its sense of richness.
7 Like hillocks of sand, the Arabs say, soft and downward-slipping with a long slope.
8 The chair reached the bottom of the slope, and swerved round, to disappear.
9 She found Clifford slowly mounting to the spring, which was halfway up the slope of the dark larch-wood.
10 They came to the dark bottom of the hollow, turned to the right, and after a hundred yards swerved up the foot of the long slope, where bluebells stood in the light.
11 He laid his hand on the slope of her buttocks.
12 With a heavy sigh he retraced the slope, and followed the path he had followed before.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 8 Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody 13 This mishap occurred when she was descending an open slope about two-thirds home.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers 14 "I thought you went down the slope," he said, without noticing her face.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers 15 They listened to the words of the man in their midst, who was preaching, while they abstractedly pulled heather, stripped ferns, or tossed pebbles down the slope.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 6: 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His