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But I found them much more acclivitous and rocky.

From Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia by Mitchell, Thomas

Robert Crawford sings of them as "Cheviot braes so soft and gay," and Gilpin likens the hirsels browsing on the most acclivitous to pictures hung on immense green walls.

From In the Border Country by W. S.

If he ventures to look up the acclivitous rock, more real danger threatens his return, when a devious balance or false step would ensure his certain destruction. 

From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by Barber, J. T.

Then herds of agile creatures like antelopes are described, 'abounding on the acclivitous glades of the woods.'

From Myths and Marvels of Astronomy by Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony)

They resembled very much some hills of the lower Pyrenees in Spain, only that they were more grassy and less acclivitous, and I named this hill Mount Cole.

From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 by Mitchell, Thomas