Sentence examples for upon a sloping from inspiring English sources
Tegulae were originally made perfectly flat, or with nothing more than a ridge underneath the upper border, which allowed the tile to be "hung" upon a sloping roof so that it would not slide to the ground.
The completion date of the ballcourt is inscribed with a hieroglyphic text upon the sloping playing area and is given as 6 January 738.
To me while yet a boy he uttered this prophecy of no slender import: "Already upon the sloping reed there grows a slender pipe for thee". A. But my locks doth Flora adorn with pale-green grasses, and for me Pomona in her ripeness sports beneath the tree.
I walked around the edge of the bay for about half an hour before coming upon a path that sloped up into woodland and arrived at a clearing.
He was ascending a section of the Transantarctic Mountains, and on November 25th he came upon a steep slope of ice that rose hundreds of feet.
Morningside Heights sits upon a steep slope bounded on the north and south by 125th and 110th Streets and on the east and west by Morningside and Riverside Parks.
"Obama authorises military operations against the Islamic State effectively placing America upon a slippery slope towards a new war front against Muslims," words appear in English and Arabic on the screen.
The masked and hooded militant in the video, who spoke with an English accent, charged President Obama with "placing American upon a slippery slope toward a new war front against Muslims," according to a transcript posted by SITE Intelligence Group.
However, upon entering a shallow, gently sloping shelf, the surge cannot be dispersed, but is driven ashore by the wind stresses of the hurricane.
In particular the bracteates IK 14 and IK 124 depict a rider traveling down a slope and coming upon a female being holding a scepter or a staff.
To prevent the recurrence of such an accident the building of a stone theatre was forthwith commenced on the south-eastern descent of the acropolis, in the Lenaea; for it should be observed that throughout Greece theatres were always built upon eminences, or on the sloping side of a hill.
