There were human forms clinging to the steep-sloping rooftop.

A steep-sloping side-road through the showering leaves.

The old stone buildings were designed to beat the harsh winters with distintive, tall, steep-sloping roofs to keep the weighty snow and ice from accumulating.

It lies between the Old London Road and the ancient Conygre Wood; the wood is on the steep-sloping scarp.

The last light played on the cliff wall of the Jabal Hamrin, but by the time he reached the steep-sloping ground he would be covered by darkness.

The cheer nearly raised the steep-sloping roofs of the houses of Claggartville, the noise sending a flock of feeding gulls screeching from the calm waters of the harbor.

The San Mateo County colony is subject to damage by dumping of residential garden debris and downhill surface runoff of pesticides and fertilizers from homes above the steep-sloping habitat along Crystal Springs Road.

'By 1 January, we will be ready,' says Estonia's Deputy Prime Minister in his office in the elegant pink government building, atop the hill dominating the spires and steep-sloping rooftops of the old Hanseatic heart of Estonia's capital.

Then he began to lead them, as nearly as he could, the way he had then gone, but with some, for Arctura's sake, desirable detours: over one steep-sloping roof they had to cross, he found a little stair up the middle, and down the other side.

The landscape was broken, filled with valleys and steep-sloping hillocks, and the biggest job facing the ores, aside from taking rothe from the isle to the mainland and chasing down strays, was simply to make sure that none of the herd fell into any ravines.

Droshny turned, gestured and started moving up the steeply-sloping forest floor again.

The steeply-sloping sides of the island are crevassed, but no rock is exposed.

The site is naturally defended on three sides by steeply-sloping ground, and by the two rivers to east and west.

To the south, a steeply-sloping ridgeback connected the plug to the equally sloping ramparts of the Weissspitze.

The timber opened as they breasted a ridge and Trent glimpsed a steeply-sloping meadow up ahead and a patch of white.

The walls of the upper floor project slightly outward from the ground floor, and are capped with a steeply-sloping roof housing an attic floor.

The roofs are steeply-sloping and are hipped; over each of the central five bays is a hipped gable.

The steeply-sloping slate roofs are supported on the original oak timbers, felled on the estate and dated by dendrochronology to 1556.

Following the steeply-dipping limestone beds, Sima Pumacocha generally consists of several vertical shafts connected by short sections of horizontal to steeply-sloping passages.

Hampstead was transformed from a small, eighteenth-century satellite town separated from the metropolis by steeply-sloping open fields into a high-class residential suburb very different from Camberwell.

The river has cut a narrow valley, and between Shepton Mallet and the village of Croscombe, to the west, it is bounded by steeply-sloping fields and woodland.

Jersey Royal potatoes are the local variety of new potato, and the island is famous for its early crop of small, tasty potatoes from the south-facing côtils (steeply-sloping fields).

The choice of a viaduct was dictated by the steeply-sloping terrain, the need to avoid extensive deforestation and the esthetic implications of the proximity of the Château de Chillon.

The steeply-sloping fields adjoining the river between Bowlish and the rest of the Shepton Mallet are known locally as The Meadows, to the east of which is Hillmead, a council housing estate built in the 1960s.

In many respects, rocks are like pitch, which flows like a liquid if it is left unsupported for long enough, for example on a steeply-sloping roof, but will also break suddenly along clean shiny fracture surfaces if it is given a sharp blow.

They slung their Schmeissers, scrambled quickly but quietly on to the ice-covered and steeply-sloping roof of the station and silently and with no little difficulty crawled forwards and upwards to the front edge of the roof under which the cable-car would appear as it moved out at the beginning of its long haul towards the castle.

Access to the underground Well-head & Machinery Chambers down a steep set of concrete steps and a steeply-sloping tunnel is deemed too dangerous under modern Health & Safety concerns, - and so this historic 19th Century well-head machinery seems doomed to be forever hidden away from members of The Public.