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Dan Neil for The Wall Street Journal The roofline is mirrored as if in still water by the car's up-sloping beltline, and where they come together at the tiny blacked-out rear roof pillar—pow!

A Range Rover for a Smaller Era 2011

The roofline is mirrored as if in still water by the car's up-sloping beltline, and where they come together at the tiny blacked-out rear roof pillar—pow!

Evoque: A Range Rover for a Smaller Era Dan Neil 2011

And the up-sloping top tube ensures that all of the possible measurements from the bottom bracket center to the top of top tube, to the top of seat tube, or to the center of top tube would be less than 56cm.

Technical FAQ with Lennard Zinn: LZ suggests some New Year’s resolutions for the bike industry 2011

Also according to reports, and as the impact crater suggests, United Airlines Flight 93 impacted terrain at an almost vertical 90 degree angle, while the Flight Data Recorder shows a 35 degree angle with up-sloping terrain, further reducing impact angle.

9/11: UNITED 93 DATA PROVIDED BY US GOVERNMENT DOES NOT SUPPORT OBSERVED EVENTS 2008

The trend is for up-sloping lines which overlap in time, with each line about 250-300 mL higher than the preceding one during the interval of coexistence.

Fun with Hominin Cranial Capacity Datasets (and Excel), Part 2 - The Panda's Thumb 2006

His mind soon returned to the point where it had been deflected by the movement at the Forge; he could even visualize his mature boyhood -- a straight, arrogant figure, black certainly, with up-sloping brows and an outthrust chin.

The Three Black Pennys A Novel Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

She would strike this low up-sloping mound in a moment when she swept down upon it from the crest of the ridge upon which she now stood; she would take the tiny dip in a fraction of a second too brief to have a name; she would rise, leaping as she rose --

The Short Cut Jackson Gregory 1912

For these up-sloping fields, upon which many a rich tobacco crop has been raised, lie now under blackening ashes -- the work of insurgent torches.

Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom Trumbull White 1904

The smooth, slightly up-sloping lawn was powdered with innumerable dewdrops.

The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891

From her it streamed up to the stem and along the branches of the glowing fir; from her it streamed over the radiant grass of the up-sloping field away towards the western sun.

Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864