rising

Below was a little valley and beyond a long, gently-rising slope with snug farmsteads scattered along it.

“Well now, it’s just as you say, of course, Marilla,” said Matthew rising and putting his pipe away.

“Perhaps your imagination will be in better working order by the morning,” said Marilla, rising to depart.

Allan the next day, “and it seemed like years while the flat was drifting down to the bridge and the water rising in it every moment.