Mountains
['maʊntns]
Examples
- Night also closed around; and when I could hardly see the dark mountains, I felt still more gloomily. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- To the eastward lies the Valley of the Jordan and beyond it the mountains of Gilead. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He knew with the first breath he drew that the snow had been only a freak storm in the mountains and it would be gone by noon. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- If the flank were turned, the best men would be left on the highest mountains. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Maybe he is with a band in other mountains. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- They talk, as always, of troops to be sent to clear out these mountains. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- We trucked freight across the mountains with the big carts before the camions came into use. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I did not believe in a war in mountains. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Now the fighting was in the next mountains beyond and was not a mile away. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- He has people in the mountains. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The wind was down or we were protected by mountains that bounded the curve the lake had made. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- All the highest mountains were beyond. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- While they had spoken the sun had clouded over and as he looked back up toward the mountains the sky was now heavy and gray. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- We see the same fact in ascending mountains, and sometimes it is quite remarkable how abruptly, as Alph. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It was in alliance with these that Cortez advanced over the mountains into the valley of Mexico, (1519)[397]. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We can find some place up in the mountains. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Similarly, the soil is formed from the overhanging mountains; it is washed as sediment into the sea; it is elevated, after consolidation, into the overhanging mountains. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Still more striking is the fact that peculiar Australian forms are represented by certain plants growing on the summits of the mountains of Borneo. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It had been raining in the mountains. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- These mountains say nothing to me. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- You pinched off one mountain and they pinched off another but when something really started every one had to get down off the mountains. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Looking out the window toward where we had lived you could not see the mountains for the clouds. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The mountains on the other side of the lake were all white and the plain of the Rhone Valley was covered. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I recently spent a summer in the Pocono Mountains and saw such a well completed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- We shall obey the call of the summer pastures and the winter pastures in our blood, the call of the mountains, the desert, and the sea. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Have you been long in the mountains? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Cities situated in plains and remote from mountains are obliged to utilize the water of such streams as flow through the land, forcing it to the necessary height by means of pumps. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It is only by doing nothing here that we are able to live in these mountains. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- As early as 1747 he had been interested in geology and had seen specimens of the fossil remains of marine shells from th e strata of the highest parts of the Alleghany Mountains. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- They were in the heart of the mountains. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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