Peaks

Examples

• Birkin stood high in the painful air, looking at the peaks, and the way south. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It was in a window of what seemed to be an old-fashioned house with three peaks in the roof in front and a circular sweep leading to the porch. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• They came forth at last in a little high table-land of snow, where stood the last peaks of snow like the heart petals of an open rose. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Their icy and glittering peaks shone in the sunlight over the clouds. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Rivers flowed back towards their sources; peaks and lofty mountains where countless trees had grown for ages rolled crumbling to the earth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Maurice and Justinian were thrown to the ground, and high above, amid the encircling peaks, shot up a mighty column of smoke, streaked with red fire. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Nay, it is worse than anger, Pilar said, looking across at the peaks. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• And it seemed to her like a garden, with the peaks for pure flowers, and her heart gathering them. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• To her it was so beautiful, it was a delirium, she wanted to gather the glowing, eternal peaks to her breast, and die. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It had been called, before his time, the Peaks. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Round about, spiked, slashed snow-peaks pricked the heaven. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I recognized it from the description of the Greek at Zanzibar; and, having landed, climbed up over the peaks. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• He saw the blind valley, the great cul-de-sac of snow and mountain peaks, under the heaven. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The lower levels of mountains are frequently buried several feet under débris which has been formed in this way from higher peaks, and which has slowly accumulated at the lower levels. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Toward dusk we drew near Milan and caught glimpses of the city and the blue mountain peaks beyond. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He wished the peaks were grey and unbeautiful, so that she should not get her support from them. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The sun will be up over the eastern peaks soon. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• A list of the genera of plants collected on the loftier peaks of Java, raises a picture of a collection made on a hillock in Europe. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

Typed by Edmund