The long line of glaciers and peaks between the Adamello and the Care Alto presents an imposing appearance.
Behind us the snows of the Care Alto and its neighbours gradually rise into sight above a lower ridge graced with singularly symmetrical summits.
Behind us the icy comb of the Care Alto gleamed through the branches; in front the massive form of a dolomite peak towered over the tree-tops.
The rocks at length withdraw, the hills open, and while we ascend gently amongst orchards and rich fields of Indian corn, the Care Alto suddenly raises his icy horn over the green lower range.
Nearest to us was my old conquest, the Presanella, the highest summit of the whole country; further south, the upper snows of the Lares and Lobbia glaciers spread in a great white curtain between the Care Alto and Adamello.
High up in air, severed from the solid earth by a grey belt of yet undissolved mist, the great snow-plains of the Care Alto shone in a golden glory such as that in which Mont Blanc veils himself when seen from a hundred miles' distance.
The highest peaks, such as the Care Altoand Adamello, are merely slight elevations of the rim of this uplifted plain.
Early in the forenoon of the 8th of May as Palo Alto was approached, an army, certainly outnumbering our little force, was seen, drawn up in line of battle just in front of the timber.
This kept him out of the battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma.
They did not expect to reach Huejugilla el Alto without being molested by bandits, for it was presumed that Pacheco's lieutenant would carry the word to his chief, and the desperadoes would lose no time in moving against them.
Huejugilla el Alto proved to be a wild and picturesque place.
We'll put a good long stretch between ourselves an' Huejugilla elAlto before mornin'.
When this explanation was finished, Bushnell asked: "And you are on your way ter Huejugilla el Alto with ther hope of rescuin' ther professor?
Frank expected to hear something from Pacheco as soon as Huejugilla el Alto was reached, but he found no message awaiting him.
In Huejugilla el Alto they remained four days, neither of them seeming to have energy enough to do anything.
The Westerner could talk Spanish after a fashion, and that was about all the natives of Huejugilla el Alto were able to do, with the exception of the few whose blood was untainted, and who claimed to be aristocrats.
Huejugilla el Alto is one hundred and ten miles west of Zacatecas.
It runs so high that I can do nothing with it; but I wouldn't mind taking thealto with you.
The discordant alto had married, bless her, and gone to another town; the flatting tenor had sprained his ankle, poor man, and must needs abide at home.
My girls were just assuring me that there was not an alto voice in our midst that could sustain the other parts.
I don't like her, but I would tolerate her presence if we could get her to take the alto in this.
You came to take the alto in this quartette we are arranging.
How horribly the tenor flatted, and how entirely did the alto lose the key more than once during the infliction of those six verses!
And, curiously enough, the smoke had hardly cleared from Palo Alto field before Abraham Lincoln, a young member in the House of Congress, was introducing a resolution which asked the marking of "the spot where that outrage was committed.
It was far from Palo Alto to our ports of Galveston or New Orleans.
Within a few days after the Palo Alto ball, a memorandum of agreement was signed between Minister Pakenham and Mr. Buchanan, our secretary of state.
Palo Alto* Palo Alto (city in the extreme south of Texas where the Americans defeated the Mexicans in battle in 1846) *palomino* m.
The Liber Historiae Francorum (commonly called the Gesta Francorum): In illo tempore Dani cum rege suo nomine Chochilaico cum navale hoste per alto mare Gallias appetent, Theuderico paygo [i.
The tenor was called out on three strikes by the umpire, and the alto had to sail in, and while she was singing the tenor began to feel of first base to see what was the matter.
Johanna de Alto Villari kept going out alone with a man named Gayllard, and within a year had a child by him.
Emengarde and Johanna ofAlto Villari beat each other.
In the older quartets one reason the viola parts are simple is because the alto players as a rule were technically less skillful.
Just as we have operas in which the alto solo rôle is the most important, so we have quartets in which the 'cello or the viola has a more significant part.
Hester reproachfully in her alto voice, which was her greatest charm.
