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Example sentences for "great mountain"

  • He said that the day would come when the god would smite a fair ship of the Phaeacians, as she came home from a convoy on the misty deep, and overshadow our city with a great mountain.

  • He said that the god would some day smite a well-wrought ship of the Phaeacians as she came home from a convoy over the misty deep, and would overshadow our city with a great mountain.

  • Floating down this narrow channel and looking out through the canyon crevice away in the distance, the river is seen to turn again to the left, and beyond this point, away many miles, a great mountain is seen.

  • Still floating down, we see other mountains, now on the right, now on the left, until a great mountain range is unfolded to view.

  • So when she had rubbed the sleep out of her eyes, and wept till she was weary, she set out on her way, and thus she walked for many and many a long day, until at last she came to a great mountain.

  • And thus she rode far, far away, until they came to a great mountain.

  • So the girl seated herself on the horse, and rode a wearisome long way onward again, and after a very long time she came to a great mountain, where an aged woman was sitting, spinning at a golden spinning-wheel.

  • It is comparatively seldom, however, that an ascent of a great mountain can be executed exclusively upon snow and glacier.

  • In so speaking, our Lord had followed the language of the prophets, who were accustomed to illustrate by the thought of the removal of mountains the greatest acts of Divine power: "What art thou, O great mountain?

  • A similar climax may perhaps also be intended by the agents successively employed under these Trumpets: hail and fire, a great mountain burning, and a falling star.

  • And the second angel sounded the trumpet: and, as it were, a great mountain, burning with fire, was cast into the sea.

  • Now, therefore, let us cease from conveying men to their homes, and let us do sacrifice to Poseidon, slaying twelve bulls, that he overshadow not our city with a great mountain.

  • So shall they learn henceforth not to send men homeward; and their city will I overshadow with a great mountain.

  • We have seen that along the margins of each of the bordering continents the last series of great mountain-uplifts took place in Palaeozoic times.

  • And "the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

  • The dwelling of the dead was regarded as a part of the 'great mountain.

  • It is in a great mountain-chain that the extraordinary complication of plicated and faulted structures in the crust of the earth can be most impressively beheld.

  • It is in a great mountain-chain that the complicated structures developed during disturbances of the earth's crust can best be studied (see Parts IV.

  • The structure of a great mountain-chain such as the Alps proves that the crust of the earth has been intensely plicated, crumpled and fractured.

  • The Alps furnish an instructive example of the long series of revolutions through which a great mountain-system may have passed before reaching its present development.

  • One may ascend from the Saddle to the summit of Great Mountain in an hour.

  • If you would behold a great mountain as a whole, it is from the knees or the grassy lap of some other that you must look.

  • If there were a great mountain in full view of London or Rome, how much more interesting it would be to climb than some nameless lump in Central Asia, like K2, that was never within view of any abode of men.

  • I believe," wrote Ruskin, "the true cumulus is never seen in a great mountain region, at least never associated with hills.

  • The crest of some passes of this sort, notably of the Weissthor, is a point of vantage for enfilading a great mountain face.

  • The great chain of Aleutian Islands extending hundreds of miles into the sea, is the scene of much volcanic activity where a great mountain range is now literally being born out of the sea by the processes of vulcanism.

  • The Ordovician period closed with a great mountain-making disturbance in eastern North America, and at the same time all, or nearly all, of the continent was land.

  • Whenever they came across the pathway of one of these animals, were he a great mountain lion or but a mere mole, they struck him with the fire of lightning which they carried on their magic shields.

  • He is of giant proportions, and dwells in a great mountain of the Blue Ridge Range, in North-western Virginia.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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