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Example sentences for "mountainous country"

  • On leaving Feheis we crossed a mountainous country, passed through a thick forest of oak trees, and in three quarters of an hour reached the Ardh el Hemar, which is the name of a district extending north and south for about two hours.

  • It is throughout a mountainous country, and for the greater part woody.

  • At six hours and a half we entered a mountainous country, much devastated by torrents, which have given the mountains a very wild appearance.

  • Sculptures representing Invasion of Mountainous Country, and Sack of City.

  • I have already described the bas-reliefs representing the conquest of a mountainous country on the southern side of the great hall.

  • And in another isle are people that go always upon their knees, and at every step they go it seems that they would fall; and they have eight toes on every foot.

  • And they say also that Jesus Christ spake as soon as he was born; and that he was a true and holy prophet in word and deed, and meek, and pious, and righteous, and without any vice.

  • It was inhabited, but the Turcomans had posted themselves hard by.

  • The second day's journey was through a mountainous country, tolerably fertile though ill watered, but we saw nothing but ruined houses.

  • Having travelled about two hours in this valley, we entered into a woody, mountainous country, which ends the pashalick of Aleppo and begins that of Tripoli.

  • The country, notwithstanding, was as fine as a mountainous country can be.

  • I then passed through a mountainous country, tolerably good for travelling on horseback, and came to a little town in a plain on the Nissave, called Pirotte.

  • So thick was the wood, that it was necessary to have constant recourse to the compass; for every landmark, though in a mountainous country, was completely shut out.

  • Having crossed the Peuquenes, we descended into a mountainous country, intermediate between the two main ranges, and then took up our quarters for the night.

  • Passing through a mountainous country, we reached by nightfall the mines belonging to Mr. Edwards.

  • It is for the most part a mountainous country; the seashore only is level.

  • Arcadia, a mountainous country, abounding in pastures, and situate in the centre of the peninsula; greatest length, 48 geog.

  • By nine o'clock next morning we had gotten far up into the rugged, mountainous country where it seemed safe to stop.

  • We experienced very little difficulty that I now recall so long as we were able to follow the river, but by and by the stream became very small and led us into a rugged, mountainous country.

  • Thence he went through a mountainous country, lying between the Altai and Himalayan ranges to Kashgar.

  • There lived Ordu, the eldest of the Tartar captains, and here Carpini and Stephen took a day's rest before encountering the cold and mountainous country of the Maimans, a nomadic people living in tents.

  • The Andirus empties itself into the Scamander; a river which comes from the district of Caresene, a mountainous country, in which are many villages.

  • The parts above these, a mountainous country, are occupied by the Catennenses, who border upon the Selgeis and the Homonadeis.

  • The objections to white, as a colour, in large spots or masses in landscape, especially in a mountainous country, are insurmountable.

  • Having had the good fortune to be born and reared in a mountainous country, from my very childhood I have felt the falsehood that pervades the volumes imposed upon the world under the name of Ossian.

  • They build their nests in the tops of the tallest trees in the wild, mountainous country of the west, and more rarely upon ledges of the cliffs.

  • Like the other Leucostictes, they are found in flocks and frequent rocky or mountainous country, where they are nearly always found on the ground.

  • They normally nest in hollow trees, generally in deserted Woodpecker holes, in extensively wooded sections, and usually in mountainous country, especially in the United States.

  • From the summit of the latter he observed an immense extent of mountainous country, covered with forests.

  • After having crossed a delightful river, a main branch of the Tugilo, Mr. Bartram passed through a mountainous country.

  • From Ocute to Cutifachiqui are one hundred and thirty leagues, of which eighty are desert; from Cutifa to Xualla are two hundred and fifty of mountainous country; thence to Guaxule, the way is over very rough and lofty ridges.

  • If the war in the Waikato, and its off-shoot the fighting in the Bay of Plenty, had been in thick forest and a mountainous country, the disparity of numbers and equipment might have been counterbalanced.

  • As might be looked for in a mountainous country, lying in the open ocean, the climate is windy, and except in two or three districts, moist.

  • As a rule the two coasts are divided by a broad belt of mountainous country.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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