A range ofmountains between France and Switzerland.
The sky was clear, and in the light of the cold, leaping stars they caught occasional glimpses of the loom of mountains on either hand.
In six days they gained and crossed the central pass, low in comparison with the mountainsit threaded, yet formidable in itself and not possible for loaded sleds.
Sweeping down from the mountains through this funnel, the wind was irregular, blowing great guns at times and at other times dwindling to a strong breeze.
The effect was as if the mountains conspired to thrust back the traveler toward the west and the Yukon.
We will go on across the snow mountains on the south traverse.
His traverse was to cut the headwaters of the Indian River and cross the unknown region over the mountains to the Stewart River.
Here, somewhere, rumour persisted, was Surprise Lake, surrounded by jagged mountains and glaciers, its bottom paved with raw gold.
This immense mass of luggage and food, flung ashore in mountains by the steamers, was beginning slowly to dribble up the Dyea Valley and across Chilkoot.
The first light of dawn was stealing up the eastern sky, the woods and mountains showing in sharp relief against it, yet no signs came to strained eyes and ears of the returning boats.
Not many moments later, a sudden booming report broke the stillness and rolled in sullen echoes back and forth from mountains and forested shores.
Why, his mountains are too high and too slim; they'd blow over in one of our fall winds.
Shall we say that quartz mountains will pulverize into innumerable Werners, Von Buchs, and Beaumonts; and the laboratory of the atmosphere holds in solution I know not what Berzeliuses and Davys?
We may not bid the mountains mourn, the sea That lived and lightened from thine hand again Moan, as of old would men that mourned as we A man beloved, a man elect of men, A man that loved them.
The mountains clothed with light and night and change, The lakes alive with wind and cloud and sun, Made answer, by constraint sublime and strange, To the ardent hand that bade thy will be done.
By complying with which those Jewish Christians fled I siege of Jerusalem; which yet was providentially such a "great to the mountains of Perea, and escaped this destruction.
In this ridge of mountains there is one called the Iron Mountain, that runs in length as far as Moab.
He also built walls about proper places; Alexandrium, and Hyrcanium, and Machorus, that lay upon the mountains of Arabia.
The History of Confucius, too, deals with this when it tells of his going with his disciple An-ja and looking off from the Tai Mountains of Shan-tung toward the kingdom of On.
He was a fine whistler, we are told, and once when he had climbed to the highest peak of the Diamond Mountains and there whistled, the echoes resounded through the hills, and the priests were startled and wondered whose flute was playing.
The son accepted this wise counsel, and did as the Minister advised, took it away into the deep mountains and let it go.
The mountains were deep and the world was quiet, so that the slightest sound could be heard.
They followed the road that leads toward the mountains that lie between Yang-tok and Maing-san counties.
Chang To-ryong said to his guest, "There are four famous mountains in Korea in which the genii reside.
It undermines the will to power, it levels the racialmountains and valleys, it makes man small, cowardly and voluptuous.
His sister, after her marriage, went to Paraguay for a while, and during her absence Nietzsche made his progress from the mountains to the sea, and then back to the mountains again.
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To safeguard himself, therefore, he determined to hide himself in the recesses of the Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming.
I have just come out of the mountains and will start at once for the Little Missouri, which I expect to reach in a fortnight, and a week afterwards will be on my way home.
The purple, changing air was as quiet as a prayer, And the moon came up and froze the mountains white.
Paradise Found Roosevelt started for the Big Horn Mountains on August 18th, but Sewall, after all, did not go with him.
Rode to Killdeer Mountains to arrange for a wagon which I hired.
Once on a time, dear cousin, there lived among these mountains a certain chief who had two sons, and an orphan like thyself dwelt also in his halls.
It may be imagined, therefore, with what feelings the Berwyn farmers heard of sheep after sheep being killed on their own and neighbouring farms, by a dog which nobody owned, and which ran loose on the mountains catering for itself.
Some three or four miles east from Bala, the Berwyn Mountains raise their heathery summits in the midst of a solitude broken only by the plaintive bleat of a lost sheep or the shouts of men in search of it.
Within a comfortable hour's walk of mine inn is a lovely lake five miles in length, surrounded by mountains as grand as artist could desire.
I will not have on my mountains Bitter, impatient truths.
But by my faith do I belong to beer, bottles 'n' bottles of it 'n' mountains of bottles of it enough to sink the ship.
Man early invented God, often of stone, or clod, or fire, and placed him in trees and mountains and among the stars.
His last crossing had been from the mountains of the Russian River, across wide-farmed Santa Rosa Valley, to Sonoma Mountain.
I doubt whether Ruskin understood the motive of the monk who walked amidst the mountains with his eyes cast down lest he might see the depths and heights about him.
He seemed to turn in this vision and before him the dear, long-remembered land appeared in its great peace and beauty: meadows and cornfield, hill and valley and deep wood between the mountains and the far sea.
And this is what I had felt, for it was only twice that I had known wonders in my body, when I saw the Cup of Teilo sant and when the mountains appeared in vision, and so, as the Bard says, the door is shut.
And I have learned the wonders of the old venerable saints that once were marvels in our land, as the Welch poem says, and of all the great works that shone around their feet as they went upon the mountains and sought the deserts of ocean.
A certain shepherd had twelve sons, and he sent them out one day to go and gather his flock which was scattered upon the mountains and in the valleys afar off.
And be adorned as a bride for that day when Thou shalt unveil the heavens, and cause the mountains to flow down at Thy presence, and the valleys to be exalted, the rough places made smooth; that Thy glory may fill the earth, 75.
We got home next day, and were off the mountains just in time to escape a great snowfall that will bury the path till next year.
Only the President spoke in German, thanking General Grant for the honor he had done the sister republic, by leaving his resting place in the mountains and coming to the capital.
The water is two thousand feet deep, the lake a wonderful blue, and the dark, majesticmountains near by, a contrast to the slopes of snow and the ice fields a little further off.
The vast mountainsstood around and looked on in silence.
It has more pretty hills and mountainson its shores; its villages are more picturesque; its ruins of castles more numerous; its wines as good.
Mrs. Terry, our good American friend, happened to be spending the summer in the mountains near by.
But it brings the mountains out in added grandeur, everything seems nearer, snow fields and lofty mountains forty miles away seem but five miles off.
The snow mountains were twenty miles away--not thirty, as we had stated.
Her husband had an historic old castle over in the mountains of the Tyrol.
There is something about mountainsin it, but I fear your book is the more reliable and interesting.
Living among themountains was glorious then, and cheap.
People climbedmountains on foot, and the names burned on our Alpine stocks had a meaning.
It was the mountains putting on their robes of night.
What is all that grandeur that you see over there in the mountains for?
The views of the mountains around us were splendid.
They came upon mountains and glaciers of ice, and mineral rocks of coal and limestone.
They took a long look with their field-glasses in the direction of the South Pole to see if any mountains were to be seen, but there were none.
We passed on our way close under a solitary peak which stands out from the rest of the neighbouring mountains exactly in the likeness of a great red ruined castle, called by the Arabs "The Tooth.
Prom Biskra on the Sahara we started' on a walking tour among the mountains of the desert.
We left the railway to face the open stony desert and arid rocky mountains with the greatest keenness, in the bright sun and clear air of Southern Algeria.
There is no better fun on earth than living in the open and catching and cooking your own grub, in doing mutual good turns with a good comrade in camp, and in recognising God's handiwork in the mountains and forests around you.
I myself led a column through an intricate part of the Matopo Mountains in Rhodesia by night to attack the enemy's stronghold, which I had reconnoitred the previous day.
Needless to say, people who know the mountains well, go off alone with impunity.
The Jura mountains and places, such as Splugen and Schuls in Graubunden, might open up new districts.
I did want to know, and I found out that they were Alpine choughs and I still want to know when I see the inhabitants of the mountains or their tracks.
You get its various types at sea level in Italy and on the top of mountains up to 8,000 feet when it pokes up through the snow beside the Alpine Rose or Rhododendron ferrugineum.
Their knowledge of the mountains and their experiences are well worth probing, and they will usually talk willingly when kindly dealt with.
Switzerland is a free country, and there is a right of way anywhere over the mountains in winter.
Like Villars it also lies on slopes, facing almost south, but there seems to be good Ski-ing among the mountains behind.
He had retired to the mountains near Antioch, 10 his native place, and had lived among the monks.
The Turks came into the pleasant plains and valleys of Sogdiana; the Turcomans into the well-wooded mountains and sunny slopes of Asia 15 Minor.
There are perfect mountains of cucumbers and the cabbage is wonderful.
The mountains and the Yenissey have given me sensations which have made up to me a hundredfold for all the trials and troubles of the journey, and which have made me call Levitan a fool for being so stupid as not to come with me.
Ashes, mountains of lava, solid waves of molten minerals, mounds of earth, and every sort of abomination.
The general impression: a big garden, beyond the garden, mountains covered with forest, few people, little movement in the street.
When you get to the top of a mountain and look down, you see a mountain before you, then another, mountains at the sides too--and all thickly covered with forest.
And when towards evening I left the town and was crossing the Yenissey, I saw on the other bank mountains that were exactly like the Caucasus, as misty and dreamy.
They say that in deep places you can see the bottom over a verst below; and I myself have seen to such a depth, with rocks and mountains plunged in the turquoise-blue, that it sent a shiver all over me.
We have spring here but there are regular mountains of snow, and there is no knowing when it will thaw.
And so the mountainsand the Yenissey are the first things original and new that I have met in Siberia.
Mountains and mountains, and dense forests on the mountains.
Beyond zemountains zere is El Dorado; zere is a town of gold.
The surrounding mountainslimited the avenue of attack.
About six hundred prisoners were taken, but many of the Turks escaped to the mountains and lay among the rocks, whence they could snipe at us with impunity.
There arn't been no chance of the waggon going up into the mountains this way.
He might find a big vein of gold or silver; but I never knew a man yet who went out in the mountains looking for one as did.
I want to go where white men have never been before, and search the mountains there.
Try again, my boy, for there is ample store in the mountains if we can find it.
You think there are mineral riches up in the mountains then?
Well, all our forces are here in the mountains now, and we can hold out for years.
Even on his couch Heinz found but a short time to think of his empty purse and the lovely maid who was to make the old castle among his beloved Swiss mountains an earthly paradise, for sleep soon closed his eyes.
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