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Example sentences for "mountainside"

Lexicographically close words:
mountaineers; mountaineous; mountaines; mountainous; mountains; mountainsides; mountaintop; mountainy; mountance; mountayne
  1. I was edging carefully along a steep, grassy mountainside that was slippery with two or three inches of wet snow.

  2. Once when a Mr. and Mrs. Skunk wandered up the mountainside seeking adventure and amusement I trailed them--read their record in the snow.

  3. Far up the mountainside I found and saw an account of a cony adventure written in the snow.

  4. Hurrying down a mountainside I one day struck a large skunk with my heavy shoe and knocked him senseless.

  5. A roll down the mountainside might mean death.

  6. Having reloaded, they began to climb down the mountainside in the direction the bear had disappeared.

  7. Then the drag was righted and the journey down the mountainside was continued.

  8. Then the trip down the mountainside began.

  9. As they toiled up the mountainside it grew darker, and they noted that the sun had gone behind a mass of angry-looking clouds.

  10. Out across the pearly Pacific on the lonely mountainside at Samoa, lies all that once was mortal of "Tusitala, the Teller of Tales.

  11. Here the company remained for some weeks, and here Stevenson purchased an estate of some hundreds of acres, lying on the mountainside overlooking the sea, which he called Vailima.

  12. Spread out upon a prairie the place might assume an air of some importance, but stationed as it is upon a slope, surrounded by gigantic peaks, it seems a trifling town clinging to the mountainside as a fly clings to a horse's back.

  13. Instead, he constructed a tunnel which runs up the mountainside behind the house and takes care of the smoke, emitting it at an unseen point, far above.

  14. Then he went on foot down the mountainside to his old home in the hollow, little dreaming, as he passed along its rocky fastness, that a "still" was hidden there.

  15. When Steve left Mr. Polk he swung off down the well-remembered mountainside with strange joy in his heart.

  16. They were standing beside the corral, looking toward the shadowy mountainside where lay Felicia's grave.

  17. His new master followed with a chuckle that increased to a laugh as he descried far to the north on the west range, the faint outlines of buildings, with the trail faintly marked along valley and mountainside toward it.

  18. Roger is here, Charley is here and up there on an American mountainside lies little Felicia.

  19. Some searched the mountainside for edible roots among the rocks, and brought them to Jesus, others ascended higher and higher.

  20. Peter, caring little for such diversions, amused himself in company with Philip by detaching large stones from the mountainside and rolling them down in a contest of strength.

  21. Scarcely shifting his position, dutiful Toady craned his neck around a boulder, surveyed the quiet mountainside in the waning afternoon light, and again shook his head.

  22. Down the mountainside sped Tabitha to the big boulder, wheeled about and rushed back to the house as swiftly as she had left it, and before the astounded children had recovered their breath, she cried, "I am sorry I was cross.

  23. Within a few moments the small convoy was moving down the mountainside toward Calor and the executive offices.

  24. But the explosion of the dynamite on the mountainside was certainly a puzzle.

  25. As they ventured to meet by night on mountainside or lonely moor, they were chased by dragoons, and dragged away to life-long slavery in the galleys.

  26. In traversing the mountainside or the forest, where they had been accustomed to assemble, it was not unusual to find “at every four paces, dead bodies dotting the sward, and corpses hanging suspended from the trees.

  27. Carefully they descended the tree, picked up their fishing-rods, and hastened down the mountainside as fast as it was safe to travel.

  28. They climbed down the rude ladder, slipped their packs over their shoulders, and set off down the mountainside at a fast pace.

  29. A sunken grave bore testimony in a steep mountainside burial-ground back in "Bloody Breathitt," where dead weed stalks rattled and tangled ropes of fox-grapes bore their fruit in due season.

  30. Back there in the hills," he said, "there is a place high up the mountainside that looks down on such a night as this over an ocean of silver mists in the valley.

  31. On the steep mountainside beyond, the flowering laurel and rhododendron were thick, and the forests hardly showed a scar from the axes that had claimed the timber for the buildings.

  32. The rear of the procession was lost in the mist of the low-hanging cloud-banks that covered the mountainside some two thousand feet above the plateau, but the foremost was no more than three hundred yards away.

  33. Presently a gentle rumbling began--the accumulation of the rain from all the mountainside forming a torrent that would pour in a six-hundred-foot drop to the river far below.

  34. There were two nice ones here and a wide hall with windows overlooking the slope of the mountainside toward Bridleburg.

  35. The sun and air of the mountainside home had finally brought him well on the road to recovery; and the joy his two daughters felt because of this fact can scarcely be expressed in words.

  36. In the distance other orchards were blowing, too, and that spattered the mountainside with patches of what looked to be pale pink mist.

  37. Luckily they were well up the mountainside when the accident occurred.

  38. The girls were continually going to the window or door to watch the vast panorama of the mountainside and valley, spread below them.

  39. Down the mountainside he came, and into the valley; never to leave it, except when in bartering with the Indians he went to their camping-places for furs, or in the years of prosperity that followed he was upon a trading mission.

  40. Just across the spring branch and up the mountainside is the York home.

  41. Across the spring branch, up the mountainside in a clump of honey-suckle and roses and apple trees is the home to which Sergeant York returned.

  42. To-day a traveler distant on the mountainside can be recognized by the mountaineers while the man's features are still untraceable, by the droop of a hat or a peculiar walk, or amble of the mule he rides.

  43. He turned and looked at the rock--it was very much like a great many other rocks all over the mountainside and yet--there was something different!

  44. There was a piney smell everywhere, as though the fragrant odors of the mountainside had crept into and clung to the little house.

  45. He who hides himself in a stone crevice of the mountainside may listen to the conversation of stones and flowers, and understand what they tell each other.

  46. After the sad ending of the series of dramatic incidents that made up this struggle for religious freedom, Elisee sought solitude and lived on herbs and roots in a mountainside cave which came to be known as the "cave of Elisee.

  47. The only way to open it was to smash it with a crowbar, but it could be emptied.

  48. I do not receive cigars often enough to make that practical.

  49. David trudged down the mountainside in a very low mood.

  50. And David, stiff and sore and thoroughly tired, started down the mountainside for home.

  51. And just beyond the hedge the mountainside awaited him, going up and up in one smooth sweep until the green and tawny faded into hazy heights of rock.

  52. But when that was finished, he rushed up the mountainside as fast as he could, wondering all the way what he and the Phoenix were going to do now.

  53. If you climb the mountainside in the dark, you may unwittingly fall into our own snare.

  54. And from the mountainside near at hand stared from among the thick greenery of a cedar, the face of an Indian whose black hair was adorned by a single red feather.

  55. One did not have to penetrate far into the bottom-lands of that cove to find water which for unnumbered years had rushed down the mountainside in time of rain-storms to lie, a vast underground reservoir, for the coming of man.

  56. Terraced stairways of gray stone climb up the mountainside from temple to temple and court to court.

  57. Suddenly the whole mountainside was illuminated by a flash of lightning, like a jagged stream of fire stretching from heaven to earth.

  58. But the searchers had taken the wrong path and their cries grew fainter and fainter as they ranged the mountainside for the lost girls.

  59. Mrs. Carter, looking around for Mr. Tucker to come claim her for the first dance, but she saw that gentleman disappearing over the mountainside with Nan.

  60. And the men of the Guardia Civil take them out on the mountainside and murder them.


  61. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mountainside" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.