It shone upon the mountain-peaks where they penetrated the clouds, and the peaks were warmed, and there was no snow anywhere despite the height.
Skagway is pleasantly situated on the shores of the Lynn Canal, in an amphitheatre formed by precipitous cliffs, the granite peaks of which almost overhang the little town.
Then Gladys turned to look, and even so It was; a ferry boat, and far away Reared in the offing, lo, the purple peaks Of her loved island.
So Gladys set her feet upon the sand; While in the sunset glory died away The peaks of that blest island.
Then did Gladys turn, And, O, the mountain with the purplepeaks Was close at hand.
The two purple peaks represent the domains of Poetry and of History.
The first part of our way lay amid wild mountain passes, deep ravines, dusky with pine and fir, lofty granite peaks shining like blocks of diamond against an amethyst heaven.
Soon high above we see the sun gilding the limestone peaks on either side.
The peaks of the mighty Himalayas could be seen in the distance.
Sparta destroyed by an earthquake which shook the whole of Laconia, opened great chasms in the ground, rolled down huge masses from the peaks of Taygetus, and threw Sparta into a heap of ruins.
The frost has touched the foliage, and the mountainpeaks look like mammoth bouquets; green, red, yellow, and every modification of these colors appear mingled in every possible fanciful and tasteful way.
At any rate, with the road ascending among the peaks Sorenson's speed would be greatly diminished.
Behind him the great peakssoared against the last greenish twilight.
Up in the mountains the two brothers ploughed, trapped, dug ginseng and climbed the peaks for balsam with hot, steady zeal to earn the little money which was needed to pay for his schooling.
Dark pines and cedars, in groups or singly, hung on their sides, and gave point to the landscape, in the background of which the rivulet glittered like a silver thread where the mountains rose in peaks towards the sky.
The kingdom of Peru, skirting the western coast of South America, between the majestic peaks of the Andes and the mirrored waters of the Pacific Ocean, was one of the most beautiful countries in the world.
The sun was just sinking behind the rugged peaks of the mountains on the fifteenth of November, 1532, when Pizarro's band rode into the streets of Caxamarca.
In less than a week snow-capped peaks had crowded the canoe in a narrow cañon below a tumbling cascade where the river was one wild sheet of tossing foam as far as eye could see.
The lake was beautiful, lying on top of the mountain like a bit of blue sky, surrounded by the peaks of Cristallo, Cadino, and the Drei Zinnen.
It is true, the glaciers and snowfields are limited; the waterfalls are comparatively few and slender, and the rivers small; the loftiest peaks are little more than ten thousand feet high.
Through that opening we could see the bristling peaks of the Sextenthal.
Others represented females; these had lofty head-dresses, which sometimes rose into two peaks or horns, recalling the costume of English ladies in the time of Henry IV.
No very remarkablepeaks occur in them; and it may be doubted whether they anywhere attain a height of above 6000 feet.
The fastness had become the last defence against the Northern troops among the peaks which had for more than two weeks frowned upon them.
The caravans of clouds that little Billie Piper was wont to look up to and wonder at, still cross the canon, and march and countermarch and curl about the far snow peaks as before.
And what can that be curling like steam up from out the mighty forest that belts the snow peaks about the heads of the three little streams that make the Forks?
He laid down his pick, for the sun was just pitching his last lances at the snow-peaks away up yonder above the firs, above the clouds, and night was coming down with steady steps to possess this chasm in the earth.
Many will pass through Sisteron and enjoy its rugged strength, its sun-lit days, its narrow streets, and the peaks that stand out in solemn sternness against the dark blue sky at night.
This Cathedral of the Sea is a fitting example of a peculiar type of architecture which exists also in Provence,--a succession of fortress-churches that extend along the Mediterranean from Spain to Italy like the peaks of a mountain chain.
Winter, properly speaking, does not come to Algeria except on the high plateaux of the provinces of Oran, Alger and Constantine, and on the mountain peaks of the Atlas, and in Kabylie.
The principal mountain peaksin Algeria rise to no great heights.
The strange peaks to the right were subsiding to be dwarfed by still otherpeaks against which the stars floated, pendulous and brilliant.
The morning only showed itself along the lower edge of a bank of purple clouds pierced by the misty peaks of Tahiti.
But when the clouds floated away, and showed the three peaks standing like obelisks against the sky; and the bold shore undulating along the horizon, the tears gushed from his eyes.
Behind it, and almost casting their shadows upon the deck, were the sleeping mountains, about whose hazy peaks the gray dawn was just breaking.
Over the ridges, here and there, the loftier peaksfling their shadows, and far down the valleys.
It was growing late, and the moon had topped the distant peaks sending a flood of light across the sleeping valley before he finally threw away the stump of his cigar and stretched forth a lazy arm to draw her to him.
The early sun had barely topped the highest mountains, but a great gap between two mightypeaks revealed it.
So much however might be inferred from the walls which lay near with respect to those which gleamed in the distance--that the towers and buildings of the abbey had been for the most part built upon prominent peaks of rock.
Peaks of Carrara clouded to the north; ruins of Ripafratta frowning over the crags; "vines, olives, precipices.
The highestpeaks are situated in the still unexplored district of Talikan, N.
The southern half on the other hand is covered by a mountain range whose chief peaks are situated along the southern border, namely Halimun mountain, the volcanoes Salak, Pangerango and Gede, and the Megamendung.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peaks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
