Gluck was disappointed not to see gold, but he obeyed the King of the Golden River, and went down the other side of the mountains.
Not a river ran into it, but one great river flowed down the mountains on the other side, and because the setting sun always tinged its high cataract with gold after the rest of the world was dark, it was called the Golden River.
So it passed from hand to hand, and the Fire Spirits tore after it through the scrub, till they came to the mountains of the snows; these they could not pass.
I stood and shouted to the mountains; I turned and went back towards the residencia, waltzing upon air.
Dear, dear, if they only thought of it, all the world would do like me; and you would let your flowers alone, just as I stay up here in the mountains.
The railway turned around the sides of the mountains, and did not attempt to violate nature by taking the shortest cut from one point to another.
I'll call you at four o'clock; we'll then start to chase the monarch of the mountains.
They'd snap like clay pipes in the mountains," replied Garvestad, contemptuously.
Lady Clare was not sent to the mountainsin the summer, as are nearly all horses in the Norwegian country districts.
We told him we were well enough prepared for such creatures as they were, if he would insure us from a kind of two-legged wolves, which we were told we were in most danger from, especially on the French side of the mountains.
The savages will take to the mountains in a body, and we shall take what we require, up anchor, and away.
We took these precautions because we purposed to make an excursion to the top of the mountains of the interior, in order to obtain a better view of our island.
The snow brings them down from the mountains, and there are dangers to all of us, and from all sides.
Here and there seemed mighty rifts in the mountains, through which, as the sun began to sink, we saw now and again the white gleam of falling water.
All yesterday we travel, always getting closer to the mountains, and moving into a more and more wild and desert land.
I remembered the words of the ostler in the mountains, "the man must be mad who brings a horse to Galicia, and doubly so he who brings an entero.
When he was a babe he was cast out on the mountains, and a wild mare came by and kicked him.
Come hither, and let me feast upon you; for it is of no use to run away, so cunning a web has my father Hephaistos spread for me when he made these clefts in the mountains, through which no man finds his way home.
I saw him drop over a rise which seemed to mark the rim of a little bay into which descended one of the big corries of the mountains.
We struck a road which crossed a low pass and skirted the flank of the mountains, and this we followed till we were on the western side and within sight of the sea.
The Hun style was different from the English--all about the Goddess of Health, and the Nymphs of the Mountains, and two quotations from Schiller.
The moon, now at the end of its first quarter, was setting in a gap of the mountains, as I climbed the low col from the St Anton valley to the greater Staubthal.
He sat hunched up staring at the mountains while I prospected the rocks at the edge.
Among various rude tribes we find survivals of a primitive idea that the earth is a flat table or disk, ceiled, domed, or canopied by the sky, and that the sky rests upon the mountains as pillars.
In Austria, the church of Rosenberg, in the mountains of Carinthia, was struck so frequently and with such loss of life that the peasants feared at last to attend service.
The Huguenots, who had taken refuge in the mountains of the Cevennes to escape persecution, being pressed more and more by the cruelties of Louis XIV, began to show signs of a high degree of religious exaltation.
These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest, the scribe.
And the LORD appointed a set time, saying, To morrow the LORD shall do this thing in the land.
Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the LORD God.
And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth?
And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
Claus thanked the Master Woodsman most gratefully and returned to his Valley, while Ak, who never delayed carrying out his promises, at once traveled to the mountains of the Awgwas.
Next day, as Claus traveled to the village across the plain, where he intended to present a toy squirrel to a lame boy, he was suddenly set upon by the Awgwas, who seized him and carried him away to the mountains.
But on this morning the Fairies who were searching in the mountains had a new thought.
I do not know," replied Claus, "but the wicked Awgwas probably hid them in the mountains.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the mountains" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
