Use mountain in a sentence
Sentences ending with mountain
- A very interesting young married woman, detained at home at the time by the state of her health, was bitten in the entry of her own house by a rattlesnake which had found its way down from The Mountain. [6]
- He kept his word, found Shon M'Gann, and on an autumn day of a year not so long ago lounged in this hut on Clear Mountain. [11]
- The husband and wife looked at each other, and Petrus said with a melancholy smile, "I believe they are up on the mountain. [10]
- It faced the west, and was built half-way up Clear Mountain. [11]
- One night when we lay in the bogs of the South Beaver Meadow, under a canopy of mosquitoes, the serene midnight was parted by a wild and humanlike cry from a neighboring mountain. [4]
- There were two ways by which we might return to the bridle path that led down the mountain. [11]
- He found it was not common,--that it grew only in certain localities,--and that one of these was among the rocks of the eastern spur of The Mountain. [6]
- The dreamy haze was beginning to soften the landscape, and the mast delicious days of the year were lending their attraction to the scenery of The Mountain. [6]
- In the record-book was a list of all the fatal accidents which happened on the mountain. [5]
- A new and violent emotion was stirring her young soul; not many minutes since she had squatted peacefully on the ground by the side of the wounded man, with her head resting on her hand, and thinking of her goats on the mountain. [10]
Short sentences using mountain
- The mountain is his monument. [4]
- Dalgrothe Mountain towered above. [11]
- Shenandoah Mountain, 306. [6]
Sentences containing mountain two or more times
- And he had to confess also that a view from a mountain is never so satisfactory as a view of a mountain, from a moderate height. [4]
- At four in the afternoon we arrived on the summit of Big Mountain, fifteen miles from Salt Lake City, when all the world was glorified with the setting sun, and the most stupendous panorama of mountain peaks yet encountered burst on our sight. [5]
- He told the story so often, to so much hospitality, that he lost his footing on Mountain Street steps--you remember Mountain Street steps possibly, Monsieur?--and cracked his head on the last stone. [11]
- This symmetrical Pyramid of Cheops--this solid mountain of stone reared by the patient hands of men--this mighty tomb of a forgotten monarch--dwarfs my cherished mountain. [5]
- His requirements raised mountain after mountain in my path, but the thought of being compelled to scale these heights not only did not repel me, but seemed extremely attractive. [10]
- You would not know that Obedstown stood on the top of a mountain, for there was nothing about the landscape to indicate it--but it did: a mountain that stretched abroad over whole counties, and rose very gradually. [5]
- The rabbit-plague has indeed been very bad in Australia, and it could account for one mountain, but not for a mountain range, it seems to me. [5]
- If it hain't Coniston Mountain about seven o'clock of a June evening, I never saw Coniston Mountain. [9]
- Coniston Mountain, called by some the Blue Mountain, clad in Hercynian forests, ten good miles in length, north and south, with its notch road that winds over the saddle behind the withers of it. [9]
- The road grew broader when it reached a little mountain plateau, and from thence the two men walked on side by side, but for some time without speaking till the senator asked: "How long now has your father lived up on the mountain? [10]
More example sentences with the word mountain in them
- He could not yet understand what had suddenly towered like a mountain between him and the object of his love. [10]
- No prominent hill would stick to its shape long enough for me to make up my mind what its form really was, but it was as dissolving and changeful as if it had been a mountain of butter in the hottest corner of the tropics. [5]
- Many a person would be afraid to stay there, even half an hour, when the mountain quakes, the ashes fall in showers, and the glowing lava pours out in a stream. [10]
- If the master's work is praised that is made out of granite from the Holy Mountain, all the world will have granite from thence and from no where else. [10]
- The changeful, impetuous wooing of youth lies far behind him, but his homage, which the Ephebi of today would perhaps term antiquated, has always seemed to me as if a mountain were bending before a star. [10]
- I shall never win over this soldier's son to our peaceful handicraft, but he shall not remain on the mountain among these queer sluggards, for there he is being ruined, and yet he is not of a common sort. [10]
- Cloud-in-the-Sky gave a wild whoop, and from the mountain there came, a moment after, a faint replica of the sound. [11]
- A flock of wild mountain goats, accustomed to come at this hour to quench their thirst at the spring, came nearer and nearer, but drew back as they detected the presence of a human being. [10]
- The headache, from which he had long been suffering, had disappeared in the fresh mountain air. [10]
- Some of these, when the drafting came, had fled in bands to the mountain and defied capture. [9]
- Beyond the mountain were unexplored regions, hill and valley floating into hill and valley, lost in a miasmic haze, ruddy, silent, untenanted, save, mayhap, by the strange people known as the Little Good Folk of the Scarlet Hills. [11]
- The Pappas Brothers were evidently as happy in this drab environment as they had ever been on the sunny mountain slopes of Hellas, and Janet sometimes wondered at this, for she had gathered from her education in the Charming public school that Greece was beautiful. [9]
- The mountain streams were all swollen and turbulent, and the steep declivities were furrowed in every direction by new channels. [6]
- His honest eyes were alight with an admiration that was unmistakable to the painter--perhaps to Cynthia also, for a glow that might have been of annoyance or anger, and yet was like the color of the mountain sunrise, answered in her cheek. [9]
- So, for a week we climbed the mountain, laden with picks, drills, gads, crowbars, shovels, cans of blasting powder and coils of fuse and strove with might and main. [5]
- And so, presently we took to the hand-car and went flying down the mountain again; flying and stopping, flying and stopping, till at last we were in the plain once more and stowed for Calcutta in the regular train. [5]
- Two hours later we reached the foot of a tall isolated mountain, which is crowned by the crumbling castle of Banias, the stateliest ruin of that kind on earth, no doubt. [5]
- Ten minutes afterward we met a hot, red-faced man plunging down the mountain, making mighty strides, swinging his alpenstock ahead of him, and taking a grip on the ground with its iron point to support these big strides. [5]
- Past Chimney Rock we fly--noble shaft of six hundred feet; then just before landing at Minnieska our attention is attracted by a most striking promontory rising over five hundred feet-- the ideal mountain pyramid. [5]
- Perhaps, like the wayfarer, my fears were the sharper for the memory of the beauty of the morning on that same mountain, when, filled with vigour, I had gazed on it from the plain below and beheld the sun breaking through the mists.... [9]
- To him it was, in noble symmetry and beauty, the chief mountain of the globe. [4]
- Strange that she was so young still, and that was so long past--when he stood on a mountain, and, clambering a high wall of rock, looked over into a happy No-man's Land. [11]
- The mountain side was so steep that the entire town had a slant to it like a roof. [5]
- One day he was sitting on the hot side of a pine near his mountain hut, soaking in the sun. [11]
- As the sun was going down, we saw the first specimen of an animal known familiarly over two thousand miles of mountain and desert--from Kansas clear to the Pacific Ocean--as the "jackass rabbit. [5]
- That of Stephanus was exceptionally high and deep, and yet the space was but small which divided the two beds of dried mountain herbs where, on one, slept the father, and on the other, the son. [10]
- Later, in the warm dusk, they travelled up to Dalgrothe Mountain, and came to Valmond's tent. [11]
- He who has wandered through this wonderful mountain wilderness can never forget it. [10]
- From a mountain wall you watch in the morning, and, when you see him, you follow, and follow, and do not rest till you have found him. [11]
- Some old forgotten volcanic eruption sent its broad river of fire down the mountain side here, and it poured down in a great torrent from an overhanging bluff some fifty feet high to the ground below. [5]
- The roar of voices subsided--he waited for it--and silence was broken only by the crackle of the burning building, the tramp of Montcalm's soldiers in Mountain Street, and the tolling of the cathedral bell. [11]
- In the mountain villages of Switzerland, and along the roads, one has always the roar of the torrent in his ears. [5]
- Emerging from the vestibule of the theatre, Janet seemed not to see the slushy street, her eyes shone with a silver light like that of a mountain lake in a stormy sunset. [9]
- To Venters the valley appeared to have been filled in by a mountain of melted stone that had hardened in strange shapes of rounded outline. [13]
- Putting forth their utmost strength, the overloaded men labored up the steep and hardly distinguishable mountain path. [10]
- Snow and ice usually appeared in our mountain valley in the latter half of November. [10]
- The dear help us, and who'd 'ave thought to see a woman come over the mountain this year! [9]
- This ride gave us completely the wide and ghastly desolation of the mountain, the ruin that the lava has wrought upon slopes that were once green with vine and olive, and busy with the hum of life. [4]
- We had been urged, personally and by letter, to ascend this mountain, without fail. [4]
- It had swept up to Vadrome Mountain, and had marched furiously through the forest, carrying down hundreds of trees, drowning the roars of wild animals and the crying and fluttering of birds. [11]
- She had looked up to him as to a mountain peak whose jagged summit touched the sky when her father and others had related his knightly deeds, his victories over the most powerful foes, and his peerless statesmanship. [10]
- We were bound up the Niederwald, the mountain opposite Bingen, whose noble crown of forest attracted us. [4]
- The railway journey up the mountain is forty miles, and it takes eight hours to make it. [5]
- We climbed far up on the mountain side and went to work on a little rubbishy claim of ours that had a shaft on it eight feet deep. [5]
- She didn't--she's lying up on Mazy Mountain. [11]
- She wandered off up into the remoter parts of The Mountain, that day, after their return. [6]
- The villagers were up at Dalgrothe Mountain, soldiering for Valmond. [11]
- Then he got up and climbed that mountain again. [5]
- He did not understand himself, and often wondered why he, reckless Heinz, thus made a mountain out of a molehill. [10]
- This basin of unbroken green rises away to the south and southeast into the rocky heights of Dix's Peak and Nipple Top,--the latter a local name which neither the mountain nor the fastidious tourist is able to shake off. [4]
- Pourcette had shot two mountain lions, but they had seen no pumas. [11]
- He had buried two companions in arms whom he had loved in that way which only those know who face danger on the plain, by the river, in the mountain, or on the open road together. [11]
- Yes; a mountain tramp covering a week. [5]
- At that instant Trafford saw smoke issuing from a spot on the mountain opposite. [11]
- Back of the town rise highlands that are clothed in woodland loveliness, and over the way is that noble mountain, Wellington, a stately bulk, a most majestic pile. [5]
- His face turned towards the prairie North and the mountain West where yet remained the hunter's quarry; and he longed to be away with rifle and gun, with his squaw and the papooses trailing after like camp- followers, to eat the fruits of victory. [11]
- His sister Isabella, too, was dear to him, in spite of her husband, the reckless Sir Seitz Siebenburg, in whose hands the gold paid from the coffers of the firm melted away, yet who was burdened with a mountain of debts. [10]
- The Cure had told his brother the story, and had been met by a keen, astonished interest in the unknown man on Vadrome Mountain. [11]
- Then they gazed together at the oasis and the desolate stony valleys of the mountain region at their feet. [10]
- That Mount Sinai to which I desire to transport the reader must not be confounded with the mountain which lies at a long day's journey to the south of it. [10]
- A mountain seemed to weigh upon the watchers' breasts, for the wooden monster which now entered the little harbour moved forward as slowly and silently as a spectral ship. [10]
- I will go to Vadrome Mountain to-morrow," she said quietly. [11]
- All this seemed to throw a lurid kind of shadow over The Mountain. [6]
- Mahomet must go to the mountain, and I went to Monahan's saloon, first having made an appointment. [9]
- Then Polykarp began to speak and declared that the granite of the Holy Mountain was finer in color and in larger blocks than that from Syene. [10]
- We were expecting to recognize that mountain whenever or wherever we should run across it. [5]
- I had demonstrated to my satisfaction that it could not tell how high a mountain was, therefore I had no real use for it. [5]
- He who wants to look tall on it wears the cothurnus, and is not a mountain the highest vantage ground that a man can find for the sole of his foot? [10]
- He had first to help Dorippe cut the green branches, and, while thus engaged, sought pleasant gifts not only on the ground, but from his sweetheart's red lips, then moved up the mountain with his donkey, very slowly, without urging the animal. [10]
- It was impossible to get much information about our route into Tennessee, except that we should go by Paint Rock, and cross Paint Mountain. [4]
- Austen permitted himself to dwell, as he descended the mountain in the gathering darkness, upon the fancy of the springing of a generation of ideals from a generation of commerce which boded well for the Republic. [9]
- Day was beginning to break over Dalgrothe Mountain. [11]
- She had expected to be expelled as a castaway when she came down the mountain, losing her way in the darkness. [10]
- She imagined M'sieu' to be at Vadrome Mountain, until, glancing round the crowd at the quack-doctor's wagon, she saw Jo Portugais gloomily watching the travelling tinker of human bodies. [11]
- We had chosen to ascend to the old crater rather than to the new one of the recent eruption on the side of the mountain, where there is nothing to be seen. [4]
- I finally came to a marsh, a thicket of alders, and around this the mountain closed in an amphitheatre of naked perpendicular rock a thousand feet high. [4]
- We only had time to plunge at a curtain and unbuckle and unbutton part of it in an awkward and hindering flurry, when our whip cracked sharply overhead, and we went rumbling and thundering away, down a mountain "grade. [5]
- In the mean time the strange adventure on The Mountain had brought the young master into new relations with Elsie. [6]
- I went blindly through the woods for hours after the night fell, my horse stumbling and weary, until at length I came to a lonely clearing on the mountain side, and a fierce pack of dogs dashed barking at my horse's heels. [9]
- Our track lay through the South Mountain Gap, and led us first to the town of Boonsborough, where, it will be remembered, Colonel Dwight had been brought after the battle. [6]
- They are coursing through ravines and over mountain tops. [5]
- It was after three o'clock before he caught sight of the familiar crest of Farewell Mountain, and the train ran into Harwich. [9]
- There are the three layers again and the solid earth between--and, besides, there were only eight in Noah's family, and they could not have eaten all these oysters in the two or three months they staid on top of that mountain. [5]
- It was not this time difficult to find me, for when she sought me we were fighting with the Blemmyes in the green hollow that leads from the mountain to the sea. [10]
- They must feel this power, which is as sublime as yonder mountain, as immovable as its solid rock. [10]
- Comfortably bestowed in this mountain tavern, after they had toasted and eaten their venison and lit their pipes, they drew about the fire. [11]
- No one at this day can reasonably conceive exactly what this newspaper was to such a mountain valley as Keene. [4]
- And how did this affect Paulus as he climbed the mountain, lonely and proscribed? [10]
- But Jethro was thinking of another scene,--of a granite-ribbed pasture on Coniston Mountain that swings in limitless space, from either end of which a man may step off into eternity. [9]
- In an hour they were on their way again, and towards sunset they had reached the foot of Manitou Mountain. [11]
- At this point they parted, Jeff and Gaspe Toujours remaining, and Hume and his two followers going on towards Manitou Mountain. [11]
- For many hours they crept along the side of the mountain, then came slowly down upon pine-crested hills, and over to where a small plain stretched out. [11]
- But Hume felt there was a faint chance of Lepage being found at this mountain. [11]
- To his mind there came on the instant the memory of a Rocky Mountain lioness that he had seen caged years before; lithe, watchful, nervously powerful, superior to its surroundings, yet mastered by those surroundings--the trick of a lock, not a trick of strength. [11]
- The information was then given of the loss, and that the rider had met David Thomas just before it was discovered, on the mountain beyond the Toe. [4]
- And he told them her name, and drew the coverlet up about his head and seemed to sleep; but he waked between the day and dark, and gently cried: "The snow is heavy on the mountain . [11]
- And Cynthia kept them every one, and read them over on such occasions when she felt that she could not live another minute out of sight of her mountain. [9]
- He rode around them at the peril of falling with his horse over a precipice, and now found himself before a labyrinth of scaffolds and free-stone, in the midst of a wild, grey, treeless mountain valley. [10]
- They looked after the youth, who had taken his bow and arrows, as he went up the mountain to hunt a wild goat; for Petrus had prescribed a strengthening diet for the sick man. [10]
- I fled from the world to this mountain, and the world has pursued me and has flung its snares round my feet. [10]
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