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Sentences starting with mountains

Mountains of books have been written by the historians about this campaign, and everywhere are described Napoleon's arrangements, the maneuvers, and his profound plans which guided the army, as well as the military genius shown by his marshals. [2]
Mountains which her great-grandfather had crossed on horse back, with that very family silver in his saddle-bags which shone on Aunt Mary's table. [9]
Mountains are painfully climbed, streams forded, lonesome lakes paddled over, long and muddy "carries" traversed. [4]

Sentences ending with mountains

Not far from where the mule train crept along was a great hole in the mountain-side, as though antique giants of the hills had tunnelled through to make themselves a home or to find the eternal secret of the mountains. [11]
Mrs. Temple's thoughts were gone across the mountains. [9]
The September dusk was made lurid by belching steel-furnaces that reddened the heavens; and later, when she went to bed, sharp air and towering contours told her of the mountains. [9]
The talk ran upon mountains. [6]
It was impressed upon King that he must upon no account omit a visit to Rum Hill, from the summit of which is had a noble prospect, including the Adirondack Mountains. [4]
I remember a translation from Goethe, 'The Ghost-Seer,' which he may have written for it, and a poem upon the White Mountains. [6]
He had fled to the mountains. [4]
She was going to the hills--to the mountains. [9]
It is easy to say it looks like a frozen river which occupies the bed of a winding gorge or gully between mountains. [5]
So we were to grind until I could arrange with Mr. Scarlett, the new storekeeper in Harrodstown, to have two grinding-stones fetched across the mountains. [9]

Short sentences using mountains

Phelps loved his mountains. [4]
The mountains of Moab, Jack! [5]
It was at Four Mountains. [11]
The very mountains are calm. [5]
Nithsdale, Eng., mountains, 78. [6]

Sentences containing mountains two or more times

These two mountains, which belong to the great system of which Marcy is the giant centre, and are in the neighborhood of five thousand feet high, on the southern outposts of the great mountains, form the gate-posts of the pass into the south country. [4]
The open forest road, with the murmur of the stream below, was delightfully exhilarating, and as we rose the prospect opened,--the lovely valley below, Bald Mountains behind us, and the Butt Mountains rising as we came over the ridge. [4]
There are none of the great gorges and awful abysses of the White Mountains, both valleys and mountains here being more uniform in outline. [4]
There's mountains of iron ore here, Nancy--whole mountains of it. [5]
At sunset my eyes sought the mountains, mountains unreal, like glorified scenery of grand opera, with violet shadows in the wooded canon clefts, and crags of pink tourmaline and ruby against the skies. [9]
There are mountains and mountains and mountains in this world--but only these take you by the heart-strings. [5]

More example sentences with the word mountains in them

You must know, yourself, that Hanuman could not have carried those mountains to Ceylon except by the strength of the gods. [5]
How many other young men from the East have travelled across the mountains and floated down the rivers to enter those strange cities of the West, the growth of which was like Jonah's gourd. [9]
If we lead you across the mountains now, his blood will be upon your heads. [9]
If the writers wouldn't exaggerate so, talk about 'the sublimity of the mountains challenging the eternal grandeur of the sea'! [4]
But if you would be happy in Berkshire, you must carry mountains in your brain; and if you would enjoy Nahant, you must have an ocean in your soul. [6]
And faithful Rustem would be always with her, and the road over the mountains was the safest in all the country, with frequent stations for the accommodation of travellers. [10]
He pass the word against me, he hunt me out of the mountains, he call-- tete de diable! [11]
A constant marvel with us, as we sped along the bases of the steep mountains on this journey, was, not that avalanches occur, but that they are not occurring all the time. [5]
The great cliffs with their clinging, gnarled trees, the vast mountains clothed in the motley colors of the autumn, the sweet and smoky smell of the Indian summer,--all were dear to me. [9]
A ceaseless swinging with the swinging earth, A never-tiring ebbing to and fro, Trenching eternal fastnesses; a girth Round mountains in their everlasting snow. [11]
Then," she added, with a little wave of the hand towards the cable running down from Phil Boldrick's eyrie in the mountains, "then I want to see all that cable can do--all, remember. [11]
The latter were wild specimens of rugged scenery, and full of interest--we were in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, now. [5]
Clemens, on the whole, rather tired of Virginia City and Carson, thought it a good time to go across the mountains to San Francisco. [5]
About a man, who wanted treasures, and before whom mountains opened at a word he knew. [10]
There are Southerners who declare that it is too hot in summer, and that the complete circuit of mountains shuts out any lively movement of air. [4]
Journeying towards the White Mountains, we concluded that a line passing through Bellows Falls, and bending a little south on either side, would mark northward the region of perpetual pie. [4]
Would the anxieties which weigh upon her like mountains interpose between the Queen and the jealous rancour which is too petty for her great soul? [10]
The romantic traits which I have attributed to the character of my hero, who travelled throughout the world, climbing mountains to rejoice in the splendor of he rising sun, are authentic. [10]
At a place where there was a standin' stone I broke loose from three of 'em and come here over the mountains, and I ain't had nothin', stranger, but berries and chainey brier-root for ten days. [9]
I asked him where he was going, and he said to the Rocky Mountains of Canada. [11]
In the farthest west rose the Libyan mountains with their innumerable graves, and the valley of the kings' tombs took a wide curve behind, concealed by a spur of the hills. [10]
And fairer still were the faraway blue mountains beyond the river, the nunnery, the mysterious gorges, and the pine forests veiled in the mist of their summits... [2]
Beyond the valley were mountains picturesquely grouped together; but bear in mind, we fancied that we were looking up at these things--not down. [5]
Warm, still days were interspersed between the windy ones, when the sky was turquoise blue, when the very river banks were steeped in new colours, when the distant, shadowy mountains became real. [9]
The silky mountains were clothed in soft, rich splendors of melting color, and some of the cliffs were veiled in slanting mists. [5]
Our parting words were as brief as, of necessity, they had been on our journey through the mountains, for the ladies had ridden the horses which we had sent over for ourselves from Viking, and we men walked in front. [11]
He was wonderfully well acquainted with the leading facts about the Andes, the Apennines, and the Appalachians; he had nothing in particular to say about Ararat, Ben Nevis, and various other mountains that were mentioned. [6]
By six o'clock we were pretty high up in the air, and the view of lake and mountains had greatly grown in breadth and interest. [5]
Let us, if we can, reconstruct an August day when all (or nearly all) of Honora's small friends were gone eastward to the mountains or the seaside. [9]
It comprised the Watauga settlement among the mountains of what is now Tennessee, and was called prosaically (as is the wont of the Anglo-Saxon) the free State of Franklin. [9]
Has it more waste surface by mountains, rivers, lakes, deserts, or other causes? [7]
He said there wasn't another hole like that in the mountains --and he would have been right if the late mule had not tried to eat up the nitroglycerin. [5]
Tarnation, I reckon Washington and all his European fellers east of the mountains won't be able ter hold us back this time. [9]
We wondered what was the matter, but reckoned it would come out all right, so we went on steering east, but went up on a higher level so we wouldn't hit any steeples or mountains in the dark. [5]
Captain Leonard Helm was sent to take charge of Vincennes, and Captain Montgomery set out across the mountains for Williamsburg with letters praying the governor of Virginia to come to our assistance. [9]
If you simply want to enjoy yourselves, stay at this hotel--there is no better place--sit on the piazza, look at the mountains, and watch the world as it comes round. [4]
Broken-up sky-line of volcanic mountains in the middle. [5]
One who should visit the Harz Mountains would see--might see, rather his own colossal image shape itself on the morning mist. [6]
But such a view--rivers, mountains, meadows, and orchards in the distance! [4]
The mountains are very high and steep about Carson, Eagle and Washoe Valleys--very high and very steep, and so when the snow gets to melting off fast in the Spring and the warm surface-earth begins to moisten and soften, the disastrous land-slides commence. [5]
Every running brook urged me to hasten, and the lofty mountains seemed like jealous barriers. [10]
The fires lit up the sides of the valley and glorified the mountains beyond. [11]
The folks shut up at Harrod's said it was sure death ter cross the mountains now. [9]
In spite of untold privations and hardships, of cruel warfare and massacre, these people had toiled over the mountains into this land, and impatient of check or hindrance would, even as Clark had predicted, when their numbers were sufficient leap the Mississippi. [9]
No painter then undertook to depict giant mountains with eternal snow upon summits which towered above the clouds. [10]
Peeping out from under it were the little blue-beaded moccasins which Tom himself had brought across the mountains in the bosom of his hunting shirt. [9]
The sandy path, trodden by their naked feet, gave no sound, the mountains seemed to withhold their shade, the light of clay was a torment--every thing far and near seemed inimical to the living. [10]
Why are the tops of mountains continually covered with snow [sic]? [5]
Snow mountains are too dear at the price .... For several years I have been intending to stop writing for print as soon as I could afford it. [5]
When she married Tom McChesney they took me across the mountains into Kentucky with them. [9]
People recommend mountains to their friends as they do patent medicines. [4]
The mountains seemed to have stripped themselves of snow, and the vivid sun began at once to colour the foothills with green. [11]
We shan't have to go out at all --yonder are the mountains, in full view. [5]
One has only to cross the mountains of New South Wales and descend into the westward-lying regions to find that he has left the choice climate behind him, and found a new one of a quite different character. [5]
It is not to be confounded with the French Broad, which originates among the hills of Transylvania, runs northward past Asheville, and finds its way to the Tennessee through the Warm Springs Gap in the Bald Mountains. [4]
He travelled far through passes of the mountains, and came at last where new cities lay upon the plains, and where men were full of evil and of lust of gold. [11]
In less than three hours after daylight all the horses and mules and donkeys in the vicinity would be bought, hired or stolen, and half the community would be off for the mountains, following in the wake of Whiteman. [5]
On some of those mountains, to the southwest, it had been raining every day for two weeks, but not a drop had fallen in the city. [5]
What a contrast, this frantic luxuriance of vegetation, with the arid plains of India; these architecturally picturesque crags and knobs and miniature mountains, with the monotony of the Indian dead-levels. [5]
We are leaving, this afternoon, for Ischl, to use that as a base for the baggage, and then gad around ten days among the lakes and mountains to rest-up Mrs. Clemens, who is jaded with housekeeping. [5]
I cannot but think that the White Mountains are cheapened a little by the facilities of travel and the multiplication of excellent places of entertainment. [4]
I used to think of you as I rode over the mountains, as I sat reading in my room of an evening. [9]
Rumors of these things which I have told above had filled Kentucky from time to time, and in November of 1803 there came across the mountains the news that the Senate of the United States had ratified the treaty between our ministers and Napoleon. [9]
For a time they strove to go eastwards or southwards but the mountains were impassable, and in the north and west there was no hope. [11]
For a moment they stood looking at the great camp far away to right and left, and to the lone mountains yonder, where the Boer commandoes held the passes and trained their merciless armament upon all approaches. [11]
For a moment they poised motionless, borne up by the air, circled round each other, then wheeled to the left and vanished behind the mountains, denying him the fulfilment of his desire. [10]
Within these capes they found one of the most pleasant places in the world, majestic navigable rivers, beautiful mountains, hills, and plains, and a fruitful and delightsome land. [4]
Year after year they came down from their mountains and fought shoulder to shoulder, and year after year they carried back the lion's share of the spoils between them. [9]
Not snow-clad mountains, these, yet they climbed high enough toward the sky to meet the clouds and veil their foreheads in them. [5]
Year by year these accommodations will increase, new roads around the gorges will open more enchanting views, and it is not improbable that the species of American known as the "summer boarder" will have his highest development and apotheosis in these mountains. [4]
And it was there, I think, that the growing day and the early sun exposed the distant range called the Blue Mountains. [5]
As it lay there with the shadows of the mountains brilliantly photographed upon its still surface I thought it must surely be the fairest picture the whole earth affords. [5]
But this difference there is: you can domesticate mountains, but the sea is ferae naturae. [6]
My sense of their grandeur and their noble beauty was neither lost nor impaired; I had gained a new interest in the mountains without losing the old ones. [5]
Out here, on the wind-swept hills that rolled onward and upward to the mountains, the world was his. [9]
They expressed love, the true, lofty love, that can speak with the tongues of angels and move mountains. [10]
It was just the time for a tramp through the woods and mountains. [5]
They lay on the Thomas River, a few hours' horseback travelling from Spanish Town, the capital, and they had the advantage of a plateau formation, with mountains in the far distance and ravines everywhere. [11]
The river was the Tennessee, and the place the resort of the Chickamauga bandits, pirates of the mountains, outcasts of all nations. [9]
To the right, the swelling mountains of the Sierra Nevada, robbed of their ruggedness and softened into a fairy land, with their snowy summits gleaming like silver clouds against the deep blue sky. [4]
No sooner had the sun begun to pit the snow hillocks than wild creatures came in from the mountains, haggard with hunger and hardship. [9]
Yes, that was the prayer that moves mountains, and I am sure her prayer will be answered. [2]
Once I crossed the plains and deserts and mountains of the West in a stagecoach, from the Missouri line to California, and since then all my pleasure trips must be measured to that rare holiday frolic. [5]
Away off on the opposite shore of the lake we could see some villages, and now for the first time we could observe the real difference between their proportions and those of the giant mountains at whose feet they slept. [5]
He lived over the mountains, but came often. [11]
In every direction the mountains were clear, and a view was obtained of the vast horizon and the hills and lowlands of several States--a continental prospect, scarcely anywhere else equaled for variety or distance. [4]
The flight to the mountains of men high in authority in the Mormon Church and State, when this affair was brought to the ordeal of a judicial investigation. [5]
With verdant green the mountains glow, For thee, for thee, the lilies grow; Far stretched beneath the tented hills, A fairer flower the valley fills. [5]
All east of the mountains be appropriated to McClellan and to the coast. [7]
You bin in the mountains a good while. [11]
It is for the military men to decide whether they can find a pass through the mountains at or near the Gap which cannot be defended by the enemy with a greatly inferior force, and what is to be done in regard to this. [7]
It was plain the man had come a long distance-- from the mountains in the east or south, no doubt, where horses were few, and dogs, canoes, and oxen the means of transportation. [11]
The axes of the guides resound in the echoing spaces; great trunks fall with a crash; vistas are opened towards the lake and the mountains. [4]
The Graingers and the Grenfells and the Stranges might move mountains, but not Mr. Chamberlin's house. [9]
The poles of the great magnet that draws in all the iron tracks through the grooves of all the mountains must be near at hand, for here are crossings, and sudden stops, and screams of alarmed engines heard all around. [6]
It swims through the great gap in the mountains, and passing down the valley, sinks upon the prairie of the Ten Stars, where it is lost. [11]
Next we had the Flood, and the Ark tossing around in the stormy waters, with lofty mountains in the distance showing veiled and dim through the rain. [5]
I intend in the course of this vacation to search for the cave; and, if I find it, my readers shall know the truth about it, if it destroys the only bit of romance connected with these mountains. [4]
The news of the capture of their beloved Sevier had flown through the mountains like seeds on the autumn wind, and from north, south, east, and west the faithful were coming in, cursing Tipton and Carolina as they rode. [9]
He can see the broad green Campagna, stretching away toward the mountains, with its scattered arches and broken aqueducts of the olden time, so picturesque in their gray ruin, and so daintily festooned with vines. [5]

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