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  • Spaced at intervals from five miles to half a mile, these mountains with their knife-edged ridges of brittle igneous rock rivaled the Alps in size.†   (source)
  • A wind started blowing and would not stop and it carried a faint taste of summer's end and Esther said, "It's like the tramontana" and Klara thought oddly of Albert, or not so oddly—he loved the Italian words for different kinds of winds blowing off the Alps and up from the African littoral.†   (source)
  • Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other fashionable young couples, which is a shame."†   (source)
  • You know a noise sometimes brings things down — like an avalanche in the Alps.†   (source)
  • There were professionals—those students who traveled a lot and had things like a commercial contract with Chap Stick that necessitated flying to the Swiss Alps on the random weekend.†   (source)
  • He emanated the aura of such advanced age that one could suppose he might have predated the great Mesopotamian cities of antiquity, the Chinese Empire, and several of the lesser mountain ranges like the Andes and the Alps (being merely a contemporary of the Himalayas).†   (source)
  • …Sweden, where the level of intelligence was high and where he could swim nude with beautiful girls with low, demurring voices and sire whole happy, undisciplined tribes of illegitimate Yossarians that the state would assist through parturition and launch into life without stigma; but Sweden was out of reach, too far away, and Yossarian waited for the piece of flak that would knock out one engine over the Italian Alps and provide him with the excuse for heading for Switzerland.†   (source)
  • They say she even marched over the Alps with Hannibal's army in 218 BC.†   (source)
  • They took frequent excursions to the Alps.†   (source)
  • They ate in near-perfect silence thirty feet from each other in a dark hall hewn from granite deep in the Swiss Alps.†   (source)
  • I thought little of it at the time and we continued across the Alps.†   (source)
  • In the Parlor, I saw that the suit of armor (from England), the brown bear (shot by John in the Swiss Alps) and the pipe organ (from Bavaria) are already installed!†   (source)
  • Piter's Folly was far away—almost a thousand miles across what had once been called the Alps and Carpathians.†   (source)
  • One of the first to notice this was a French dialectician, Louis Gauchat, who studied changing pronunciations in the dialect of a small village in the Swiss Alps.†   (source)
  • With or without Saint-Tropez or the Costa Brava or the Alps.†   (source)
  • Once, high in the Julian Alps, he and his father had watched a flock of birds scatter in the presence of an eagle.†   (source)
  • Across the room, a painting of what appeared to be the Swiss Alps.†   (source)
  • What about that dog in the Swiss Alps that tried to tear your arm off?†   (source)
  • …umber glow of serene twilights—of children in pigtails and pinafores bobbing along in dogcarts, of excursions in the glades of the Wiener Wald and strong Bavarian beer, of ladies from Grenoble with parasols strolling the glittering rims of glaciers in the high Alps, and balloon voyages, of gaiety, of vertiginous waltzes, of Moselle wine, of Johannes Brahms himself, with beard and black cigar, contemplating his titanic chords beneath the leafless, autumnal beech trees of the Hofgarten.†   (source)
  • It was said that he had left a new young love, much unfinished business, and a half-written book in Switzerland, and had only come for a dip into the stormy waters of his homeland, expecting, if he came out safe and sound, to hasten back to his Alps.†   (source)
  • Dwarf gas had been known to cause avalanches in the Alps.†   (source)
  • "Are those the Alps I see to the north?" asked Max.†   (source)
  • Two women were doing laundry at a sluice where the water flowed as plentifully as in the Alps.†   (source)
  • Our people have just finished a sweep of Svensson's facilities in the Swiss Alps.†   (source)
  • Just to fly in the Alps, with no place to land, was an act of daring.†   (source)
  • Others take up residence in the Swiss Alps, under the thumb of Valborg Svensson.†   (source)
  • It isn't that far, and we've always gone to the Alps in the summer.†   (source)
  • Summers he worked for scientists conducting geologic research in Antarctica or escorted climbers into New Zealand's Southern Alps.†   (source)
  • The daughters put all kinds of things into their albums, little scraps of cloth from their dresses, little snippets of ribbon, pictures cut from magazines — the Ruins of Ancient Rome, the Picturesque Monasteries of the French Alps, Old London Bridge, Niagara Falls in summer and in winter, — which is a thing I would like to see as all say it is very impressive, and portraits of Lady This and Lord That from England.†   (source)
  • Some of them try to scam, to sneak a few bills into their pocket when they think the security camera isn't watching, and run down the street to the nearest Caymans Plus or The Alps franchulate, which hover in these areas like flies on road kill.†   (source)
  • We had her all the way over the Alps.†   (source)
  • The Alps?†   (source)
  • …normal neutral place, going through tunnels and past moonlit lakes, and Marvin heard a familiar voice up ahead, a radio crackle and yak, and he followed the sound to the front of the car, where two GIs were huddled over a little portable radio with a stunted antenna, listening to Russ Hodges on the Armed Forces Network, his account of the game interrupted whenever the train entered a tunnel, and that's where Marvin was when Thomson hit the homer, racing through a mountain in the Alps.†   (source)
  • These seemingly inconsequential details—the names, the places, the schools she had attended, the layout of her family's apartment in Paris, the trips they had taken to the Alps and the sea—formed the core of Natalie's curriculum during her final days at the farm in Nahalal.†   (source)
  • And then, far away, there are big snowy mountains all heaped up together — like pictures of the Alps.†   (source)
  • There are now but two passes through these mountains," he said, pointing to the former Alps and Carpathians, "and they are closely watched.†   (source)
  • This last subject was the focus of his attention, but Max was disappointed to learn that Nix and Valya's knowledge was hemmed by the Alps and the Apennines.†   (source)
  • True, he had spent more than half his life here, below the Swiss Alps, stalking around like a caged animal, but he was as human as any other man who walked on two legs.†   (source)
  • Svensson and his group would offer a base of operations in the Alps, an unprecedented level of intelligence, and the means to conduct a biological attack.†   (source)
  • At night, now, because of the cold wind that came down from alps marvelously clad in ice and snow, they had a fire in an oil drum stove.†   (source)
  • Ultimately they would return to the much larger labs and production facilities of the Alps, of course, but only when they had what they needed firmly secured and the environment it came from thoroughly analyzed.†   (source)
  • Compared to the Alps, they are minor, but not for someone who must go among them with neither food nor blankets.†   (source)
  • The sky was sapphire over Munich and pale white over the Alps as masses of distant snow changed the eye's perception of blue.†   (source)
  • Even after the heights of Aetna, the breeze seemed cool, for it had been born on the glaciers and icy summits of the Alps.†   (source)
  • "There," the old man said, pointing north-northeast to the great mountains he knew were rearing up far away in the dark, to the Alto Adige, the Carnic Alps, the Julians, and the Tyrol.†   (source)
  • The road from Acereto to Lanciata was steep in places, ascending to the ridge line of the low mountains that from the rooftops of Rome looked like the Alps, and then twisting dizzily into sheltered valleys where herds of sheep glowed in the moonlight like patches of snow.†   (source)
  • A good penman can make rivers that race to the sea, rivers as wild and dizzy as a flume in the Alps, as choppy as the Isarco, as wide and smooth as the Tiber at Ostia, or as deep as the Po where it rolls into the Adriatic.†   (source)
  • When far to the north a blue lake in the clouds enlarged to the size of a principality and the sun came through, the Alps would glare in their entirety like flash powder, and the great white image would roll over the north of Italy, hanging in the azure air for all to see.†   (source)
  • The Alps.†   (source)
  • To escape, Alessandro would have to find some way of appealing to a man whose dream was to copulate with a rhinoceros, steal one of the world's most famous and, needless to say, conspicuous horses, ride through Vienna in a purloined uniform, work his will on the Ministry of War by speaking German in a Hungarian accent, find and kill an unknown airplane pilot, and get to the Alps, the white and fatal vastness of which he would cross on foot, all so that he might return to Rome.†   (source)
  • He remembered similar symptoms once before--in the Swiss Alps.†   (source)
  • Good God, Conway, d'you fancy you're pottering about the Alps?†   (source)
  • Yesterday, when I found some edelweiss, you reminded me that I wasn't in the Alps.†   (source)
  • If you've seen a winter London open thundering mouth in its awful last minutes of river light or have come with cold clanks from the Alps into Torino in December white steam then you've known like greatness of place.†   (source)
  • My friends are buying long-pants suits that cost from seventeen to twenty dollars, a sum as huge to me as the Alps!†   (source)
  • The book was something by A. E. W. Mason, and I was reading a wonderful story about a man who had been frozen in the Alps and then fallen into a glacier and disappeared, and his bride was going to wait twenty-four years exactly for his body to come out on the moraine, while her true love waited too, and they were still waiting when Bill came up.†   (source)
  • I believe Mussolini was not kidding about blasting pieces out of his Alps and Apennines to let the cold foggy currents of Germany over the peninsula and make the Perugini and the Romans into fighters.†   (source)
  • Therefore while I knock around on rapides over falling horizons, over Alps, in steam and haste, or blast the air in my black Citroen, smoking cigars and watching the road through polaroid glasses, it's unborn children I pore over far oftener than business deals.†   (source)
  • It's like Alps,' said Bobbie, breathlessly.†   (source)
  • "Hills peeped o'er hill and Alps on Alps arose."†   (source)
  • Carley had often gazed at the Alps as at celebrated pictures.†   (source)
  • Perhaps Italy bores him; you ought to try the Alps or the Lakes.†   (source)
  • As he approached the promenade, the stars began to come through the white crests of the high Alps.†   (source)
  • You saw her, didn't you, at Rome and in the Alps.†   (source)
  • Hans Castorp could go right ahead and take a trip to the Alps.†   (source)
  • They skirted the Vorarlberg Alps, and Dick felt a pastoral delight in watching the villages.†   (source)
  • Alps suggested, immediate departure advised, reserve two rooms.†   (source)
  • "Is it the Venetian Alps—one of your last year's sketches?"†   (source)
  • [1] [1] Patois of the French Alps: chat de maraude, rascally marauder.†   (source)
  • There was nothing on the horizon except the Alps.†   (source)
  • And turning to his guest: "The night wind is harsh on the Alps.†   (source)
  • There are no Alps without their Jura, nor Pyrenees without the Asturias.†   (source)
  • When I assured him that I had heard her, he pointed out her picture and told me that Vasak had broken her leg, climbing in the Austrian Alps, and would not be able to fill her engagements.†   (source)
  • She knew the Adirondacks, she had seen the Alps from the summit of Mont Blanc, and had stood under the great black, white-tipped shadow of the Himalayas.†   (source)
  • At Rorschach, a town in Swiss territory, you reboard a train that takes you only as far as Land-quart, a small station in the Alps, where you must change trains again.†   (source)
  • In December, Nicole seemed well-knit again; when a month had passed without tension, without the tight mouth, the unmotivated smile, the unfathomable remark, they went to the Swiss Alps for the Christmas holidays.†   (source)
  • Three months later, on the margin of Italy, among the flower-clad Alps, he had asked her again in bald, traditional language.†   (source)
  • That was fine, Consul Tienappel told his nephew and ward, but then their paths would have to part for the summer, because wild horses couldn't drag him, Consul Tienappel, to the Alps.†   (source)
  • For two days the wind was from the south, the sun bore down, the valley seemed shorter and narrower somehow, the background of the Alps at its entrance looked near and stark.†   (source)
  • Norderney or Wyk on the island of Fohr, he said, would not do it this time, and if you were to ask him, what Hans Castorp needed was a few weeks in the Alps before going to work on the docks.†   (source)
  • But if there was something roguish and fantastic about the immediate vicinity through which you laboriously made your way, the towering statues of snow-clad Alps, gazing down from the distance, awakened in you feelings of the sublime and holy.†   (source)
  • But that meant, did it not, that perhaps in inner world after inner world within his own nature he was present over and over again—a hundred young Hans Castorps, all wrapped up warmly, but with numbed fingers and flushed face, gazing out from a balcony onto a frosty, moonlit night high in the Alps and studying, out of humanistic and medical interest, the life of the human body?†   (source)
  • Fellow Travellers In the autumn of the year, Darkness and Night were creeping up to the highest ridges of the Alps.†   (source)
  • I had come out of Italy, over one of the great passes of the Alps, and had since wandered with a guide among the by-ways of the mountains.†   (source)
  • With the aid of a change of residence—Osmond had been living with her at Naples at the time of their stay in the Alps, and he in due course left it for ever—the whole history was successfully set going.†   (source)
  • Respect the _naturlangsamkeit_[296] which hardens the ruby in a million years, and works in duration, in which Alps and Andes come and go as rainbows.†   (source)
  • One day at the end of the summer, the two travellers found themselves in a lonely valley of the Alps.†   (source)
  • It was echoed from Saleve, the Juras, and the Alps of Savoy; vivid flashes of lightning dazzled my eyes, illuminating the lake, making it appear like a vast sheet of fire; then for an instant every thing seemed of a pitchy darkness, until the eye recovered itself from the preceding flash.†   (source)
  • Gnarled olive trees covered the hills with their dusky foliage, fruit hung golden in the orchard, and great scarlet anemones fringed the roadside, while beyond green slopes and craggy heights, the Maritime Alps rose sharp and white against the blue Italian sky.†   (source)
  • There was no piece of furniture adapted to sleeping purposes, except a tolerably long wooden coffer; and its cover was carved, to boot; which afforded Gringoire, when he stretched himself out upon it, a sensation somewhat similar to that which Micromégas would feel if he were to lie down on the Alps.†   (source)
  • No; these grand lords on the other side of the Alps frequently marry into plain families; like Jupiter, they like to cross the race.†   (source)
  • He served with Suvorov, and was always telling stories about the crossing of the Alps—inventions probably.'†   (source)
  • Is it anywhere near the Alps?†   (source)
  • And ultimately, to the commonest tourist, spots like Iceland may become what the vineyards and myrtle-gardens of South Europe are to him now; and Heidelberg and Baden be passed unheeded as he hastens from the Alps to the sand-dunes of Scheveningen.†   (source)
  • …weather you may carry your house aloft with you, in the shape of a watch-coat; but properly speaking the thickest watch-coat is no more of a house than the unclad body; for as the soul is glued inside of its fleshy tabernacle, and cannot freely move about in it, nor even move out of it, without running great risk of perishing (like an ignorant pilgrim crossing the snowy Alps in winter); so a watch-coat is not so much of a house as it is a mere envelope, or additional skin encasing you.†   (source)
  • Then his eyes wandered away with his thoughts upon his own situation, and rested upon the chain of the Alps, disclosed by the drawing of the scant white cotton curtain of the window, through which the sunshine passed and lay in squares upon the red-tiled floor.†   (source)
  • Detached broken fossils of pre-adamite whales, fragments of their bones and skeletons, have within thirty years past, at various intervals, been found at the base of the Alps, in Lombardy, in France, in England, in Scotland, and in the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.†   (source)
  • They had been floating about all the morning, from gloomy St. Gingolf to sunny Montreux, with the Alps of Savoy on one side, Mont St. Bernard and the Dent du Midi on the other, pretty Vevay in the valley, and Lausanne upon the hill beyond, a cloudless blue sky overhead, and the bluer lake below, dotted with the picturesque boats that look like white-winged gulls.†   (source)
  • She might have been taken—had been taken—to the top of the Alps and the bottom of Herculaneum, without disarranging a fold in her dress, or displacing a pin.†   (source)
  • The Alps here come closer to the lake, and we approached the amphitheatre of mountains which forms its eastern boundary.†   (source)
  • But it was augmented and rendered sublime by the mighty Alps, whose white and shining pyramids and domes towered above all, as belonging to another earth, the habitations of another race of beings.†   (source)
  • 'I trust, however,' resumed Mr Dorrit, 'that if I have not the—hum—great advantage of becoming known to Mr Merdle on this side of the Alps or Mediterranean, I shall have that honour on returning to England.†   (source)
  • After breakfast he strolled forth alone into the village and looked at the fountain, the geese, the open barn doors, the brown, bent old women, showing their hugely darned stocking-heels at the ends of their slowly-clicking sabots, and the beautiful view of snowy Alps and purple Jura at either end of the little street.†   (source)
  • I do not doubt that he hovers near the spot which I inhabit, and if he has indeed taken refuge in the Alps, he may be hunted like the chamois and destroyed as a beast of prey.†   (source)
  • The country in the neighbourhood of this village resembled, to a greater degree, the scenery of Switzerland; but everything is on a lower scale, and the green hills want the crown of distant white Alps which always attend on the piny mountains of my native country.†   (source)
  • A cold wind from the Alps was blowing.†   (source)
  • He lay in his bed almost completely dressed, on account of the cold of the Basses-Alps, in a garment of brown wool, which covered his arms to the wrists.†   (source)
  • It does not become disconcerted, but adjusts to its divine work the man who has bestridden the Alps, and the good old tottering invalid of Father Elysee.†   (source)
  • When the hour strikes, this man of the faubourgs will grow in stature; this little man will arise, and his gaze will be terrible, and his breath will become a tempest, and there will issue forth from that slender chest enough wind to disarrange the folds of the Alps.†   (source)
  • Among the Alps and Pyrenees, perhaps, there were no mixed characters.†   (source)
  • Of the Alps and Pyrenees, with their pine forests and their vices, they might give a faithful delineation; and Italy, Switzerland, and the south of France might be as fruitful in horrors as they were there represented.†   (source)
  • The bed had obviously been made for the days when a whole family slept together on one mattress; the gigantic feather-bed must have consumed the entire productivity of hundreds of geese, and navigating through the drifts was like crossing the Alps without a compass.†   (source)
  • I see plenteous waters, I see mountain peaks, I see the sierras of Andes where they range, I see plainly the Himalayas, Chian Shahs, Altays, Ghauts, I see the giant pinnacles of Elbruz, Kazbek, Bazardjusi, I see the Styrian Alps, and the Karnac Alps, I see the Pyrenees, Balks, Carpathians, and to the north the Dofrafields, and off at sea mount Hecla, I see Vesuvius and Etna, the mountains of the Moon, and the Red mountains of Madagascar, I see the Lybian, Arabian, and Asiatic deserts,…†   (source)
  • Next, I saw Hannibal passing the Alps, who told me "he had not a drop of vinegar in his camp."†   (source)
  • HERDSMAN Cithaeron and the neighboring alps.†   (source)
  • …more Than savages could suffer: thou didst drink The stale of horses, and the gilded puddle Which beasts would cough at: thy palate then did deign The roughest berry on the rudest hedge; Yea, like the stag when snow the pasture sheets, The barks of trees thou browsed'st; on the Alps It is reported thou didst eat strange flesh, Which some did die to look on: and all this,— It wounds thine honour that I speak it now,— Was borne so like a soldier that thy cheek So much as lank'd not.†   (source)
  • Over all the sand, with a slow falling, were raining down dilated flakes of fire, as of snow on alps without a wind.†   (source)
  • Difficulties, improbabilities, nay, impossibilities, are quite overlooked by it; so that to any man extremely in love, may be applied what Addison says of Caesar, "The Alps, and Pyrenaeans, sink before him!"†   (source)
  • JOCASTA No, for as soon as he returned and found Thee reigning in the stead of Laius slain, He clasped my hand and supplicated me To send him to the alps and pastures, where He might be farthest from the sight of Thebes.†   (source)
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