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Alps
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    They say she even marched over the Alps with Hannibal's army in 218 BC.†  (source)
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    It isn't that far, and we've always gone to the Alps in the summer.†  (source)
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    He stood and strapped it on in the alps of broken houses and played the accordion with kindness silver eyes and even a cigarette slouched on his lips.†  (source)
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    Neumann One, who, if he were not scheduled to die ten weeks from now in the Allied invasion of Normandy, might have become a barber later in life, who would have smelled of talc and whiskey and put his index finger into men's ears to position their heads, whose pants and shirts always would have been covered with clipped hairs, who, in his shop, would have taped postcards of the Alps around the circumference of a big cheap wavery mirror, who would have been faithful to his stout wife for the rest of his life—Neumann One says, "Time for haircuts."†  (source)
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    They also enforce traffic regulations on all highways and byways operated by Fairlanes, Inc. A few different FOQNEs also use them: Caymans Plus and The Alps, for example.†  (source)
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    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)
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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)
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    Hills peeped o'er hill and Alps on Alps arose.†  (source)
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    It's like Alps,' said Bobbie, breathlessly.†  (source)
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    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)
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    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)
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    With or without Saint-Tropez or the Costa Brava or the Alps.†  (source)
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    Across the room, a painting of what appeared to be the Swiss Alps.†  (source)
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