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a large mountain system in south-central Europe; scenic beauty and winter sports make them a popular tourist attraction

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.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

Edward Whymper, Scrambles Amongst the Alps
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
Across the room, a painting of what appeared to be the Swiss Alps.
Dave Eggers -- A Hologram for the King
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.
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
"Is it the Venetian Alps—one of your last year's sketches?"
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
"Hills peeped o'er hill and Alps on Alps arose."
Lucy Maud Montgomery -- Anne Of Green Gables
In the Pyrenees and the Alps, entire villages would essentially hibernate from the time of the first snow in November until March or April.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers
Among the Alps and Pyrenees, perhaps, there were no mixed characters.
Jane Austen -- Northanger Abbey
With or without Saint-Tropez or the Costa Brava or the Alps.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
It's like Alps,' said Bobbie, breathlessly.
Edith Nesbit -- The Railway Children
One day at the end of the summer, the two travellers found themselves in a lonely valley of the Alps.
Henry James -- Washington Square
Next, I saw Hannibal passing the Alps, who told me "he had not a drop of vinegar in his camp."
Jonathan Swift -- Gulliver's Travels
He served with Suvorov, and was always telling stories about the crossing of the Alps—inventions probably.'
Ivan Turgenev -- Fathers and Sons
"Are those the Alps I see to the north?" asked Max.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
No; these grand lords on the other side of the Alps frequently marry into plain families; like Jupiter, they like to cross the race.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
Fellow Travellers In the autumn of the year, Darkness and Night were creeping up to the highest ridges of the Alps.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
As he approached the promenade, the stars began to come through the white crests of the high Alps.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
My friends are buying long-pants suits that cost from seventeen to twenty dollars, a sum as huge to me as the Alps!
Richard Wright -- Black Boy
"Is it the Venetian Alps—one of your last year's sketches?"
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
Over all the sand, with a slow falling, were raining down dilated flakes of fire, as of snow on alps without a wind.
Dante Alighieri -- Dante's Inferno

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