Sample Sentences for
Andes
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    I would have made a pilgrimage to the highest peak of the Andes, could I when there have precipitated him to their base.†  (source)
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    Indeed, whatever being uttered that fearful shriek could not soon repeat it: not the widest-winged condor on the Andes could, twice in succession, send out such a yell from the cloud shrouding his eyrie.†  (source)
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    Little baggy of dope from the high Andes.†  (source)
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    His first estate in Argentina was a wooden shack in the foothills of the Andes.†  (source)
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    It's like living in the Andes, in South America, high.†  (source)
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    There are Incan roads in the Andes that even today you couldn't work a knife between two of the cobblestones.†  (source)
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    Her husband had an aversion to the air of the Andes that he concealed with a variety of excuses: the dangers to the heart of the altitude, the risks of pneumonia, the duplicity of the people, the injustices of centralism.†  (source)
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    There was a scale-model Andes range down here: dozens of boxes and crates stuffed with papers, most of them white and shapeless with age and damp.†  (source)
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    Nonetheless, many Italians, including Garibaldi, had gone to Argentina and come away better, far-seeing men with white mustaches, wrinkled faces, and eyes that had grown wise in the Andes, so to speak.†  (source)
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    Senator Trueba was surprised to see his son and granddaughter planning an outing to the mountains, for neither Jaime nor Alba had participated in any sport since they left the English school and had never shown the slightest inclination for the discomforts of hiking in the Andes.†  (source)
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    It came from the storm-scarred flanks of the Andes, from the bodies of a billion living creatures, from the dust of meteors that had wandered through space for ages and had come at last to rest.†  (source)
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    She began to talk about a walking holiday they had taken once, years ago, in the Pennines, how they had done an average of twenty miles a day, and I nodded my head, smiling politely, wondering about the Pennines, thinking they were something like the Andes, remembering, afterwards, they were that chain of hills marked with a furry line in the middle of a pink England on my school atlas.†  (source)
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    which, barred with various tints, seemed like the Andes' western slope, to show forth in one array, contrasting climates, zone by zone.†  (source)
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