Appalachiansin a sentence
- Hours later, out on the flatlands of the Piedmont, she saw the Appalachians sketched in gentle blue lines along the horizon.† (source)
- Finally, we entered hill country, climbing higher and deeper into the Appalachian Mountains, stopping from time to time to let the Oldsmobile catch its breath on the steep, twisting roads.† (source)
- This tendency might make for psychological resilience, but it also makes it hard for Appalachians to look at themselves honestly.† (source)
- This inland sea was a thousand miles wide, extending all the way from the newly upthrust Rocky Mountains to the sharp, craggy peaks of the Appalachians.† (source)
- In the southeastern corner of Kentucky, in the stretch of the Appalachian Mountains known as the Cumberland Plateau, lies a small town called Harlan.† (source)
- WE DRIVE SOUTH UNTIL, NESTLED IN THE foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, Athens comes into view: a small city sprouting through the trees.† (source)
- He should reach the Appalachian Mountains by midday.† (source)
- On Catoctin Mountain, a ridge of the Appalachians that runs north to south through the western part of the state, the trees were brightening into soft yellows and golds.† (source)
- Mark kept wondering if they'd run into another camp or village—rumor had it that there were settlements throughout the Appalachians.† (source)
- And he'd added a little yeast, and then waited while nature did the rest: an old folk skill that he'd brought with him all the way from the Appalachians.† (source)
- My mother and father were born in the most beautiful place on earth, in the foothills of the Appalachians along the Alabama-Georgia line.† (source)
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- That a new America was steadily taking form beyond the Appalachians was one of the clearest signs of the times.† (source)
- The Appalachian Mountains rose beneath us, not as high and not nearly as pointy as the Rockies.† (source)
- The southern side, in Kentucky, was settled primarily by Scots-Irish, who came overland through the Appalachians.† (source)
- I kept glancing at the blank, stony, pinched faces of the men and women staring at me from steps and doorways, and at the children, all white-headed just like you see them in the Appalachians.† (source)
- There was a time when I thought that I was all green coast and fertile marsh, that my interior lands were bounded by the Appalachian mountains, the skyline of Savannah, the citrus country of central Florida, and the eroded beaches on barrier islands threatened by the moon-swollen tides of the Atlantic.† (source)
- Where he came from was never documented, but the general feeling was that he might have hailed from the Appalachian Mountains.† (source)
- Ma was born in 1947 in a small town called Erwin, Tennessee, which sits nestled in the Appalachians not far from the North Carolina border and is surrounded by the Cherokee National Forest.† (source)
- Jack Cardinal had once told his daughter that it was believed that there were actually two sets of Appalachian mountains.† (source)
- They rode the thermals of air which come up from the fertile valleys and rise at these Appalachian Mountains.† (source)
- It's the same way many rural people in the Appalachians speak today.† (source)
- The Appalachian Mountains rose beneath us, not as high and not nearly as pointy as the Rockies.† (source)
- "Never in all my life," she wailed to the Appalachians.† (source)
- I broke in my boots fast by speeding back to the magnetic Appalachians.† (source)
- Typhon smashed his chariot, and the wine god went down somewhere in the Appalachians.† (source)
- Here in the forest I said good-bye to my sheltering old friends, the Appalachian Mountains.† (source)
- Destroying store merchandise and threatening a sales clerk were normal to Mamaw and Papaw: That's what Scots-Irish Appalachians do when people mess with your kid.† (source)
- They had come to Virginia in the eighteenth century and then moved west into the Appalachians in search of land.† (source)
- When the first wave of Scots-Irish immigrants landed in the New World in the eighteenth century, they were deeply attracted to the Appalachian Mountains.† (source)
- The first critical fact about Harlan is that at the same time that the Howards and the Turners were killing one another, there were almost identical clashes in other small towns up and down the Appalachians.† (source)
- This doesn't count the large number of migrants from elsewhere in the southern Appalachian Mountains; nor does it include the children or grandchildren of migrants who were hill people to the core.† (source)
- Linguist Crawford Feagin made a detailed study of accent change— and the disappearance of "r"-less speech—in her hometown, Anniston, Alabama, a small city in the foothills of the Appalachians.† (source)
- How they'd just lost three friends who'd survived the trek of horror they'd made—from the devastation that was New York City to the Appalachian Mountains.† (source)
- Approximately half the territory of the United States in 1789 was still occupied by American Indians, most of whom lived west of the Appalachians, and though no one knew how many there were, they probably numbered 100,000.† (source)
- With the political stars in perfect alignment, Johnson County, in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains and one of the most scenic places in the whole country, was rewarded with its very own 2,000-bed medium-security concrete prison.† (source)
- And rising high behind all of this were the Appalachians, making this good-sized farm property seem but a child's model by comparison.† (source)
- Something that was finally becoming a little more commonplace after the year of death and terror that had chased them to this place high up in the Appalachian Mountains of western North Carolina.† (source)
- The Americans insisted that Britain cede all territory between the Appalachian Mountains on the east and the Mississippi on the west, and to this the British agreed, thus at a stroke doubling the size of the new nation.† (source)
- Was he a native of the Appalachians?† (source)
- The Appalachians might pale in size if leveled against the upstart Rockies, but to the Cardinal children they seemed abundantly tall enough.† (source)
- They didn't join the fight for big bucks; they preferred to stay home in the motherly Appalachians with the real-life bucks and their does.† (source)
- The sky was curiously darker in some places than in others, and then Lou realized these ebony patches were the Appalachians.† (source)
- Here in these Appalachian Mountains more varieties of plants, trees and wildflowers grew than in all of Europe.† (source)
- The Appalachians had prevented early expansion westward, Jack had taught his ever-curious Lou, and kept the American colonies unified long enough to win their independence from an English monarch.† (source)
- Then the world had shaken itself again, Lou's father had explained to her, and the rock had risen high once more, though not nearly so high as before, and formed the current Appalachians, which stood like menacing hands between parts of Virginia and West Virginia, and extended from Canada all the way down to Alabama.† (source)
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