Appennines

Appennines, for instance, would bring them up to the permanent snow-line and change the character of the entire Italian peninsula.

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

Appennines; toward Sienna he commenced the restoration and fortification of the Poggio Imperiale; and he shut out the enemy in the direction of Genoa, by the acquisition of Pietra Santa and

The History of Florence 2003

Around was spread a plain, encircled by the chestnut-covered Appennines.

The Last Man 2003

Appennines — through their vallies, and over their bleak summits, my path led me through a country which had been trodden by heroes, visited and admired by thousands.

The Last Man 2003

Ferrando sent Alfonso, his eldest son, to their aid, and Galeazzo came in person, each at the head of a suitable force, and all assembled at Castrocaro, a fortress belonging to the Florentines, and situated among the roots of the Appennines which descend from Tuscany to Romagna.

The History of Florence 2003

Alps and Appennines themselves crumble away -- that of Time.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various

A young gentleman, having heard him preach at Monte Casale, a town in the Appennines, came to acquaint him with the design he had long formed of entering his Order.

The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Father Candide Chalippe

Frenchman, Spaniard, Dutch, English, and all other breed behither their mountaines _Appennines_, _Tramontani_, as who would say Barbarous.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Mont Perdu, among the Appennines, which rise to an altitude of eleven thousand feet above the sea's level, encloses an innumerable multitude of testacea: and Humboldt found sea-shells among the Andes, fourteen thousand feet above the level of the ocean.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 551, June 9, 1832 Various

Before commencing the ascent of the Appennines, our travellers visited the country seat of the Archduke; saw the gigantic statue executed by John of

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