Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The high land; highlands: as , the Bernese Oberland.
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Examples
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From Bern we sent our carriage to Zurich, and struck off what is called the Oberland
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey Cottle, Joseph 1847
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Zurich, and struck off what is called the Oberland (upper-land.)
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey Joseph Cottle 1811
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Old military bunkers in the Bernese Oberland now serve as maximum-security vaults for nervous Europeans.
The bulls head the global stampede for gold bullion - but will it last? Richard Wachman 2010
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Then we boarded a train to our village in the Bernese Oberland, sitting on hard wooden seats and taking turns to visit the excitements of the lavatory, where you could stand over a vertical pipe and peer and pee straight down to the tracks.
So close, yet so far away – Europe is still something of a mystery to many of us | Ian Jack 2011
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The mountains of the Bernese Oberland are forever tugging at my view.
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2011
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Looking across a sea of clouds, I'm seized by a sober intoxication from the view of the marching mountains of the Bernese Oberland: the Eiger to the left, then the Mönch in the middle, and the Jungfrau on the right.
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland Richard Bangs 2011
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The mountains of the Bernese Oberland are forever tugging at my view.
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2011
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Looking across a sea of clouds, I'm seized by a sober intoxication from the view of the marching mountains of the Bernese Oberland: the Eiger to the left, then the Mönch in the middle, and the Jungfrau on the right.
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland Richard Bangs 2011
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The mountains of the Bernese Oberland are forever tugging at my view.
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2011
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Looking across a sea of clouds, I'm seized by a sober intoxication from the view of the marching mountains of the Bernese Oberland: the Eiger to the left, then the Mönch in the middle, and the Jungfrau on the right.
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland Richard Bangs 2011
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