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  • noun Plural form of fjeld.

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Examples

  • I said in my turn, for I had not come by boat on my last visit; I had walked instead over fjelds and valleys many miles from the sea.

    Look Back on Happiness 2003

  • Many new houses had been built here as the traffic over the fjelds increased, and gargoyles, homelike and Norwegian, sat on the gable ends, while the sound of a piano came from the living-room.

    Look Back on Happiness 2003

  • This is better than what must have been the fate of poor S., who went to the fjelds just before the break of fine weather to shoot ryper.

    Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler William Senior

  • English, helped out by stirring gesture, tells of the terrible slaughter generally done by sportsmen under his superintendence, and of the vast herds that generally infest these fjelds; and when you grow sceptical upon the subject of Reins he whispers alluringly of Bears.

    The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various

  • Here go, cased in the spoils of the fjelds, toward a pavilion seventy-five paces long and twenty wide, the bulky contributions of the

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various

  • Last night it must have snowed pretty hard up on the fjelds, for there are at this moment white mantles lower down on the mountains than have been seen for many a year at this period of the season.

    Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler William Senior

  • Many new houses had been built here as the traffic over the fjelds increased, and gargoyles, homelike and

    Look Back on Happiness Knut Hamsun 1905

  • I had walked instead over fjelds and valleys many miles from the sea.

    Look Back on Happiness Knut Hamsun 1905

  • The fjelds furnish a recreation-ground for the Norwegian townsman.

    Peeps at Many Lands: Norway Nico [Illustrator] Jungman 1893

  • Besides this best of all Norse wild fruits, the fjelds produce many excellent berries, such as crowberries, whortleberries, marsh whortleberries, bearberries, dewberries, cranberries, and others.

    Peeps at Many Lands: Norway Nico [Illustrator] Jungman 1893

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