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  • Jan began her glide down the mountain only to find that smog drifting from the fires nearly obliterated the view of the icy gorges and glaciered valleys.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • Jan began her glide down the mountain only to find that smog drifting from the fires nearly obliterated the view of the icy gorges and glaciered valleys.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • We went on, and soon there came out a much grander mountain — a glorious glaciered fellow — and then came more, and the mountains closed in, and the river dwindled and began leaping from stone to stone, and we were shortly in scenery of the true Alpine nature — very, very grand.

    A First Year in Canterbury Settlement 2004

  • I had long ago discovered that he was a great liar, so I was bent on going up myself: in brief, I did so: so far from being impossible, it was quite easy travelling; and after five or six miles I saw a saddle at the end of it, which, though covered deep in snow, was not glaciered, and which did verily appear to be part of the main range itself.

    Erewhon 2003

  • Though not exceptionally tall, the glaciered mountains reached their highest point to the north, rising to form a line of jagged white peaks, shadowed with hints of glacier blue against the deep azure sky.

    The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990

  • To the east, the glaciered mountain peaks, reflecting the brilliant orb that was descending into fiery clouds, were suffused with a soft rosy glow that seemed to emanate from within the ice.

    The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990

  • The glistening glaciered peaks moved imperceptibly closer as the range curved toward the northwest in a great arc.

    The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990

  • Along its winding, eighteen-hundred-mile course, Donau-the river of Doni, the Great Earth Mother of the Zelandonii-swelled with the waters of more than three hundred tributaries, the drainage of two glaciered mountain chains, and acquired a burden of sediment.

    The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990

  • In that wintry world, glaciered mountain crests filled streams and rivers during the warmer season with meltwater.

    The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990

  • He wanted to cross the river nearer its source high in the southern mountains, before it flowed around the glaciered massif and through the rift valley.

    The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990

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