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Fogs, slums, dirt, pneumatic drills – there is more than a touch of civet in the spiritual exhalation of London: but occasionally, to one who is banished from it, there comes an ache no less intolerable than that which assails the mountain-dweller in the plains.
Try Anything Twice 1938
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No one can live for long in the presence of the mountains without that consciousness, and it is a great day for the mountain-dweller when he learns to distinguish between the puniness of man, the animal, and the infinity of man, the thinking soul.
The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West Robert J. C. Stead 1919
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They would explain to some poor, ignorant mountain-dweller that such great people in
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 Henry Baerlein 1917
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He had the mystery and imagination of the mountain-dweller.
Northern Lights Gilbert Parker 1897
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He had the mystery and imagination of the mountain-dweller.
Northern Lights, Volume 1. Gilbert Parker 1897
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He had the mystery and imagination of the mountain-dweller.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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He had the mystery and imagination of the mountain-dweller.
Northern Lights, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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I endeavor to point out the irrelevancy of the latter question, arguing that wild wool was not made for man but for sheep, and that, however deficient as clothing for other animals, it is just the thing for the brave mountain-dweller that wears it.
Steep Trails John Muir 1876
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The mountain-dweller saw them through the panes of his little window.
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