mountain-passes

It was a journey which was not prosecuted without much fatigue and considerable danger, as they had to traverse a country frequently exposed to all the evils of war, more especially when they approached the Ghauts, those tremendous mountain-passes which descend from the table-land of Mysore, and through which the mighty streams that arise in the centre of the Indian peninsula, find their way to the ocean.

The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

Our retreat became a total rout, and when we reached our rear-guard, which we had left strongly encamped, the banners of the Switzers were waving on our batteries, for a large division had made a circuit through mountain-passes known only to themselves, and attacked our camp, vigorously seconded by that accursed Adrian de

Anne of Geierstein 2008

December, when the mountain-passes, in themselves so difficult, might be expected to be rendered utterly impassable by snowstorms.

A Legend of Montrose 2008

It is sickening to meet these poor fellows struggling over the mountain-passes in evident distress.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

It was a terrible road, with two severe mountain-passes to cross, and I not only had to walk nearly the whole way, but to help the man with the kuruma up some of the steepest places.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

The grandeur of the route ceased with the mountain-passes, but in the brilliant sunshine the ride from Oshamambe to Mori, which took me two days, was as pretty and pleasant as it could be.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

'I used rather to like Solitude - to fancy her a somewhat quiet and serious, yet fair nymph; an Oread, descending to me from lone mountain-passes; something of the blue mist of hills in her array and of their chill breeze in her breath - but much, also, of their solemn beauty in her mien.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

These are not only set up in their houses, sometimes to the number of twenty, but on precipices, banks of rivers and streams, and mountain-passes, and such wands are thrown into the rivers as the boatmen descend rapids and dangerous places.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

Kurumatoge was the last of seventeen mountain-passes, over 2000 feet high, which I have crossed since leaving Nikko.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

He would be exercising his thoughts, and considering, as he traveled, and arguing with those about him of the difficulties of steep or broken ground, what might happen at rivers, ditches, or mountain-passes, in marching in close or in open, in this or in that particular form of battle.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003