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The loneliness of the mountain-peaks and of the great waste places has something of the same magic about it.
Little Eyolf 2008
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The loneliness of the mountain-peaks and of the great waste places has something of the same magic about it.
Little Eyolf 2008
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All mountain-peaks and high headlands of lofty hills and rivers flowing out to the deep and beaches sloping seawards and havens of the sea are your delight.
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Were his thoughts with his heart, ten thousand miles away ... among the rice-fields and the plumy palms of China? under the shadows of remembered mountain-peaks, or in groves of blooming shrubs and strange forest trees unknown to climes like ours? ...
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005
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Swiftly they traversed their long course, and neither the sea nor river-waters nor grassy glens nor mountain-peaks checked the career of the immortal horses, but they clave the deep air above them as they went.
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The chief features of the scenery were mountain-peaks, virgin forests, and rivers.
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The black and red cliffs, the straggling town, the sugar-canes, gardens, forests, flowers, the mountain-peaks and ravines — each separate, well-known object received its adieu.
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Rivulets of melting strawberry ice cream ran pink rivers from the mountain-peaks of her breasts, small and hard and strained high by the porcelain bow of her ribs.
The New Douglas Hoffman 2005
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Amid mountain-peaks and giant forests and by tumbling falls the quest for gold hardly seemed worth while.
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The sand wasn't groomed into wave-patterns, and the rocks looked more like something out of a mini-Stonehenge than islands or mountain-peaks.
Werehunter Lackey, Mercedes 1999
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