mountain-ranges

The reader must not, however, imagine from these imposing names that we were walking between any formidable mountain-ranges.

The South Pole~ On the Barrier 2009

Land through their continuation in huge mountain-ranges, which run to the south-east and were seen as far south as lat. 88° 8 ', but which in all probability are continued right across the Antarctic Continent.

The South Pole~ The First Account 2009

But it was not only these journeys over ice-sheets and mountain-ranges that were carried out in masterly fashion.

The South Pole~ Introduction by Fridtjof Nansen 2009

Mighty mountain-ranges with summits from 7,000 to 10,000 feet high, some covered with snow and some quite bare -- lofty and rugged, precipitous and wild.

The South Pole~ The History of the South Pole 2009

They sought to take refuge in the city; but Jamrkan came forth upon them with his kinsmen, who hemmed them in between two mountain-ranges, and slew an innumerable host of them, and the rest fled into the wastes and words. —

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

But it was not only these journeys over ice-sheets and mountain-ranges that were carried out in masterly fashion.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

The reader must not, however, imagine from these imposing names that we were walking between any formidable mountain-ranges.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

In 1844, Dr. Krapf, an Anglican missionary, founded an establishment at Monbaz, on the coast of Zanguebar, and, in company with the Rev.Dr. Rebmann, discovered two mountain-ranges three hundred miles from the coast.

Five Weeks in a Balloon 2003

Egypt properly so called is narrow: and the space between the mountain-ranges which have been mentioned is plain-land, but where it is narrowest it did not seem to me to exceed two hundred furlongs from the Arabian mountains to those which are called the

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

We had noticed that the northern and southern sides of the sound were formed by steep mountain-ranges, their flanks furrowed by mighty glaciers, the outlets of the great ice-sheet of the interior.

The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001