Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...mountain-top and town...
Slowly sank behind the mountain...
...from the westward approaching it comes like a mountain of foam...
...Mountain and vale soft shadows blend...
...offers nearly all to be desired. Not the aimless saunter, but the brisk energetic pace of the man who is in earnest in business or pleasure. It was thus that Dickens walked and performed, for half a century, the most laborious literary work. Thus Tyndall has become a famous mountain-climber, and in his admirable volumes gives us the result of toilsome hours in the laboratory along with the enlivening stories of his Alpine experience...