Three fifties of fosterlings could engage with handball against the wideness of his backside, which was large enough to halt the march of men through a mountain-pass. ❋ Joseph O'Neil (2008)
The larger mass of the enemy, on his side, remained still on the mountain-pass, but a section of them turned to confront the detachment on the heights. ❋ Unknown (2007)
He halted on the top of a mountain-pass and asked Tigranes where the heights lay down which the Chaldaeans swept when they came to plunder. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Richard said that it was a most interesting mountain-pass, for reasons which were rather au-dessus de ma portée; and as I have no doubt of it, I will describe the trifles. ❋ Unknown (2006)
And probably in terms of access to his homing area, one of the nearest mountain-pass areas to Tacoma, Puyallup, and Auburn area, in terms of getting up to the mountains. ❋ Robert D. Keppel (2005)
From the door of the hacienda he waved his sombrero as we disappeared around a bend in the mountain-pass; we had, perhaps, been a welcome interruption in the monotony of his lonely existence. ❋ Swain, James (2004)
It has a most picturesque effect also to meet a train of muleteers in some mountain-pass. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Sera prepares an ambush for the rebels in a high mountain-pass near Baja California. ❋ Unknown (1999)
It looked to Frodo like the remains of an ancient road, that had once been broad and well planned, from Hollin to the mountain-pass. ❋ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1965)
'Since our open attempt on the mountain-pass our plight has become more desperate, I fear. ❋ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1965)
It yields a darker frown to the projecting cliff, and a more awful uncertainty to the mountain-pass or the hollow ravine. ❋ Various (N/A)
The perforation is eighty feet through, but in contrast with its rocky breadth our picture-frame is not too deep: whenever we shift our position, the view seems to increase in art-beauty, and as a final comprehensive picture it recedes and crowds under the spandrels of the arch the whole mountain-pass, with the confluence of the two rivers in the finest imaginable aspect. ❋ Various (N/A)
No art of engineer wrought these graceful bends: it is a wild mountain-pass, followed by the unwieldy buffalo in search of pasturage. ❋ Various (N/A)
On either side of the mountain-pass we have threaded rise the higher summits of the range; but, though we seem from the configuration of the land to be in ❋ Various (N/A)
