Spaniards left the Scottish coast and sailed away for Norway; and the game was played out, and the end was come, as the end of such matters generally comes, by gradual decay, petty disaster, and mistake; till the snow-mountain, instead of being blown tragically and heroically to atoms, melts helplessly and pitiably away. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Proud and far-off as a snow-mountain, and as merry as any lass I ever saw with daisies in her hair in springtime. ❋ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1954)
Each kind has its own peculiar way of growing, and these hardy little plants can live where no other plant can -- on the hard black lava, on naked rocks, and even upon the highest snow-mountain. ❋ Caroline Pridham (N/A)
I see a blue sky and a snow-mountain -- that is all when I look up into the heights. ❋ Unknown (1912)
While he was speaking he thrust his hand into the inmost fold of his, girdle and drew out three great gems -- one blue as a fragment of the night sky, one redder than a ray of sunrise, and one as pure as the peak of a snow-mountain at twilight -- and laid them on the outspread scrolls before him. ❋ Unknown (1902)
One by one certain pinnacles of his fair snow-mountain of Titanic aim melted away. ❋ Sharp, William, 1855-1905 (1897)
The light by which he views our world is, there is little doubt, light reflected from the various strata of our atmosphere, cloud or mist-laden or serene, as the case may be, with an occasional snow-mountain figuring as a permanent white spot. ❋ Unknown (1874)
'One thinks of her as a snow-mountain you've been admiring.' ❋ George Meredith (1868)
She and Chillon had on the previous day accomplished a pilgrimage to the resting-place of their father and mother among humble Protestants, iron-smelters, in a valley out of the way of their present line of march to the glacier of the great snow-mountain marking the junction of three ❋ George Meredith (1868)
She had never seen a snow-mountain, and it was pleasant to him to observe in her eyes, which he had known weighing and balancing intellectual questions more than he quite liked, a childlike effort to conjure in imagination the glories of the Alps. She appeared very happy, only a little anxious about leaving Dr. Shrapnel with no one to take care of him for a whole month. ❋ George Meredith (1868)
They reached a village where her leader deemed it adviseable to drive for the remainder of the distance up the valley to the barrier snow-mountain. ❋ George Meredith (1868)
She and Chillon had on the previous day accomplished a pilgrimage to the resting-place of their father and mother among humble Protestants, iron - smelters, in a valley out of the way of their present line of march to the glacier of the great snow-mountain marking the junction of three ❋ George Meredith (1868)
