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Being now securely camped on my mountain-height, I peered out upon the horizon beneath, and signified to the Luminary that the gas might at once be turned on full blaze.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various
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Held her in thrall, and seeks the mountain-height;
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Various
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Phrixus had given her by force to the strangers to carry off; with such beguiling words she scattered to the air and the breezes her witching charms, which even from afar would have drawn down the savage beast from the steep mountain-height.
The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius
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(17951820) 5914When Freedom from her mountain-height
Quotations 1919
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(17951820) 1When Freedom from her mountain-height
Quotations 1919
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When I turn my face to the mountain-height, where the Apostle Peter was an eyewitness of the majesty of God, and when I think that that glory was the purposed consummation for every life, that I, if I had never sinned, might have been similarly trans figured into the immortal state, I wonder how the blest estate can be regained.
The Epistles of St. Peter 1817-1893 1910
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Another cloud-capped mountain-height bears the name of Fisher's Peak, and thereby hangs a tale.
Last of the Great Scouts The Life Story of William F Cody Wetmore, Helen C 1899
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Another cloud-capped mountain-height bears the name of Fisher's Peak, and thereby hangs a tale.
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Had she found her mountain-height of unmated solitude untenable?
Idolatry A Romance Julian Hawthorne 1890
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And the sound of Bragi's harp awakened all sleeping things; and it was carried from rock to rock, and from mountain-height to valley, and was borne on the breeze far up the fjords, and all over the land.
The Story of Siegfried James Baldwin 1883
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