mountain-wall

Summer solstice of 2003, in the hot-spring-fed infinity pool at the Hotel Source des Alpes in Leukerbad, looking up at the Gemmiwand mountain-wall, the week after we turned in the first-draft screenplay for Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King.

A case of the fours | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit" 2006

Under airs pure as æther, golden and ultramarine above and melting over the horizon into a diaphanous green which suggested a resection of Kaf, that unseen mountain-wall of emerald, the so-called Desert, changed face twice a year; now brown and dry as summer-dust; then green as Hope, beautified with infinite verdure and broad sheetings of rain-water.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Its eastern face stood up in three great tiers from a shelf in the mountain-wall far below; its back was to a great cliff behind, from which it jutted out in pointed bastions, one above the other, diminishing as they rose, with sheer sides of cunning masonry that looked north-east and south-east.

The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

Spanish Peaks, the Wawatoyas, ninety to the south, are sublime objects of which the eye never grows weary; while the Sierra Mojadas bank up the western horizon with a frowning mountain-wall.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Various

So marvellous is the power of mere position, so great the difference between the two sides of the same mountain-wall!

Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various

His eyes were wise and mild, and his forehead like a mountain-wall.

Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) Various

Rounding the point where Hymettus thrusts his huge length into the sea, the long, featureless mountain-wall of Southern Attica suddenly breaks down, and gives place to a broad expanse of fertile, and well-cultivated soil, sloping gently back with ever-narrowing bounds until it reaches the foot-hills of lofty Pentelicus.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various

Tacubaya is a pleasant place on the ride of the first hills that begin to rise towards the mountain-wall of the valley.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

It was like some frightful monster, or the fabled Kraken, working itself along by its claws, which were struck deep into the mountain-wall on either side of its line of progress, and casting its hideous shadow over hill and dale, forest and valley, clothing them in gloom and darkness.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various

For the issuing of the stream they had contrived a small low arch under the new wall; but near the entrance they had so altered the narrow bed that a wide pool stretched from the mountain-wall to the head of the fall over which the stream went towards Dale.

The Hobbit Tolkien, J. R. R. 1938