mountain-air

His physician recommends him as a last resort to return to his native country and try the effect of the mountain-air.

Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Various

When once you leave the plains behind -- it is all on such a toy scale that you do this in half an hour -- you breathe mountain-air and look down deep gorges and cross wide, rushing rivers.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various

There was no holiday-making so healthy, so free from restraint, as that among the far Highland hills and glens, where the clear mountain-air, scented with miles and miles of heather, seemed to produce a sort of intoxication of good spirits within one.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various

We had prudently filled all the large apertures in the eaves and wooden sides the night before with hay, but there were plenty of crevices for the sun to peep in by, whilst with wafts of mountain-air it entered freely by the folding barn door as Moidel gently passed in and out, on breakfast matters intent.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various

Mould quickly attacks the flour in this mountain-air, and the year's baking is accordingly done in the autumn as soon as the rye comes back from the mill.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various

If we had often before been reminded of Italian skies and of the freshness and brightness of Swiss mountain-air, now thoughts of the Black Forest, with all of weird or horrible that we had ever read of that storied country, rushed to our minds -- robber-haunted mills, murderous inns, treacherous hosts, "terribly-strange beds."

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various

Professor turned his classes over to an assistant on pretext of a sudden bronchial attack, for which a dose of mountain-air was the prescribed remedy.

Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

For I believe that climate does thus react on man, —as there is something in the mountain-air that feeds the spirit and inspires.

Walking 1914

The hot fever of life had gone by, and I breathed the clear mountain-air of the land of Death.

Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women 1905

The first breath of mountain-air lifted the mist from his spirit, and he began to feel himself a boy again as he entered the high gorges in the cold light after sunset.

The Valley of Decision Edith Wharton 1899