snow-crowned

Looking down from the great height, they seemed perched upon the ridge-pole of the world, and even the snow-crowned Sierra peaks seemed beneath them.

DUTCH COURAGE 2010

The snow-crowned peaks of Mount Baker and the Twin Sisters stood magnificently above the foothills to the east.

I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010

The wonderland of the Eastern Congo;: The region of the snow-crowned volcanoes, the pygmies, the giant gorilla, and the okapi, by Thomas Alexander Barns

Congo Volcano Still Active: Lava Flow Approaches Goma/Bukavu Road 2010

Although children may wonderfully imagine what exists in a nearby forest or beyond and beneath snow-crowned mountains, adults risk the paralysis of bored cynicism when they realize that the habitable world has been exhaustively mapped and that no relationship or community is flawless.

Archive 2010-07-01 Lou Anders 2010

It lies at a height of 6,000 feet, and the snow-crowned summits which wall it in are from 8,000 to 11,000 feet in altitude.

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

O sweet peaceful scene of azure lake, and snow-crowned mountain, so wonderfully lovely is your aspect, that it seems like heaven almost, and as if grief and care could not enter it!

The Newcomes 2006

The view was stunning: Kate Creek far below, running on amid its gray gravel and green willow bars, snow-crowned mountains to the south, as nameless as when they were sculpted by the hand of God.

The Old Man and the Mountains (Part 2) 2004

Stepping out of the water, he turned to look across the glistening expanse to the far shore and the slope of the snow-crowned mountain that towered above it.

Lost And Found Foster, Alan Dean 2004

In the hills to the west, I saw a dam in a canyon, with a long blue lake behind it and snow-crowned mountain peaks in the distance.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

For a part of two days I wound under the base of the snow-crowned Djibel el Sheik, and then entered upon a vast and desolate plain, rarely pierced at intervals by some sort of withered stem.

Eothen 2003