I don’t know what I expected, but there really was a city inside a mountain. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A simple question, not the whole big mountain of whys: Why hasn't he asked to see me? A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The Eyrie was a small castle by the standards of the great houses; seven slender white towers bunched as tightly as arrows in a quiver on a shoulder of the great mountain. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I never have been afraid of anything since I came to live on this mountain. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

The big snowy mountains rose above them in every direction. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Freshunounts were brought forth from the stables, surefooted mountain stock with shaggy coats, and within the hour they set forth once again. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The Harfoots had much to do with Dwarves in ancient times, and long lived in the foothills of the mountains. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It crawled out from its den and stood on top of the mountain. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is. Underground. The mountain is on fire under our feet. Like before. When it erupted. My mother and I—” His voice caught, his grief erupting suddenly. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He looked out over the silent white mountains and braced himself to tell Susan the bad news. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

This woman was in love with the mountain she had raised, block by block, from the frozen northern sea. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Eventually, there were deserts and more forests and mountain ranges and even an ocean, all accessible by large networks of roads that unwound this way and that, like great spools of yarn. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

We made it about half a mile up the mountain, moving deliberately so as not to frighten the horses, winding our way through the wheat fields. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She could count the number of times she had been down the mountain on her hand. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

A new wide road was being finished that would go over the mountain and zig-zag down to the bridge. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

But as he studied the mountain, his right hand slowly formed into a fist. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Magic orchids, strange trees, and plants of jasper grew on Penglai, a fairy mountain, which may have been Mount Fuji. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Full of hidden creatures, rocks, and even mountains. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

There’s been another woman in his life since his days in these very mountains, but everyone knows she’s only a companion—a mother, a sister, not a true lover. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And just as the Witch Jadis had looked different when you saw her in our world instead of in her own, so the fruit of that mountain garden looked different too. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

It crumpled under its own weight into a mountain of bent steel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But I had never heard of one who would go to Sacred Sun City, a place hidden high in the mountains. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He smelled like mutton tallow and mountain sagebrush. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“June seventeenth he and Mother climbed the long, hard mountain trail to my home. One look at their faces told me they had not come for sumac tea.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

That day I visited the posts in the mountains and was back in town late in the afternoon. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

For perhaps ten seconds they crouched tike that while the flailing fire sent smoke and sparks and waves of inconstant tight over the top of the mountain. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Up the mountain they have an observatory belonging to the Imperial Muscovite Academy. They’d be able to tell you. I know he went up there more than once.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ascending the stairs to my room I passed a large four- color poster titled “Himalayan Trilogy,” depicting Everest, K2, and Lhotse—the planet’s highest, second-highest, and fourth-highest mountains, respectively. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Then a little fellow like you should not be all alone way up here on this haunted mountain.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

For months after the attack on the heavy water plant at Vemork, Knut Haukelid stayed hidden in the mountains of Norway. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside some mountains it is like a whole village. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

She sniffed them and blew on them before she matched the plants with the stones, putting a sprig of blue-gray mountain sage with the blue stone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The feedcast went on and on, and they all went up the mountain on skis and shot at each other and finally they all learned an important lesson about love. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How’d you get him? Did the posse smoke him out of the mountains? Is he alive?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mountain with a moon hovering over it, like a pendant off a neck. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

But sometime Biddy be singing ’bout somebody cornin’ ’round a mountain and she cleaning like a fool, but she happy. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Indigo mountains line the horizon in jagged peaks. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Clearly there had to be some additional process, some form of renewal and uplift, that created new hills and mountains to keep the cycle going. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

A volcano erupts because a terrible creature is imprisoned in the mountain and every now and then struggles to get free. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the air, the Nut appeared to be just another mountain with a few entrances on its faces. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Then I tried looking up at our Father, but I couldn’t see His Face for the dark smoke hiding the tops of those mountains. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of the flat desert edged by craggy mountains, the land rolled and dipped like a sheet when you shook it clean. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was a space eclipsed by a century-old maple tree that dropped mountains of leaves every year from October to December. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Realizing that they would have to get Gilkey down immediately to have any hope of saving him, Schoening and the others started lowering him down the mountain’s steep Abruzzi Ridge as the storm raged. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Had they seen him come slipping and sliding down the mountain? The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far below, down a side of the mountain I had never laid eyes on, the dry Tibetan plateau stretched to the horizon as a boundless expanse of dun- colored earth. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He loved to backpack with his family on weekends, and he had an intricate professional knowledge of many mountain ranges in the state. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two days before my scheduled departure there was a heavy fall of snow, giving to the barren moors the look of Antarctic mountains. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

There is no them without you, and without the right to break you they must necessarily fall from the mountain, lose their divinity, and tumble out of the Dream. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The western mountains were like a distant wall. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The glossy pages of succeeding months blossom around it: landscapes of fluted mountains for 1964; a curious collection of Irish setters and pugs in 1969; twelve varieties of jasmine for each month of 1973. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

This four-lane concrete highway slashed with speeding cars I remember as a narrow, twisting mountain road where the wood teams moved, drawn by steady mules. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we were so close we could see a row of trees and the road along the shore with the mountains behind. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Surprised me. Couldn’t move. I—I saw him on the mountain. He was— he and I—” She shudders, and I understand now. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Beside a mountain stream, O’Dell and I worked at a clear place, picking and shoveling rich, black West Virginia loam into the truck. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In that split second Stanley thought he saw an unusual rock formation on top of one of the mountain peaks. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

But he persists in moving forward, always keeping the distant mountain at his back. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘That is but a part, for I have forgotten much. It is long and sad, for it tells how sorrow came upon Lothlórien, Lórien of the Blossom, when the Dwarves awakened evil in the mountains.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It is a long narrow swale between two ranges of mountains, and the Salinas River winds and twists up the center until it falls at last into Monterey Bay. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He thought he could make out a spot where the top of one mountain seemed to jut upward, but it didn't seem very im-pressive. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Other times the mountains and valleys and forest were as still and as quiet as hawks in the air, a mile high, drifting. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been educated in the rhythms of the mountain, rhythms in which change was never fundamental, only cyclical. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It lit the lofty places in the mountains, the ravines filled with pines, the pointy crags of granite. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

There’s also a very practical reason for clambering up and down mountains, or doing anything arduous and unglamorous, what PIH-ers called “scut work.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

And indeed with that last stroke the malice of the mountain seemed to be expended, as if Caradhras was satisfied that the invaders had been beaten off and would not dare to return. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It stood by the side of the dirt road grazing with a small mountain of gear piled beside it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A moment later, a series of explosions crackled across the mountains, followed by the outraged roars of mountain gods. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But it was the Gothic chapel, three hundred feet long and a hundred feet high, a stone mountain, that dominated the scene. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But just like Axel’s mountain of questions before, George’s questions don’t all come out. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They spread across the room like mountain ranges. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The mountains proved a natural border of sorts. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

You cannot see the mountains opposite, you cannot see the houses on the hillside or even the roads or the lake down below. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

I preached it on the mountain at Arafat, I preached it in the busy lobby of the Jedda Palace Hotel. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of those mysterious, oppressive days we sometimes had at Hampden, where the mountains that lowered at the horizon were swallowed up in fog and the world seemed light and empty, dangerous somehow. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the sink was a mountain of empty plastic Kool-Aid pitchers. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“We’ve got a short hike, and I wanna get to the peak of this mountain before the sun disappears. You carry this.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

He stood there for a long time, until the sun vanished behind the saw-toothed mountains and darkness began to creep through the forest. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Frau Elena sits just inside the entryway with a mountain of laundered stockings in her lap and the bottle of kitchen sherry between her feet. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The grand palace rose above the rest of the city like a mountain, the thick snow lying on its tiered roofs like heavy clouds. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She sensed the one mountain among thousands, the one tree among millions—and Sam. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She says, as if to the mountain, “Am I an angel?” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

But turned out they ’as from way up in the mountains. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

We’d be following that truck all the way to the other side of the mountains. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wind blows in unexpected downdrafts and updrafts as it moves over mountain peaks, and this can slam a small plane into the ground. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

You pinched off one mountain and they pinched off another but when something really started every one had to get down off the mountains. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

We rarely visited them—I didn’t even know where most of them lived—and it was even rarer for them to visit the mountain. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to be anywhere near the upper mountain when those punters are up there,” he seethed. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

In its gloom they saw a woman like a mountain crag, the queen— and loathed the sight of her. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you could see him,” Serafina went on, “you would see a black bird with red legs and a bright yellow beak, slightly curved. A bird of the mountains.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She faced the mountains, bathed in sun syrup, her face as still and peaceful as I’ve ever seen a face. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Coming down that mountain, I was a changed woman. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tortoises, mountains holding moons, and needles under the sea? I would not even pretend to understand what you are asking,” the king replied. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Rat looked off to the west, scanning the mountains, as if expecting something to appear on one of the high ridgelines. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At the Brigade, they say this line is to be held. They say they have not broken through badly and that we will hold a line across the mountains from Monte Maggiore.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

"Alfyn will trouble the realm no longer, but some of his company escaped us. We hunted down as many as we could, but it may be that a few will win back to the mountains." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He walked among farmers and mountain people, among the swamp people and fishermen. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the weekend, Quentin hitched a ride across the mountain to study the book for himself. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They weren’t just hills—they were the only mountains in South Dakota. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

A herd of elk had walked down the mountain road onto the main street in the village, meandering past stores as if they were souvenir shopping. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Trees became sparser, and Tristran stared up at the mountains in front of them, and he gasped. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Coalwood, its people, and the mountains were a part of me and I was a part of them and always would be. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But lying above the center that pulled him down closer felt more familiar to him than any embrace he could remember; and he was sinking into the elemental arms of mountain silence. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And then Kino’s brain cleared from its red concentration and he knew the sound—the keening, moaning, rising hysterical cry from the little cave in the side of the stone mountain, the cry of death. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

They kept on walking along the ridge of the mountains. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” said the girl, “maybe. Anyway, you want her, she went south, toward the mountains. We don’ know where. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And then, like a gust of wind, the music picks us up and we are flying in hang gliders like birds over the mountains, swooping in valleys and rising over peaks. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun departed altogether, leaving the mesaland black, but the mountains still glowed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clouds parted just long enough to reveal the top of the mountain below them: a spearhead of black rock jutting from mossy green slopes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He had a number of women friends who lived in the town of Eldoret, to the southeast of the mountain, where the people are poor and live in shacks made of boards and metal. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew it was a large white oak because it is one of the last trees in the mountains to lose its leaves. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun moved downward toward the bare stone teeth of the mountains, and Kino set his direction for a dark and shadowy cleft in the range. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was better, Bronwyn decided, to send Olive up the rock face than down the mountain, and with limp, feverish Claire in one arm, Bronwyn led Olive by the hand to the wall. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The anger made him lightheaded, but he did not talk about this other dimension of their perversion which, like the hunting of the mountain lion, was their idea of “sport” and fun. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She's still clinging to the side of her mountain, just like I'm still wandering lost in my battlefield. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Swaying and stumbling, he made his way toward the top of the mountain. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Jake pointed up at a stream of stars snaking across the sky between the mountains. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In one skeleton’s pelvic area mountain bluebirds had built a nest, and in it the female bird, surrounded by peeping young, stared beadily at the startled boy. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plain was rich with crops; there were many orchards of fruit trees and beyond the plain the mountains were brown and bare. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s sure terrible,” he mused, “to be a parent knowing that there are eagles and goshawks lurking everywhere in these mountains.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

At the top of mountain were ruins, blocks of black granite and marble as big as houses. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

It seemed to be coming from the rocks of the mountain, but it was always distant, as if it were coming from inside the mountain itself. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The plants were not arranged in straight lines, but rather in slow, big curves, like a loose letter S. And of course in the background, at the horizon, rose mountains. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Africa will push northward into Europe, squeezing the Mediterranean out of existence and thrusting up a chain of mountains of Himalayan majesty running from Paris to Calcutta. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The green mountains here feel like they’re breathing, like the mist all around us is the air they exhale to the clouds above. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

But those bare feet that knew the feel of the mountain also felt something else. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He rode the mare west again, in the direction the mountain lion had come from. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a bay below and mountains above. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

My house was narrowly fitted between two mountains and a creek, but there was a small clearing behind Mom’s rose garden. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The jeep trails do not cross it, nor even go close to it, for the mountains around it are forbidding, too steep and rocky even for jeeps, and are covered with thorny thickets. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

We pass through small rural towns nestled in the Pennsylvania mountains. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were the lights of a car on the road climbing the mountain. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I eased my foot out from under Dandy’s head so he wouldn’t be disturbed and came off the steps and stood alone in the deep blackness of the backyard, the old mountains looming over me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had found my mountain of gold, after all, and it had not been nuggets but people who had made it up: people like the Company and the Whidaws. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma thought we should be in school and not, as she put it, “roaming the mountain like savages.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

From the kitchen window, Aziz could watch each day as the snowcap marched down the mountains till winter. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It stands below the dam on that flat spot the stream carved before it took its present course down the mountain. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sometimes thought of this bit of mountain as the tip of the iceberg of the rest of the world. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped to look at them, jagged and red peaked, looming there like a distant mountain range. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed ecstatic mountains and floundered in the rocky darkness between the peaks. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Not knowing exactly where I was, I looked down out of the mountains to get my bearings. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sat on the desert of west Texas, barren mountains rising behind. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It was they who dared ride beyond the Wall, sweeping through the haunted forest and the icy mountain heights west of the Shadow Tower, fighting wildlings and giants and monstrous snow bears. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then he mounted and rode alone back to his camp to begin the turning of the army, all the wagons and all the guns, down the narrow mountain road that led to Gettysburg. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them in long swift lines came all their vassals from the northern mountains, speeding on a gathering wind. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It felt especially strange to intrude on her great-aunt in such a vulnerable moment, just a smallish lump under a mountain of blankets, only an old kerosene lantern to keep her company. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Under Venda tribal law, every boy, before being admitted into malehood, had to attend a “mountain school,” usually situated in wooded, mountainous areas remote from the villages. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mountains hovered over everything like benevolent, serene elephants. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while, the view out the window changed from woods, thick with pine trees and ferns and moss-covered rocks, to a wide-open view of the mountains stretching on forever in the distance. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Between the rock lasers, the sheer mountain face, and its completely obscured city on top, the Ridgefolk really did seem to discourage visitors. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

As Matt approached the cleft at the top of the mountains, he began to hear another puzzling noise. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fringed by mountains, the basin was about a hundred miles long from north to south and perhaps half that size from east to west. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t sleep, so I took my board up the mountain to watch the sunrise. They went right over me, twenty hovercars at once coming across the ridge. But what’s happening now?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Then come to realize that you’re making mountains out of molehills. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Not scared so much as paralyzed; hung up here immovable on the top of a diminishing, moving mountain. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The one mountain among thousands, the one tree among millions, and the one Sam Gribley were pulling her home. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It took hours for them to dry and meanwhile I was almost naked, on an island, in the middle of a mountain storm. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He could haunt Montana or shack up in the mountains of Southern California. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We went by O’Dell’s house, picked up two shovels and a pick, and kept going down past Cape Coalwood to where the road turned back up into the mountains. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not entirely beyond the realm of possibility that mountain lions could have survived undetected in New England. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Every day Elya carried the little piglet up the mountain and sang to it as it drank from the stream. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Directly in front of them, lying against the side of the mountain, Sophie could see a massive round stone. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did the mountain erode in all the rain? Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a break in the mountains on the right bank, a flattening-out with a low shore line that I thought must be Cannobio. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Trying to find his way out, Bilbo went on down to the roots of the mountains, until he could go no further. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“We could, you know, go to the mountains.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Stupid columns. Some people claim I created the whole Strait of Gibraltar by shoving mountains apart. Some people say the mountains are the pillars. What a bunch of Augean manure. The pillars are pillars.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In the mural, An Aztec warrior Is standing on a mountain With a machete And a band of feathers On his noble head. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I glanced back as we rode along, usually they were looking at each other, not at the fall leaves or the distant blue mountains. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

For five days the previous October the “power fire,” as it was called, had roared across these mountains, consuming seventeen thousand acres of pine and cedar. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The rocks stretched for miles, rising into jagged, fang-like mountains that pierced the cloudy sky. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But they were far off still; it was just that the mountains were immense, and with every hour that they came closer, they seemed yet more inconceivably high. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They were all grateful that tradition called for the ruler to mount the cliff alone, for the mountain can only use its powers for one person at a time. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Somebody in a shelter a couple of days before had told us how delightful—how gorgeously amenable to hiking—the mountains of the Virginia Blue Ridge were. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The wind carried volcanic ash and forest fire ash and ash that no one wanted to identify down the slope of the mountain and deposited it in the streets. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

When the earth quakes, mountains fall and rivers alter their courses. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Unusually for a dragon, it dwells in valleys rather than mountains. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger hurried to the high wall behind which Capricorn's garden lay: vegetable beds, fruit trees, and herbs, protected by the wall from the cold wind that sometimes blew from the nearby mountains. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I’m on the plane, flying or being flown, westward toward the watery coast, the postcard mountains. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They range the field and they rove the flood, And they climb the mountain’s crest; Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don’t know how to rest. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her name was Sandy Hill Pittman, and nobody on the mountain cut a higher profile or generated as much gossip. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

With these as a bracer for the day, Frightful and I would stamp out into the snow and reel down the mountain. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mountain was not long for this world. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or even west, to the mountains, and then south over the high passes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The stars were circling the peaks of the mountains, dipping into the cane fields belonging to the sugar mill. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Above the Kell, the Great Wood continued unabated to the northernmost edge of the map, which was marked with mountains: the Northerness. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Whether one or both of them reached the summit before being swallowed by the mountain and into legend has been fiercely debated ever since. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The whale was a mountain so high she could not see the cliffs beyond, only the sunlit clouds. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Long ago I owned a little ranch in the Santa Cruz mountains in California. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently, the sustained and coordinated effort they required could be compelled only by the authority of religious faith—a faith that almost literally demanded the moving of mountains. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually she flew over 426, perched on the one hemlock on the one mountain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The recent rains had filled hollows in the rocks, and the little folds of the mountain were green with bear grass. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was bright over the mountains and sent a shimmering glow across the yard, making shadows that snaked around the dogwood tree and crept along the garden fence. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Before sunrise the next day, Sam hurried down- mountain to the big sycamore, jumped for the lowest limb, and swung hand over hand to the trunk. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

They were greeted on all sides by sparkling blue water, soft sandy beaches, and lush green mountains. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

A mile down Main was a large hollow in the mountains, formed where two creeks intersected. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Together, they crossed the field in the direction of the mountains. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

In any case, it was obvious that all of my teammates were as excited as I was about the prospect of kicking their crampons into a genuine mountain come the morning. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I stood on our roof looking at the mountains, at the alleys where we used to play cricket, the apricot trees coming into bloom. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

After eating, I helped Mom do the dishes while Dad got rid of the messy mountain of empty crab shells we’d left on the table. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“We all know that doesn’t work,” Seven said, and they began to walk through the field and toward the mountains. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Down the mountain slopes it lay, spread before them with its green fields, its orchards, its forests, its rivers and lakes, where white sails drifted. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

And the birds which spent the day in the brushland came at night to the little pools that were like steps in the mountain cleft. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had the appearance of a mountain hanging in the sky a hand’s breadth above the horizon, and covered in cloud. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

As I pushed aside the mountain laurel, I saw three two-by-fours and some planks lying across several of the lower limbs of the tree. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to the old legend, she lurked in the dark forests that covered the slopes of St. Helens, the mountain that rose up over this whole valley. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

The wind carried away the sound of the decoy gyropters, which had now disappeared around the flank of the mountain, and no one watching spoke. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The ship’s carpenter was just as she’d imagined him: the round mountains of his shoulders; the brown, sun-lined face and the bandanna tied around his forehead; the splintery abused hands spotted with scars and pitch. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

We’d arrived on the outskirts of a little ski town nestled in the mountains. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Assuming a mountain 5,000 feet high with 500,000 million cubic feet of mass—roughly the size of Mount Washington—a single stream would level it in about 500 million years. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The roads on it were marked with velvet black ink, rivers a pearly blue, mountains a speckled green. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

And some of them, whom I had wanted to mention in particular, some of them had got themselves absolutely determined about that mountain. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Long aqueducts conveyed water from the distant mountains across the lake and into the city. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The smell of clay and mountain sage stirred old memories. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was pretty positive he wouldn’t be in favor of people going close to the mountain. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

He flipped thousands of omelets and fried mountains of hash browns. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It was stacked with small mountains of pottery—not celadon work, but the very dark brown stoneware known as onggi, for storing food. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The lack of craters and mountains strongly suggests that a thick ice crust, perhaps 100 kilometers deep, jackets the silicate interior. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Alps of the Southern Ocean were just as formidable as any mountain range, and they were unmapped. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Silent in the moonlight, it was like some patient prehistoric creature that had crawled down from the mountains: dumb, lonely, biding its time, untroubled by the articles of playground equipment which surrounded it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Bando, Zella, and Miss Turner were going to join us for a wild turkey Frightful caught, but a big snowstorm struck last night, and no one got up the mountain. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a four-mile walk up through the village and down the other side of the mountain to the school. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

On this lonely mountain road, I felt sorry for him. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mountains that surrounded us allowed only a narrow sliver of sky to view. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She flew up and down the river, looping and spiraling; finally she turned and flew to Sam’s mountain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

A small mountain range loomed in the distance, and I could see the amoeba-shaped forest at its base. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And his father prayed, his head lifted up and his voice going on like a distant mountain stream. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

His big hands and huge, shoulders and bushy heard made him look like he lived in the mountains with bears. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The mountains, towering above her after three nights’ travel inland, seemed suddenly crystal clear, their snowy peaks catching the last rays of the setting sun. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

In the distance, the soft, blue silhouette of the mountain ranges begins to appear. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘But there is only one way through the mountains that will bring me to the coastlands before all is lost. That is the Paths of the Dead.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I’m out of breath by the time he scurries into the tiny hole at the red mountain’s base. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He grabbed hold of Buttercup again and hobbled up the mountain path and out of sight. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever the cause, New York soon smelled like a garbage pit mixed with a fresh mountain of manure. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon he came up the mountain to tell me he didn’t understand Zella. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, in rocky terrain, he would wedge a branch under a heavy stone and make it roll down a mountain toward his enemies. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A kid, out here alone in this storm on a mountain. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Back then, we believed we’d be in these mountains as guerrillas before the year was over. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A long beat passed before I realized that Breashears wasn’t talking about hauling a body off the mountain; he and his companions were bringing Beck down alive. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Famously, the Inka used foot-thick cables to make suspension bridges across mountain gorges. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Before we went to the mountains, I felt sure Miss Love would tell me everything that happened while I was gone. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And Denman, to his credit, was ultimately willing to acknowledge his shortcomings when they arrived on the slopes of the mountain and reality stared him in the face. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Water from a rain puddle or a mountain stream would quench his thirst and cool his hot dry throat. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It got bigger and bigger as he walked farther into the mountain. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere, behind the brightly colored packaging, underneath the labels covered with information, there is a mountain of corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Far below I could hear a truck trying to climb the mountain, its chains slapping the snow. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In cosmology, as the journalist Geoffrey Carr has suggested, we have "a mountain of theory built on a molehill of evidence." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was a hot night and there was a good deal going on up in the mountains. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“We humans will never know how meadows or mountains smell, but deer and horses and pigs do.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was Lin Nai-Nai’s own design: a picture of a mountain, a thin black line climbing up to a scallop of clouds. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The map showed just three tarns in those mountains, remnant glacial ponds, all off the trail, but otherwise no indication of water at all. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

A low range of mountains made a bowl of a valley cut through by a beautiful river. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The mountains of North Korea are crisscrossed with swift rivers, large and small. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Candy, toffees, lollipops, black licorice, mountains of gumdrops, and other treats spilled out onto the floor, unfolding like a rainbow in front of us. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Here, now, I glimpse ancient shapes of growing trees, ferns, rolling hills and mountains. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He felt humbled by the size of the full moon, by the chill wind that swept wide across the foothills of the mountain. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Forty-nine men and boys martyred in those mountains. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I used to think my Baba could change the shape of teeth as easily as the great hero Rostam could move mountains. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The surge moved like a wallowing mountain range, roiling to a whiteness at its peaks. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The mountains were little more than dark shadows on the horizon. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

A mountain of trash lay scattered along the steps. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

How say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mountain shook with the raging of the Firedrake. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

That Sunday, we piled into Gus’s car and headed down the mountain to church. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He read: “ ‘Residents of Delhi, in the Catskill Mountains, report that a wild boy, who lives off deer and nuts, is hiding out in the mountains. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stupidity of this sent Mr. Jacket right out of my mind, and I bolted down the valley to my mountain. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow they were able to tell their friends that there was a free lunch on my side of the mountain, and more and more arrived. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They finished it together, with a big rainbow arching wide above all the mountain ranges. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

In 1865 this mountain was officially named by the Royal Geographical Society. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The horror of the stone and of the hideous shadow over the moon was fading, things left behind in the mists of the mountains or in a passing dream. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

In January 1996, Fischer led a high-profile fund-raising ascent of Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa, that netted half a million dollars for the charity CARE. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Would she ever again climb a mountain, or build a lodge, or play with a goose? The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Lame songs about mountains and clouds and rainbows, my uncle said. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

They didn’t drive all the way into Asheville, a city Toby always thought of as being the top of the mountain. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The bus moves slow out of the city until we can see the mountains, and above that, so much blue sky. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The snow was covering everything, burying the mountain lion’s tracks and obliterating his scent. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

So I heave a mountain range at them. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“We have to walk from here up to the mountains,” Pa tells us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It shimmered pink, and the perfume was indescribable—rose, or mountain laurel. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

In four minutes Frightful covered the air miles to her mountain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“These old mountains can weigh anybody down. When you get away from them...well, there’s a whole other world out there. You’ll see.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“That was the spirits from the mountains,” he said knowingly. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And there, on the mountain whose top seemed to touch the moon, the old woman found peace and contentment. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The thought climbs on top of the mountain of frustration and plants a flag, clear and loud and so surprising to me that I don’t even understand it. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The air was filled with the dripping sounds of mountain runoff and the sloshing sounds of flooded streams. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the shape of a silver salmon, Loki was swept over the waterfall, and he vanished into the depths of the deep pool at the base of the mountain. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I dared not go far over the hilltops, lest I lose my backtrack; it was wild country, steep, full of creeks and ravines, rising fast to the cloud-haunted mountains eastward. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Once more, amid the breeze, the shouting, the slanting sunlight on the high mountain, was shed that glamour, that strange invisible light of friendship, adventure, and content. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I recognize the far-off shapes of the mist-shrouded Imbabura, the man mountain, and Cota- cachi, his wife, who is covered in diamond frost that he has given her as a gift. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But maybe—I dared to hope it—maybe her eyes would light up and she’d smile as if just seeing me was like mountain sunshine breaking through the gray mists of morning. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The evening star was so bright that it seemed to flare and crumple as it sank toward the western mountains. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘They will look for him from the White Tower,’ he said, ‘but he will not return from mountain or from sea.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Sam’s mountain was their last rendezvous on their trip north. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

As I watched, the side of the mountain exploded. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The loggers shot the bears and mountain lions for sport. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Donatelli took him to a training camp in the mountains for ten days to try to get him in shape for an out-of-town fight. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bakers wife claims they’re sent to camps in the mountains. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Catching an air current that took her up and over a mountain, she looked down on acres of open fields, meadows, and grassy clearings. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I’m no longer on the mountain; I’m back on the train. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Now, let’s assume you know what you want to say, and the idea in your head is as clear as a mountain stream. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

So they sat, the rocking, tapping, impervious Roger and Ralph, fuming; round them the close sky was loaded with stars, save where the mountain punched up a hole of blackness. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Somebody had clear-cut the top of the mountain more than a decade ago, and the forest still hadn’t recovered. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sun is gentle and golden at this time of day, melting like butter behind the mountains. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The villages form a ring of human settlement around the volcano, and the ring is steadily closing around the forest on its slopes, a noose that is strangling the wild habitat of the mountain. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By now, the mountain surge had drawn all the water along the entire coast of Maine up into itself, and it was no longer wallowing. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Two hours into the climb, the wind kicked up so fiercely that it was all he could do to hunch down and cling to the rock, praying he would not beblown off the mountain. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I had been home about a week when the mountain was gripped by an intense cold spell. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And while views of the surrounding mountains and deserts were spectacular, the army built high fences around the entire lab—making the scientists feel like prisoners. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mountain peak with smoke pouring from the top, like a kettle set too long to boil. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“A bunker, maybe. Having something like that would make sense up in the mountains. And we’re going there, boy. Sooner rather than later.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Instead, it took place in a small meadow by the foot of the mountain, in front of the airship. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Yellowstone, I hardly need point out, is sensationally beautiful, with plump, stately mountains, bison-specked meadows, tumbling streams, a sky-blue lake, wildlife beyond counting. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The mountain we are from has been called many names—Endless Mountain, Moon-Holding Peak, even Never-Ending Mountain. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Hermione had become a bit more relaxed about breaking rules since Harry and Ron had saved her from the mountain troll, and she was much nicer for it. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Salinas was an experienced hiker and all he had to do was follow a well-defined trail down a mountain to a parking lot. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I had become very thin with so much climbing in the mountains and only one meal a day. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The scene disappeared in the fog, but when the mountain god bellowed again, other numina answered in the distance, their voices echoing through the valleys. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I would love to be able to smell a mountain and follow my nose to it.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took the medicine into the Zuni mountains. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She’d been chomping on hers ever since we started to climb the mountain on this curving stretch of road. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was really cut into the mountain, she saw now. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Emily Sue lived in a house built on the side of a nearly vertical mountain across the creek and not more than a hundred yards from Big Creek High School. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him were bookcases and file cabinets and mountains upon mountains of paperwork. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I didn’t believe Tyler would really go to college, that he would ever abandon the mountain to join the Illuminati. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“We’re from up the mountain, and we’re on our way to the City of Bright Moonlight. Do you know where we could stay the night?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Mark hadn’t noticed the walls of the mountains to their sides getting taller, and the slope was gradual enough that he didn’t really feel like they were descending very quickly. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

So I thought about that one: After I decided to go to Reardan, I felt like an invisible mountain gorilla scientist. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some people claimed that he was a holy man who had come down from the mountains to save the city in its darkest hour. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He circled the big hemlock, looking up among the limbs for his friend of the mountain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

With the mountains, warm and piney and polka-dotted with flowers we would never have seen from the window of a car. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood there at the top of her stoop, which thirty seconds ago felt like standing at the top of a mountain, and I crumbled, shocked, as the glow of the day faded to nothing. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It had not occurred to me that there would be frost in the ground in May, but then, I had not been on a mountain before. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it never stopped, this rush of bright water from the mountains, these flashes and chunks of light from the sun. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Jon noted Frightful’s interest in the pigeons and rats, and on a bright but chilly morning he carried her to the top of his mountain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Two hundred yards upstream, toward the mountains, there was a circular grove of weeping willow trees. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

People were enjoying classical music, certainly, but what this mountain of material demonstrated was a near fatal shift: in classical music away from the new to the old. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Have you ever bathed in a mountain river that is running in shallow cataracts over red and blue and yellow stones with the sun on it? The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

They got out of the truck, and they all stood in the parking lot for a moment, staring up at the mountain. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Signora Divino, I see her in her yard in her pink bedjacket, gazing up at the mountains and listening to the bells. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, there was a mountain of logs facing me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The withered land and the people’s wasis and the smaller mountains spread below me tiny and bound to the earth. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Unwilling to suffer a humiliating defeat, cut down one by one as they tried to break through the cavalry, they mounted their horses and charged off the face of the mountain. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“You are a giant, and big and strong. Why don't you use this auger to drill into the side of the mountain?” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Their leader was big as a mountain, moving with his forest toward the guard. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

With her soft Appalachian accent, Justice leaves no doubt that she is a local girl, steeped in the culture of the old family cemeteries that dot the mountains here in East Kentucky. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then, he closed his book, stood up, and began to walk up the mountain, leaving me staring behind him. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He didn't like the idea of climbing a mountain with nothing but green bananas in his belly. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The sun crossed the cold blue sky and then moved down to the southwest, gilding the clouds and tinting the vapor around the mountain every shade of cream and scarlet, of apricot and orange. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The sun was finally going down over the mountains, turning the sky blood red. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I began to look down my nose at the world’s highest mountain. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

They followed the ridge to the mountain and climbed all the way up to the craggy peak just in time to see the sunrise. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The happy dog bounced down the mountain, sticking close to Sam’s side. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He had borrowed a car, an old pea-green Plymouth with a broken passenger-side window, and we drove through the mountains to a nearby town, stopping at a roadside bar. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually the path grew broader and more flat as it reached the bottom of the mountain and turned toward Wisdom. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Partially hidden in a valley on the outskirts of the Golden Crescent, near the intimidating mountain cliffs of what Chestnutt called Isihlangu, it was surrounded by seven spiraling towers made of ivory and gold. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“They were in the mountain laboratory. The young enthusiastic scientists had all ganged up on that cynical old scientist who didn’t want to help.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was no harder to attack up a mountain than on the level, I argued. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

They were making for the mountain, but on a course to take them past it and beyond. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Urals, Balkans, Pyrénées—whole mountain ranges vanished under my negligence. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I waited, I saw Ali Shekari, who was trying to fix a bicycle he had found in the landfill behind Hotel Barba, under the mountains of trash. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Its diameter is about half the earth’s, its surface desert-like, marked by huge mountains and deep canyons. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Believe it or not, the mountain had come to Mohammed; their school had come to them. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is pitch black in the morning when I set off down the mountain for the school bus, leaving Ob behind, watching me out the picture window. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘But the mountains are ahead of us,’ said Pippin. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

So did most of the Indian laborers, felled by being worked to exhaustion in a hot, humid land twelve thousand feet below their cool mountain home. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m lucky. We received a letter this morning that snows in the mountains prevented Hollin from coming home. He’s stuck at school until after his spring term, and he’s beside himself.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I am beaten, I am going to die, he thought just before he fell onto the mountain path. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“But it could get cold. It’s very changeable in the mountains.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

In particular, federal authority was questioned and tested west of the mountains from Canada to Spanish Florida. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

From inside the elephant, the bird had sounded like it could convince a mountain to turn into a volcano. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And not without regret, she turned away from the pull of the starry sky, and far below her, she saw the fortress, a mountain of white snow. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Above the cricket, towers that seemed like mountains of light rose up into the night sky. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gilly turned to face her, this mountain smelling of Johnson’s baby powder and perspiration. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Professor Kylmer had a research grant from the government and worked part of the time at a special laboratory they had built for him, not at Cornell but in the mountains about twenty miles away. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I peered over the rail, looking for the bus that I knew was still somewhere down there on the side of the mountain, but I couldn’t see it. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I dream of being alone on the top of a mountain, surveying the land around me, greens and yellows—and the sun directly above, pressing my shadow into a tight ball around my legs. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Met Bong says Pol Pot needed the boys to go and live in the mountains so they are closer to the other soldiers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost her whole life had been spent with Sam on a mountain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The mountain was dark blue and all around it the sky was gushing and glistening with light. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We shot out of the mountain like a bottle rocket aimed at the stars. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

One day Mars Bar would lead Maniac down the river, down the tracks, past the railroad gondolas, each with its mountain of coal, to the rolling mill at the steel plant where his father worked. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, he liked Madame Zeroni and would be glad to carry her up the mountain. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Starting from the sandy southern point, the island grew wider and greener and hillier until it finally jutted up into the rocky cone of the mountain. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“To turn around that close to the summit . . . ,” Hall mused with a shake of his head on May 6 as Kropp plodded past Camp Two on his way down the mountain. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

But beyond the souvenir kiosks in the cathedral square, most of the 44,000 inhabitants of Chamula scratch a living from the dry mountain slopes outside town. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The rain had cleared and now the sun was sliding into a towering mountain of clouds over Dactyl Hill. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

"The rangers say it's just woods and mountains and frozen lakes, with lots of snow and ice." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"If they find me, they will tell me to go. But you stay. And if this happens, every breath I take will be to move the mountain between us." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Back home in them mountains, I never learnt no reading.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had heard stories about artillery fire taking off the entire top of a mountain and then having the Congs come out of the ground. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

You have to picture what it was like to see that great mountain of flesh suddenly uncurl and rise into the sky. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can still see the mountains, but only over the rooftops. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

What was behind those scary green mountains to the west? The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was breathing heavily from the effort of the hike up the mountain face when he reached the spot where Trina loved to go for escape. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

A small mountain of shakes soon surrounded him in the McDonalds’ barnyard. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Arnold would have returned to the mountain again this year, except that she was seven months pregnant with their first child. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear leaned forward and pushed the cart up the mountain path. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I also found on Google the next day that Popocatepetl is really a volcano, and the name is literally Nahuatl for “smoking mountain.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Thank goodness,” I said, quite earnestly, too, and took my leave of him and the mountain. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It flew silently across the sky and then fell behind a mountain. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

If she could make it to the mountain before the hovercars completed their slow turns, she would be safe. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

They moved into the house when they came down from the mountains, as the house had simply been abandoned. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Anyone can see that. But I didn’t know it was that good. You must have a great drain under your land from the mountains. You know how to pick land, Mr. Trask.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

You could face away from the barracks, look past a tiny rapids toward the darkening mountains, and for a while not be a prisoner at all. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

After we got over the mountain, he never had a chance in his old rattletrap. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A majestic green mountain sat in harmony with the deepening blue sky, the sun spreading its light for the last time before it set. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

New trees would lean toward me at mountain angles, but when I looked for the village, it would have vanished under the clouds. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fist sat with a few of the more alert vlei people and applied himself to a mountain of food. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason the mountains to the west of the Salinas Valley have a thicker skin of earth on them than have the eastern foothills, so that the grass is richer there. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once more, Rat searched the mountains, then he sat back and closed his eyes. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon he is taking Marie-Laure along on various errands again, teasing her about the mountains of sugar she spoons into her coffee or bantering with warders about the superiority of his brand of cigarettes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

His feet tapped show tunes at breakfast, and during dinner he often pointed at the mountain, his eyes shining, and described where he would lay the pipes to bring water down to the house. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He smiled but did not tell the kids that he had seen the Delhi falcon feeding the third chick in a box on Sam Gribley’s mountain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Mindful of the red-tailed hawks, she flew north to get beyond their territory before heading for the mountain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

All around him, on every horizon, the mountains reached no higher. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I must do is run down the mountain with my arms stretched out to either side, for balance, and throw myself in front of the Princess’s car. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

With Muhammad Ali you see a mighty mountain, greater than Everest, and can’t no one knock down a mountain. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the town with the hill and the old castle above it in a cup in the hills with the mountains beyond, brown mountains with a little green on their slopes. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He could slice Open a mountain With that machete, And with the wave of his arm Send our enemies tumbling. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All the woes at Elsinore of late have left their marks upon my weary bones. I feel as old as the mountains,” she groaned, lowering herself onto the bed. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Because Woodall had already received the newspaper’s money, however, this act was purely symbolic and had almost no impact on his actions on the mountain. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

When a mission took them to the mountains, they carried mosquito netting, machetes, canvas tarps, and extra bug juice. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just a few days earlier, across the mountains in Idaho, an eighteen-year-old driver had been sending a text message when she lost control of her car, jettisoning a fifteen-year-old passenger through the windshield. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The old people waved once, slid down the mountain, and disappeared around a tree. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It leaves an ugly dash across my drawing, right through the middle of a lopsided mountain. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Not because the conch call had felt weak, as if it couldn’t even reach to the tops of the mountains, let alone carry our message all the way to the sky world. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

My folks is from the hills, not the mountains.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Hush. You can only climb one mountain at a time. Come upstairs and eat some dinner. We’ll think better with frill bellies. I promise I’ll tell you all I know.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watching his fiery body rise between the distant mountains, I could feel him in my own beating heart, spreading love throughout my chest and warming my entire being. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

But even as I say it, the music softens and the mountain fades, as I am pulled back through the desert, into darkness, and into my bed. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

At last they came to the ruins of an ancient temple carved into the side of a mountain. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Bolverkr slid in snake shape through the hole in the mountain until the hole ended and he found himself in a huge cavern. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

We went through the forest and the road came out and turned along a rise of land, and out ahead of us was a rolling green plain, with dark mountains beyond it. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The ride into the mountain had branched into all directions of time. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I know. But someone blew up a mountain,” I answer. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Far away in the tumble of country that lay at the foot of the mountain was the dell from which they had started to climb the pass. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

To the mountains, Elias, a faint voice whispers in my head, the last shred of sanity I have. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I gave them different heights to make it more realistic, just as I do whenever I draw the mountains. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

His sunglasses stuck to his mountain of gelled hair, and his collar was popped so high, it shot up across his cheeks and almost covered his ears. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He took a deep breath of cold mountain air: there were no boundaries; the world below and the sand paintings inside became the same that night. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Doesn’t have to be about mountain climbing. Just needs at least one scene where some dudes are fighting and somebody gets thrown off a cliff.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Although Park was well traveled in North Korea and in China, he confided to Shin that he knew little about the steep, snowy, thinly populated mountains outside the fence. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He looked up momentarily at his comrade from behind a staggering mountain of scrumptious food, and pointed to his leg, which was swathed in a hugely exaggerated bandage. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A tree cracked behind us, and then there was the unmistakable sound of steel slamming into packed mountain earth. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

And there was a sound like mountain wind, a sound so high it could drive you crazy. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lanre leading the way, they came to a high place in the mountains where they could look out over the land. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They picked shushrooms until the sun began to dip between the mountains. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Frightful looked out at nothing as she listened to old, familiar sounds on the mountain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

When we get home, there’s a mountain of giant sneakers by our front door. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The mountains on the other side of the lake were all white and the plain of the Rhone Valley was covered. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

A moment later, a pair of polished cowboy boots appeared, followed by a mountain of a man dressed in a suit and ten-gallon hat. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I plodded joylessly on to the top of the mountain. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“August 21 “There are stones everywhere on this mountain, as Dad well knows, and so it seemed sensible to make the millhouse out of stones. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one mountain in thousands, the one tree among millions, and Sam were straight ahead. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

A mountain of hard-boiled eggs that turned into children when my hands touched them, dark-eyed children whose faces begged me for a handful of powdered milk, my clothes, whatever I had. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hollered up to the mountain, hoping the wind would carry my words to the hiding peak. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

One morning, the Ngoni came up the mountain dressed in animal skins, holding massive shields in one hand and spears in the other. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I removed my now useless mask, planted my ice ax into the mountain’s frozen hide, and hunkered on the ridge. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

After a few hundred miles the plane ascends to the mountains—and again the historical picture has changed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Soon there would be noise and chores and a mountain of white sheets with my name on them to wash, hang dry, and iron. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why, given how terrible I smelled after running laps or doing mountain climbers, or even playing Net Sports with overly aggressive players like Fatty Bolger and Chip Cusumano. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

They move slowly north behind the Blue Ridge, using the mountains to screen their movements. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the buildings were sheathed in white plaster, making the city sparkle in the mountain sun. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

If a hiker gets lost in the mountains, people will coordinate a search. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. But he’s got it. And hospitals suck. And treatments suck. And friends watching you be sick sucks. And watching your parents cry sucks. So maybe he just wants to climb a mountain and disappear.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He can turn effortlessly from the carnage of war into the felicity of a woman washing her hair in a mountain stream. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far down, at the very bottom of the mountain path, the man in black could be seen running. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

A mile thick to start with, the Ice here rises and thickens, trying to flow over the mountains and choke the fire-mouths with silence. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He sat awhile with his head down, then looked up at the mountains and the rocks and trees. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Norwegians know all about witches, for Norway, with its black forests and icy mountains, is where the first witches came from. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

They were obviously no longer safe in their little mountain abode. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“From the mountains,” she said, after an article in one of the dusty almanacs. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

So what could have broken through a mountain nicknamed the Shield? Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And the bodies were an aspiration, lucrative as Indian land, a veranda, a beautiful wife, or a summer home in the mountains. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Soon winter rode on the back of the wind as it swept down the mountain slopes toward the village. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“We say that there are ninety-nine different mountains in Nuba and each has its own tribe,” he said. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It was not possible to cry on the remote and foggy mountain. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They proceeded along the mountain path to an open space. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Terrified by the eagle, Screamer had flown to an oak tree at the top of Perry’s mountain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“You’re now an adult,” explained the old woman on the first one, which happened halfway through my stay on the mountain. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned and looked behind him and saw that the slope on which he was standing belonged to a range of far higher mountains. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Jungle covered those mountains, except for a village clearing. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rain poured from the black sky upon the empty door- yard, into the canal and among the blue mountains. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a minute the mountains were the same dusky lavender as her sand-skimming skirt. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

When autumn touched the trees he had got as far as Omaha, and without question or reason or thought he hurried west and south, fled through the mountains and arrived with relief in Southern California. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A range of hills rose on the far side, and now that he’d gained some height, Lee saw that they might more truthfully be called mountains. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we wound south through the canyon toward Julia’s house, the sun dipped down and the shadows of the mountains stretched their cloaks across the snaking roadway. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I watched as Maribel got off, walking down the steps like a deer carefully picking its way down the side of a mountain. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

They were sent back over the mountains on a donkey with a head at each end. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

There was a high dome-capped mountain on the other shore a way ahead. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She was sacrificed from atop a mighty mountain, the highest place a human could reach, in the hopes that her pure and beautiful spirit would speak to Inti on behalf of the people. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

With Beck draping an arm over Athans’s shoulders and Burleson grasping the Texan’s climbing harness tightly from behind, they shuffled carefully down the mountain. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

"Gunthor son of Gum, hear me. My House is rich and powerful. If the Stone Crows will see us safely through these mountains, my lord father will shower you with gold." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The fellow must have grown up in a truly remote location, probably tucked far back into the mountains. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“The top of this mountain must reach the moon.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He left the city and climbed back up the mountain to Bithynios. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Whisper whisper whisper there, like a breeze whisper whisper whisper no words and far away but hovering, a storm cloud behind a mountain whisper whisper whisper. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I suppose that’s the only safe thing. But it’s a cumbersome beast. I don’t see the four of us lugging it along some of those mountain trails.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then we started up the first of the mountains. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t tell other kids, because they wouldn’t get it; he was too small, too sickly to climb mountains. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Summer was cool in the mountains, and the mountain people were kind as lonesome people are kind. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There is no lake nearby, no mountain, no view of anything much except houses and apartment buildings. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Mounds and mounds of junk and waste stretched out like a mountain range. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, he said, if, as Galileo claimed, there were mountains on the moon, Bruno had been partly right—maybe the moon was inhabited, and life was not confined to the Earth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Tam Lin gave me maps and food and showed me how to climb mountains. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if someone tailed them up the mountain and decided to wait until morning to strike? Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

As we pass the lake and twist around the S curves that lead up the mountain, I push thoughts of Charlie out of my mind. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

In confusion and despair, Selitos watched night settle in the mountains. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes, thought about the mountains on the coast. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Because of the Taliban, the whole world is claiming we are terrorists. This is not the case. We are peace-loving. Our mountains, our trees, our flowers—everything in our valley is about peace.” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Bill is a very nice fellow, amiable and full of knowledge, experienced on mountain trails, and with the inestimable bonus that he is a gifted orthopedic surgeon—just what you want in a dangerous wilderness. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Something rustled in the mountain of cotton, and a withered hand, with nails black and sharp, rose feebly out of the white fluff. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Rumors spread that the soldiers made Pa a prisoner on a faraway mountain and tortured him every day. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stumbled into the road, shading their eyes, the trunk of fire and smoke tearing out of the mountains like God’s finger stuck suddenly toward the sky. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The thin winter snow was already gone from the high peaks, and the sacred mountain was a dusty, dry blue color. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dishes Washed and floor swept and trash not a mountain to climb. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Hall met her as he passed through Pheriche on his way to the mountain, and he was immediately smitten. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

‘The road under the mountains is a dark road, and there are places narrow and steep which he cannot tread, even if we can.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The clouds hang heavy over the low, flat roof of the colegio, hiding the mountains, giving everything a dull metallic sheen. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stretched out, closed his eyes, and dreamed he was falling from a mountain of ice toward a cold sea. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She said they were headed for the mountains to hunt caribou. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe in a little Switzerland town with the high glaciers and the mountains all around. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“But it took me a couple of hours to come down the mountain to you. Thought you were an animal at first. Then the sun hit your mask.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

From somewhere down in the woods, a bullfrog croaked, sending an echo across the mountains. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Vermont’s mountains are comparatively soft and rolling, and its profusion of dairy farms gives it a more welcoming and inhabited feel. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

They circle all around it; sometimes you can’t even see the mountain for the clouds. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning, Connor blinks and rolls over and stretches his arms, his small knuckles grazing the headboard behind his mountain of pillows. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It had been expanded, improved upon, excavated and tunneled into by successive Masters of Stormhold, until the original mountain peak now raked the sky like the ornately carved tusk of some great, grey, granite beast. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The sun had dipped behind the mountains, and soon darkness would fall. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Nor are they grateful for the game and timber that the mountains so generously provide. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lake seemed to wash away the troubles of the past, and the grand old mountains to look benignly down upon them saying, “Little children, love one another.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

So here you are—newly released from prison—homeless, unemployed, and carrying a mountain of debt. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In late 2005, with winter rolling into the mountains, Shin decided to make his move. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

So each side was aware that the other was also making its way toward the cave in the mountains. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The warblers arrived, the trees turned summer green, and June burst over the mountain. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

This suggested that as the molten Earth had cooled, it had become wrinkled in the manner of a baked apple, creating ocean basins and mountain ranges. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I want to climb every last mountain, row down every last river, explore every last cave, cross every last bridge, run across every last beach, visit every last town, city, country. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In foreground, on a mountain, is an exultant human being. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It stood in a crease of land where the desert ended and the mountain began, forming a wind tunnel. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I tell you, Zola is not resembling other young peoples up here in the mountains. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

There are even suggestions that mountains as far south as the Shackleton Range in Antarctica may be fragments of the Appalachian family. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“It happened on the flat-topped mountain a day south of here, and the girl lived in the ruined village across the stream.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you wanted a great balanced piece of work, did you go to the mountains behind Toledo? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

In a hundred miles we passed two oases, the first at Olancha, the second around Lone Pine, a small, tree-filled town where a lot of mountain buffs turn off for the Mount Whitney Portal. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The view reminded me of the Haitian proverb “Beyond mountains there are mountains,” which meant that when you’d solved one problem, you couldn’t rest because you had to go on and solve the next. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The goshawks followed screaming, until the two enemies disappeared under a clump of mountain laurel. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

During my first year on the mountain he would hike up the steep trail and spend holidays with me. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d lied to Wesley; I didn’t have anything close to the gear you needed to climb a mountain like Rainier. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

At first the walls were square with the floor, but as she continued on, they began to curve, too, until the corridor was more like a tunnel carved out of the interior of a mountain. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When my legs were burning to their limit and my lungs were sucking at the thin mountain air and my knees were shaking and weak, I stopped for my first rest. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

With all of the excitement over the mountain, Jess had managed to keep her mind off the fact that she’d lost Dad’s prized possession. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

But then again, everything below the summit seemed fuzzy to me, as if there were a thick veil between me and the lower half of the mountain. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I had decided that I would not look to my right over the edge of the mountain at any time. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice rang out over the mountains, loud and clear. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There's a mountain of ice above your head, more tons than even Bowen Marsh could count. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I’d get up early some Saturday mornings and drive south on Highway 17, push the Ford up the winding road through the mountains to Santa Cruz. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had even tried to help her with the mountain of paperwork and red tape that had been dumped on them in order to get survivor benefits from the trucking company. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Almost as if the spirits she knew lived in the mountains of Japan had stopped the chaos from spreading. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Suppose that one twin goes to live on the top of a mountain while the other stays at sea level. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the river and from far back in the rugged mountains I heard the baying of a hound. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blue mountains lifted into the rain and the rain fell down into the long canals and old LaFarge and his wife came out of their house to watch. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clouds had rolled in off the mountains, casting the whole of Yazd in gauzy gray light. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Yet the simple loveliness of the sky and sun and mountains makes me feel like nature is complicit in my country’s betrayal. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The noise in the house was disorienting, so I took Drew up the mountain. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Miss Love was in the back, squeezed in between two mountains of grips, boxes, and hatboxes and boy howdy dressed fit to kill in a new fall outfit. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

So we decided to leave the endless trail and stop pretending we were mountain men because we weren’t. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

A creature of an older world maybe it was, whose kind, lingering in forgotten mountains cold beneath the Moon, outstayed their day, and in hideous eyrie bred this last untimely brood, apt to evil. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Hour after hour of ballads, love songs, mountain airs. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

As we walk across Bando’s meadow, he whistles; I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shot a Stunning Spell at Crabbe, who lurched out of the way, knocking Malfoy’s wand out of his hand; it rolled out of sight beneath a mountain of broken furniture and boxes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“A brand-new blue mountain bike, too expensive to replace, unfortunately. The police thought teenagers from your neighborhood might have taken it. Apparently theft is a problem on the farm.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Graceful arched windows punctuated the walls, which were hung with blue-and-bronze silks: By day, the Ravenclaws would have a spectacular view of the surrounding mountains. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“My mom just escaped again, and I think she headed into the mountains. We got to form another posse right now!” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Getting to the top of any given mountain was considered much less important than how one got there: prestige was earned by tackling the most unforgiving routes with minimal equipment, in the boldest style imaginable. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to climb a mountain,” said Peach. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

You start on one side of the mountain, and it’s dark, and the radio is loud. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Stories and legends about the awesome mountain man followed shortly. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once we had gone to the mountains in Ruling which was nearer and beautiful too. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was no road whatsoever across the two thousand miles of jagged mountains and thick rainforest between Mesoamerica and the Andes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Black pebbles and the ancient gray cinders the mountain had thrown poked into his backbone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Each time, in his kindness, The Giver ended the afternoon with a color-filled memory of pleasure: a brisk sail on a blue-green lake; a meadow dotted with yellow wildflowers; an orange sunset behind mountains. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It moves in the same way that Olympus moves. It always exists on the edges of civilization. But the fact that it is here, on this mountain, is not good.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

At the fifth vertical from the mountain shore, he eased onto the wide horizontal girder and lay down. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The track snaked around the side of a mountain with a sheer drop to the right. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

All about, like a moving current, a mountain river, came the new air, the oxygen blowing from the green trees. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

A villager, finally recovered from the shock of the green mountain, stared at Minli. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Purple mountains reaching towards angelfeather clouds; a falcon soaring in a calm blue sky; God combing His sunshine fingers through green pastures straight out of the Psalms. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

High above, the drones near the ridge of the mountain, where the icy water from the east pours over its ledge. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I did not believe in a war in mountains. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Why doesn’t someone bring the water of the four great rivers to the mountain?” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

One side of the spring overlooks a mountain range, where the ridges are just now catching the last rays of the sun. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He knew the birds by their songs, and how a mountain lion’s spoor looked different from that of a deer. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He lined up the top tree on a mountain with the weather-vane rooster on the peak of a distant barn and scrambled down. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Only I make mine more realistic, so it really looks like a mountain, with crags and nooks and rock outcroppings. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when Ivan's stone hit it, it bellowed out a sound like an avalanche of rocks and snow flattening a mountain forest. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

They veered north and the mountains quickly hid them. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

There were mountains of rubble to climb over to reach the braided rug. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Beyond the mountains, green hills and brown deserts and blue lakes came together in a mosaic of beauty. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Huge gray mountains, steep and rocky, rise up into the clouds. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

It wasn't until the ship had cleared the harbor and was heading out across the Atlantic that he suddenly remembered his promise to carry Madame Zeroni up the mountain. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The cave was so tall, it seemed less like a cave and more like a ravine through a mountain range. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Next morning, when we started up into the mountains, I was twice the sledge-engine I had been. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Aesir reached Loki's house on the mountain. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The stone was too smooth to be carved from a mountain, the glass too clear to come from an ordinary forge. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was a mountain of a man with deep oak-brown skin and a mane of thick black and blond dreadlocks that stuck out in every direction. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The bad weather was coming over the mountains from the sea. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

We’d just finished eating when the rain that had threatened all morning blew in over the mountains in heavy black thunderheads. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Behind them rose the woods and the mountains; to the left Mrs. Frisby could see the big stone in the middle of the garden, near which her children waited. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

She had often studied the map of the United States and crossed its plains, mountains, deserts, and rivers in her imagination. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were standing alone at the Burrow’s kitchen sink, peeling a mountain of sprouts for Mrs. Weasley. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Tariq was the one who told her, for instance, that militiamen stationed in the mountains sharpened their marksmanship—and settled wagers over said marksmanship—by shooting civilians down below, men, women, children, chosen at random. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The little man had done his work well and, except for some ominous crawling noises just below the crest of the mountain, everything was again silent. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

John Henry, the raft line wrapped around his waist so he could use both hands, swung his hammer like he was back drilling through a mountain. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Sam walked down the mountain, crossed the river on rocks, and took the long trail to his hemlock tree. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Through the window, Fruitless Mountain stood like a shadow, but Minli closed her eyes and imagined the house shimmering with gold and the mountain jade green with trees, and smiled. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The cloud was swirling on the southern flank of the mountain, and long tattered banners of vapor streamed out in the powerful winds. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Richard says, Because Luke had run through the weeds and set the mountain afire. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Janet’s were hard because sometimes she had essay questions, but JR’s were harder because he liked to press his pencil into the paper so hard that it made mountains and rivers on the pages. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I raked the leaves away and let his blood drip on the black mountain soil. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am on my mountain in a tree home that people have passed without ever knowing that I am here. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

That morning, the sun rose over the mountains, peeking in through the conference room window. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Another crash of thunder echoed down from the mountain peaks, louder than before. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Frey spoke to nobody when they got there, neither his father, Njord, who is the master of all who sail the seas, nor his stepmother, Skadi, the lady of the mountains. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Imagine having Frightfuls flying above the mountains and rivers of the Catskills again.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It would have been a shorter trip to Athens over land, but after the crew’s experience with mountain spirits in Italy, they’d decided not to fly over Gaea’s territory any more than they had to. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

However, she added, he seemed to be in good flesh and happy- “ ‘The old woman, a resident of the mountain resort town for ninety-seven years, called this office to report her observation. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old woman raised her arms, and then, in a voice that surprised me with its deep strength and volume, shouted to the top of the mountain. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

By day the mountains were blue-grey, brushed with frost, but once the sun vanished behind the jagged peaks they turned black. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Driving up the mountain, it began to snow. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

In his moment of indecision, Zoe sprinted past us up the mountain, and we followed. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Some of their passes and strikes came close to Corky, so we retired him to New Mexico, where I have a shack in the mountains. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Our route to the summit would follow the Khumbu Glacier up the lower half of the mountain. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

‘If Elves could fly over mountains, they might fetch the Sun to save us,’ answered Gandalf. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I waved at Geneva and then fell on my sled in the tire tracks and slid quickly down the mountain, coasting all the way to the mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Some of us traveled with our offerings to the mountains, where Obatala is said to live, and placed white flags around the house on Palmas Street to attract peace. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The esthetic values of the wilderness are as much our inheritance as the veins of copper and gold in our hills and the forests in our mountains.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

On its surface, darkened by near three hundred years of varnish, were painted the Seven Kingdoms as they had been in Aegon's day; rivers and mountains, castles and cities, lakes and forests. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how we got home, or when, but I remember that the mountain face glowed orange in the morning light. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Most of the bears had never seen mountains, apart from the cliffs on their own island of Svalbard, and fell silent as they looked up at the giant ramparts, still so far off. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

This was the backbone of the island, the slightly higher land that lay beneath the mountain where the forest was no longer deep Jungle. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

There’s also a large, well-stocked Career pack of ten tributes scouring the mountain area for victims. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered the coldness of the mountain spring through which he had walked naked and unnamed. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

But then she remembered the hot sparks she had felt while sliding down the mountain peak. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

More than three hundred Lithuanians and Finns moved mountains of food and supplies they would never again touch. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The one mountain among thousands of mountains, the one tree among millions of trees, and somewhere there, the one boy. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

At last they arrived at the bare knoll of the mountain with only the stars for cover. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alba drove the heavy van with its load of children along the same mountain route she had followed with her Uncle Jaime. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Rivers come from springs, which come from inside mountains. The water brings up minerals from inside the earth. So there’s always metals at the bottom of rivers.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

As the bus ground slowly up the road we could see other mountains coming up in the south. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The sun was settling toward the western mountains and the shadows on the ground were long. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before us stood a mountain of a woman who looked even more imposing because of the brightly colored Hawaiian shift she wore. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He could not see the gap or anything else, because the green lights were opening again and growing, and the top of the mountain was sliding sideways. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I realize we must be in the tunnel that runs up through the mountains into the Capitol. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It went on: As a mountain keeps still within itself, thus a wise man does not permit his will to stray beyond his situation. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In under seven years, using volunteer labor, he built a 2,000-mile trail through mountain wilderness. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

On the inside of the mountains, where the rock for the houses and the roads and churches and towers used to be, is the secret that everyone who lives here knows. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

The light is fading now and gray clouds billow over the mountains we crossed earlier. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“No, Alice, no. I will not have electricity on my mountain.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joe fought the terrible mountain man by the light of only a single torch. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he too had feasted and left, she walked over to the caribou and admired the mountain of food. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled Tyson’s arm, but I might as well have been pulling a mountain. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The blade was engraved with a delicate silver tracery of a mountain sky; its pommel was a falcon's head, its cross-guard fashioned into the shape of wings. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In the darkness of early morning there were noises by a rock a little way down the side of the mountain. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Whatever it was, it excreted like a mountain lion. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Jon thought of Heinz as he stood on the mountain road. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Okay, okay,” she says, “if the mountain won’t wait for Mohammed, then Mohammed better go to the mountain. Bundle up!” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I kissed my fingers and bowed to the sky, the mountains silent witnesses to my worship. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The bitter wind came down off the mountains and through the barbed wire and hurled the desert sand in their faces. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Loki had a home on a mountain near the sea, and decided to wait there until the gods had forgotten him. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

They'd lost about a third of the onions, but recovered many of them as they continued down the mountain. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

It was the color of a mountain lake—that gem-like shade that didn’t quite have a name. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Now Grandma and Grandpa won’t even be able to get here through the mountains. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The river stretched out in front of her, winding its way into the snowcapped mountains. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Before them the mountains frowned, but their path lay in a deep trough of land and they could see only the higher shoulders and the far eastward peaks. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The mud mountains are on our side of the road. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Up the river the mountains had not been taken; none of the mountains beyond the river had been taken. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The mountains, which now looked further off than before, loomed ahead. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Once she insisted that the devil had taken the form of a hoop snake with its tail in its mouth, and had rolled after her down the mountain, hissing that it would claim her soul. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The wood was not so dry as the fuel they had used on the mountain. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He peered in as if he expected to find a mountain lion lying in wait. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

By the shape of her body he could tell it was the lady who’d spoke to them higher on the mountain. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

As I mentioned, the niceness down bottom is in amazing proportion to the niceness up top, and right now that bottom is just sitting there like a majestic mountain I’d like very much to climb. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

We drove for several hours and gradually climbed into the mountains of the Eldorado National Forest. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In the distance, a single mountain rose up above the cloud layer. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I don’t get anything else. Let me climb the mountain. It’s all I want. Please.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I glanced up at the mountain’s peak, where a black marble fortress loomed, just like I’d seen in my dreams. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the wee hours of morning, he gave up and left to stalk other parts of the mountains. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pictured the mountains and the fire and a snowball fight and let’s-get-out-of-these-wet- clothes, and I said, “Yeah. Sure.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mountains, he thought, must make for the difference in temperature. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, he could follow Tam Lin into the mountains and hope the man’s friendship held. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the whole month before break, all Jayce could talk about was how his dad was going to come and take him to the mountains. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He had never been in mountain country before and was surprised. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Hall and some of his fellow guides also began working with government ministries in Kathmandu to formulate policies that encouraged climbers to keep the mountain clean. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Norman Bowker and Kiowa and Dave Jensen were dozing, or half dozing, and all around us were those ragged green mountains. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made it to the top of every mountain. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Lynn found the scene so distasteful he never went back, and in my whole life I never saw him on the mountain. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The purple-haired giant toppled backward and Otis lost his grip on the mountain, which promptly collapsed on top of his brother. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Our formal greeting done, we strode up the mountain. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dozens of bright-blue men, each thirty feet tall with gray frosty hair, were wading through the forests, fishing in the bay, and striding across the mountains. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Putting my arms on the desk and my head on my arms, I see my falcon going down the mountain on the conservation officer’s fist. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, gray-green hills marched toward a mountain ridge, which made Jason a little nervous. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Then he spat on his hands, took hold of the ropes, and began to haul the stone-boat across the meadow of grasses and spring flowers, toward the mountain quarry. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Piggy looked up miserably from the dawn-pale beach to the dark mountain. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He was hiking along a mountain road, but as soon as he stepped off the shoulder he was swallowed by the bog—muskeg, Hazel had called it. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“See those mountains over there to the left?” he said. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Celia wonders whether Cuba will be left behind, alone in the Caribbean sea with its faulted and folded mountains, its conquests, its memories. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone we knew was planning on going to his funeral, which was being held in the town where he grew up, in the mountains a couple of hours’ drive away. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them lay all the kingdoms of Wisdom, and up ahead a narrow rutted path led toward the mountains and darkness. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

A tall person, broad-shouldered and muscled like a mountain cat. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Shadows were shifting across the nearest mountain, forming the face of a sleeping woman. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

From there, I ducked, clambered, and sidestepped my way farther and farther into the ramshackle mountain of twisted metal, until I reached a small open space at the rear of a buried cargo van. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I thanked him and we sprang up the mountain, cut across through the gorge and home. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spring beloved of poets, Hippocrene, on Helicon, the Muses’ mountain, had sprung up where his hoof had struck the earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pantalaimon flew above Lyra’s head for a while until he tired of that, and then he became a little sure-footed mountain sheep, vain of his horns, leaping among rocks while Lyra scrambled laboriously alongside. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In the old days, they would take people up to the top of the mountains. To the high places. They would smash the back of their skulls with a rock. For Czernobog.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

But who would try to break into a fortified mountain, unless they were desperate, like us? Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires and fog in the valleys; cellos, dark windowpanes, snow. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It seems to be a wide ice-river running down from the plateau between two mountains, volcanoes, both capped with steam and smoke. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes going around a sharp corner, your chair would swing right over the edge of the mountain. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This retreat was our first, and Brother Daniel had managed to get the Maryknolls to let us use their motherhouse up in the mountains. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day she watched a flock of doves disappear over the mountains. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Along the base of the mountain were many trees Hanako didn’t recognize. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A flash of heat lightning lit up the sky over the mountains and there was a low rumble of thunder. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Soon the golden mountain slopes were covered with lush green grass. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jake jammed his hands in his pockets, sighed, and looked up at the mountains. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Outside were snowy mountains dotted with pine trees, the sun rising red between two peaks. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I’d always thought of her as bounding along like a young mountain goat, but now she looked like any other mill hand. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I stood at the foot of the mountain, knowing I’d need to climb my way into favor. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I was fourteen, and I had never even seen a real mountain. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, when tectonic shifts in the economy created mountains of wealth. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

As we walked, I became afraid of the road, the mountains in the distance, and the bushes on either side. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Generose pressed Play on the VCR, and the screen came to life with the blurry images of a Catholic choir from Congo, singing hymns outdoors against changing backdrops of mountains and green forests. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“We need everyone in the mountain to help. It’s the only way.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Then she took out her glue and showed me the envelope where she'd put the pieces of countries and oceans and mountains that had broken off. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Clouds seemed to be swirling around its peak, as though the mountain was drawing them in, spinning them like a top. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

There weren’t many trees or mountains to catch at that sky and keep it low. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

They logged the trees, they killed the deer, bear, and mountain lions, they built their fences high; but the mountain was far greater than any or all of these things. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

This time I knew exactly what was out there—a lot of long, taxing miles, steep rocky mountains, hard shelter floors, hot days without showers, unsatisfying meals cooked on a temperamental stove. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

As I watched the sun sink slowly behind the mountains, I cupped my hand around that note in my pocket. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

There was an agricultural section, with terraces cut into the side of the mountain in long, flat steps. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

In the coming year, Dad would spend hundreds of thousands of dollars buying equipment and scouring the mountain for water. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Now the top of the little mountain bristled with banners, horns and uplifted faces. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although she weighed just ninety-one pounds, her sparrowlike proportions disguised a formidable resolve; to an astounding degree, Yasuko had been propelled up the mountain by the unwavering intensity of her desire. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The only way up the mountain to Kuling was by sedan chair. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I was serious about trying to climb the mountain, he insisted, Outside would figure out a way to make it happen. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

They explained that in the late 1800s, many members of my tribe began moving from their native Rwanda to the mountains of South Kivu, a Congolese province. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I avoid the conference table and perch in the wide windowsill that has a view of the mountain in question. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I saw through my bedroom window that everything was white—the yard, the road, the filling station, and the mountains. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had been manning an observation post 5.7 miles from the mountain, but he had a college placement interview on May 18 in California, and so had left the site the day before the eruption. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

As for the train ride to New York — famous mountains lumbered by, famous rivers, plains, canyons, the whole holy American spectacle, without his looking up once. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But he can run across just about anything. Water, vertical surfaces, small mountains—none of that bothers him.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As the day dawned, the mountain had transformed. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Down leaped Shadowfax, like a deer that runs surefooted in the mountains. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I peer at the valleys and pastures and red tile roofs spread out below us, dissolving into fog, and then up at the Imbabura mountain disappearing into a stony white sky. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘The ruins stretch from the river to the base of that mountain over there, about half a kilometre.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Passing the checkpoint safely, we walk a few hours more until the sun goes to sleep behind the mountains and the world becomes a place of shadows and shapes once again. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Perhaps he went back to the, the-" Beneath them, on the unfriendly side of the mountain, the drum-roll continued. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

There they seemed to break up and die away in the mountains. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Look at the mountains Such a beautiful sea And there's a promise that heaven is filled with glory. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Two hours after Mount Suribachi was captured, an Associated Press photographer named Joe Rosenthal decided to go up to the top of the mountain, even though everyone told him he was too late. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

So mountains in this world didn’t correspond to mountains in his. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Its colossal curtain walls rose beside the lake, sheer and sudden as mountain cliffs, while atop their battlements the rows of wood-and-iron scorpions looked as small as the bugs for which they were named. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And he never lost his way, for he knew where the streams ran, pointing sure as an arrow back down the mountain toward the road. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The sky is cloudless except for the far-off mists over the mountains Imbabura and Cotacachi. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had not realized until I had left it that I had been on the mountain of gold all that time. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fire makes the room warm and with the flames dancing in the coal you can see faces and mountains and valleys and animals leaping. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Many who lived here, Farmer told me, came from small villages in the distant Andean mountains—handsome people with jet-black hair and high cheekbones. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

A storm was way off to the west, beyond the mountains. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

"I can't remember ever seeing snow this far down the mountain, but maybe it was that way once, in the olden times." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“We made it while you were sleeping. Your dress is too thin for the mountain. ” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

In Macún, we could run and climb trees and jump from rock mountains. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

So we sat out on the porch with the afternoon sun high above the mountains while that lady sat in Gus’s chair and told us that the situation back in Raleigh had improved. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

But Jess and the twins had their mountain and their forests. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

There were fine positions for defense along the low mountains that came up out of the plateau but nothing had been done about organizing them for defense. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Willie the Wildkit looks approximately like a mountain lion, though, and while I am admittedly not an expert in zoology, I'm reasonably sure that mountain lions do not, in fact, respect everyone. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

It seems that at first the Jeep was following the truck up the mountain. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It came to rest in the garden of a farm at the base of the mountain. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A young mule skinner named Milton Humason helped to transport mechanical and optical equipment, scientists, engineers and dignitaries up the mountain. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

How I had these beautiful mountains and that little porch under the stars. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I dreamed I was in a dark palace at the top of a mountain. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

But Jack was pointing to the high declivities that led down from the mountain to the flatter part of the island. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a small scrape. There will be no scar,” he said, but his voice was detached, and his eyes studied the faraway mountains, as if he were not truly with me. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

One minute, it had looked like an arm sticking out of the waves; now it was an ominous black-granite mountain surrounded by half-submerged clawlike reefs. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Frustrated, El Li'der went home, rested his pitching arm, and started a revolution in the mountains. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Enrique didn’t exactly get a mountain of stuff either, unless a four-pack of deodorant and a new Gillette razor along with a bunch of replacement blades counted. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Before I went to sleep, I lay on my back and just watched one mountain after another. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look out the window and see the sun getting lower and the mountains in the distance getting yellower, and I feel this sharp pain in my chest like someone just shot me. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The next village was two days’ walk away, over a spur of mountain. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He could see mountains and forests under a deep purple sky. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“No, we found another one up in the mountains and he’s quite extraordinary. Old, of course, but then, who wants a young miracle man?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm going up the mountain to look for the beast now." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Back of the rolling country we were going through we saw the mountains we had come over from Pamplona. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

In the dusk, two Diamondback Sorrento mountain bikes flashed down past the Caldwell exit ramp from Highway 20-26, past a dingy cowboy bar, a pizza place, a gun store. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told them about the fiery hurricane wind that swept down the mountain. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

The air smelled of the black soil brought down from the mountains to make Tía Mimi's giant ferns grow tall. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

For convenience, Hutton had assumed that the mountain had the same density as ordinary stone, about 2.5 times that of water, but this was little more than an educated guess. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Her kitchen reminded me of ours last night before I’d washed a mountain of dinner dishes. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The bond between Fischer and Hall had been cemented back in 1992, when they had bumped into each other on K2, the world’s second-highest mountain. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

There are great mesas here, twice as high as the Tibetan plateau, an immense rift valley, possibly giant volcanoes and a mountain as high as Everest. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because the mountains interfered with reception, in 1954 he erected an antenna on a high ridge and provided one of the first cable television systems in the United States as a free service. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They buzzed into the crack in the mountain. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We made it through the mountains,” he said. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The third watched the pass, though there was little to see, only a vast bowl of darkness ringed by the snowy shoulders of the mountains. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We sat in silence as the bus made its way up the narrow mountain road. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

When I met Golomb, he took out a thick three-ring binder filled with the mountain of letters he had received over the years from satisfied customers. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

When dinner was through, the dishes would pile even higher than the mountain Mom and I had washed after Nowruz. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Sam shuffled along, clutching hard, and looking down into the pale eddying water as if it was a chasm in the mountains. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

So now we're on the side of a street covered in white, trees and mountains in every direction. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"If it is that big and fat," asked Elya, "how will I be able to carry it up the mountain?" Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I’m afraid it’s all wrong,” Flossie suddenly dared to whisper as they came off the mountains and over juniper and then sagebrush terrain again. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anywhere but in the mountains they might have found something to use for a sled. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Fuxi bellowed a sound of grief, a thunder that shook the heavens and four new mountains of the earth. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I never leave my mountain without food and gear for a week,” I say. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They beat her away and chased her up the mountain. They killed her there by your rock. Her cubs must have died there too.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Even though he had his own hut farther up the mountain, Yishan claimed the seat by the fireplace in Pinmei’s hut as his own. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Vast fields stretched from the foot of the mountain range, a fertile countryside filled with vineyards, wheatfields, alfalfa, and marigolds. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A week after that, the clump of seaweed was gone, but there was a new bramble on the mountain. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The earth covered them almost entirely; grass and meadow flowers had sprung up to obliterate them further and make them part of the mountain itself. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The mountain rumbled as if the whole earth were laughing. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Moses on the mountain, fire burning words into stone. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

There were fires still burning high in the mountains and at night they could see the light from them deep orange in the soot-fall. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

My mountain and all its elevations were on it, so I was studying the contours for the waterway when she stuck her head in the door. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roots of those mountains must be roots indeed; there must be great secrets buried there which have not been discovered since the beginning.” The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Carry him up a mountain and sing the pig lullaby to him? Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He walked to Cubero in the twilight, looking up occasionally at the mountain, where the peaks were caught in the sunset. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Through the forest, lining the mountain range, I see layers of color: orange, yellow, red, topped by gray smoke. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

My dad always walked into every door carrying a mountain of gifts. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He had lost a fight for a female Labrador on a farm down the mountain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

In the valley you’d find an injured animal; on the mountain, a dead one. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They dove together into the nearest trench and the mountain shattered above them, spraying them with plaster shrapnel. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But the East Side of Detroit wasn’t a small mountain village. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

At many places it is only eighteen inches high, it is broken by holes, and craters, and mountains of earth. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s so—so—” “Only the new girls from Vermont speak like that,” said Prudence, whose own mountain speech was well tamed. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even Jon Arryn, as great a lord as any the Eyrie had ever known, had always traveled in strength when he crossed the mountains. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“In the old days,” Annabeth said, “they called this area the Pillars of Hercules. The Rock was supposed to be one pillar. The other was one of the African mountains. Nobody is sure which one.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, I knew little or nothing as to how one goes about acquiring a horse to ride on potentially dangerous mountain trails. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

My scrawl is up all over this town—the curls behind an M sharp like mountains with a Z cut like a lightning bolt. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Beyond the hollow was the square top of the mountain and soon they were standing on it. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The flint hills rose higher and wilder with each passing mile, until by the fifth day they had turned into mountains, cold blue-grey giants with jagged promonto-ries and snow on their shoulders. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The mountains around the school became icy gray and the lake like chilled steel. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

What if he became lost in the mountains? The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I felt badly about the ruins until I thought that this had been happening to the mountain for thousands of years and the trees were still there, as were the animals and birds. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was little, Saturday nights were reserved for us to journey over to the county seat of Welch, seven miles and a mountain away from Coalwood. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We have come to the edge of my meadow, where a trail leads to the bottom of the mountain and the county road where he must have parked his car. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s all there is. The mountains are what I define them as.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mountains also create wind shear, which is when the wind suddenly changes direction, another deadly hazard to flight. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

George knows the best poems, like this one about thinking time in the woods, and others too, like the one about the golden eagle soaring above the mountains in the morning. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

This did worry me, because I was depending on fish to keep me alive until I got to my great-grandfather’s mountain, where I was going to make traps and catch game. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tally felt the weight of the mountain pressing down upon her, and found that she was still struggling to breathe as she pulled herself out into the sunlight. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“They’re going to Lake Arrowhead,” he says, “But they won’t get there. There are two mountain ranges and two counties between here and there.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

On the tortuous drive through the mountains, Jake developed a torturous headache. trooper/trouper. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They made the rest of the trip on foot in the dead of night, hiking through mountains and rough terrain, terrified that they would be caught and thrown in jail. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He lived day and night in their company, warming himself against their skin as he wandered over the range, sleeping at their feet under the Colorado mountains. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d never seen him before, so she knew immediately that he wasn’t from town and must have come from the mountains surrounding the valley. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The mountains swung a half-circle around a lake black and sullen below threatening clouds. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, that’s the funny thing. He was heading straight back into the mountains.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I just sat there, watching the light wash over the mountains, the way it had a million times before. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Its few entrances heavily fortified, its heart safely enfolded in the mountain. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The seagull stepped along the pier, looked at me, then flew toward the mountains. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The cottages were fewer here, and their gardens larger; they were walking toward the foot of the mountain in whose shadow Hogsmeade lay. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“This is my mountain, too. The farm belongs to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gribley, who happen to be my parents as well as yours.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A grating sound came from the dragon's throat like the noise of an avalanche far off, stones falling among mountains. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

We reached the tiger place in no time—a mountain peak three feet three from the sky. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was nature somehow perturbed less by a vacuum on top of a mountain than by a vacuum in the valley? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Away to their right a great shoulder of the mountains stood out, dark and black amid the shadows, thrusting westward. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I was afraid she’d get all protective and say that I could be just as useful sewing bandages to put in the supply boxes to be buried in the mountains. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I remember a story about twin giants. They tried to reach Mount Olympus by piling up a bunch of mountains.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“So ... how about we start from the beginning? How we got to these mountains.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He’s got a new home up in the mountains now, Dumbledore fixed it — nice big cave. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The eagle soared off the side of a mountain and circled gently in the air, with only the crisp air between them and the ground. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Wolves walking down the mountains, into the dry thinning scalp of the middle of Iran, would be looking for juicy sheep. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Africa is the only continent to extend from the northern to the southern temperate zone, while also encompassing some of the world’s driest deserts, largest tropical rain forests, and highest equatorial mountains. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The names we’ll give to the canals and mountains and cities will fall like so much water on the back of a mallard. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the contrary, he was a mountain of flesh, a great barrel of a fellow, whose arms and legs were as thick as tree limbs, and with a tublike belly before all. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

With the mountain spewing liquid fire, and the meadow offering no means of concealment, the remaining thirteen tributes—including Haymitch and Maysilee—have no choice but to confine themselves to the woods. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Despite their father’s hideous accident, my father’s two brothers were also miners; Clarence worked in the Caretta mine across the mountain from Coalwood, and Emmett in mines around the county. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They call this part of California the Inland Empire, and it’s always smoggy, because whatever nastiness is in the air gets blown here and caught against the mountains. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Anya could imagine his round face, scrunched with confusion, blinking slowly as he tried to work out how best to help the mountain hulking before him. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

My two young friends had mountains of toys in their house. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In Miller's aerial photo the mountain looked particularly sinister: a huge fin of exfoliated stone, dark and smeared with ice. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road to Jalalabad is a two- hour trek through mountain roads winding along a steep drop, and my stomach lurched with each hairpin turn. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A smoky haze hovered over them, soft gray against the deep blue of the mountains. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Come on. Don’t talk like that. How could things possibly get worse than what we’ve seen? We’ll stay here for a while, then go look for the settlements in the south mountains.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Gitl had been working in the sorting shed, where mountains of clothes and shoes, mounds of books and toys and household goods from the suitcases and bags were divided up. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to travel the world and wander in sand dunes and climb to the top of snowcapped mountains. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The air was not very cold; the mountains were lost in varying shades of gray mist; the sky was overcast, quiet—everything was immersed in lull. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to explain that our horses weren’t broke all the way, but she was determined, so Shawn put her on Apollo and the three of us headed up the mountain. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The sky pales, casting the jagged peaks of the mountains around me in shadow. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

At last the hobbits saw, rising dimly before them, a steep dark land: they had come to the feet of the mountains, and to the green roots of tall Methedras. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

By now the sun was getting low in the west, settling into the high mountains beyond the woods. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Jutting up squarely from the quiet desert, butted against rust-colored mountains of tumbled boulders, it was something that would have terrified me if I were there alone. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He turned away and walked off, down the mountain. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

During the Civil War, the mountain state seceded from Virginia and joined the Union. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

"I'm not—" "I just want you to look at that mountain up there. See the one that has something sticking up out of it?" Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Far away in the mountains behind them, the rapid-fire rat-a-tat-tat of machine guns echoed loudly. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Maybe on board the Hispaniola, flying before the wind, mooring by a tropical island with green palms crowding the mountains and bright tropical flowers—real ones—poking out between them. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

It’s the one word that causes an avalanche on the mountain inside of me. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Then the baishakunin, whose work was to procure brides, showed them twelve acres of prime mountain land, which, he said, the potential bridegroom intended to purchase upon his return from America. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I stopped halfway up the mountain and dropped my head. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The elevations of the higher ones generate rain in the mountains, so the islands are heavily weathered and have deep soils and permanent streams. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Geological Survey topographic maps and are a good thing to own in these wild mountains. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such blue sky and purple mountains so sturdy and silver lake so calm and still. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Down below there was a mountain of hay. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slept through most of it and awoke at first light and was startled when I couldn’t see any mountains, just a flat plain as far as I could see. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The purple of the mountains flowed like watercolor. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

It came from the direction of the mountains, flying low and kicking up dust in a dozen separate windstorms in its wake. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

They had left the Hogwarts grounds completely; they had obviously traveled miles — perhaps hundreds of miles — for even the mountains surrounding the castle were gone. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They had gone little more than a mile into the forest when they came upon another stream flowing down swiftly from the tree-clad slopes that climbed back westward towards the mountains. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Majestic mountains loom to the north, but they are a tease; the Idaho of snowy peaks and ski resorts, plus a handful of militias and survivalists, is a long way off. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lon stood by the glass wall of the Library, looking out over the mountains. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“We have a hunting blind in the mountains. Hard to find.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

For an hour now, the plane had been flying at just three hundred feet, following the Welsh valleys, dipping and swerving to avoid the mountain peaks. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

So we wanted to find a farm, preferably a big one, with a big barn and silos full of grain, near the mountains. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Intercontinental missile silos and fallout shelters're sunk deep in the roots of the mountains. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

How it had gotten into the mountain at all was beyond me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Silvertongue looked up at the nearby mountains looming dark behind their foothills. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

This burden was heavier than the heaviest mountain and he carried it in his heart. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

This was another time that there were three of them, exploring in the mountain wastes on the edge of Jotunheim, the home of the giants. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

And then one morning, all alone, Mary Anne walked off into the mountains and did not come back. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A steady current of heated air rose all day from the mountain and was thrust to ten thousand feet; revolving masses of gas piled up the static until the air was ready to explode. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He’s focusing on the mountains in the distance. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

A tiny pinpoint across the edge of the desert disappears along with the mountains. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Again the hellish scream rang out over the mountains. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The schematic of a dark, foreboding mountain range was scrawled on the paper, showing tunnels, access points, and exits. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Clouds had formed above the mountains in streaks, like clumps of dough that had been stretched too thin. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

They moved the animals up the mountain in stages, to let them get used to the climate. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they’d cut deep into the mountain, the miners had left large pillars and walls of stone to support the infrastructure. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

My story tumbles out, gaining momentum like a boulder rolling down a mountain. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down the side of the mountain, the terrible fight went on, down to the very bottom of the canyon. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hesiod lived near Helicon, one of the Muses’ mountains—the others were Pierus in Pieria, where they were born, Parnassus and, of course, Olympus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But life for the women in the mountains was not easy. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“His men have seen fires in the mountains on the far side of the Gorge. Wildlings massing, Ser Denys believes. He thinks they are going to try to force the Bridge of Skulls again.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Geologists had proposed that the current shape of the earth—its rocks, chasms, and mountains—had been created by the transmutation of previous elements. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

We had become, we would forever be, mountain men. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

They head down the mountain, back to base camp, and when they get there they don’t say diddly. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I go up on the mountain to pray.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

"There is nothing I would not do for your kiss, no mountain I would not scale, no river I would not ford, no desert I would not cross." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Drawing herself up tall, she mapped the direction to the one mountain among thousands, the one tree among millions. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I made myself look down the side of the mountain at the gleaming rocks below. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A few people, I guess. It’s dangerous, with cliffs and things. Why, I’ve read there’s more unexplored country in the mountains of Monterey County than any place in the United States.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

After this had happened more times than he could count, Tree-ear neared the end of the mountain path. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I guess six thousand dollars—to me, an unconquerable mountain—isn’t even worth a second thought when you’re a billionaire. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"I was Ghost, I was on the edge of the mountain looking down an a frozen river, and something attacked me. A bird ... an eagle, I think . . Squire Dalbridge smiled. " A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Even when the weather was warm, they’d have to stay out there for days, because it was always so damp in that hollow on the north side of the mountain. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Dear mountains! my own beautiful lake! how do you welcome your wanderer? Your summits are clear; the sky and lake are blue and placid. Is this to prognosticate peace, or to mock at my unhappiness?” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could see for miles over them, until your eyes reached a line of shadowy mountains topped by sky. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

When we pulled into the town of Banff at dawn, I found out how cold it can be in the mountains. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My grandmother told me he was an artist. He took the mountain rock to carve into inking stones.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the same self-consciously jocular style he soon began to refer to his Quincy estate as “Montezillo,” which he claimed meant “very little mountain,” in deference to Jefferson’s Monticello, which meant “little mountain.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Sitting there in that truck with nothing but the mountain in front of me, I was so scared I could hardly breathe. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“These mountain lords will not hinder my passage?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After graduating from Big Creek, the story I got was he had spent his entire time in Korea on top of the same mountain, waiting for the Chinese to come up and kill him. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She, who had descended with such joy and pain, had begun her upward climb—upward, with her baby, on the steep, steep side of the mountain. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Coulter understood some of the language of these mountain people, but it would never do to let them how how much. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There dwelt a hardy folk between the mountains and the sea. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She’d toss her hair over her shoulder and add, “This house is liable to fall right off the mountain if you sneeze too hard. You’d better come on back home with me.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

A long, skinny, jagged canyon that cuts across the mountain. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But I could explore the mountains, which are the top of its head. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up in the mountains far from the sea there’s a place called Dannemora the men are not free . Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Soaring back toward the escarpment, she scanned twenty miles in all directions for the one mountain where the one gigantic tree grew. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He twitches his ear as if to wave goodbye and hops toward the red mountains. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She nodded in the direction of the mountain, Tse-pi’na, the woman veiled in clouds. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had seen many mountains that even a world war had not destroyed. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I scoot part of the pile over into one big mountain and sit on the floor. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We will not drag you up a mountain—you will have to work hard—but we guarantee to maximise the safety and success of your adventure. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn't trying to move mountains of injustice or fight for the equal rights of masses of people... Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

With my mother gone, I see the mountain she talked about. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Until recently, when it was overtaken by Mount Denali in Alaska, it was the most murderous mountain in North America. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He had been conceived and born during the difficult crossing of the mountains, before the founding of Macondo, and his parents gave thanks to heaven when they saw he had no animal features. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“It’s not a mountain, it’s a rock,” I said, “and we’re not climbing it.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We follow the road here along the eastern slope of the mountains. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The tipple area was locked at night, but just inside the tree line on the mountain, there was a deep drainage ditch that went underneath the fence. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It seems they left town after four-thirty, since the truck that preceded them up the mountain clocked out of the local Public Works building at four thirty-five. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because the mountains catch all the moisture from the Amazon winds, the terrain is as wet as it is steep. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The very mention of your name makes a picture spring to mind, whether it’s a picture of clashing fists or a mighty mountain that can’t be knocked down. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had found the mountain, she had found the tree, and she had found Sam. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

For it led up on to the mountain to a high hallow where only the kings had been wont to go. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

And in the course of his distinguished career he’d formulated a number of unorthodox, very strongly held opinions about how the mountain should be ascended. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

A chill wind was blowing and the sun lit the mountain peaks with golden reflections. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Grandpa-down-the-hill was a young man, there’d been herds of livestock spread across the mountain, and they were tended on horseback. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Viola sat at her table, taking a short rest while SanJuanna pumped water in preparation to start on the mountain of dishes on the counter. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

If one argued that earth, water and air all rotated together, so that they were all stationary with regard to each other, then why are there always violent winds blowing at the tops of mountains? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

That wild mountain—the very top of it—was what I was traveling toward. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When the sun fell behind the mountains, I felt it as a faint coolness on my face. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The gray towers loomed large before us like stone mountains. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you had seen what I saw on that mountain,” I pleaded with him, weeping all over again for that dead boy. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some ways, Nowruz is the Persian version of Christmas: You spend it with your whole family, and you eat mountains and mountains of food, and nearly everyone takes the day off. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

At once he set off with long deliberate strides through the trees, deeper and deeper into the wood, never far from the stream, climbing steadily up towards the slopes of the mountains. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

In photographs it looks serene and beckoning, parklike even, with hundreds of cool, deep lakes and hazy, tranquil miles of undulating mountains. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra strained her eyes to look ahead, but not even Pantalaimon’s owl eyes could see any movement on the flank of the mountain they were climbing. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It would take Pong more than twice that long to get down the twisting mountain track, but he couldn't leave before learning how Father Cham was. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“That there is Pegasus,” he said, pointing to a cluster of stars hovering way up over the top of the mountains in the distance. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

"How about I tell a story instead? There will be lots of fast cars and fast horses and mountains in it." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

"If a treasure is hidden in a grain shed on a mountain plain, I sure don't have time to look for it. Do you?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Never been better, my old mountain companion, never been better.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He stands over you like this little mountain, and he’s got this dark beardy shrubbery all around the peak, and arms like pines, and legs like oaks, and feet the size of small lakes. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In North America, lightning fire is most common in the western mountains. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We tried to settle into a new life in the mountains, not sure how long we’d be there. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The road through Welch, Dad told us, led only farther up into the wet, forbidding mountains and on to other dying coal towns. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Like my mountain, the tilled land eroded and grew stones, not crops, and the farms were abandoned. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Boss, normally so cautious, was suggesting they slide down the mountain. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The upper edges rose into the light, a far land of wild mountains. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were hunting together in the mountains somewhere, on horseback. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Eagle has nested in the hollow on the other side of that mountain. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dimly through the mists they could descry the long arm of the mountains rising on their left. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But the overall impression is one of strength; that his hands could move mountains. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

We chased the Kochi, the nomads who passed through Kabul on their way to the mountains of the north. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The summit of the mountain seemed closer now, swirling with storm clouds and raw power. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He only knew, as he staggered to his feet on the mountain path, that his throat was very sore where the man in black had strangled him. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

These were not like the brown, heat-baked mountains we had left behind. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He won’t come again for a couple of weeks—training up in the mountains, something like that—he can’t really say. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anything to stop them from taking up the sword and flamethrower against us again and pouring out of those mountains in their faceless swarms to burn our forests and our homes. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

A sparkling river flowed before a stone wall, and mountains disappeared into a sea of clouds. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Big structures, such as mountain ranges, survive tens of millions of years; smaller impact craters, perhaps a hundred thousand'; and large- scale human artifacts only some thousands. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even without unleashing the worst it could dish out, the mountain had sent us scurrying for safety. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He came in once or twice a week, on his way to or from the mountain. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

I go out early and stand on the top of the middle mud mountain. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Needless to say, I hadn’t noticed the view, but out before us lie mountains, villages, and rivers. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment Sam was walking across his mountain meadow when he heard the clinking of a chain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The snow in the roadway was already turning to mud, and she slung a pair of snowshoes on her back in case the tracks up the mountain were still deep in snow. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Thankfully, there was another way off the mountain to the north and west, along paths much gentler than the one that had brought them up here. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

All yesterday we travel, ever getting closer to the mountains, and moving into a more and more wild and desert land. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

But the mountain would shift, and the ground beneath us would start sinking in a most stomach-sickening way. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were beckoning mountains with a brown grass love. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the color the sun makes when it rises and sets. For two seconds. You can see it best in the mountains.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe a waterfall cascading down the snowy Himalayan mountains. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

We ran across the street to the pavilion with the winged bronze statues, but that just put our backs to the mountain. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

"All right. Who wants to climb the mountain now?" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Cars occasionally sped by on the highway, a backpacking couple on mountain bikes pedaled past. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Windows overlooked the trees outside and the deep blue mountains beyond. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“When we reach the main riverbed, we’ll make a hard right, and take that river all the way up to the mountains,” I tell everyone. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She winked at him and Josiah pulled her close, promising himself he would never ask her what it was about the mountain that caused her to stop there. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Far away and almost straight ahead there was a red glow under the black sky and the sides of the great mountain loomed dark against it. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

As the towns erupted into being, quickened by the relentless American thirst, the black farm was there as a natural feature of the landscape, a mountain or a creek. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I would park the car and walk up a big mountain or across a series of rolling green hills. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Dad was away on a job somewhere, that’s why Luke had had to get himself down the mountain. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The Apurimac River, the Great Speaker, gurgled far below along the base of Machu Picchu mountain. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe I would go far enough to see a mountain. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

From a distance, you could see the impression of a woman’s body on the mountain face: her legs formed of huge ravines, her hair a spray of pines fanning over the northern ridge. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The next thing he knew he was sliding down the steep side of the mountain. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

But on this morning the temperature was held in check by a biting wind that gusted down from the upper mountain, creating a windchill that dipped to perhaps forty below zero. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

We rode east down out of the mountains and were home before sundown. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

He sprinkled the cedar on the bed of embers and its mountain smell filled the entire hogan. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

"There's talk, you know, of guerrillas in the mountains." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“They only fool themselves when they think it is theirs. The deeds and papers don’t mean anything. It is the people who belong to the mountain.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Peonies and flag lilies and poppies were blooming in people’s yards, and roses and sweet William, mountain laurel and bleeding heart. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“You may as well take a broom and start sweeping dirt off the mountain,” she said. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I would be a little girl of seven the day I followed the bird away into the mountains. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The more difficult the mountain was to climb, the more avant-garde, the better, they believed. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“I know that tiny little bump feels like a mountain to you—” she starts to say. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He was leading a brown mountain pony, shaggy and small. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The whole sky seemed like a black top spinning from the mountain where Atlas was imprisoned, and where the Titan palace of Mount Othrys was rising anew. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the morning, we will leave with only the clothes in our bags, trek down the mountain, and wait for a Khmer Rouge truck to pick us up. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Cities lay on the other side of the forest, down the slow, southern slope of the mountain, where the land became stable and flat. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Then the mountains seemed to come nearer to us on each side and to frown down upon us; we were entering on the Borgo Pass. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Before I could explain, however, a booming sound shook the mountain, sending bits of rock clattering down and the two of us stumbling. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

"Denys Mallister writes that the mountain people are moving south, slipping past the Shadow Tower in numbers greater than ever before. They are running, my lord . . . but running from what!" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As Joanne Kaufman reported in the Wall Street journal, Ms. Pittman was known in certain elevated circles more as a social climber than mountain climber. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She skimmed down the mountain and followed the river valley to Main Street. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The mountain was surrounded by forests, with just a few towns dotting the valley. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

From the cockpit, dark mountain peaks come into view. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He’d nevertheless arrived intact at the foot of Everest in early April with a film crew in tow, and immediately began making acclimatization trips up the lower mountain. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Everything would be perfect if this really was a holiday, if all the day off meant was roaming the mountains with Gale, hunting for tonight's supper. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

As the train continued, they traveled through many more tunnels dug through the mountains. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Sherpas are a mountain people, devoutly Buddhist, whose forebears migrated south from Tibet four or five centuries ago. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Never been out West,” Mullet Fingers said, “but I know they got mountains.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are there seals in the mountains? How shall we live?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The crack of impact was shattering, thunderous; it echoed off the mountains — I immediately understood the necessity of the thunderstorm. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

In a few miles, a few minutes, I’d be making that last, big hike up a mountain. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Hanako gaped—the destruction stretched on and on, only seeming to stop at the mountains rising on the horizon. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Desert in all directions, occasional clumps of barren mountains plopped here and there. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

As sure as Fern sat with her arms crossed, I knew she was the mountain and that it was my turn to come to her. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Every breath I take will be to move the mountain between us. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There used to be a winch in the trap shack, and that’s where I’m heading when Tyler Croft comes by on his thousand-dollar mountain bike and thinks he sees me cryin’, which he don’t. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The Virginia Company lies to them—about how it is paradise here, and how they will find mountains of gold. And they believe the lies.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

It took about three days by foot to get from the mountains to the city. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

At one point, Minerva suggested we just take off into the mountains like the gavilleros had done. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For all their seeming permanence, mountains are exceedingly transitory features. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon peace and summer rested on the mountains. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mountain had been named for the swirling veils of clouds, the membranes of foggy mist clinging to the peaks, then leaving them covered with snow. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But Apollo was in the corral, half a mile down the mountain. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

After gathering a small mountain of firewood, her mania was fading, leaving her in a content, almost dreamy lethargy. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But I held the camera up and I saw through its little square window the mountain I had come to find and conquer. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

From the top of the clouds rose the decapitated peak of a mountain, its summit covered with snow. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The day they succumbed to starvation, he flew down the Schoharie gorge and up over the mountains of Delhi. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

We sing the last lines together—Your mountain is waiting. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

One mountain we tunnel through; I’m anxious in the long darkness. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

All around us, green mountain peaks jut into the gray sky. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It formed the eastern edge of the Elmuthaleth, and the other faranji were content to call it a mountain range, but it didn’t look like a mountain range. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She stepped around the white mountain of smock, which was wheezing and snorting volcanically. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This would be home for the next several months, until the mountain was climbed. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the ship would sail above dark storm clouds, as big as mountains, and the crew would fish for lightning bolts with a small copper chest. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Together, the giants picked up a fake mountain as big as Percy’s New York apartment and hurled it at the demigods. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In a certain sense, Hall’s Adventure Consultants compound served as the seat of government for the entire Base Camp, because nobody on the mountain commanded more respect than Hall. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I saw mountains of potatoes—oceans—more potatoes than you would think the world’s population could consume in a hundred years. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found a bright orange splash on the other side of a mountain the color of sludge. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they resumed their descent, a volley of grapefruitsized stones came whizzing down from the upper mountain and one of them struck a Sherpa in the back of the head. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Just think about being in a cool place. That always helps. Let’s pretend this is our new home in Norway. There’s a fjord outside and snow on the mountains.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The village of Ch’ulp’o faced the sea, its back to the mountains and the river edging it like a neat seam. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

But as with the mountain lion, he just had to stand his ground. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I don’t want the mountain to be barren, because I can’t face rock right now. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The fences still buzz with news and gossip, and the mountains and hollows echo with the joyful clamor of childhood adventures. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It softly lit both the little villages of Elfland and the mountain outposts of the goblins, as if the whole world were at peace. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“That mountain lion had as much right to his life as that sour old biddy does to hers,” he said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The house is a hemlock tree six feet in diameter, and must be as old as the mountain itself. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tell them how you felt about the coup, the president thrown out before the year was over, the rebels up in the mountains, the civil war, the landing of the marines. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the vantage high in the mountains he saw plumes of dark smoke rising from the land below. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The singing heat lay over this desert country, and ahead the stone mountains looked cool and welcoming. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was another five years after that before the two travelers finally returned for good to the mountain fastness. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The mountain laurel tightened their leaves, and the apple blossoms froze. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Christened the Sagarmatha Environmental Expedition, Fischer’s team removed 5,000 pounds of trash from the mountain—which was very good for the landscape and turned out to be even better public relations. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

They left the ring of trees and crept along the road towards the mountains. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He decided to return to Huamuxtitlan, the dusty village beneath a flat-topped mountain where he was born. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He remembered the black of the sand paintings on the floor of the hogan; the hills and mountains were the mountains and hills they had painted in sand. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Soon they lost sight of the mountain; the tall trees blocked their view. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

I am only feeling floaty when I am swishing up into the mountains to see the goats. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

During that trip, Hall’s first to the Himalaya, he made a side excursion to Everest Base Camp and resolved that one day he would climb the world’s highest mountain. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Clouds float down between the steep green mountains. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Nothing met her gaze but hills, blinding white with flowers, and the glimmering river climbing up into the mountains. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

On the far side of the valley there were high and even rocky hills, but they were lower than the mountains he had seen yesterday. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The mountain men fell in behind him, each clan arrayed behind its own leaders. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The train was curving the mountain, the engine loping like a great black hound, parallel with the last careening cars, panting forth its pale white vapor as it hurled us ever higher. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten years before the flames, I was born in the mountains, a scenic land of jewel-green fields, bamboo trees, and forests inhabited by gorillas, elephants, and chimpanzees. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

As I crossed the stones to my mountain trail, I said to that bird, “Sometimes I wonder if I will make it to spring.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt almost cartoonish, like someone throwing a tiny snowball at a mountain and causing an avalanche. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was scary the way Mr. Pignati’s head seemed to stick out of that mountain of white sheets and just sink slowly downward. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

To avoid checkpoints and get farther away from the border, Shin followed a winding footpath up into the mountains, where he walked for most of the day. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Beyond the old towns, beautiful mountains rose at the horizon. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The lake widened and across it on the shore at the foot of the mountains on the other side we saw a few lights that should be Luino. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Bolverkr,” said Baugi as the first mists of winter rolled down the mountain, “you are misnamed. For you have worked nothing but good.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

There was one in particular, in the west above the mountains but low in the sky, that shone more brightly than all the rest. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He could see nothing but the wheeling stars, and away to his right vast shadows against the sky where the mountains of the South marched past. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I can see over everyone’s heads, a clear view of the mountains on all sides. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It works out contingencies and relationships and sorts through the mountain of information we get from the outside world, prioritizing it and putting flags on things that demand our immediate attention. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

All she wished was to raise her granddaughter, so small and precious, away from harm and she remembered a mountain she had visited in her youth. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She could see her mountain, the hemlock, and Sam. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The sheriff shrugged, smiled vaguely, gestured at the nearest mountain peak with his burrito. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

From far away, Thor and Thialfi and Loki heard a noise, as if of huge rocks grinding together: the rumbling noise of mountains in pain. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The mountains were as unfamiliar and menacing as ever, but I wanted to stay. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Mountain, mountain, mountain, and just a sliver of sky. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The land is rich with grass and color, and the mountains are the kind I would create if mountains were ever put on my agenda. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the eighteenth day a cloudy mountain top arose up across the sea. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charged down the mountain as fast as we could, given the limits of the treacherous path and Bronwyn’s volatile cargo. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

We were looking at a gray mountain ringed in forests. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Number two lived in New New York, five thousand miles across the blue mountains. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far away from here, following the Jade River, there was once a black mountain that cut into the sky like a jagged piece of rough metal. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “Officer, I’ve driven this thing all over the country— mountains, plains, deserts. And now I’m back in my own town, where I live—and I’m lost.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never been to the mountains before and I caught that word pretty clearly. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the sun drops behind the distant mountains, the light in the east takes on a blue haze. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It is a brutal mountain, and yet people go up there—or at least try to—even in winter. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Away in the south Frodo could see the dim shapes of lofty mountains that seemed now to stand across the path that the Company was taking. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“You could go east, across the mountains, but Gaea will do anything to stop you from crossing Italy. She has raised her mountain gods against you.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Everyone called it the Leaner because, despite being pretty sturdy, it looked like it was tilting down the slope of the mountain. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

With Mason refusing to survey the mountain, the job fell to Maskelyne. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Suppose poor little Linnie got sick, up there in the mountains, with nobody around? No doctor?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

When the war-sick arrive here, my family will have to move nearer to those colonies or go north, into the mountains. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

"I'd hoped he chose the mountains to hide his muster from the eyes of my rangers." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a horse galloping across a plain, she was a mountain spring, she was a shoot thrusting through the earth, a red flower in the barley. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

They were still running along, deeper and deeper into the mountain, back towards the tower. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Wild violets, rooster heads, and mountain daisies had completely covered the two little mounds. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A short time later the mountains were no longer visible, hidden behind the glare of the sun, reflecting off the dirty air. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The sun was almost down on the mountain tops, and the shadows of the whole group fell long upon the snow. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Besides tending pigs, he hunted with the farmer for wild boar in the surrounding mountains. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I’d made my way close enough to where DJ Ren is still standing up behind his mountain of instruments, spinning a fast-tempo beat, the gold wings of his headphones reflecting the neon strobe lights. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“And for me to come back again,” he said, as a promise that she would not be left alone on the mountain farm. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Now refuse covered the farm and was creeping toward the mountain base. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Mecca is surrounded by the crudest-looking mountains I have ever seen; they seem to be made of the slag from a blast furnace. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Keep talking. Tell them about watching the mountain go down,” Haymitch insists. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“When I want mountains made out of molehills, when I want to legitimize their puerile actions by paying attention to them, I’ll let you know.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mountain was still snow-capped, so I walked into the valleys almost every day to scout them for edible plants. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coins splatter on the floor and make a golden mountain. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The tribe migrated for several reasons, including civil war and discrimination at home, as well as the fact that the mountains held an abundance of grasslands—a paradise for grazing cows. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

That mountain rose like the shadow of a monster against the dark sky. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ymir’s bones they piled up into mountains and cliffs. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Oddly, most climbers on Everest knew less about Ngawang’s plight than tens of thousands of people who were nowhere near the mountain. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He walked from his remote mountain shack with his shoes in a paper sack so as not to wear them out. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were not large or fierce, like the bears and tigers that roamed the mountains, but they were known to be fiendishly clever. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I was awed by the immense beauty of South Africa, seen from high up in the clouds: rolling hills and plains, meandering rivers and mountain ranges, thick forests, magnificent coastlines, luscious farmland. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d read about the great volcanoes, the lost city of Pompeii destroyed by fire that poured out of mountains from deep below. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The Indian Ocean flashed incredible colors of emerald jade and opal in the shallow water surrounding the Maldive Islands, then on to the Burma coast and lush green jungle, followed by mountains and coastline. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have mountains of style. I define style. I—I—” “My brother oozes style,” Otis suggested. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The wooden watchtower was the tallest thing this side of the mountains, rising twenty feet above the biggest sentinels and soldier pines in the surrounding woods. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Something roughly the size of a mountain, but considerably more mobile. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Sandy says thank you, grabs the box of cereal, pours himself a mountain, and scarfs it down in a minute flat. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“Maybe not. Lana knows that wandering around the mountains looking for us wouldn’t amount to a hill of beans. Better to make a beeline for the one spot that’s most obviously a rendezvous point. Here.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She was peering into the fog, wondering how it could be so difficult to fly across one stupid mountain range, when the ship’s alarm bells sounded. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Outside in the darkness, the endless mass of pack ice was grinding against itself like a restless giant breaking mountains in its sleep. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I ease away from the jungle’s edge and try to act casual as I move toward the largest dark spot in the mountain’s face. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It raced down the mountain at jet speeds, burning everything in its path. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

He looked searchingly at the towering mountains—ridge after ridge after ridge until at last there was the ocean. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

By noon, confused patrols were flying over the mountains. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

In the direction that Skardebek flew, the sheer wall of the mountain in front of them was marked by a ribbon of cool silver. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

In a valley between the mountains lay a massive field of ice. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They came from the mountains where my parents grew up or they came from the next town over. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He didn’t have time to reach the river or the mountains. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boston looked so usual and so unconcerned, Johnny began to wonder if they all had not made mountains of molehills, imagined an expedition when none was intended. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cora stood in the guts of a mountain. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Not quite mountains, but rising fast, full of gorges and deep brush and places you could die. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he had been used to mountain country he would have realized that this meant he was now very high up—perhaps right at the top of the pass. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

One morning, after almost two years of crossing, they became the first mortals to see the western slopes of the mountain range. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

A long time ago, a little girl was sent away to live with an old aunt and uncle at the foot of a mountain. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

There was a mountain of snow right in the middle that we climbed up. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“July 29 “A big storm dumped so much water on the mountain the last three days that the dam washed out—logs, rocks, and mud. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned his head and looked at the bright mountain tops. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark had gotten so into mountain climbing that summer. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I hung balanced, a creature of two minds; and one of them said—unreasonable, stubborn as the mountains—that she was beautiful. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were riding back from a day on the mountain, where they had been hunting grouse with the peregrines, and Merlyn had gone with than for for sake of the ride. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But worse than the mountains were the tunnels. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I had noticed our old rocket-candy rockets wobbling when they broke the plane of the mountains and got caught in the wind stream coming across the ridgeline. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed high into the mountains to hide. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mouth is stretched out like it’s all she can do to hold back a mountain of sobbing. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The mist in the mountains covers the trees. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Across the plain it was dark, and we could see the mountains. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why Dad was alone on the mountain that day. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But he survived and escaped to the top of the mountains. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were sitting side by side, facing the mountains. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

He sweeps his hand through the air like he’s showing me a row of mountains. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was a smell that pulled him downriver, up a mountain, and back through time to almost two weeks ago. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

And the houses made of rock and stone, they are like childrens of the mountain sprinkled all around, close by. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

The smoky blur of the mountains in the East was lost in a deeper blackness that was already reaching out westwards with long arms. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The first thing I noticed was that the windows faced the mountains so I’d always be looking up and not down. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before them, darkling against a pallid sky, the great mountains reared their threatening heads. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Arion shot toward the glacier like a runaway rocket, barreling straight across the slush like he wanted to play chicken with the mountain of ice. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Blood gurgled in his throat It was the end of the trail for the scourge of the mountains. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She read on, following the commentary through the mazy paths it led her on, until she came to: Keeping still is the mountain; it is a bypath; it means little stones, doors, and openings. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sirius led them to the very foot of the mountain, where the ground was covered with boulders and rocks. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

But now few villagers came up the mountain, and it was not just the winter keeping them away. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I knew the mountain was there, somewhere, but I couldn’t see it. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

As she lay moaning in her bed, Harry set off for Bonners Ferry, Idaho, eighteen miles away on twisting mountain roads, to fetch a doctor. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

As we drove down the mountain pass and saw the Swat River, my father began to weep. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Here. Here. I’ll get her mirrors,” said my mother, who had come running down the mountain into the clearing. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he sensed power behind it, a road flowing with troops all the way back to the mountains. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if it meant climbing a mountain of words. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a mountain of gleaming metal that towered high above the children and their parents. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

They’d walk among the mountains and across seas, like the adventurers and outlaws that filled his daydreams, all oceans and sailing ships and pops of gunfire. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Ski lifts didn’t cut swaths into the mountain’s pine forests. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The sky was stained and colored; the clouds were thickened; the mountains took on an iron taint. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Quite! All right That's where well look. If the beast isn't there we'll go up the mountain and look; and light the fire." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The next morning I hitched up Big Jack to the buggy and took Grandpa and Miss Love and a mountain of grips to the depot. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Maria the nun was standing at the top of the mountain twirling around and around. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“My-lady, fair warning. The old gods are strong in those mountains. The clansmen will not suffer insults to their heart trees.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Beyond every freeway lay another freeway, beyond every city another city, hills beyond mountains and mountains beyond hills, and, beyond those, more cities and more people. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As we all bobbed precariously on the mountain of bananas, I just stared at Mother and Adah, trying to memorize what remained of my family. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"So remember. The rocks for a lavatory. Keep the fire going and smoke showing as a signal. Don't take fire from the mountain. Take your food up mere." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Those fool demons are using too much dynamite. They must have some amateurs on. Why, on the railroads we’d only have used half that charge to blast our way into a mountain.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A silent flash traveled around the mountain, followed by another flash— chain lightning, but no thunder reached the town. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun, already hidden by the clouds, finally set behind the western mountains. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Tyrion was gathering dead- wood while their horses took water from a mountain stream. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"Do you see that mountain on the edge of the forest?" Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

In the fields of Veracruz, among farmers and their donkeys piled with sugarcane, rises a mountain. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“In the morning we will take our canoe and we will go over the sea and over the mountains to the capital, you and I. We will not be cheated. I am a man.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this time of day, Stanley sometimes could see some distant hills or mountains on the other side of the lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Nkoko, mongo, zulu—river, mountain, sky—everything must be called out from the void by the word we use to claim it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children ran down the mountain, their laughter melting into the air. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was sinking behind the mountains, and the shadows were deepening in the woods, when they went on again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I would erase it all: the smell, the rats, the giant mountain of rotting food. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

By 1924, when he returned for his third expedition to the mountain, Mallory had become convinced that the summit would never be reached without gas, and he resigned himself to using it. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The sounds of fighting, the far-off booming of the artillery, the hollow, bass-drum sound of explosions echoing off the mountains became a constant thing. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The deserts and empty seas swung by him, and the mountains against the stars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shadowcats would make a morsel of him, and the clans that dwelt in the mountain fastnesses were brigands and murderers who bowed to no law but the sword. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Still some miles away, on the far side of the Westfold Vale, lay a green coomb, a great bay in the mountains, out of which a gorge opened in the hills. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I started to tell him to wait, we’d pick it up later, but Billy was off on a run, heading up the mountain. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Reuven, it was in these mountains that Israel gave birth to Hasidism. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I grabbed a fork from the side of the table and put it in the mountain of mashed potatoes on my plate. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mama told us children a story about a big giant that lived in the mountains and ate little children that were lost. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No,” I said, “I wasn’t scared of staying in the cave, but I heard a mountain lion scream and it scared me half to death.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mountains on either side were covered in forest, and there were large animals and monstruos living in those trees. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Trolls and frost giants and mountain giants all tremble when they see Mjollnir, for it has killed so many of their brothers and friends. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I was thoroughly tired of being there,” he said, “and longed to get back to the mountains and our comrades in Norway.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said I thought a ridge that flattened out on top and had a little depth would be easier and more practical to hold than a succession of small mountains. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Trees will cover the sea bottom and seaweed the mountain tops before I cease to love Scylla,” he told her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And between bites of food and sips of coffee, he’d tell them about his work on the mountain. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike in Haiti, which means “land of many mountains,” the ground is level here and stretches as far as I can see—as if there are no limits to dreams here. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She was a pretty, long-faced woman from the Tennessee mountains. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Far into the south there were smoky blue ridges of the mountain haze at Zuni. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

A crevasse is maybe the biggest danger that lurks for mountain climbers. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I’m close to Tyler, Richard and Tony, and from them, as well as from other family, I hear of the ongoing drama on the mountain—the injuries, violence and shifting loyalties. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At sea, sailors would mistake the rising smoke for a gigantic mountain range. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Terraces climbed up the side of the mountain, with swimming pools on every level, connected by waterslides and waterfalls and underwater tubes you could swim through. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then he turned around and headed back to his mountain. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can see how mountains create valleys, how the hills make depressions and rises. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Zola leans against the balcony wall and stares out at the beautiful mountain, so tall and strong. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

The day before I returned to England, I drove seven miles along the mountain range, then turned onto a narrow dirt road and stopped in front of a powder-blue house. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It felt to him as if he had just undergone some powerful rites of passage and now belonged to the western mountains instead of to the East Coast, fair-haired college culture. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a clear cold night and the stars shone down upon the mountains as bright and merciless as truth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Standing next to him is like standing next to a mountain. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

In the sea bottom the wind stirred along faint vapors, and from the mountains great stone visages looked upon the silvery rocket and the small fire. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he moved her to the winter house below the mountains, in the southwest, where the yellow sandrock foothills look over on the river. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He looked like an eagle staring down from a high mountain crag as his eyes swept over his audience of awed young Navajo men. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to climb a mountain,” I answered. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The thud of Ignatius’ fall had attracted Miss Trixie from the ladies’ room; she came around the files and tripped on the mountain of supine flesh. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had forgotten that the mountain still holds the master card, that it will grant success only in its own good time. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

What could be better than driving on a mountain while “Yakety Yak” played and cool, light air blew all over you? The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam whistled the three notes, “Come to me,” and ran to the bare rocks at the top of the mountain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The mountain lion came out from a grove of oak trees in the middle of the clearing. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the other direction, where we thought the action would be, there were mountains shrouded in haze. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way up the mountain, I stared out the window while Howard told me about Burl buying a motorcycle and his mama being mad as all get-out. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I got to my feet and shuffled on until I saw a single bare light bulb on the porch of a house built about a hundred feet down the side of the mountain. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Before Mount Elgon was eroded down, it may have been the highest mountain in Africa, higher than Kilimanjaro is today. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The style of the clothing and the vintage leather boots suggested that the victim was European and that the corpse had lain on the mountain at least ten or fifteen years. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe if he just fell down the mountain... would he survive? The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

There were blue-bellied clouds hanging low over the mountain peaks, and he could hear thunder faintly in the distance. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jake moved to stand over Miss Riley with a folded newspaper, but the angry bees had too many targets and gave up in confusion, retreating back up the mountain. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I got high in the mountains before dusk. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the mountain’s rumblings grew St. Helens became a tourist attraction for the world. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know if the mountain, so grand, could fit in the small frame of the camera. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The sun sank behind the high mountains as they stood there, and the ranch was hushed. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eric watched the scurrying woodlice that were so frantically unable to avoid the flames, and thought of the first fire just down there, on the steeper side of the mountain, where now was complete darkness. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Then I saw an ambulance coming across the mountain from Welch. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

For her entire life, St. Helens had been the beautiful mountain rising into the sky. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a long way back to the river, and about the same distance to the mountains,” I said. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

This one looms over us, a miniature mountain, and although his features are poorly defined, I can still make out his wolf’s smile. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Much later that day they came down from the bare mountains onto a spur covered in grass and dwarf rhododendrons. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They went to the wilderness to worship, to the wildest mountains, the deepest forests, as if they kept to the customs of an ancient time before men had thought of building houses for their gods. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually, Stanley couldn't see the mountains at this time of day. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Each Sunday she rises at 4 A.M. to head up into the mountains to a spot near an outdoor market. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They are primarily animals of the plains, and in winter when the first snows come those that have summered in the mountains move down to the lower elevations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I cried all the way down that mountain. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s such an unpleasant place that I spend almost all my time out of it. Besides, what could be nicer than these grimy mountains?” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

And when the demons were too scared to go into the mountains to build the paths for their trains, we went and dug up whole mountains. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the east and west were more mountains, great jagged peaks thrusting sharply upward, their scarps piled high with snow and raked by the wind into bladelike edges as sharp as scimitars. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Main Street continued westward between two mountains, leading to clusters of miners’ houses we called Middletown and Frog Level. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Cherangani Hills appeared in the distance, a line of mountains on the edge of the Rift, humpy and green, crushed under an indwelling sweep of rain clouds. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far in the distance, in one direction, there seems to be a woods, in the other, a snowcapped mountain. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

During all my years on the mountain, I talked to no one except the two old people, but they seemed to be many people. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Lourdes spent days washing clothes along the Usumacinta River in exchange for food, asking every smuggler who went by if he would take them through the mountain pass. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He thought, however, about how lonely people in mountains yodel to the empty peaks and take the echo for a friendly reply. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

A mountain collapsed before my eyes and disappeared beneath my feet. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

District 2 is a large district, as one might expect, composed of a series of villages spread across the mountains. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

After what seemed like forever, a mountain of glistening silk was piled at the feet of the statue. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was weatherworn inside and out, as taut and rugged as the horses he ran wild on the mountain. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As for the Butterflies, they were ambushed and murdered on a lonely mountain road, their car thrown over a cliff to make it all look like an accident. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

And again the whites were thundering across the mountain. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I became a popular dinner guest, with my stories of hunting and horses, of scrapping and fighting mountain fires. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She flew directly to her mountain and landed on the wooden box. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The world is a dead thing for them the trees and rivers are not alive the mountains and stones are not alive. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He turned toward the mountains and kept hiking through the dry grass. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Tony and Shawn had gone, and they’d belonged on the mountain in a way that Tyler never did. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As the tributary climbed its way into the mountains, the fields around her filled with flowers. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

"And then," said Jack, "when I've had a bathe and something to eat, I'll just trek over to the other side of the mountain and see if I can see any traces. Coming?" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The house was surrounded by a dense forest, and beyond it I saw a range of jagged mountain peaks. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I returned to my patch on the mountain, talking to myself all the way. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mountains before us didn’t so much rise from the lake as rear from it, like startled beasts. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

On the further side was a steep brown bank, threaded by a winding path; and behind that the tall mountains climbed, shoulder above shoulder, and peak beyond peak, into the fading sky. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Near the bank of lavatories on the starboard side I crouched to peer through a small, waist-level window, hoping to catch a glimpse of some mountains. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It is his last broadcast from a hidden spot in the mountains. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the early 1940s, the United States managed to intercept a mountain of cable telegram traffic from Soviet embassies. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“But reaching the top of the mountain has nothing to do with the villages!” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

To publicize his campaign, he laid plans to make a solo ascent of the south face of Denali, the mountain’s steepest aspect, in winter, with a minimum of food. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he turned his head toward the mountains of the east, the Gabilans, and they were jolly mountains, with hill ranches in their creases, and with pine trees growing on the crests. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a long way they stayed to the trail, following its twists and turns as it snaked along the side of the mountain, upward, ever upward. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My parents grew up in these towering mountains, the Hauts Plateaux, in a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo called South Kivu. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Ahead, where the black road twisted out of sight between black trees and gray sky, was the mountain. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I sculpt my mashed potatoes into a little mountain. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

After a few days of fruitless searching, he trotted across the field, headed for the town dump he had passed on his way up the mountain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

And the shot, which struck a mountain, knocked it to bits—dissolved it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together they led the Company back towards the mountains. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then my father shouted, “Look!” and I raised my head to see a towering mountain of rock emerge from the blank canvas before us. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

But she told them about the secret northern pass through the mountains, and the detour Hecate described that could take them to Epirus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And thus, just ere midnight, and in a darkness as black as the caverns in the mountains, they came at last to the Hill of Erech. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He waved his skinny arm towards the darkling mountains. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They hear a humming sound, the drone of a small plane, and they turn as the plane enters the valley between the mountains. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Only in this valley. It seems weird at first, but it’s the way the pre-Rusties lived too, you know? And we’re planting more on the other side of the mountain, pushing into the orchids.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

We invite you to climb your mountain with us. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, a shot cracks the air and echoes across the mountains. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

They turned up a gentle swing of road that ran along the side of the mountain, and passed through apple orchards, and turned into their driveway. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A misty rain had begun to fall and dark gray clouds hovered over the tops of the mountains in the distance. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He’s been teetering on the edge of letting go of this specific dream for months now, terrified of it, but the relief is startling, a mountain off his back. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I drove across the upraised thumb of Idaho and through real mountains that climbed straight up, tufted with pines and deep- dusted with snow. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them, a mile or so away, mountains rose up to a sharp blue sky. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Like the Peruvian littoral, it is bracketed by sea and mountains, but it catches, rather than misses, the prevailing winds, and the rain that comes with them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I had never seen a mountain, except in a geography text. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or “Loathsome One, turn toward the mountain — it is more forgiving.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I looked at the little calcified seashell in my palm, then at the huge mountain of dung. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She had food there in the mountain, and drink, and they ate and they drank. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Lower down and halfway around the mountain, another river crossed David’s railroad track. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She turned her head almost all the way around, but could not see or sense the one mountain among thousands of mountains, the one tree among millions of trees. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

In my mind, I scaled such mountains of combat often. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Everyone wandered like ghosts beneath the guard towers with the mountains looming on either side of them. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She’d heard tales of the brutality of the mountain folk from that region, and seen a few of them up close, seen the fierceness in their eyes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

With her claws digging into the mountain soil, she braced herself, and started pulling. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then Marcos announced that as soon as the weather cleared he planned to take off in his bird and cross the mountain range. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Mann’s hands are folded in her lap, and she quietly waits for a response, the tranquil painting of the mountains behind her seemingly waiting, too. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They were at a place where part of the mountain had been hacked away, making a space as wide and open as a parade ground. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But one boy stood still, pensively staring up at the lush green mountains that surrounded them. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

No sooner was she rested than she took off for the one mountain among thousands. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He blew out the lantern and looked back at the dim shapes of his father, of the witch, of his father again before turning to go down the mountain. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon a reservoir came into view, a mountain lake far below the road—tranquil blue waters set among steep, arid mountainsides. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The walking had been easy so far; after he had climbed over the mountain nearest Ch’ulp’o, the terrain had flattened out into endless rice fields. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Now then,” he said, “you have to come with us on the mountain, to catch a unicorn.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she had encountered him in the fields or on the mountain where the daughters-in-law collected fuel. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It comes all the way from the mountains.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chill of the mountains was fierce at night. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He laughed with the speed, reveled in it, roared with it—the Frog like a train barreling down a mountain. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, in front of the chalet a road went up the mountain. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

We’re deep in the valley, across the river, where the southernmost mountain mirrors the mountain to the north, across the water. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

One gorgeous autumn day when all the mountain aspens looked like a picture postcard from heaven, Amarante had a conversation with Sally. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I nearly had it, at that, up in the mountain pass." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I would hurry down the mountain and take his place. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The course I run is straight down the mountain to the county road, where I leave the cool shelter of the woods and trot over the hot asphalt to town. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far beyond the eastern mountains it leapt into the sky and splashed the lowering clouds with crimson. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Far away and behind them, the call of a hunting horn echoed against the mountains. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

On top of the mountain, the mercury rose considerably less than 30 inches. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

A clear mountain stream trickled down the center. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother temporarily gave up her hairpieces, a crimped false fringe and a rolled horsehair rat, platforms on which she daily constructed an elaborate mountain of her own hair. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Another storm enlightened Jura with faint flashes; and another darkened and sometimes disclosed the Môle, a peaked mountain to the east of the lake. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

One more fire to add to the ones that are already blazing in the mountains around us. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

That was how they undertook the crossing of the mountains. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

As we wind along the narrow mountain roads, I try to re- member everything I can about what happened to my cousins Zoyla and Gregoria. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the semester the world felt big, and it was hard to imagine returning to the mountain, to a kitchen, or even to a piano in the room next to the kitchen. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

See, while I was working with the brigades in one of the mountain villages, I met this really cute soldier. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

If she had been a witch, she would have leaped straight off the mountain. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out there, road stretching to road, the occasional jagged ridge of snowy mountains in the distance, it’s a playground for her thoughts. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

If Santa Claus himself had come down out of the mountains, reindeer and all, I would not have been more pleased. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The killings have started,” Pa tells my older brothers as we walk back down the mountain to our rendezvous area. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And look there!” cried the Prince, because now he saw, for the first time, in the rubble of the mountain path, the footsteps of a woman. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I remained as still as the ancient mountains themselves, afraid that if I shifted even a little, the sight before me would disappear. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

A couple of times Fossie approached her and tried to talk it out, but Mary Anne just stared out at the dark green mountains to the west. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed tired and pale after the ride up the mountain, but now that we were here, we both looked at the scenery for the first time. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘If you want to grow stones, Mr. Gribley, this is the place for you. Here in these mountains, stones are our best crop.’ On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was lost in thoughts that were as dark as the clouds that hid the mountain. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I had never thought about where Viola came from; she had always simply been there, punching down dough, peeling apples, preparing huge roasts in winter and frying up mountains of chicken in summer. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

A deep pinkish red spilled out on the river, which moved without sound, and in the morning we would cross the river and march west into the mountains. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet earlier I had set fire to a mountain of arms and legs and felt nothing. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The mountain is a biological island of rain forest in the center of Africa, an isolated world rising above dry plains, fifty miles across, blanketed with trees, bamboo, and alpine moor. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a little village down this road. The VC must have it, but their main force is on the hill. The squad the ARVNs chased went back to the mountain.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good thing it usually rains in the evenings here, or this whole side of the mountain would be on fire by now....” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She shone like a window of glass upon a far hill in the westering sun, or as a remote lake seen from a mountain: a crystal fallen in the lap of the land. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Every time he mentions it, Carla can see a shiver go through Tía's body like when there's a draft up at the house in the mountains and all the aunts wear pretty shawls. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

As workers piled mountains of fresh lumber beside each building, jagged foothills of sawdust and scrap rose nearby. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Not everybody could carry a full-grown pig up the side of a mountain. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

They were either farmers who were secretly Viet Cong, or they were members of one of the small mountain tribes fighting alongside the Communists. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

By the time she and her father and a group of villagers got down to the water, the sun had already begun setting behind the mountain. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I had to push Grover so he wouldn’t get launched into the mountain on the Boar Tusk Express. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“And now they are here, on our side of the Wall. Driven from their mountain fastness and into my bedchamber.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Beneath me there was nothing but snow and ice. Here lay the Hardanger Plateau, the largest, loneliest, and wildest mountain area in north ern Europe.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then another horse to pack gear on those same possibly dangerous mountain trails. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Well, no one said not to deface the mountain.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In the back of the room three boys sang a jíbaro song about coming from the mountains to the city. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

With his bare hands, he pried another chunk of rock from his mountain and began shaping it into a ball. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It sits on the prairie but on the edge of the mountains. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not easy to kill a mountain goat. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cold wind flowed down to meet them from the mountains ahead. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There were passes through the mountains, one between the head and the shoulders, where the neck would have been, and one immediately to the south of Mount Belly. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The story of how Tyler decided to leave the mountain is a strange one, full of gaps and twists. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The sun was a cold steely color as it dipped below the mountain. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t easy to go over the mountains—either coming in or out, bringing ideas or taking them away. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Three nights later in the foothills of the eastern mountains he woke in the darkness to hear something coming. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Miss Preston surges to her feet, a mountain of calicos and lace. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Her hips jut high, so she looks like a mountain. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

A number of times he halted to gawk at the transparent and magnified moon balanced atop a nearby mountain like a ball on a seal’s nose. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere over those mountains in the west slept the city where my harelipped brother and I had run kites. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t care if some mountain biker zooms through on the path. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Dressed as Indians, they harassed the Van Rensselaer agents and the state militia when they came into the mountains to collect the rent. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Home was, still is, a rusty old trailer stuck on the face of a mountain in Deep Water, in the heart of Fayette County. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting up in bed eating breakfast we could see the lake and the mountains across the lake on the French side. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

No rebuilt motor, no fancy mountain bike, no nothing. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Lee had told him that there were mountains in the south so high that even his balloon could not fly over them, and they were crowned with snow and ice all year round. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You got any brothers and sisters in the mountains?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Already they seemed to have been tramping on, on, endlessly to the mountains’ roots. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There were no birds or beasts or mountains or forest or sky. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The wind from Some faraway mountain Has reached him. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jessie watched the world spin around her in those days after they found Mark on the mountain. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Then the clouds came over the moon again and the mountains and the lake were gone, but it was much lighter than it had been before and we could see the shore. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The wind kicked up huge swirling waves of powder snow that washed down the mountain like breaking surf, plastering my clothing with frost. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

When I was told the village was in a valley completely surrounded by mountains, the nearest hospital a two-hour drive over terrible roads, I was delighted. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For hours she watched the rapid sequence of textures that flapped like streamers outside her window: vast latifimdios, provinces of royal palms, black mountains encircled with clouds. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The image of the one mountain among thousands, the one tree among millions, and the one boy, Sam Gribley, flashed in, then out of her mind. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Each mountain, each tree, each rock and animal and skittering insect. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Not too far away were mountains—she had heard that just about everywhere you went in Japan, you could see a mountain. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Third, I did not for a moment believe that, even if we reached the mountain, a party such as this would be able to climb it. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

For three hours we carried the bodies down the mountain to a clearing alongside a narrow dirt road. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were in the foot-hills on the near side of the river and as the road mounted there were the high mountains off to the north with snow still on the tops. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then at last his gaze was held: wall upon wall, battlement upon battlement, black, immeasurably strong, mountain of iron, gate of steel, tower of adamant, he saw it: Barad-dûr, Fortress of Sauron. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The prison itself is set amidst the strikingly beautiful scenery of the Cape, between the mountains of Constantiaberge to the north and hundreds of acres of vineyards to the south. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond, glimpsed through a canopy of leaves, is a long view of gorgeously forbidding blue mountains. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

For this reason, scythes must be as loved as a glorious mountain vista, as revered as a redwood forest, and as respected as an approaching storm. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“The earthquakes disturbed thousands of snakes that had been living on the mountain. They came slithering down into Saint-Pierre. Some of them were venomous six-foot-long pit vipers. Hundreds of people died from bites.” I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

All this high-tech equipment, it appears, is drawing up into the mountains people who perhaps shouldn’t be there. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Depending on the wind, a faint echo of massive artillery could be heard occasionally across the mountains near Sarajevo seventy miles to the north. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

High above Sam they opened their wings and flew in tandem down the mountain over the river, up into the clouds and back to Sam. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Dad said the nomadic Indians had watched for her appearance as a sign of spring, a signal the mountain was thawing, winter was over, and it was time to come home. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Indeed, I have seen in encyclopedias and the National Geographic Magazine breath-taking photographs of sights from various comers of the globe; magnificent canyons and waterfalls, raggedly beautiful mountains. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Doña Lola’s house, nestled at the side of the mountain, had been spared, but the adjoining kitchen had disappeared, except for the three stones of her fogón. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Proclaiming victory, Euergetes rushed back to Alexandria with a mountain of loot, including as many as twenty-five hundred Egyptian cult statues originally taken by the Persians back in the sixth century. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“Here, only a mountain can lift the moon!” the emperor cackled. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He ran past the glass ruins and called, “Magister Spurge!” out to the mountains and valleys. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The west branch of the Delaware, the town of Delhi, and the one mountain among thousands were where she belonged. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

They seemed to be coming from all over the city, heading straight toward the mountain. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The moon was now three nights from the full, but it did not climb over the mountains until nearly midnight, and the early night was very dark. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The rest of us stepped out gingerly, watching the black clouds crest the mountain and drop into the valley. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Behind the Stagecoach Pass, at the center of the dirt trail where Billy and Fred lug around an endless stream of screaming children, stands a mountain. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I got this charm when I was in Veloran. Far away, across the Stormwal mountains. It is a most excellent charm against demons.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You’re going up the river. I want to come with you. I’m going to the mountains and this is the quickest way. Will you take me?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Our eyes are peeled for bears, lynxes, wayward hunters—any creature that might call the mountains home. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In outlook and experience they were nothing like the hard-core climbers with whom I usually went into the mountains. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

In early May they sighted the loom of shadowy mountains off their starboard bow. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Ophie fell asleep the dead whispered, their ghostly voices carrying along Pennsy’s tracks over the distance, winding through autumnal forests and mountains, over rivers and through towns. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

In the mountains that day, I watched Lemon turn sideways. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

At about one o’clock we came at last to old 64, a lonesome, superannuated two-lane road through the mountains. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Harry looked down and saw deep green mountains and lakes, coppery in the sunset. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Selitos stooped to pick up a jagged shard of mountain glass, pointed at one end. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Every March for ten years he had made this plunge from high above Sam’s mountain to his aerie on the cliff. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Going higher, into the mountains, I think. Congratulations on landing us safely, Mr. Scoresby.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were also lucky to find some oshá, because this plant grows better in the mountains. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to follow them as they hunted the mountain lion, to shoot them and their howling dogs with their own guns. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

If I were going to travel to the far side of the globe and spend eight weeks away from my wife and home, I wanted an opportunity to climb the mountain. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

By the location of the mountain range to the east, I know we’re nearing the landing site. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The road winds up the rugged mountains, and as the sun rose my mood lifted. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tapped a paw on a section of the drawing where it looked like a series of trails went up the mountain. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

First, they walked for three days from the mountains to Uvira, where the Congolese promptly poisoned them in a restaurant. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He could see mountains now, their peaks white with snow, and the silver thread of rivers in dark woods. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“The fate of those empty, wide plains and those miserable mountain regions seems dull to me as well.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He saw a large indentation in the weeds a little farther down the mountain. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

As we approached some foothills of large mountains, there were hundreds of cactuses. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

It was as if there were an unspoken agreement on the mountain to pretend that these desiccated remains weren’t real—as if none of us dared to acknowledge what was at stake here. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It’s early—before roll call—but the sun is bright and cresting over the lower peaks of the mountains, casting its rose-tipped glow across the sleeping camp. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I could look out at the mountains and the tiny little houses people had squeezed onto them. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

At the top of the mountain was a white pole marking the border between Elfland and the domain of the goblins, defiantly flying the flag of Ghohg. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Why should nature abhor a vacuum less at the top of a mountain than at the bottom? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

We drove them off after some time; they were many and fierce, but they came from over the mountains, and were unused to the woods. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

"Then you must send scouts into the mountains." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

That came abruptly to an end one chilly mountain evening when Harry came trudging up the hill in his greasy overalls at the end of the day. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It is quiet, perfectly quiet, with only the sounds of mountains and trees humming. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

“In my next life, I’m coming back as a mountain goat.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Inside the mountains is dynamite to blow up bridges to keep out invaders, and inside the mountains are airplanes ready to zoom into the air in a blink to keep out invaders. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

To keep a clean flag of flame flying on the mountain was the immediate end and no one looked further. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

"Yes, an orphan, poor thing. One of our farmers found her, wrapped in blankets near the crossroads at the base of the mountain." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Fire in the mountain lake: grace brings success. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

At such a rate it seems impossible that it could ever cart away a mountain, but in fact given sufficient time that is precisely what would happen. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He drank the beer as if it were the tumbling ice-cold stream in the mountain canyon on the beer label. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The vuvv reaches up with a limb and flips through images of my paintings of castles, mountains, and walled towns. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Obviously,” Yishan said, “the emperor only uses the men from the mountain villages for his slaves. Let’s go see what the fuss is about.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She nods and stares across the far side of the lake, to the distant icy mountains where the water pours over the plateaus. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In contrast to the unattractive side street outside the window of Bókin, the library’s window provided a view of the fishing trawlers docked in the bay, and the mountains just beyond the water. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Taliban had only recently left the mountains, but there was a rumor they would be back. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We cheered our little victory, but Vonetta and Fern had drifted off on our mountain of pillows and sheets spread out on the floor. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

By the time they arrived at the village at the foot of the mountain, all the horses were spent and the servants exhausted. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

‘They call it Pylosian mint. Apparently the plant sprang from the blood of a nymph who died on a mountain near here, back in ancient times. I didn’t ask for details.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

That mountain air would be good for my baby. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In front of me is the Pacific, which sends up sunset after sunset, for nothing; at my back are the improbable mountains, and beyond them an enormous barricade of land. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

My gaze dropped below the mountain and my breath caught. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We had vivid desert sunsets, stampeding horses, sleeping cats, snow- covered mountains, bowls of fruit, blooming flowers, and portraits of us kids. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Amari nodded and tried to focus on the mountain of potatoes in front of her. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

On Warren’s bulletin board she spotted the photo from her art school application: the etched-in image of the two of them, children, climbing up the mountain of slag. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He ran blindly down the mountain path, heedless of the rocks and shrubs. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

She found an updraft on the side of her mountain and rode it without beating a wing. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It placed Shin and Park within a stone’s throw of the fence that ran along the spine of the mountain. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

They made significant outposts in Brigham City, just twenty minutes from Trementon, at the base of the mountains, and in Logan, the region’s hub, which held a larger temple. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The girl clawed her way up the mountain. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

This morning he tells you that you’re not getting this week’s allowance ’cause of your mountain of unwashed clothes. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The mountains are tall and proud, more impressive than any skyscraper. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

After breakfast, we headed down the mountain to Rocky Creek Baptist Church. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She had been pared down like this before, when she had travelled up the mountains into rare snow—alone in white not unlike being alone in black. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the snow on the mountain began to melt, my hands were thickly callused. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the stillness after battle I looked up at the mountain- tops; perhaps the old man and woman were watching me and would enjoy my knowing it. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had no idea the mountains could be so big or so cold or so beautiful. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was spinning out of the thunderclouds like gray spider webs and tangling against the foothills of the mountain. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

By his command, they'd risked no open flames since entering the mountains. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

On the other side of her mountain—to the north—there was nothing but forest, and beyond that was a bog that covered half the world. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

But even in the earliest Greek poem, the Iliad, this idea is beginning to give way to the idea of an Olympus in some mysterious region far above all the mountains of the earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mountains loom behind her, peaks lost in heavy clouds. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But way back in the Jurassic period, some Stegosaurus went to the bathroom in our mountains. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She flew back to the one mountain among hundreds, the one tree among millions, and Sam. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Someone outside the close community of Japanese Americans had actually seen the camp, with its multitude of people and its swarm of buildings on the plain between the mountains. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

A loco moco is a mountain of rice topped with a hamburger patty topped with gravy topped with two fried eggs. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gashes the size of football fields would appear at the mountain base, leaving a desolation of broken roots and upturned trees where once there had been a forest. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it goes into the house, where you could wash your hands in the constant flow of cold mountain water. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

On May 28 he wrote in his diary, “This will be a last effort, and I feel successful,” and then headed up the mountain one more time. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

"So leave the mountain alone," said the chief, solemnly, "and give it the head if you go hunting." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The Xi remained here in Taninli, but the lesser fay retreated to their own hollows and mountains and forests. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

So far today, she’d seen different types of mountains: dark ones with snowy ridges, green-covered ones, and one unreal mountain with a blue-gray disk-shaped cloud right above it. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Sohrab left his arm resting on my shoulder as he pointed out the other buildings nearby: newer, smaller mosques, and bazaars, and farther away, looming over Yazd, the mountains we were going to visit soon. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

For the next ten months, Shin stayed where the pig farmer had left him, tending cattle in mountain pastures and sleeping on a ranch-house floor with two surly Chinese cowhands. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I had the feeling that I was an old story somewhere beyond the foot of the mountain. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mountain wind was cool; it smelled like springs hidden deep in mossy black stone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

As he brushed himself off, Skinny ran down the mountain toward the fragile, papery house he shared with his family. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

They could talk for a week and not agree about anything, but they were tethered by their devotion to the mountain. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

If Dad had been with Luke on the mountain, he would have brought him to the house, would have treated the burn. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It shaped itself like a mountain seen in the distance, and began to glow at the summit. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I love the beach and you love the mountains. We’re doomed!” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

This part of the beach was nearer the mountain than any other that they had seen. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Had the Watermelon Feed been held inside the county jail, or on a sinking ship, or on the side of a craggy mountain, they would still have flocked to attend. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I let it go- We must have reaped every last strawberry before she stood up, put her arm in mine and escorted me down the mountain. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z