Sentence examples for fierce mountain from inspiring English sources

So much for the fierce mountain clansman, the implacable Albanian avenger he'd imagined and feared.

Fierce mountain tribesmen, the Pashtun straddle the Durand Line, the border the British drew in 1893 between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

They are the creations, in large measure, of the training, weapons and dollars funneled into Afghanistan by the Central Intelligence Agency during the 1980's to help seven Islamic Mujahadin factions, fierce mountain tribesmen, defeat the Soviet occupation.

By 2004, Mr. Muhammad had become the undisputed star of the tribal areas, the fierce mountain lands populated by the Wazirs, Mehsuds and other Pashtun tribes who for decades had lived independent of the writ of the central government in Islamabad.

The mighty fierce mountain chiseled away at a lot of us climbers over the course of two months.

Fierce mountain woman who had big dreams of city life, playing piano and singing in Chicago or New York City, but who instead married a man her mother wanted her to before graduating high school, and stayed with him until the end of her life because of a fierce sense of duty.

Fierce mountains loom over velvety valleys, glacial lakes, precipitous canyons and dreamy villages where life unfolds now much as it has throughout the centuries.

He is also a subtle scene-setter, so Afghanistan, with its fierce mountains and sweet valleys reminiscent of Kubla Khan's "gardens bright with sinuous rills, where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree", is kept in the reader's mind's eye, along with the striking nature of its inhabitants.

You can't do that any more after the seat belts law, but the fierce little mountain still gives me a thrill.

He was a fierce swimmer, mountain climber, canoeist, tennis player, fly fisherman, tap dancer, figure skater, and ballplayer; he was still downhill skiing in his middle seventies, when a stern family meeting was required to pry him from the slopes, for his own good.

Officials in Puntland said that at least 18 militants and 3 government soldiers were killed Sunday in fierce fighting in mountain villages along the northern coast, near the port town of Boosaaso.