But after 32 years of operation, and almost 2 million hours of being "on call," the mountain of new laws called Obamacare loomed before us like an oncoming locomotive.
But for me, the most wonderful Austrian dessert is the big, puffy mountain of a soufflé called Salzburger nockerl.
He said that the government needed to cut "excessive" expenditures lest we be buried beneath "a mountain of debt," and called for a five-year freeze on domestic spending.
Along with the fish, as with all entrees at Zaffronía, came an under-cooked grilled whole tomato and a mountain of balsamic rice called chelo with a yellow ridge of saffron on top.
Competitors battle at 360 words per minute, hauling around mountains of evidence called "cards" and nearly every debate ends in global nuclear annihilation.
In a statement, Charlie McMillan, the current director of Los Alamos, the birthplace of the bomb in the mountains of New Mexico, called Dr. Agnew "a national treasure," saying the United States "will be forever in Harold's debt".
So, Shaloman waits as a rock on top of the mountain until someone calls for help.
Zeke the Sheik stood high atop the steamy mountain of fertilizer that he calls his magic carpet and contemplated the bureaucratic forces that threaten to bring him down to earth.
Mount Sinai, also called Mountain of Moses or Mount Hareh, Hebrew Har Sinai, Arabic Jabal Mūsā, granitic peak of the south-central Sinai Peninsula, Janūb Sīnāʾ (South Sinai) muḥāfaẓah (governorate), Egypt.
But if we ever need a keg tossed mightily into the air, we know there's only one Mountain of a man to call.
He said the Illinois case has drawn a mountain of e-mail and phone calls — some of them from "ordinary working people in the city" cheering him on, and others furious.
