Sentence examples for sharp mountains from inspiring English sources

To the west, sharp mountains rose behind a glassy emerald lake reflecting slow-moving clouds; a family of herons roosted by the water.

But the coast here is eternally fresh, kept that way by its inaccessibility from land: sharp mountains and steep cliffs preserve it from all but seafarers.

Our home for the week would be Gala, a village of wooden cabins surrounded by a quintessentially Norwegian landscape of sharp mountains dotted with sheep, dark green forests and glittering lakes.

He's having fun, but this being Bowles, there's something not quite right: "Now facing the flaming sky in the west, and now facing the sharp mountains the car followed the dusty trail down the canyons into air which began to smell of other things besides the endless ozone of the heights: orange blossoms, pepper, sun-baked excrement, burning olive oil, rotten fruit".

The ancient lake is a deep blue of the purest water, surrounded by sharp mountains and amazing wildlife.

'It' is Longyearbyen, and by extension the whole Svalbard archipelago of which it is the main settlement, better known to some as Spitsbergen (sharp mountains), the name bestowed on it by 16th century Dutch explorer Willem Barents who was impressed by, well, its interminable row of sharp mountains.

He attributes this to the peculiar topography of the area around the research institute, which is closed off by sharp mountain cliffs to the south.

I also spent a decent amount of time just looking out the window, as the scenery gradually morphed from flat grassland to sharp mountain peaks.

Geomorphic signatures, like the sharp mountain fronts along the HFT in some places, as well as along various hinterland subordinate faults like the Nalagarh Thrust (NaT), the Barsar Thrust (BaT) and the Jawalamukhi Thrust (JMT); the change in the channel pattern, marked by a tight incised meander of the Beas channel upstream of the JMT indicate active tectonic movements in the area.

Often compared to Monte Zoncolan in Italy, the Angliru was unknown before 1996 when a member of a Spanish cycling team decided to check out rumours of a super-steep climb hidden away in the Picos de Europa, the razor sharp mountain range that isolates the Asturias region from the rest of Spain.

In a telling, and poetically adept passage, he writes that a cold wind may be experienced as a sharp mountain blast, or a dry wind sweeping through a city at the end of winter, or "the spring breeze may be one which blows off cherry blossoms or which caresses the waves" (Watsuji 1961, 5).