Instantly, monster whale-fishes came to mind, smooth black mountains in the gray, silvery-slow ocean sea.
Just when legs grow rubbery, snowcats take over and smooth the mountain's apron into mellow boulevards.
The opera house is one of several smaller gray framed buildings set on Lake Otsego, and beyond it, the views are of smooth, arching mountain ranges and green fields.
It was with my palms That I rounded out your slopes; There was an easy calmness, An irrelevant ease that touched me And I stretched my arms and smoothed Three mountains high.
From the Kolari station — tepee-shaped like a traditional Lapland hut and surrounded only by trees and snow — it would take less than an hour by bus to get to the twin villages of Akaslompolo and Yllasjarvi (combined population around 600), on Yllas, a smooth, treeless mountain known as an Arctic fell.
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Pluto, still smarting from its demotion to dwarf planet, nonetheless revealed itself to be a complex world, with a polar ice cap, rugged mountains, smooth plains, and reddish patches that recalled the surface of Mars.
In 1609, Galileo Galilei drew one of the first telescopic drawings of the Moon in his book and noted that it was not smooth but had mountains and craters.
Since then, scientists on the team have released one breathtaking image after another, revealing vast, smooth plains, towering ice mountains and an inviting blue haze of hydrocarbons.
