Demavend
Americannoun
noun
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Demavend, towering 18,600 ft. high in the Elburz range north of Teheran, has long reigned in quiet white dignity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Demavend, shuddered and heaved in a mighty earthquake that laid waste more than 100 Iranian villages in an area covering 50,000 square miles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Demavend has long been asleep, but the great earthquakes of 1891, 1893 and 1895 in Astrabad and Kuchan to the eastward, and Khalkhal in the north-west, show that its underground fires are still alight.
From Persia Revisited by Thomas Edward Gordon
In the fresh keen air of evening the cone of Demavend was painted in white on the faint blue sky, reddening into beauty as the purple-madder shadows deepened over the yellow desert.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
The smoke rising out of the crater of Demavend is the breath of Zohak chained in the depths of the mountain.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Max Duncker
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