Gavarnie
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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To the north, across the French border is Gavarnie, another magnificent waterfall.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 1, 2019
In vain we assure them that we shall make no choice until we come to the inn at Gavarnie.
From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Edwin Asa Dix
We have hardly left Gèdre, with several miles still to drive, before we are assaulted by peasants on horseback, advance-agents from Gavarnie.
From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Edwin Asa Dix
Good Heaven! before a scene like Gavarnie, what true artist must not fling away his colors and his brushes in despair and disgust with his own puerility and impotence?
From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida
The path, about half-way between Gavarnie and the Cirque, is carried over the torrent by two terribly narrow planks, without any manner of railing.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 456 Volume 18, New Series, September 25, 1852 by Robert Chambers
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