Example Sentences

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Up here in the rarefied realm of Mount Rainier’s alpine meadows, the mountain, glaciered and magnificent, seems close enough to touch.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 5, 2014

Against all advice they had penetrated the snow-blocked Pamirs into Russian Turkestan, threaded the glaciered Tian-Shan range, crossed Chinese Turkestan and headed for Urga in Mongolia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Far away the forest-crowned mountain tops pierced the clouds and hid from sight the snows and glaciered sides.

From The Warden of the Plains and Other Stories of Life in the Canadian North-west by Maclean, John

The country is a rugged wilderness of tumbled ranges, grown with magnificent forests above which rise snowy and glaciered summits.

From The Book of the National Parks by Yard, Robert Sterling

We sighted Queen Charlotte's Islands, but voyaged through channels nearer the mainland, between grand timbered islets, past rocky bluffs and gorges, always in sight of mountains, many being snow-covered and glaciered.

From A Claim on Klondyke A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado by Roper, Edward