Kinchinjunga
Americannoun
noun
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The loftiest peaks are Kinchinjunga forty-five miles, and Mount Everest, sixty miles distant from Darjieling.
From Reminiscences The Story of an Emigrant by Hans Mattson
Kinchinjunga is grand and massive and of ample gesture, broad and stable and yet also culminating in a clear and definite point.
From The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty by Sir Francis Edward Younghusband
Fujiyama was exactly as I had seen it on fans and lacquer boxes; I would not have sold my sight of it for the crest of Kinchinjunga flushed with the morning.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
The view across the hills to Kinchinjunga discloses a glittering white wall of perpetual snow, surrounded by towering masses of granite.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various
"Professor Norman Prescott, leader of the American Kinchinjunga expedition, I believe."
From Astounding Stories, July, 1931 by Various
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