mountain ranges
- plural of mountain range.
Example Sentences
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The mountain-ranges are beneath your feet, and folded together; only the loftier summits look down here and there as on a second plain; lakes also lie clear and earnest in their solitude.
From The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 by Various
The more delicate marbles, of a great variety of colours, were furnished by the mountain-ranges in the south of the Peninsula.
From History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies by Prescott, William Hickling
It would seem that as the mountain-ranges and table-lands of Western America emerged from the Cretaceous waters, they became clothed with Eocene forests and inhabited by Eocene mammals.
From The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants by Dawson, Sir J. William
Upon the table-lands and mountain-ranges, it often continues during the evening and night.
From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Butler, Thomas Belden
It is bounded on the north by a long succession of lofty snow-capped mountain-ranges, whence copious rivers, often swollen by heavy rains or melted snows, carry the drainage into the sea.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
