Etymology
Origin of mountainy
Example Sentences
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In 1962, Sylvia Plath wrote these lines: “I am a mountain now, among mountainy women / The doctors move among us as if our bigness / Frightened the mind.”
From The Guardian • Jul. 31, 2018
Miramon Lluagor, who was Manuel's Seneschal of Gontaron, retires to Vraidex, his mountainy magic-seat, and is temporarily rid of his talkative wife, Gisele, by wishing her into the middle of the next week.
From Time Magazine Archive
If he dhraws thim mountainy men down on me, I may as well go under the sod.
From Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Ross, Martin
Well, it’ll be strange if in all this great mountainy place we can’t puzzle those fellows behind.”
From Fix Bay'nets The Regiment in the Hills by Groome, William H. C.
"These mountainy ponies climb like monkeys," said Philippa, with her inevitable effort to shelter the discomfited, as Andrew returned with the ruins of his theory, "she must have walked up the steps!"
From In Mr. Knox's Country by Ross, Martin
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