Etymology
Origin of mountainy
Example Sentences
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“When I first visited, I really liked how it was more clean and quiet. I liked how rustic and mountainy it was,” said Nichols, a finalist at 5,000 meters in last month’s Olympic trials and one of 19 runners on Rosario’s storefront team.
From Los Angeles Times
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
Well, as I was saying, Diarmid was Judy's grandfather, and he rented a small mountainy farm; and he was walking about the fields one moonlight night, quite melancholy-like in himself for want of the tobaccy; because why, the river was flooded, and he could not get across to buy any, and Diarmid would rather go to bed without his supper than a whiff of the dudeen.
From Project Gutenberg
I am the mountainy singer, And I would sing of the Christ Who followed the paths thro’ the mountains To eat at the people’s tryst.
From Project Gutenberg
A line’s a speech; So here’s a line To say this pedlar’s pack Of mine Is not a book— But a journey thro’ Mountainy places, Ever in view Of the sea and the fields, With the rough wind Blowing over the leagues Behind!
From Project Gutenberg
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