Savoy Alps
Americanplural noun
plural noun
Example Sentences
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Skiing France's Savoy Alps might sound glamorous, but-the amazing off-piste terrain notwithstanding-its resorts are far from the intimate Savoyard villages of our imaginations.
From Time Magazine Archive
Through the open door is seen, over the tops of churchyard cypress trees, Lake Leman, with the Savoy Alps and the French bathing-resort Evian.
From Plays: Comrades; Facing Death; Pariah; Easter by Oland, Warner
The Savoy Alps formed a deep blue rampart, and the serrated battlements of the Dent du Midi, full in the blaze of sunset, blocked the Rhone Valley far away with its formidable barricade.
From The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath by Blackwood, Algernon
The subject was arranged under three heads:— I. The Materials of the Savoy Alps.
From On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by Ruskin, John
Not a cloud was in the arching heavens, not a ripple on the blue surface of the lake, which mirrored forth the hoary crowns of the Savoy Alps as though they were cut in steel.
From Fordham's Feud by Mitford, Bertram
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