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Definition of Mountaintops
1. mountaintop [n] - See also: mountaintop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mountaintops
Literary usage of Mountaintops
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1842)
"... three mountaintops have become, " far off, three mountaintops, Three silent
pinnacles of aged snow, ..."
2. Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1920)
"Here in the heavens and on the mountaintops, the air of Freedom is wide, almost
limitless, for here, in the highest stretches, individual freedom harms no ..."
3. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony: Including Public Addresses, Her Own by Ida Husted Harper (1898)
"She spoke at farmers' picnics on the mountaintops, and Bethel Missions in the
cellars of San Francisco; at parlor meetings in the most elegant homes; ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1893)
"... life and conversation in some celestial interspace above the world, the
reflection of which they bear as clearly as mountaintops the last rays of day. ..."
5. An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill by Buffalo Bill, William Frederick Cody (1920)
"At last even the mountaintops were submerged and the mammoth men were drowned.
After the flood subsided, ..."
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