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"Himalaya" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... amuse him, thought Anna; I don't suppose he would care to look at my last piece of embroidery, or hear how many sonatas I can play; I am afraid he is sorry he came here, perhaps he was thinking of the Himalaya mountains, when he said he liked those hills in the picture. Most boys like out-door amusements, she again thought to herself, and acting upon the ...
— Peak's Island - A Romance of Buccaneer Days • Ford Paul
... and smoke and ashes the volcanoes were spouting forth to salute its coming. Above was the lava, hot gases and ash, and below the seething floods, and the whole earth swayed and rumbled with the earthquake shocks. Soon the immemorial snows of Thibet and the Himalaya were melting and pouring down by ten million deepening converging channels upon the plains of Burmah and Hindostan. The tangled summits of the Indian jungles were aflame in a thousand places, and below the hurrying waters around the stems ...
— The Door in the Wall And Other Stories • H. G. Wells
... the clouds foregathered from far places, and crag on crag and mountain upon mountain in the likeness of Caucasus upon Himalaya came riding past the sunlight upon the backs of storms and looked down idly from their golden heights upon the crests ...
— Fifty-One Tales • Lord Dunsany [Edward J. M. D. Plunkett]
... fact, the upper story of the west wing of the palace, with a raised and vaulted roof of iron and glass. The landscape is arranged after the king's own idea, and is entirely Oriental in vegetation and effect, the long perspective of tropical luxuriance being closed by a distant view of the Himalaya Mountains, so admirably executed that the illusion is not dispelled until the beholder approaches very near to the wall upon which it is painted. The garden is agreeably diversified by groups of palms, plantains and other trees, by open lawns adorned with beds of brilliant flowers, and ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 31. October, 1873. • Various |
Words linked to "Himalaya" : chain of mountains, Kingdom of Nepal, Nanga Parbat, mountain chain, range of mountains, Nepal, Lhotse, Changtzu, chain, Mount Kanchenjunga, Kanchenjunga, Bharat, Mount Everest, range, Everest, Sitsang, mountain range, Nanda Devi, Thibet, Kanchanjanga, Anapurna, Dhaulagiri, Tibet, Gosainthan, Kinchinjunga, Mt. Everest, Annapurna, Kamet, Makalu, Nuptse, Xizang, Himalayas, India, Republic of India |
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