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Mountainside   /mˈaʊntənsˌaɪd/   Listen
Mountainside

noun
1.
The side or slope of a mountain.  Synonym: versant.






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"Mountainside" Quotes from Famous Books



... they had found refuge was perched on the mountainside just at one edge of the draw. Rough as the girl had thought it, there was a more pretentious appearance to it than might have been expected. The cabin was of hewn logs mortared with mud, and care had been taken to make it warm. The ...
— Ridgway of Montana - (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) • William MacLeod Raine

... mountainside; it was neither more nor less than the head of a colossal statue! A mammoth edition of the Goddess of Liberty; and the aircraft had presumed to ...
— The Devolutionist and The Emancipatrix • Homer Eon Flint

... glow of a magnificent sunset, Cassier and his daughters were wending their way along one of the picturesque roads of the Cote d'Or. They were on the slope of a shady mountain, and through a vista of green foliage they could see the road they had passed for miles in the distance. The silence of the mountainside was unbroken, save by the music of wild birds and the roar of a torrent that leaped through the moss-covered rocks towards the valley. The wild flowers gave aromatic sweetness to the mountain-breeze, and the ...
— Alvira: the Heroine of Vesuvius • A. J. O'Reilly

... huddle of flat roofs not unlike an armful of child's building blocks. At that great height the effect was that of peering over the upper lip of an avalanche of masonry on the point of tumbling headlong down a mountainside to crush ...
— The Bronze Bell • Louis Joseph Vance

... the mountainside, the pines grew closer until it was almost impossible to ride between the great trees that crowded on either side of the ...
— Polly of Pebbly Pit • Lillian Elizabeth Roy


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