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/mˈaʊntən pik/ Listen

Mountain peak

noun

The summit of a mountain.

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"Mountain peak" Quotes from Famous Books

... mountain peak, that rears its head Where snow-clad Alps around are spread, By furious gale 'tis thrown. From the yawning abyss see the cloud scud away, And the glacier appears, with its multiform ray, The ...

— Poems • Victor Hugo

... I have even forgotten the people's names? One of those little things that stick in the mind, I suppose. The Island of Ascension, where we called, sticks also with its long swinging rollers breaking in white foam, its bare mountain peak capped with green, and the turtles in the ponds. Those poor turtles. We brought two of them home, and I used to look at them lying on their backs in the forecastle flapping their fins feebly. One ...

— Allan and the Holy Flower • H. Rider Haggard

... always climbing hills, And ever passing on, Hoping on some high mountain peak To find my Father's throne; For hitherto I've only found His footsteps ...

— A Hidden Life and Other Poems • George MacDonald

... talk that evening, and spoke with a rude eloquence and fire that always riveted the attention of the child. He told of the wild, lonely beauty of a certain mountain peak which he pointed out up the valley, of the weird charm of the road thither, and above all of the eagle's nest which was to be found there, and the young eaglets being now reared therein, which he and Howel meant to capture and keep as their own, and which they purposed ...

— The Lord of Dynevor • Evelyn Everett-Green

... upon this mountain peak, and here you shall sleep until some wanderer in passing shall awaken you, and his ...

— Opera Stories from Wagner • Florence Akin

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