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Familiar Quotations

Mountaineering

Anyone can make a mountain out of a molehill by throwing on more dirt.–Anonymous

I've seen the elephant, and I've heard the owl, and I've been to the other side of the mountain.–Anonymous

North Carolina is a valley of humility between two mountains of conceit.–Anonymous

Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a pick.–Anonymous

Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack.–Anonymous

There are too many people praying for mountains of difficulty to be removed when what they really need is courage to climb them.–Anonymous

Ulcers are something you get from mountain climbing over molehills.–Anonymous

He's the type who makes mountains out of molehills and then sells climbing equipment.–Ivern Ball

Energy, like the Biblical grain of mustard seed will remove mountains.–Hosea Ballou

People have a natural tendency to flee to the mountains when things get tough.–Stuart Briscoe

• Preface xi
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Mountaineering 1
• Mountaineering – "Colossal" 3
• Mountaineering – "Giant" 3
• Mountaineering – "Heaps" 4
• Mountaineering – "Huge" 4
• Mountaineering – "Man" 5
• Mountaineering – "Mound" 5
• Mountaineering – "Stack" 5
• Use in Literature 6
• Mountaineering 6
• Mountaineering – "Above" 18
• Mountaineering – "Air" 19
• Mountaineering – "Appear" 20
• Mountaineering – "Approaching" 22
• Mountaineering – "Around" 23
• Mountaineering – "Ascended" 23
• Mountaineering – "Band" 25
• Mountaineering – "Beauty" 25
• Mountaineering – "Begins" 27
• Mountaineering – "Behind" 27
• Mountaineering – "Being" 28
• Mountaineering – "Below" 29
• Mountaineering – "Beyond" 30
• Mountaineering – "Biggest" 31
• Mountaineering – "Blackest" 32
• Mountaineering – "Breathe" 32
• Mountaineering – "Broken" 33
• Mountaineering – "Carried" 34
• Mountaineering – "Cave" 34
• Mountaineering – "Child" 35
• Mountaineering – "City" 36
• Mountaineering – "Clear" 36
• Mountaineering – "Climb" 37
• Mountaineering – "Close" 40
• Mountaineering – "Clouds" 41
• Mountaineering – "Comes" 43
• Mountaineering – "Country" 48
• Mountaineering – "Covers" 49
• Mountaineering – "Curious" 50
• Mountaineering – "Dark" 51
• Mountaineering – "Days" 51
• Mountaineering – "Deep" 55
• Mountaineering – "Descend" 56
• Mountaineering – "Different" 57
• Mountaineering – "Difficulties" 58
• Mountaineering – "Distance" 59
• Mountaineering – "Doubt" 60
• Mountaineering – "Drawn" 60
• Mountaineering – "Driven" 61
• Mountaineering – "Early" 62
• Mountaineering – "East" 62
• Mountaineering – "Ease" 63
• Mountaineering – "End" 63
• Mountaineering – "Escaping" 64
• Mountaineering – "Evening" 65
• Mountaineering – "Everywhere" 66
• Mountaineering – "Eye" 66
• Mountaineering – "Fallen" 68
• Mountaineering – "Farther" 68
• Mountaineering – "Father" 70
• Mountaineering – "Feet" 71
• Mountaineering – "Felt" 73
• Mountaineering – "Few" 75
• Mountaineering – "Fire" 76
• Mountaineering – "Followed" 78
• Mountaineering – "Formed" 79
• Mountaineering – "Found" 81
• Mountaineering – "Full" 83
• Mountaineering – "Gaze" 84
• Mountaineering – "Girls" 85
• Mountaineering – "Glacier" 85
• Mountaineering – "Going" 86
• Mountaineering – "Gold" 88
• Mountaineering – "Gone" 88
• Mountaineering – "Grandest" 89
• Mountaineering – "Grassy" 90
• Mountaineering – "Great" 90
• Mountaineering – "Green" 94
• Mountaineering – "Grow" 95
• Mountaineering – "Hands" 96
• Mountaineering – "Having" 97
• Mountaineering – "Head" 98
• Mountaineering – "Heard" 98
• Mountaineering – "Heavy" 100
• Mountaineering – "Higher" 100
• Mountaineering – "Home" 101
• Mountaineering – "Hoped" 102
• Mountaineering – "Horse" 102
• Mountaineering – "Hours" 104
• Mountaineering – "House" 105
• Mountaineering – "Hunter" 106
• Mountaineering – "Imagined" 107
• Mountaineering – "Journey" 107
• Mountaineering – "Kept" 108
• Mountaineering – "Kind" 109
• Mountaineering – "Lakes" 109
• Mountaineering – "Land" 111
• Mountaineering – "Landscape" 112
• Mountaineering – "Large" 113
• Mountaineering – "Lava" 115
• Mountaineering – "Lead" 115
• Mountaineering – "Left" 116
• Mountaineering – "Level" 119
• Mountaineering – "Life" 119
• Mountaineering – "Lifted" 121
• Mountaineering – "Lion" 121
• Mountaineering – "Little" 122
• Mountaineering – "Living" 124
• Mountaineering – "Looked" 125
• Mountaineering – "Lost" 129
• Mountaineering – "Loved" 130
• Mountaineering – "Lying" 131
• Mountaineering – "Making" 132
• Mountaineering – "Masses" 136
• Mountaineering – "Means" 136
• Mountaineering – "Met" 137
• Mountaineering – "Mile" 137
• Mountaineering – "Mind" 139
• Mountaineering – "Mines" 139
• Mountaineering – "Moment" 140
• Mountaineering – "Morning" 141
• Mountaineering – "Mother" 143
• Mountaineering – "Moved" 143
• Mountaineering – "Name" 143
• Mountaineering – "Narrow" 144
• Mountaineering – "Nature" 145
• Mountaineering – "Near" 145
• Mountaineering – "Night" 146
• Mountaineering – "Northern" 149
• Mountaineering – "Nothing" 150
• Mountaineering – "Observed" 151
• Mountaineering – "Old" 152
• Mountaineering – "Once" 153
• Mountaineering – "Opening" 155
• Mountaineering – "Order" 156
• Mountaineering – "Others" 156
• Mountaineering – "Part" 157
• Mountaineering – "Passage" 160
• Mountaineering – "Pass" 161
• Mountaineering – "Path" 163
• Mountaineering – "Peaks" 164
• Mountaineering – "People" 164
• Mountaineering – "Place" 165
• Mountaineering – "Plain" 166
• Mountaineering – "Pointed" 169
• Mountaineering – "Power" 170
• Mountaineering – "Presently" 170
• Mountaineering – "Prospect" 171
• Mountaineering – "Rain" 172
• Mountaineering – "Ranges" 173
• Mountaineering – "Reached" 174
• Mountaineering – "Read" 175
• Mountaineering – "Reason" 176
• Mountaineering – "Region" 176
• Mountaineering – "Remaining" 177
• Mountaineering – "Rest" 178
• Mountaineering – "Ride" 179
• Mountaineering – "Rise" 179
• Mountaineering – "Rivers" 181
• Mountaineering – "Road" 183
• Mountaineering – "Rocks" 185
• Mountaineering – "Rolling" 187
• Mountaineering – "Rose" 188
• Mountaineering – "Rounded" 189
• Mountaineering – "Ran" 189
• Mountaineering – "Savages" 190
• Mountaineering – "Sea" 191
• Mountaineering – "Search" 192
• Mountaineering – "Second" 193
• Mountaineering – "Shadow" 193
• Mountaineering – "Sheltered" 194
• Mountaineering – "Shore" 195
• Mountaineering – "Side" 195
• Mountaineering – "Sight" 200
• Mountaineering – "Silent" 201
• Mountaineering – "Situated" 201
• Mountaineering – "Sky" 202
• Mountaineering – "Slept" 203
• Mountaineering – "Slope" 204
• Mountaineering – "Snow" 204
• Mountaineering – "Soil" 206
• Mountaineering – "Soon" 206
• Mountaineering – "Sounds" 208
• Mountaineering – "Step" 209
• Mountaineering – "Stones" 210
• Mountaineering – "Storms" 210
• Mountaineering – "Stories" 211
• Mountaineering – "Strange" 211
• Mountaineering – "Stream" 212
• Mountaineering – "Striking" 214
• Mountaineering – "Strong" 214
• Mountaineering – "Summit" 215
• Mountaineering – "Sun" 216
• Mountaineering – "Surface" 219
• Mountaineering – "Surrounded" 219
• Mountaineering – "Things" 220
• Mountaineering – "Thought" 221
• Mountaineering – "Third" 223
• Mountaineering – "Thus" 224
• Mountaineering – "Times" 225
• Mountaineering – "Tops" 226
• Mountaineering – "Traveller" 227
• Mountaineering – "Trees" 229
• Mountaineering – "Twenty" 230
• Mountaineering – "Valleys" 230
• Mountaineering – "Various" 233
• Mountaineering – "Views" 234
• Mountaineering – "Villages" 235
• Mountaineering – "Violent" 235
• Mountaineering – "Visited" 236
• Mountaineering – "Voice" 237
• Mountaineering – "Waited" 237
• Mountaineering – "Walked" 238
• Mountaineering – "Wall" 239
• Mountaineering – "Watchful" 240
• Mountaineering – "Water" 241
• Mountaineering – "Waves" 243
• Mountaineering – "Way" 243
• Mountaineering – "Weather" 245
• Mountaineering – "West" 246
• Mountaineering – "Wildly" 246
• Mountaineering – "Wind" 248
• Mountaineering – "Women" 249
• Mountaineering – "Wonder" 249
• Mountaineering – "Woods" 250
• Mountaineering – "Work" 251
• Mountaineering – "World" 251
• Mountaineering – "Years" 252
• Mountaineering – "Young" 253
• Nonfiction Usage 255
• Journalism Usage 255
• Governmental Usage 256
• Patent Usage 256
• Bibliographic Usage 257
• Encyclopedic Usage 288
• Lexicographic Usage 447
• Index 620