There was only one place where the mountain might receive her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom.

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

she must be poised and proud and unafraid in order to prove to the mountain that she was in earnest.

The use of map coordinates was begun when the senior officers began to select tactical points by designating a spot as `` near the letter o in the word mountain ''.

There was a sniper's nest in a mountain cave, and it was picking off our men with devilish accuracy.

But that year was different, for just as the city, in the form of my street clothes, had intruded upon my mountain nights, so an essential part of the summer gave promise of continuing into the fall: Jessica and I, about to be separated not by a mere footbridge or messhall kitchen but by the immense obstacle of residing in cruelly distant boroughs, had agreed to correspond.

Breakfast was at the Palace Hotel, luncheon was somewhere in the mountain forest, and dinner was either at Boulder Creek or at Santa Cruz.

This mountain was known as The Black Reef and it rose almost perpendicularly for about two hundred feet, honeycombed with caves, top covered with dense scrub and creepers and tall grass.

Zion was surprised when Roy's buggy stopped beside her on the pike one early summer day as she was walking home from the country school where she was teaching now that Eph Showers had had a call to preach in some mountain town.

Boolying was also carried out in other areas of Achill, including Annagh on Croaghaun mountain and in Curraun.

The spread of the Akkadian state as far as the " silver mountain " ( possibly the Taurus Mountains ), the " cedars " of Lebanon, and the copper deposits of Magan, was largely motivated by the goal of securing control over these imports.

According to the Book of Exodus, God instructed Moses on Mount Sinai during his 40-day stay upon the mountain within the thick cloud and darkness where God was ( Ex.

" Fifty stadia 6 mi from the coast was a mountain that was low on all sides ... broke it off all round about ... the central island itself was five stades in diameter 0. 92 km ; 0. 57 mi.

The eldest of these, Atlas, was made rightful king of the entire island and the ocean ( called the Atlantic Ocean in his honor ), and was given the mountain of his birth and the surrounding area as his fiefdom.

These included some for the Triumphs of Maximilian, where he followed the overall style presumably set by Hans Burgkmair, although he was able to escape somewhat from this in his depictions of the more disorderly baggage-train, still coming through a mountain landscape.

His march northward through the Alps was interrupted by Rudolph, King of Transjurane Burgundy, and it was only with great difficulty that Arnulf crossed the mountain range.

The group is named after the Altai Mountains, a mountain range in Central Asia.

* Breidablik Peak, a mountain named after Breidablik.

Ben Nevis in Svalbard is a 922 metre-high mountain south of the head of Raudfjorden, Albert I Land, which was named after the Scottish hill.

Their common style is named after the state temple mountain of Pre Rup.

Fremont named the river flowing through the valley Carson River in honor of Christopher " Kit " Carson, the mountain man and scout he had hired for his expedition.

The Flåklypa-mountain is a stylized version of a real mountain, where, ironically enough, the valley underneath it is named Flåklypa.

Sri Pada, named after a footprint-like formation found near the summit of a conical mountain in Sri Lanka.

However, as the place did not prove to be defensible, they settled in the remains of an older town upon a hill not far away and founded a new town, which they named Tábor ( after the traditional name of the mountain on which Jesus was expected to return ; see Mark 13 ); hence they were called Taborites.

Alexander von Humboldt recognized the mainly limestone dominated mountain range of the Jura Mountains as a separate formation that was not at the time included in the established stratigraphic system defined by Abraham Gottlob Werner and named it “ Jurakalk ” in 1795.

The mountain was named after Sir William Edmond Logan, a Canadian geologist and founder of the Geological Survey of Canada ( GSC ).

Hira is a cave near Mecca, on the mountain named Jabal Al-Nūr in the Hejaz region of present day Saudi Arabia.

* 1806 – Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains ( it is later named Pikes Peak ).

* 1792 – Mount Hood ( Oregon ) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.

It was said that oolong tea was named after the part of Wuyi mountain where it was originally produced.

Reichskanzlei Berchtesgaden (" Reich Chancellery Berchtesgaden "), another nickname of the regime ( named after the eponymous town located in the vicinity of Hitler's mountain residence where he spent much of his time in office ) was also banned at the same time, despite the fact that a sub-section of the Chancellery was in fact installed there to serve Hitler's needs.

" Peckinpah Meadow and Peckinpah Creek, where the family ran a lumber mill on a mountain in the High Sierra north of Coarsegold, California, have been officially named on U. S. geographical maps.

Mount St. Piran is a mountain in Banff National Park near Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, named after the saint.

The name comes from the Rock of Gibraltar, which in turn originates from the Arabic Jebel Tariq ( meaning " Tariq's mountain ") named after Tariq ibn Ziyad.

A number of earlier inhabitants of Silesia, the Silingi, remained in the region and they concentrated around the Zobten mountain and in a settlement named Niempsch ( derived from a Slavic name for Germans ).

More recently, Washington Irving's famous 1819 story " Rip Van Winkle " tells of a man named Rip Van Winkle who takes a nap on a mountain and wakes up 20 years in the future, when he has been forgotten, his wife dead, and his daughter grown up.

* October 29 – Mount Hood ( Oregon ) is named after the British naval officer Samuel Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton, who spots the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.

* November 15 – Pike expedition: During his second exploratory expedition, Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains ( later named Pikes Peak in his honor ).

In Lesbos, there was another hero-shrine in the small settlement of Polion and a mountain named after Tantalos.

Emperor Yong Le agreed and titled Ong's son Awang as the new ruler, and named the mountain of Brunei as Chang Ning Mountainجبل السلام – mean Jabel Alsalam (" mountain of peace ") in Arabic.

After obtaining a degree in English literature from Showa Women's University where she was a member of the mountain climbing club, Tabei formed the " Ladies Climbing Club: Japan ( LCC )" in 1969.

Its logo, designed by the company founder Alan Green and John Law in Torquay, Victoria, Australia in 1969, inspired by Hokusai's woodcut The Great Wave off Kanagawa consists of a large wave with a mountain on a red background.

This transmitter was laid to the radio emitting station of the Bayerischer Rundfunk ( Bavarian Broadcasting Company ) on 15 September 1969 on the Dillberg mountain ( see: Dillberg transmitter ) where the broadcasting programs of the Bavarian Broadcasting Company are still emitted today.

On November 19, 1969, Mohawk Airlines Flight 411, a Fairchild Hiller FH-227B, crashed into Pilot Knob ( mountain ) on the east shore of Lake George, New York, on approach to Warren County Airport, Glens Falls, New York, killing all 14 on board.

In 1969, Oklahoma designated the first state reptile when it chose the common collared lizard or " mountain boomer ".

* Bucksaw-Stadeli double, the oldest chair on the mountain servicing intermidiate skiers ( Installed 1969 )

* Rico Elmer ( born 1969 ), Swiss ski mountaineer and mountain runner

In 1969 during one of his radio editions of " In Touch ", he commented on a group of blind people who had climbed Mt Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa, and went on to say that Britain's highest mountain was Ben Nevis-if anyone was interested.

In 1969, Barbeau Peak, the highest mountain in Nunavut, was named after him.

He became the first person fitted with artificial limbs to walk the 900 miles from John O ' Groats to Lands End in 1969 which he claimed also hardened his stumps for subsequent mountain climbing.

Since then, Vermont has adopted new legislation to preserve its natural areas and in 1969 created a Forest Reserve enclosing the mountain.

The Montalto Cinema, built in 1969 and later abandoned, was so-named because the “ monte alto ” or high mountain of Mozambique ( Mount Binga ) is on the Manica plateau.

International School Moshi, on the slopes of Africa's highest mountain, Kilimanjaro, was founded in 1969 and now has 420 students from 46 nationalities on two campuses in Moshi and Arusha.