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Definition of Mountainy
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mountainy
Literary usage of Mountainy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of Modern British Verse by William Stanley Braithwaite (1919)
"... jo 7 Am the Mountainy Singer 1AM the mountainy singer — The voice of the
peasant's dream. The cry of the wind on the wooded hill. ..."
2. Modern British Poetry: Edited by Louis Untermeyer by Louis Untermeyer (1920)
"Writing under the Gaelic form of his name, he has published half a dozen books
of verse, the most striking of which is The Mountainy Singer, first published ..."
3. Modern British Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1920)
"I AM THE Mountainy SINGER I am the mountainy singer— The voice of the peasant's
dream, The cry of the wind on the wooded hill, The leap of the fish in the ..."
4. A Glossary of Words and Phrases Pertaining to the Dialect of Cumberland by William Dickinson (1880)
"Mountainy people.' ' Mountainy land.' Mouth. ' Entry mouth,1 ie entry end ; where
an entry opens on a street. Month, (1) 'A mouth on you like a torn pocket ..."
5. Glossary of Words in Use in Cornwall by Margaret Ann Courtney, Thomas Quiller Couch (1880)
"Mountainy land.' Mouth. ' Entry mouth,1 ie entry end; where an entry opens on a
street. Month, (1) 'A mouth on you like a torn pocket,' a comparison. ..."
6. Studies of Contemporary Poets by Mary C. Sturgeon (1916)
"Let us take, however, the piece which gives its name to the first of these two
books: I am the mountainy singer— The voice of the peasant's dream, ..."
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