Lexicographical Neighbors of Madres
Literary usage of Madres
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Central and South America by Augustus Henry Keane, Clements Robert Markham (1901)
"The Western and Eastern Sierra madres While the connection formerly supposed to
exist between the Mexican Sierra madres and the Andean Cordilleras has been ..."
2. Big Game Fields of America: North and South by Daniel Jasper Singer (1914)
"... jagged peaks of the Sierra madres loomed up ever so clearly against the skyline.
The sun was just going to rest, and the scene, with its ever-changing' ..."
3. In the Land of Cave and Cliffdwellers by Frederick Schwatka (1899)
"... OF THE WORLD—MINERAL WEALTH OF THE SIERRA madres—THE BATOPILAS DISTRICT.
A FTER leaving Cerro Colorado, with •* * its undeveloped possibilities, ..."
4. Graphic Sketches of the West by Henry Brainard Kent (1890)
"CLIMBING THE SIERRA madres. The writer having been invited to join a select party
in the ascent of Mount Wilson, and this invitation promising temporary ..."
5. The Californian Illustrated Magazine by Charles Frederick Holder, Edward James Livernash (1893)
"... if you wish, I will whisk you up the Sierra madres on the Mt. Lowe railroad
and pummel you with California snowballs, 6000 feet above the Pacific. ..."
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