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Definition of Mountain pass

1. Noun. The location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks. "We got through the pass before it started to snow"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mountain Pass

Literary usage of Mountain pass

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1910)
"... OF THE mountain pass By JOHN BASIL LAMAR [Jobn Basil Lamar (1812-1862) was born in Milledgeville, Ga., and was killed at the battle of Crampton Gap, ..."

2. Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico by John Russell Bartlett (1854)
"... Isabel—A Mormon arrives with a wagon—List of return party—Journey resumed—Luxuriant valley— San Felipe—Indians—Their mode of life—Narrow mountain pass— ..."

3. America, Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive by James Silk Buckingham (1841)
"Names and Elevations of the principal Peaks.— Journey from the mountain pass to Conway.—Stage-drivers ana Passengers from Conway to Centre Harbour ..."

4. Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa: Being a Journal of an by Heinrich Barth (1896)
"... shot in the course of the day near the pond. CHAPTER IX. SINGULAR SCULPTURES IN THE DESERT.—THE mountain pass. June 5th, WE had to separate from the ..."

5. Our New West: Records of Travel Between the Mississippi River and the by Samuel Bowles (1869)
"... the Pacific Railroad—The Pullman Cars—Omaha and Council Bluffs—Over the Plains by Rail—Cheyenne—The mountain pass and its various Revelations of Plain, ..."

6. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1910)
"... OF THE mountain pass By JOHN BASIL LAMAR [Jobn Basil Lamar (1812-1862) was born in Milledgeville, Ga., and was killed at the battle of Crampton Gap, ..."

7. Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico by John Russell Bartlett (1854)
"... Isabel—A Mormon arrives with a wagon—List of return party—Journey resumed—Luxuriant valley— San Felipe—Indians—Their mode of life—Narrow mountain pass— ..."

8. America, Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive by James Silk Buckingham (1841)
"Names and Elevations of the principal Peaks.— Journey from the mountain pass to Conway.—Stage-drivers ana Passengers from Conway to Centre Harbour ..."

9. Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa: Being a Journal of an by Heinrich Barth (1896)
"... shot in the course of the day near the pond. CHAPTER IX. SINGULAR SCULPTURES IN THE DESERT.—THE mountain pass. June 5th, WE had to separate from the ..."

10. Our New West: Records of Travel Between the Mississippi River and the by Samuel Bowles (1869)
"... the Pacific Railroad—The Pullman Cars—Omaha and Council Bluffs—Over the Plains by Rail—Cheyenne—The mountain pass and its various Revelations of Plain, ..."

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