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alp 1. (in the European Alps) an area of pasture above the valley bottom but below the mountain peaks 2. a high mountain
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The scene suggested a Swiss Alp rather than the shrine and centre of a leisured world, and was marred only by two ugly little villas-- the villas that had competed with Cecil's engagement, having been acquired by Sir Harry Otway the very afternoon that Lucy had been acquired by Cecil. The weather began to clear while we were driving up a valley called the Kienthal, and presently a vast black cloud-bank in front of us dissolved away and uncurtained the grand proportions and the soaring loftiness of the Blumis Alp. "I met her," he went on, "in a place like this--in the Alps--Engstlen Alp. |
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