go over the mountain

Example Sentences

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A new wide road was being finished that would go over the mountain and zig-zag down to the bridge.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

They watched till I was alone in the tent, and, having recounted all the perils over again, said: 'Let the men go over the mountain, but you, O Bibi! will go in a boat, safely.

From Southern Arabia by Bent, Theodore

She’s too fu’ o’ watter to go over the mountain and through ta glen.”

From Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai by Fenn, George Manville

The messenger must go over the mountain passes, which are held by the enemy.

From The Sign of Flame by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)

Arrangements were being made by the teniente for a group of Filipinos to go over the mountain to the east of us, to hunt and get food for the camp.

From Blood Brothers A Medic's Sketch Book by Rohlfing, Sam