Meanings of lofty ranges in English

Thus there are lofty ranges parallel to that which forms the main watershed.

He was in a wild, mountainous country, interspersed with ridges, isolated peaks and lofty ranges.

Cousins! exclaimed her Ladyship, suddenly descending from the lofty ranges of sentiment to the low.

After a few days' journey, he left this river, traversed the country northwards, and crossed some lofty ranges.

The town is situated on a plain, in a wide valley formed like an amphitheatre by lofty ranges of hills.

Behind us were still towering the lofty ranges of Mount Alexander, before us was Mount Macedon and the Black Forest.

The complicated and lofty ranges bore a noble aspect of durability-equallyprofitless, however, to man and to all other animals.

The country was traversed by lofty ranges of the Andes, and the adventurers were soon entangled in their deep and intricate passes.

Some tolerably lofty ranges were visible to the westward at the distance of forty miles, beneath which that shore was lost in haze.

The scenery in the Black Mountains is very grand, and reminds one of the lofty ranges of mountains around the Yosemite Valley in California.

The northern part of Italy is bounded by the Alps, and between those lofty ranges and the deep valleys there had been constant fighting.

The western part of Afghanistan is a more fertile region, interspersed, it is true, with lofty ranges, but comprising many pleasant valleys and pastures.

The sun was still low, but his rays yet tinged the topmost branches of the trees and the lofty ranges of mountains in the distance.

The country is traversed by lofty ranges of the Atlas system, which run nearly parallel to the coast, and rise in places over 7000 ft.

Thirty minutes away, and part of the magnificent Mt Lofty Ranges, are the Adelaide Hills.

The fire danger in the Mount Lofty Ranges and upper and lower south-east districts is rated as catastrophic.