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Snowy Mountains

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Snowy Mountains
pl n
(Placename) a mountain range in SE Australia, part of the Australian Alps: famous hydroelectric scheme Also called (Austral. informal) the Snowy the Snowies
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As he said this he pointed out to those who surrounded him the magnificent spectacle which the sky presented, of deepest azure in the horizon, the amphitheatre of fleecy clouds ascending from the sun's disc to the zenith, assuming the appearance of a range of snowy mountains, whose summits were heaped one upon another.
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I contemplated the lake: the waters were placid; all around was calm; and the snowy mountains, `the palaces of nature,' were not changed.
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