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  • Actually for the new album, their third, called The Mountain, Erika made out a new band, surrounding herself by drummer Dave Colvin and bassist Jesse Ebaugh, to complete a trio.

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  • The Colours Of The Mountain contrasts a rural village with guerrilla wars, and Spanish comedy Fat People focuses on obesity.

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  • Orville and John are reading My Side Of The Mountain, which has a falcon in it, so this was particularly neat.

    Medieval Times arhyalon 2010

  • Never pictured the Hound as a giant, Durand has the ideal size to play The Mountain, IMO.

    The Hound 2009

  • It was, indeed, one of Nature's conservative revolutions; for the fallen masses made a kind of shelf, which interposed a level break between the inclined planes above and below it, so that the nightmare-fancies of the dwellers in the Dudley mansion, and in many other residences under the shadow of The Mountain, need not keep them lying awake hereafter to listen for the snapping of roots and the splitting of the rocks above them.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various

  • All this was done in a quiet way in one of the bare spots high up the side of The Mountain.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various

  • She wandered off up into the remoter parts of The Mountain, that day, after their return.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Various

  • There were huckleberry-pastures on the lower flanks of The Mountain, with plenty of the sweet-scented bayberry mingled with the other bushes.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various

  • In her delirium, she talked constantly as if she were in a cave, with such exactness of circumstance that Helen could not doubt at all that she had some such retreat among the rocks of The Mountain, probably fitted up in her own fantastic way, where she sometimes hid herself from all human eyes, and of the entrance to which she alone possessed the secret.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various

  • With the earliest dawn exploring parties were out in every direction along the southern slope of The Mountain, tracing the ravages of the great slide and the track it had followed.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various

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