snow-crested

The river and the snow-crested mountains glittered in patchy sunlight.

The Ringworld Throne Niven, Larry 1996

In winter even the lowest would be snow-crested, but today the air was warm and moist, the light and heat of Tau Ceti steady upon them.

Beowulf's Children Niven, Larry 1995

When we turned off the Taos road toward the Jemez Mountains which rose beyond Los Alamos, we had the snow-crested Sangre de Cristos at our back, and I studied the landscape with the same interest I'd felt on the trip from Albuquerque.

The Turquoise Mask Whitney, Phyllis A. 1973

But when the queen had boasted that no nymph who played amongst the snow-crested billows of the sea was as fair as she, a terrible punishment was sent to her.

A Book of Myths Jeanie Lang

Monte Viso reared its snow-crested cone with a seeming sense of its majesty.

The Vaudois of Piedmont A Visit to their Valleys

He had pictured, perhaps, a little humble home, quiet and peaceful, somewhere amid the snow-crested mountains of the East, where he would walk with her in the cool of night-fall, under the bright stars and clear sky of that distant land.

Beth Woodburn Maud Petitt

Selecting two of the best horses for the use of Whirlwind and Cole, they took leave of them, charging them with a multitude of messages for their friends, and when they started on the homeward route, they too moved on towards the mountain before them, whose snow-crested head loomed up among the clouds.

The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West

It was about here that we first caught sight of the snow-crested Alps, forming

Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta W. Cope Devereux

And about four o'clock in the afternoon upon a wide and rocky plain within sight of snow-crested cliffs, the Vaterland ripped and grounded.

The War in the Air 1906

Very few of the inhabitants of that country climb for pleasure, and it is difficult to obtain any of the regulation mountaineering paraphernalia there; but when the wandering prospector finds a snow-crested range in his way he usually scrambles over it and carries his provisions and blankets along with him.

The Gold Trail Harold Bindloss 1905