mountains and towers

Moonrise over Franconia Ridge in Winter
Photo: Ben Kimball via NH Division of Forests and Lands

Speak! thou pale and silent witness; tell of Earth's throes,—when a continent had birth: tell when the Storm-power chose these solemn mountain-towers, piercing the sky-mists for his throne? and his sublime laboratory of river-feeding rain; his fire-created and blasted, but icy throne! --Scenes Beyond the Western Border, September 1852; and Scenes and Adventures in the Army

And those sublimer towers, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, whence, in peculiar moods, comes that gigantic ghostliness over the soul at the bare mention of that name, while the thought of Virginia's Blue Ridge is full of a soft, dewy, distant dreaminess? --Moby-Dick, The Whiteness of the Whale

“There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things . . . ."   --Moby-Dick, The Doubloon