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/ˌæləgˈeɪniz/ /ˈæləgˌɛniz/ Listen

Alleghenies

noun

The western part of the Appalachian Mountains; extending from northern Pennsylvania to southwestern Virginia. Synonym: Allegheny Mountains.

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"Alleghenies" Quotes from Famous Books

... lands that they might suckle again and keep the old blood fresh and strong. Who could know what danger threatened it when she sent her blue-eyed men and women to people the wilderness of the New World? To climb the Alleghenies, spread through the wastes beyond, and plant their kind across a continent from sea to sea. Who knows what dangers threaten now, when, his task done, she seems to be opening the eastern gates of the earth with a gesture that seems to say—"Enter, ...

— The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come • John Fox

... grand Mountains in our country, but we have not yet reduced their ascent to such a system as that which these Alpine clubs have adopted. But very many of our countrymen have climbed to the loftiest peaks of the White Mountains, the Catskills, the Alleghenies, and ...

— Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy • Frank Richard Stockton

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