Fell

Fell

“Fell” (from Old Norse fell, fjall, "mountain") is a word used to refer to mountains, or certain types of mountainous landscape, in Scandinavia, the Isle of Man, parts of northern England, and Scotland.

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Famous quotes containing the word fell:

    “The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.”
    —Thomas Paine (1737–1809)

    “The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.”
    —William M. Evarts (1818–1901)

    “Commit a crime and the world is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)