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)

    “I loved, but woman fell away;
    I hid me from her faded fame.
    I snatched the sun’s eternal ray
    And wrote till earth was but a name.”
    —John Clare (1793–1864)

    “And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path, and the birds came and ate it up.”
    —Bible: New Testament, Mark 4:4.