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:

    “In the fell clutch of circumstance,
    I have not winced nor cried aloud:
    Under the bludgeonings of chance
    My head is bloody, but unbowed.”
    —W.E. (William Ernest)

    “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)

    “Fear, then, so wounded me
    As fell upon my ear
    The voice a blind man dreams
    And broke on me the smile
    I dreamed as deaf men hear,”
    —Jean Garrigue (1914–1972)