Crossword clues for pisgah
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, name of the mountain east of the River Jordan, whence Moses was allowed to view the Promised Land he could not enter (Deut. iii:27); with figurative extension. From Hebrew, literally "cleft."
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 147
Land area (2000): 1.005131 sq. miles (2.603278 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.005131 sq. miles (2.603278 sq. km)
FIPS code: 63075
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.832684 N, 95.926464 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 51564
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Housing Units (2000): 323
Land area (2000): 4.797881 sq. miles (12.426453 sq. km)
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Total area (2000): 4.797881 sq. miles (12.426453 sq. km)
FIPS code: 60720
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 34.685022 N, 85.846575 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 35765
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Pisgah may refer to:
Usage examples of "pisgah".
Ere he turned again towards the harbour, he had reascended the cloud haunted Pisgah whence the words of Lady Florimel had hurled him.
With the exception of Pisgah and Hugenot, all were clothed in the relics of their poverty, but their hairs were curled, and they wore some recovered articles of jewelry.
Ville, did Pisgah have any consciousness whatever that he walked upon the solid world.
She could never persuade herself that Pisgah was not her victim, and he found it useful to humor the notion.
I left her to her thoughts, because now we were driving through the beginnings of Pisgah, and the air began to smell like home.
Look forth now, my people, upon the land of behest, even from Horeb and from Nebo and from Pisgah and from the Horns of Hatten unto a land flowing with milk and money.
Jane had arrived at her decision,--the decision which precipitated her Jack from his Pisgah of future promise.
The most conspicuous of these is Mount Pisgah, eighteen miles distant to the southwest, a pyramid of the Balsam range, 5757 feet high.
Mount Pisgah, from its shape, is the most attractive mountain in this region.
Such was the unfortunate fate of Richard Salinas, who in 1990 went hiking with a friend in Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina.
It was rather a vantage-ground which gave him a Pisgah view of the things of common life and a half-contemptuous empire over them.
Inman had pointed out to Swimmer that he had climbed Cold Mountain to its top, and Pisgah and Mount Sterling as well.
Moses on Pisgah, with a fleeting glimpse of the promised land, consisting of a large desk and a section of a very fat man with spectacles and a bald head or a younger man with fair hair and a double chin.
For a contrast, I went to the Mount Pisgah Chapel in Lowtown, where the pulpit was surrounded by drums, guitars, horns, and amplifiers.
She was silent the rest of the drive, and I left her to her thoughts, because now we were driving through the beginnings of Pisgah, and the air began to smell like home.