Saint Gotthard

/ ˈɡɒtəd /

noun

1. a range of the Lepontine Alps in SE central Switzerland
2. a pass over the St Gotthard mountains, in S Switzerland. Height: 2114 m (6935 ft)

Example Sentences

Under the heading “Daring Experiences,” the menu offered scenarios taken from our conversations: running across the main deck of the Titanic, climbing the San Cristóbal de las Casas staircase, boxing warmups with El Nazi Ayala, a bicycle ride along the cobblestones of Saint Gotthard.

From Slate

Before the war, trainload after trainload of Italian goods rolled through the Saint Gotthard and Simplon tunnels to Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia.

From Time Magazine Archive

So I betook me by the nearest way to Rome, where I fared right well, for both from great and small I got me much alms; and tarrying there nigh six weeks, I took my way with other pilgrims, of whom some Germans, and especially certain Switzers, to Loretto: from whence I came over the Saint Gotthard Pass back through Switzerland to my dad, which had kept my farm for me; and nothing remarkable did I bring home save a beard which I had grown in foreign parts.

From Project Gutenberg

By the peace of Saint Gotthard both the Roman Emperor and the Turkish have alike agreed not to send any more of their troops into Transylvania, and have put such a restraint upon each other that they have assured us some respite, so that we are not compelled either to take up arms against the one or for the other, but can give our energies to healing the wounds of our fatherland that have bled for a century.

From Project Gutenberg

The long railway rides and the great distances of the Simplon and the Saint Gotthard would mean the using up of their scanty earnings.

From Project Gutenberg