It was the very exuberance of growth on every side; and all this backed by a bold mountain lofty as an alp, and washed by a sea in front, and that sea the blue Adriatic.
"That Boy Of Norcott's"
Charles James Lever
Hermione blushed like an alp-rose in the snow, and turned her head away from him.
"Paul Patoff"
F. Marion Crawford
I had better have condemned law and gospel together than made light of alp; but she put up with it, probably considering it excusable as the utterance of a savage from the wilds of New York.
"Not Pretty, But Precious"
John Hay, et al.