As I rode solo the last few days, my mind began to run on empty as the mountains receded in my rear-view mirror.

The joy of it lasted long after the mountains had receded into the heat mists, and it alleviated the crushing misery of the noonday sun.

The mountains receded on both sides and small closed columns of Italians were rushing down the road six hundred yards ahead of us.

To the south the mountains receded endlessly as far as sight could reach.

Both the sea and mountains receded as I felt the hazy heat-film of the Middle East.

Here the mountains receded, so that above us rose a mighty, dazzling slope of snow and below us lay that same pitiless, unclimbable gulf.

The mountains drew no nearer, but receded on the vast vague skies.

As soon as he crawled out of the rocket and raised himself up, the mountain top receded below him as if he had pushed himself away with a kick.

Day was opening in the sky, and they saw that the mountains were now much further off, receding eastward in a long curve that was lost in the distance.

A shadow fell across Druss's eyes, the sun died in the heavens and the mountains receded into mist.