566 examples of mountaineer in sentences

My father had been a leading Mountaineer; and would still maintain the general superiority, in skill and hardihood, of the Above Boys (his own faction) over the Below Boys (so were they called), of which party his contemporary had been a chieftain.

she asked of the rough mountaineer.

That melody {291b} which out of tones and tunes Collects such pastime for the ling'ring sorrow Of the sad mountaineer, when far away From his snow-canopy of cliffs and clouds, That he feeds on the sweet but poisonous thought And dies.

These stations, then, were of the last importance, and a frontier-man always had the same regard for them, that the mountaineer of the Alps has for his "refuge.

These should now claim the attention of some good mountaineer, with time and money at his command.

[Footnote 10: William Roland, an old-time mountaineer, states that he once killed a moose about ten miles north of old Ft. Tetterman, in what is now Wyoming.EDITOR.]

" "Activity is his strong property, and he needs be that, Herr Steinbach, who passeth the life of a mountaineer.

"Bruce, I never thought of that!" "There's a good many things you don't think about until you run across 'em," said the mountaineer.

The mountaineer shook his head.

Meanwhile the mountaineer made his way foot by foot up the coulee.

Suddenly Muskwa made a sharp turn, and the momentum with which Bruce was coming carried him thirty or forty feet below him, where the lanky mountaineer stopped himself only by doubling up like a jack-knife and digging toes, hands, elbows, and even his shoulders in the soft shale.

Perhaps, indeed, the just and good were more burdened than the wicked; for to the wicked their own sins seldom appear so deadly black, and when a Balkan priest lately displayed pictures of eternal torment as warnings to a savage mountaineer's enormities, he was met by the reply, "Even we should not be so cruel."

The Adventures of James Capen Adams, Mountaineer and Grizzly Bear Hunter, of California.

It is something to secure to the student or the clerk the strong muscles, hearty appetite, and sound sleep of the sailor and the ploughman,to enable him, if need be, to out-row the fisherman, and out-run the mountaineer, and lift more than his porter, and to remember head-ache and dyspepsia only as he recalls the primeval whooping-cough of his childhood.

He was, indeed, a palpable mountaineer.

His stimulus was not that of the single-minded, level-headed mountaineer; in his romantic exaltation he was capable of hailing the very perils as so many more means of grace in the sight of Mrs. Lascelles; yet without doubt he would have repudiated any such incentive, and that in all the sincerity of his simple heart.

Returning to the glass veranda, after the stock breakfast of the Swiss hotel, with its horseshoe rolls and fabricated honey, I found the telescope the centre of an ominous crowd, on whose fringe hovered my new friend the mountaineer.

" "He can't possibly know that," remarked the mountaineer to me, "but let's hope it is so.

" "Then they're all right for the present," said the mountaineer.

" "All very well going up," murmured the mountaineer: there was a sinister innuendo in the curt comments of the practical man.

My friend the mountaineer looked grave, but his disfigured face did not wear the baulked expression of others to which he drew my attention.

It was in too many mouths already, in quite another connection, I was going on to explain; but the mountaineer nodded, as much as to warn me that even he knew all about that.

From up on the mountain where the old mountaineer had walked into the face of death there came the sharp, splitting report of a rifle; and in that same instant it was followed by another and still a thirdquick, stinging, whiplike reportsand

"No, Johnny, there ain't no watch to-night," replied the old mountaineer.

Over the note left by Aaron King, the mountaineer shook his head doubtfully.

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