You see, the alpenstock is his trophy; his name is burned upon it; and if he has climbed a hill, or jumped a brook, or traversed a brickyard with it, he has the names of those places burned upon it, too. ❋ Unknown (1879)
She accepted the "alpenstock" gratefully and soon found it useful for both purposes. ❋ Edyth Ellerbeck Read (1924)
She waved her alpenstock, and as he doffed his cap, rounded the brink and disappeared. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The picture of him limned itself on her inner vision, and before she was aware she was pleasuring in the memory of the grace of his magnificent body, of his splendid shoulders, of the power in him that tossed her lightly on a horse, bore her safely through the thundering breakers, or towed her at the end of an alpenstock up the stern lava crest of the House of the Sun. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In addition, she carried for alpenstock the willow pole of Neepoosa. ❋ Unknown (2010)
She advances over the upland, jumps over the brook, with the aid of her alpenstock, and climbs up the hillock. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Every lady had her guide and alpenstock, every man had his alpenstock, and all of us were strapped round our waists to hold on to each other. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Once I slipped, and my legs fell in, and my alpenstock; but I clung to the stump till hauled up. ❋ Unknown (2006)
I bought one, and a green felt hat and an alpenstock to keep it company. ❋ Unknown (2005)
To scatter a caravan so as to allow me to pass in solitary dignity he regarded as one of his functions, and on one occasion, on a very dangerous part of the road, as he was driving heavily laden mules up the steep rocks above, to their imminent peril and the distraction of their drivers, I was obliged to strike up his sword with my alpenstock to emphasise my abhorrence of his violence. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
It seems that in 1471, Ferdinand Balboa Warner, your great-great-grandfather, while looking for a shortcut to the city of Burbank, had stumbled on the shores of Africa and, raising his alpenstock (which he later turned in for a hundred shares of common), named it Casablanca. ❋ Unknown (2002)
‘Bergheil!’ cried a youth with bare arms and bare chest, bare head, terrific fanged boots, a knapsack and an alpenstock, and all the bronzed wind and sun of the mountain snow in his skin and his faintly bleached hair. ❋ Unknown (2003)
And immediately after the youth came a maiden, with hair on the wind and her shirt-breast open, striding in corduroy breeches, rumpled worsted stockings, thick boots, a knapsack and an alpenstock. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Somehow the journalist was certain that the blows had been struck with a pointed stick like an alpenstock. ❋ Unknown (2003)
And the young Tannhäuser, the young Siegfried, this young Balder beautiful strode climbing down the rocks, marching and swinging with his alpenstock. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Holding the flashlight in my mouth again, using the long stun-gun as an alpenstock, I ascended the unsteady heap. ❋ May, Julian, 1931- (1998)
Calmly, Felice pulled a spear from a dead shape-shifter and used it for an alpenstock as she climbed over the noisome mound blocking the doorway. ❋ May, Julian, 1931- (1981)
