A few warriors had draped themselves in white mountain-goat skins, and the rangers had taken the bait. ❋ Larry McMurtry (1997)
Our “man of the woods,” notwithstanding his great bulk, was agile as a mountain-goat, leaping from crag to crag, and striking off in every direction where he could show us trees of the largest growth. ❋ Thomas Forester (N/A)
But as she grew tall, Alice was not so strong; the child who, when she was nine years old, had "climbed the dark brow of the mighty Helvellyn" -- running on before all the rest, until the guide called her his mountain-goat, and actually getting first to the top of the mountain -- when she was about seventeen, began to fade like a flower, and to grow weaker and weaker day by day. ❋ Caroline Pridham (N/A)
Mocking-Bird [B], and her eye brighter and softer than the eye of the mountain-goat. ❋ James Athearn Jones (N/A)
Not even a sure-footed mountain-goat could make the ascent, once that gorge was blocked. ❋ H. Beam Piper (1934)
There were mountain-goat blankets and painted blankets of two elkskins, there were buffalo skins, and dressed buckskins, and deerskins with young, soft hair. ❋ Unknown (1920)
On the way up, rounding one of the many short turns in the wide path upon the precipitous point of a crag, standing out in sharp outline against the sky, as fixed and as motionless as if cast in bronze, was a mountain-goat or chamois, evidently on sentry duty. ❋ John Allan (1914)
An 'as fer sweet dreams, when you get back you'll make the slumbers of the just seem as restless as a riot, or the antics of a mountain-goat which nimbly leaps from crag to crag, and -- well, that's restless enough. ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)
The Indian bow was made of wood, and of mountain-goat horns, or of solid bones, glued together. ❋ Unknown (1911)
You must creep over steep snow-banks and cross deep crevasses where a mountain-goat would hardly keep his footing. ❋ Robert Sterling Yard (1903)
The broad snow-fields over which I have often hunted the mountain-goat offer an inviting path. ❋ Robert Sterling Yard (1903)
Robin was as strong as a mountain-goat; and his strength was put to the task of threshing rye, grinding oats and corn, or drawing water from a brook. ❋ William Patten (1902)
It is the country of the wolf and the isard, of the brown bear and the mountain-goat, a land of bare rock and of rushing water. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1902)
I was often to be observed (had there been any to observe me) in that dis-peopled, hill-side solitude of "Little Mexico," with its crazy wooden houses, endless crazy wooden stairs, and perilous mountain-goat paths in the sand. ❋ Unknown (1898)
Before night the deer would bellow reply to the hunters 'rifles, and the mountain-goat call to its unknown gods; but now there was only the wild duck skimming the river, and the high hilltop rising and fading into the mist, the ardent sun, and again that strange cry -- ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)
