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...gnificent building is surmounted by a colossal statue of a 14 Floor Games chamois, the work of a Wengen artist; it is in two stories, with a battleme... ... and we “wave a long, regretful farewell to the salubrious cheerfulness of Chamois City.” You see now how we set out and the spirit in which we set ou...

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...ld not be shaken off. However, the Turners which attracted me most did not remind me of the Slave Ship. 125 A Tramp Abroad CHAPTER XXV Hunted by the ... ...The first discovery I made was that the beauty of the lake had not been exaggerated. Within a day or two I made another discovery. This was, that the ... ... is not a wild goat; that it is not a horned animal; that it is not shy; that it does not avoid human society; and that there is no peril in hunting i... ...sand times its own length at one jump, and no eye is sharp enough to see where it lights. A great deal of romantic nonsense has been written about the... ... people do that; there is not one man in a million who can hit it with a gun. It is much easier to catch it that it is to shoot it, and only the exper... ...t that it is to shoot it, and only the experienced chamois-hunter can do either. Another com- mon piece of exaggeration is that about the “scarcity” ... ...es of one hundred million chamois are not unusual in the Swiss hotels. Indeed, they are so numerous as to be a great pest. The romancers always dress ... ...hunter in a fanciful and pictur- esque costume, whereas the best way to hut this game is to do it without any costume at all. The article of commerce ... ...l. The creature is a humbug in every way, and everything which has been written about it is sen- timental exaggeration. It was no pleasure to me to fi...

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...R YR YR YROL OL OL OL OL “SUPPOSE I could see where that dear little black chamois horn came from! But Mother Bunch can’t tell me about that I’m afrai... ...oes; “you should see the places Father and Seppel climb when they hunt the chamois.” “What is your name?” asked Lucy, who much liked the looks of her ...

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...pleasant predicaments on precipices, where he hangs by one hand; while the chamois stand delighted on every available peak, Furwitz grins malevolently... ...en too, so that the river is obliged to take leaps which nought else but a chamois could compass. A footpath there is, and Freiherr Eberhard takes it ... ...aps to elude her mother’s severity, and to desire her brother’s success in chamois-hunting. The only mental culture she had ever received was that old... ...pendicular cut without a moment’s hesitation, and with agility worthy of a chamois. The young baron turned for a moment, when the level of the castle ... ...made a sudden short run and butted down old Hatto, then skipped off like a chamois into the darkness, unheeding, the old rogue, the whispers that con-... ... the startled Ebbo, “that he has got up amongst those rocks where the dead chamois rolled down last summer; then, as Christina uttered a faint cry of ... ...w and then with our mother on a winter evening, and we know no more than a chamois of your intricate measures.” 139 Yo n g e Master Gottfried looked ... ... “A builder!” said Ebbo; “a man with a head and foot like that should be a chamois hunter! Shouldst thou deem it worse than the Red Eyrie, Friedel?” “... ...bo. “‘What? up there?” said Maximilian, smiling. “Thou hast the tread of a chamois-hunter.” “Friedel has been on the Red Eyrie,” exclaimed Ebbo; then,...

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...ce the little brass match-box had overflowed. T rina kept the surplus in a chamois-skin sack she had made from an old chest protector. Just now, yield... ...g to an impulse which often seized her, she drew out the match-box and the chamois sack, and emptying the contents on the bed, counted them carefully.... .... But what a difference it made in the appearance and weight of the little chamois bag! The bag was shrunken and withered, long wrinkles appeared runn... ...up.” Upon every reference to that little hoard in the brass match-safe and chamois-skin bag at the bottom of her trunk, Trina bridled on the instant. ... ...that,” and she had added the hundred and thirty to the little hoard in the chamois-skin bag and brass match-box in the bot- tom of her trunk. In these... ...gue was gone. Then she hurriedly opened her trunk and hid the money in the chamois bag at the bottom. The dentist presented himself at every one of th... ...e more her husband stormed, the tighter she drew the strings of the little chamois-skin bag that she hid at the bottom of her trunk underneath her bri... ...ing dress, where she always kept the savings. The brass match-safe and the chamois-skin bag were there. They were empty. Trina flung herself full leng... ...al. One day as she sat in her room, the empty brass match-box and the limp chamois bag in her hands, she suddenly exclaimed: “I could have forgiven hi...

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...nd I have been about among the hills for the past week; I got a sight of a chamois, and I have the chamois there,” he said, pointing to the top of the... ...sten! I will leave the Commune, foi de Butifer! I will go to the Alps; the chamois-hunters will not say a word; on the con- trary, they will receive m... ...is country and command a brigade, and not come to his end trailing after a chamois. The life 120 The Country Doctor that you are leading will take yo... ...along with you. We will talk this over, my boy. Good-bye. Go and sell your chamois in Grenoble.” The two horsemen went on their way. “That is what I c... ...r him, and put him in Butifer’s hands, and the two of them shall have some chamois-hunting. Give your son four or five months of out-door life, and yo...

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...aces calm and deep. Though almost with eagle pinion O’er the rocks the Chamois roam. Yet he has some small dominion Which no doubt he calls hi...

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...im by a man-at-arms, and his attire consisting of a close-fitting dress of chamois leather, a white mantle embroidered with the blue cross thrown over... ...ed of his heavy armour; but when he stood before him in his plain dress of chamois leather, old Ralph shook his head, disappointed that he had not att...

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...d radiance from her looks and whose form and mo tions were lighter than the chamois of the hills. The appa rition was soon explained. With his perm... ...it, and if he has indeed taken refuge in the Alps, he may be hunted like the chamois and destroyed as a beast of prey. But I perceive your thoughts; y...

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... and Sancho removed his armour , leaving him in loose Walloon breeches and chamois-leather doublet, all stained with the rust of his armour; his colla... ...at this moment there came in at the gate of the inn a man entirely clad in chamois leather, hose, breeches, and doublet, who said in a loud voice, “Se... ... the show, for I don’t see them?” “They are close at hand,” said he in the chamois leather, “but I came on first to know if there was any room.” “I’d ... ...our was removed, there stood Don Quixote in his tight-fitting breeches and chamois doublet, lean, lanky, and long, with cheeks that seemed to be kissi... ...uixote quitted the soft down, and, nowise slothful, dressed himself in his chamois suit and put on his travelling boots to hide the disaster to his st... ...d was to make Don Quixote take off his armour, and lead him, in that tight chamois suit we have already described and depicted more than once, out on ...

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... look shone on his face, and he stood before the fire in the close suit of chamois leather which he wore under his armour, old Sir David exclaimed, ‘H... ...He stood in the space beside the standard of England, in his plain suit of chamois leather, his crimson cloak over his shoulder, but with no weapon ab...

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...difficult before me; and I fear That in its broken windings we shall need The chamois’ sinews, and the eagle’s wing: For now a trouble came into my min...

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... the broad forehead and the bright eyes, fraught with the spring of a very chamois, until the strain was over. Not even over V endale himself did thes...

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... and Sancho removed his armour , leaving him in loose Walloon breeches and chamois-leather doublet, all stained with the rust of his armour; his colla... ...at this moment there came in at the gate of the inn a man entirely clad in chamois leather, hose, breeches, and doublet, who said in a loud voice, “Se... ... the show, for I don’t see them?” “They are close at hand,” said he in the chamois leather, “but I came on first to know if there was any room.” “I’d ... ...our was removed, there stood Don Quixote in his tight-fitting breeches and chamois doublet, lean, lanky, and long, with cheeks that seemed to be kissi... ...uixote quitted the soft down, and, nowise slothful, dressed himself in his chamois suit and put on his travelling boots to hide the disaster to his st... ...d was to make Don Quixote take off his armour, and lead him, in that tight chamois suit we have already described and depicted more than once, out on ...

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...im to undo his buckler and clasps, until he remained in the close dress of chamois leather, which knights and men-at-arms used to wear under their har... ...and some kind hands had, during his repose, stripped him of the cassock of chamois which he wore under his armour, and substituted a night-dress of th...

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...bove the three figures; and on its surface, between the heads, were a W, a chamois, and the word fecit. “Who carved this?” asked Hortense. “Well, just... ...ore at making sword- knots.—He told me that Steinbock means a rock goat, a chamois, in German. And he intends to mark all his work in that way.—Ah, ha...

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...difficult before me, and I fear That in its broken windings we shall need The chamois’ sinews, and the eagle’s wing: For now a trouble came into my min...

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...r Siam. The os- trich and the cameleopard, the wild ass and the zebra, the chamois and the ibex of Angora,—all brought their tributes of beauty or def...

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... in the floor of our room and proceeded to rub the silver case with an old chamois leather glove. David had gone off somewhere in the town; I did not ...

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...g mountains. Sigismund himself, and the Tirolese among his followers, were chamois-hunters and used enough to climbing, and thus at length they found ...