The mountaineer instantly swung to the saddle and set his pony to a canter up the draw.
The three stood for a moment silent, on the edge of the miniature valley, studying its perfections with loving eyes; the mountaineer leads all others [256] in passionate admiration for the beauty of his native highlands.
Indeed, your true mountaineer believes that sin is of the valley, and looks for no good thing to come out of the low ground.
When the Government entered in earnest upon the work of exploration, it was the veteran mountaineer who was always sought to do service as guide.
Killbuck, though mountain winters had sprinkled a few snow-flakes on his head, looked up to neither; and La Bonte held his own with any mountaineer who ever set a trap in sight of Long's Peak or the Snowy Range.
In these attacks neither sex nor age is spared; and your mountaineer has as little compunction in taking the life of an Indian woman, as he would have in sending his rifle-ball through the brain of a Crow or Black-foot warrior.
On that occasion the veteran mountaineer had lost his two pack-animals and all his beaver.
A mountaineer had returned from the Far West to settle in his native state, and had found his way to the neighborhood of old Brand's farm.
Full well the Pawnees know, to their cost, that a mountaineer seldom pulls his trigger without sending a bullet to the mark; and, certain that one at least must fall, they hesitated to make the onslaught.
Against such a result, but for the gale of wind which drove the fire roaring before it, they could have provided--for your mountaineer never fails to find resources on a pinch.
No more daringmountaineer than La Bonte ever trapped a beaver, and no counsel could have more exactly tallied with his own inclination than the law laid down by old Killbuck.
He had always been a daring mountaineer when there was every motive to make him careful of his life; and now what could make it precious to him?
It was as easy for him to assume the character of a Swiss mountaineer as to sustain that of a prosperous English banker.
The same criticism applies to Miss Murfree with her novels of mountaineer life in Tennessee, to James Lane Allen with his novels of his native Kentucky, and to many another recent novelist who tells a brave tale of his own people.
Every one who is anything of a mountaineer should go on through the entire length of the canyon, coming out by Hetch Hetchy.
Chapter 15 Galen Clark Galen Clark was the best mountaineer I ever met, and one of the kindest and most amiable of all my mountain friends.
The pleasantly acid berries, about the size of peas, look like little apples, and a hungry mountaineer is glad to eat them, though half their bulk is made up of hard seeds.
Every step of each is a combination of a lift and a push; but the mountaineer lifts more and the lowlander pushes more.
The mountaineer and the man of the plains have very different habits of progression, and each would be at a loss in the other's place; but the method of progression, by putting one leg before the other, is the same in each case.
I have been told there is no instance on record of a Black Mountaineer giving quarter to a Mussulman, to such lengths have ages of oppression goaded a generous people!
As he shook his head in denial he noticed the old mountaineer looking at him with grieved surprise.
The professor protested, but a glance at the sinewy frame of the mountaineer decided Miguel, and he brought several packages.
The moment Wilbur turned he became conscious of what the old mountaineer wanted to show him.
But the mountaineer continued talking, half to himself: "An' he's too sure of himself!
Some of the most enjoyable climbs that the mountaineer can recall in after life, are not those in which he has reached any particular point.
No doubt the very ardent mountaineer might find that facilities would be accorded to him during such time as he cannot visit the Alps of practising this art in the manner indicated.
But a mountaineer classifies peaks roughly as rock or snow, according to the chief obstacles that each presents.
A man may become a good amateur actor if he will consent to devote his leisure to ascertaining what there is to learn, and trying to learn it; and a man may become a good mountaineer by adopting the same line of action.
Even so does the mountaineer often discover, on a nearer acquaintance that the snow incline up which he proposed to stride merrily is inclined at a highly inconvenient angle.
Mr. Glaisher states that the aeronaut may acclimatise himself to great heights by repeated ascents; but how much more may the mountaineer then hope to do so!
The mountaineercan acclimatise himself to high regions by a constant and gradual process, a method obviously better calculated to extend the limits of his endurance.
A mountaineer in shirt-sleeves and stockings answered with a look of mild wonder.
The mountaineer nodded and seized one end of the stretcher.
This we infer from their language, and the mountaineer character of their area.
The effect of this is to give the different characters of the Mountaineer and the Lowlander more opportunity of acting and reacting on each other.
That is what the Girl Guides want to do, just as the mountaineer guides do among the mountains.
Black birch also ranks here; it has the advantage of 'doing its own blowing,' as a Carolina mountaineer said to me, meaning that the oil in the birch assists its combustion so that the wood needs no coaxing.
The mountaineer listened to her gravely, and at her last words he unconsciously nodded his head.
She referred at once to the affair with the mountaineer in her most frivolous key.
Chauvenet turned and faced a scowling mountaineer who held a rifle and drew it to his shoulder as Chauvenet threw out his arms, dropped them to his thighs and laughed carelessly.
She signaled Chauvenet to mount, holding the mystified and reluctant mountaineer with her eyes.
Perhaps, after all, the mountaineer had a real cause of grievance.
Make yourself quite easy, Mr. Osbaldistone," replied the mountaineer with great composure.
The mountaineer conducted Andrew into a thicket, where he found three or four more of his countrymen.
And, with a most inauspicious and menacing look, the mountaineer laid his hand on his dagger.
Midway the inner wall rose straight, the outer edge above blackness--seven thousand feet the mountaineer guiding us said it was, though I think it was nearer five.
The look on the face of the mountaineer as he walked hastily through this outer fringe of corruption to reach the inner city of white orderliness was grim and foreboding.
The marching and counter-marching of this tried and trusty band of mountaineer soldiers made a gallant display which was eminently fitting to time and scene, in its evidence of loyal devotion to freedom's rights.
But neither the soldier nor the mountaineer forgot his personal grievance.
At this stage of the selling process you will be like a mountaineer fighting in the Alps.
But an expert mountaineerlearns from mastering one peak something about how to climb others.
But the mountaineer alone knows how delusive the impression of nearness often is in the Alps.
The grimmest giant of the Oberland closes the view at the head of the Lauteraar glacier--the Schreckhorn, whose cliffs on this side no mountaineer will ever scale.
At all events, a skilful mountaineer might throw himself prostrate on the slope with perfect reliance on his power to arrest his downward motion.
