chamois

• We started a chamois, and saw him race across the broad field of snow like the wind, while I could only follow, laboring knee-deep in the snow, like a tortoise after a hare. —  The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I
• Here a chamois was stumbling down a ravine, and there an operatic peasant, some eight or ten inches in actual length, was pointing a gun. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873
• Big words, too--more than I can hear Let me see it The pictures of the great, shaggy dogs and of the chamois were easy enough to understand. —  The Talking Leaves An Indian Story
• In ordinary circumstances he could have bounded over it like a chamois, but he was weak now from hunger and fatigue; besides which, the wedge on which he stood was rotten, and might yield to his bound, while the opposite edge seemed insecure and might fail him, like the mass that had proved fatal to Le Croix He felt the venture to be desperate, but the way before him was yet very long, and the day was declining. —  Rivers of Ice
• It was about six o'clock when he reached one of the summits to which old Gaspard often came after chamois, and he waited till it should be daylight The sky was growing pale over head, and suddenly a strange light, springing, nobody could tell whence, illuminated the immense ocean of pale mountain summits, which stretched for a thousand leagues around him. —  The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8) Boule de Suif and Other Stories

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