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He even admits, "I'm not a mountain-climber by profession, by no stretch of the imagination, and yet, on almost a whim, I can attempt something like that."
Gary Stein: Craig Kiser's Blind Ambition to Benefit Thousands in Need Gary Stein 2010
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For, let me tell you something: you are not really born to be a mountain-climber, little Maia.
When We Dead Awaken 2008
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For, let me tell you something: you are not really born to be a mountain-climber, little Maia.
When We Dead Awaken 2008
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Aside from being adroit at swinging on a trapeze and rowing a boat, he was also something of a mountain-climber and in none of his activities did he think to spare a muscle.
The Road Leads On 2003
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The Mariner's temporary solution to the problem of his guilt and isolation is an immersion in the aesthetic experience of gluchotes: a sugary sentimentality whose gaze is down, as opposed to the sublime upward gaze of the masculine mountain-climber.
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Damn those blue eyes, that sexy mountain-climber body and those chiseled good looks.
sierrazen Diary Entry sierrazen 2003
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You want the mirror image of your own mountain-climber sweaty tomboy iceberg?
The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967
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He was not posing as a heroic figure, but was just an honest mountain-climber who accepted the challenge of the mountain and won.
Reveries of a Schoolmaster Francis B. Pearson
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In the Pyrenees, and in the Alps of Savoie and Dauphiné, one finds everywhere the insignia of the "Club-Alpin Français," which caters with information, etc., not only to the mountain-climber, but to the automobilist and the general tourist as well.
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Olive knows a woman mountain-climber who always says she longs to go back to the wilds, so we went down to her flat.
The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918
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