mountain-goat

A few warriors had draped themselves in white mountain-goat skins, and the rangers had taken the bait.

Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997

A few warriors had draped themselves in white mountain-goat skins, and the rangers had taken the bait.

Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997

A few warriors had draped themselves in white mountain-goat skins, and the rangers had taken the bait.

Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997

A few warriors had draped themselves in white mountain-goat skins, and the rangers had taken the bait.

The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

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.

Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester

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.

Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation Caroline Pridham

Mocking-Bird [B], and her eye brighter and softer than the eye of the mountain-goat.

Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3) James Athearn Jones

Not even a sure-footed mountain-goat could make the ascent, once that gorge was blocked.

Genesis 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.

Many Swans: Sun Myth of the North American Indians 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.

With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914