mountain-goats

I frequently saw mountain-goats of the largest size brought to the market of Shendy; they have long horns bending to the middle of the back; their flesh is esteemed a great dainty.

Travels in Nubia 2004

Medina and the sea, all the way northward, mountain-goats are met with, and that leopards are not uncommon.

Travels in Arabia 2003

One by one families would climb the cliffs, until at last a great population looked down from their eyries in certain gorges of Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, where only eagles or mountain-goats might be supposed to dwell.

Chatterbox, 1905. Various

Our Kurd and muleteer were waiting for us as we came down the hill like veritable mountain-goats, and the latter pointed triumphantly to something wrapped in an Arab newspaper under his arm.

Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

It was larger than a dromedary, had its feet cleft like those of an ox, and ran as swiftly as the wind, and skipped over the rocks as lightly, and held itself erect on any part of them, as do the mountain-goats.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various

A young man, age twenty-one, height five feet ten inches, weight one hundred and fifty-two pounds, eyes brown, hair chestnut and rather wavy, manner genial, a favourite with the ladies -- at least that's what the society notes say -- missing since early in June, supposed to be hunting mountain-goats in Mexico.

King Coal : a Novel Upton Sinclair 1923

But he has asked how long a conservatory would last with two young mountain-goats gamboling along its leads ....

The Prairie Child Arthur Stringer 1912

Asia, and South America, though I know nothing by trial of the terrors of the Alps. However, the horse could and did go up the steep, though it taxed him to the utmost, and these horses are like mountain-goats, for there is hardly any level land in the Marquesas.

White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900

The other ministers plenipotentiary she had seen at Camaguay had been old, with beards like mountain-goats, and had worn linen dusters.

The Lost Road Richard Harding Davis 1890

Early this morning I took Hamd with me to climb the Om Shomar, while the other man went with his gun in pursuit of some mountain-goats which he had seen yesterday at sunset upon the summit of a neighbouring mountain; he was accompanied by another Djebalye, whom we had met by chance.

Travels in Syria and the Holy Land 1822