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- noun Plural form of
alpenstock .
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Examples
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To this entreaty Lawrence and the artist added their persuasions, which were further backed by the eloquence of Emma Gray and Nita Horetzki, who entered at the moment radiant with the flush of life's dawning day, and irresistible in picturesque mountain attire, the chief characteristics of which consisted in an extensive looping up of drapery, and an ostentatious display of those staffs called alpenstocks, five feet long, tipped with chamois horn, which are an indispensable requisite in Alpine work.
Rivers of Ice 1859
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The photos alternate between landscapes of stately peaks and grand glaciers devoid of any people and shots of climbers and their long alpenstocks.
He Cut a Fresh Path in Mountain Photography Michael J. Ybarra 2011
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The photos alternate between landscapes of stately peaks and grand glaciers devoid of any people and shots of climbers and their long alpenstocks.
He Cut a Fresh Path in Mountain Photography Michael J. Ybarra 2011
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The photos alternate between landscapes of stately peaks and grand glaciers devoid of any people and shots of climbers and their long alpenstocks.
He Cut a Fresh Path in Mountain Photography Michael J. Ybarra 2011
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Argentières next morning, and there the strong betook themselves to their legs and alpenstocks, and the weak to mules.
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It is difficult as you know to make acquaintance with an Englishman; two months later, having finished my cure, we were walking, a whole party of us, with alpenstocks on the mountain, no matter what mountain.
A Raw Youth 2003
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The strangers leaned on their alpenstocks and listened.
Kim 2003
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He produces a very fine grade of celluloid horn, however, which is used to ornament the alpenstocks that are sold to tourists.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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He produces a very fine grade of celluloid horn, however, which is used to ornament the alpenstocks that are sold to tourists.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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He produces a very fine grade of celluloid horn, however, which is used to ornament the alpenstocks that are sold to tourists.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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