chamois-hunter

As the greatest skill and courage are required to secure this valuable game, a good chamois-hunter is a person of importance in the wild Swiss valley where he lives, and the family of which he is a member glory in his deeds, and relate them to awe-struck listeners around the evening fireside.

Harper's Young People, March 23, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

Here, with the never-melting snows not far overhead, they would find small stone houses erected expressly for the use of the chamois-hunter.

Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia John Milton Mackie

Our host, who had disappeared for some little time, now came back decked out like a chamois-hunter.

A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross

A survey of the field in the light of the new theory soon convinced Charpentier that the chamois-hunter had all along been right.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904

As early as 1815 a sharp-eyed chamois-hunter of the Alps, Perraudin by name, had noted the existence of the erratics, and, unlike most of his companion hunters, had puzzled his head as to how the bowlders got where he saw them.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904

Thus the common-sense induction of the chamois-hunter blossomed in the mind of Agassiz into the conception of a universal ice age.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904

That fate of his kinsman, a gallant young chamois-hunter who had taught him to handle a trigger and load a muzzle, made the very name of Bavaria a terror to August.

The N�rnberg Stove 1892

'God,' said he on one occasion, 'has well ordered the temporal and spiritual government; the former is ruled over by a chamois-hunter, and the latter by a drunken priest' (Pope Julius).

Life of Martin Luther Koestlin, Julius 1881

That fate of his kinsman, a gallant young chamois-hunter who had taught him to handle a trigger and load a muzzle, made the very name of Bavaria a terror to August.

Famous Stories Every Child Should Know Various 1880

It is much easier to catch it that it is to shoot it, and only the experienced chamois-hunter can do either.

A Tramp Abroad 1879