And I'll tell you her name;" and he leveled his alpenstock at his sister.
The little boy had now converted his alpenstock into a vaulting pole, by the aid of which he was springing about in the gravel and kicking it up not a little.
Winterbourne presently released the child, who departed, dragging his alpenstock along the path.
You must watch every step, and keep sticking in your alpenstock to be sure you are on solid ice.
Follow exactly in my footsteps," shouted Seppi, and Leneli swallowed a lump in her throat, grasped her alpenstock more firmly and went forward.
If you go over, hold on to your alpenstock and try to stop yourself the best way you can.
Saxe looked at him inquiringly, and took off his cap and wiped his brow, while his alpenstock rested in the hollow of his arm.
He pressed his alpenstock into the snow behind him, holding it under his left arm with both hands; and leaning back upon it, he waited till Saxe had imitated him exactly.
Stand up as I do, and hold your alpenstock behind you like this.
Each visitor to the glacier should have an alpenstock or stout stick 6 or 7 feet long.
The alpenstock should be used to sound for blind crevasses, and in case a person breaks through the ice the alpenstock should be thrown across the crevasse in order to prevent a fall to the bottom.
Sandy was used to "talking on his feet;" and he stood in an easy posture, tossing his light reddish hair back from his broad forehead, and with one hand resting lightly on the alpenstock he had been carving for Blue Bonnet.
Her only answer was to push on, plying her alpenstock eagerly in her haste to elude the others.
Then they kissed each other and, having retrieved his alpenstock from the stick-house, Godfrey trudged back to the station, where he picked up his luggage and departed for London.
Leaving his baggage to be brought by the carrier's cart, Godfrey took the alpenstock that, in a moment of enthusiasm, the guide had given him as a souvenir of his great adventure, and started for home.
He went, and, passing through the hall, left his alpenstock in the umbrella-stand.
Dr George Lawrence, as he entered the Salle a manger with an obviously new alpenstock in his hand.
Ten minutes afterward we met a hot, red-faced man plunging down the mountain, making mighty strides, swinging his alpenstock ahead of him, and taking a grip on the ground with its iron point to support these big strides.
There are artisans all about Switzerland whose trade it is to burn these things upon the alpenstock of the tourist.
If the tourist forgets and comes down to breakfast without his alpenstock he goes back and gets it, and stands it up in the corner.
My feet often slipped on this viscous seaweed carpet, and without my alpenstock I would have fallen more than once.
I finished harnessing myself, I felt an alpenstock being placed in my hand, and a few minutes later, after the usual procedures, we set foot on the floor of the Atlantic, 300 meters down.
It then began to occur to Mr Packe that the sound was electrical, and he felt sure this was so when he found that hisalpenstock had joined in the buzzing.
Next in the queer operation came my alpenstock and some boughs in place of splints; and finally I tied the whole together with the string, my hat-line, and neck-tie.
They tried to tie the man with ropes, but he was too strong for them, and used his alpenstock against them, and it was no good.
He lifted hisalpenstock and in a frenzy thrust it into the ice between his knees.
Then, with his alpenstock fixed, and his spiked heels set in the crust, he reached a hand to her.
He had not yet tried to rise to his feet, so safe-guarding himself with the alpenstock thrust once more in the ice, he paused to take the flask from his pocket and poured all that remained of the liquor into the cup.
He stooped to pick up the alpenstock she had dropped, then offered his hand down the step from the spur.
He upbraided her for leaving her alpenstock down the slope.
This time he was not able to rouse her, and he threw down his alpenstock and took her in his arms, and went slipping and recovering the remaining steps.
Conceive the condition of mind of that man who imagines that he is an impressive presence when he is patrolling the Rue de la Paix with an alpenstock in his hand!
The alpenstock is an inheritance from Black Mathes.
He thrusts his alpenstock into the earth and turns and swings himself.
Going up the Arete the pause between each step, whilst the alpenstock was being driven in, was sufficiently long to afford a rest.
The alpenstock was jerked violently out of his hand, and went glissading down the snow for a distance of a hundred yards at least.
He gave the alpenstock a rub with the table napkin before placing it and his old mountaineering companion against the bag.
My friend was weak enough to have all the ascents he had intended to make, branded on the alpenstock he bought the moment he entered Switzerland.
The woman dropped her alpenstock on the rock, and walked nervously to and fro, clasping and unclasping her hands.
He has the names of all the peaks done in iron at his shop, and if you take your alpenstock to him, he will, for a few francs, brand on it all the names it will hold, from the Ortler to Mont Blanc.
The alpenstock or baton of another saved its owner in a similar way.
The alpenstock must be of the best wood, for if it should break, loss of life might be the result.
She also carried an alpenstock (there is not a mountain within a hundred miles of Dresden) and a black bag strapped to her waist.
I asked him if he did not find an alpenstock a clumsy thing to walk about with through a crowded town; he admitted that occasionally it did get in the way.
His white helmet was ornamented with a green veil; a pair of opera-glasses hung at his side, and in his lavender-gloved hand he carried an alpenstock a little taller than himself.
The man poked at officials with his alpenstock to attract their attention, and the lady, her eye catching sight of an advertisement of somebody's cocoa, said "Shocking!
In these latter times the pure and simple alpenstock has gone out of fashion, and mountaineers now almost universally carry a stick with a point at one end and an axe-head at the other.
I drove my alpenstock into the snow, and brought the weight of my body to bear on it.
The claw could be stuck on the end of the alpenstock and dropped into such places, or, on extreme occasions, flung up until it attached itself to something.
In glissading an erect position should be maintained, and the point of the alpenstock allowed to trail over the snow.
In my dreams I glissade delightfully, but in practice I find that somehow the snow will not behave properly, and that my alpenstock will get between my legs.
The ladies often needed help, and there seemed to be something very pleasant to Kennedy in the light touch of Violet's hand, for he lent her his arm or his alpenstockoftener than was absolutely required.
The alpenstock of the tourist is to the everlasting hills what railway metals are to the plains.
But an alpenstock struck the barrel up into the air, and the shot went off harmless towards the clouds.
