These warlike mountaineers were brought from the Caucasus and colonized here, with lands, exemption from taxes, and given an annual subsidy.
Mountaineers are always picturesquely dressed, and so, too, are nomads.
Here a vendetta (similar to the Corsican vendetta) existed among the unruly mountaineers of Albanian descent.
Suppose we teach these savagemountaineers a strain of chivalry?
But with the breath which fills Their mountain pipe, so fill the mountaineers With the fierce native daring which instils The stirring memory of a thousand years.
This intelligence sounded like a reprieve from death, though the mountaineers well knew that more than an hour of painful and increasing toil was still necessary to reach the hospice.
The guide, the two old nobles, and at length the whole party, were around them, and no cry or encouragement of the mountaineers could induce the dogs to quit their tracks.
The mountaineers marched against them and fought for three days until the holy men and the sherifs arrived and quieted them.
I was also one of the three mountaineers who accompanied Messrs David Graham (Investigator) Ian Gemmell & Ian Wood (Air NZ) during their initial inspection of the aircraft.
I was one of the three mountaineers who made the initial inspection of the site for survivors.
The war of the American Revolution opened with some dashing exploits in the north, among which those of Allen and his mountaineers of Vermont are memorable, as well for their eccentricity as for their consequences.
The king must have been undone, but for the patriotism of the mountaineers of Dalecarlia; who, if they could not give him money, gave him men.
He found it necessary to use the simplest Anglo-Saxon words, and he soon fell into many of the quaint expressions of the mountaineers and their odd, slow way of speech.
In a century the mountaineers must be swept away, and their ignorance of the tragic forces at work among them gave them an unconscious pathos that touched Clayton deeply.
III WHEN the great bell struck the hour of the next noon, mountaineers with long rifles across their shoulders were moving through the camp.
We mountaineersnaturally get a stoop on the hill-sides.
The army of mountaineers halted at Gilbert-town only until a vidette from Williams brought tidings of Ferguson's late movements.
We have found that these good mountaineers have ever loved gain and booty.
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To this very day, the mountaineers are forced to renew with every year their sloping fields, wasted by the rains of winter.
The mountaineers think it so good, that they borrow it from him as often as they can, and he thinks it so good that he defends it against them to the best of his ability.
The citizens of Berne were given ample time to send a messenger to the victoriousmountaineers of Morgarten, and this was their reply: "Not like the birds are we who fly from a storm-stricken tree.
But while the duke of Savoy and the two cities were temporizing and hesitating between the rival claimants, the mountaineers of Gessenay, leaders of the German-Swiss people of Gruyère, and who were violently opposed to the marriage of Mdlle.
Here dwells a tribe of mountaineers who are polyandrists, the reverse of polygamists.
Their height above tide-water and the amount of bad whiskey they consume keep our mountaineers elevated most of the time.
The Mountaineers in 1915 found that a trail builder had supplied such a need by giving a beautiful waterfall near his trail the name of his favorite brand of canned peaches.
The name was suggested by The Mountaineers in 1912 as a compliment to the young son of Thomas E.
The name was suggested by The Mountaineers in 1912 as a compliment to the daughter of Park Ranger Thomas E.
Named by The Mountaineersin 1909 in honor of Asahel Curtis, leader of that club's first ascent.
The Mountaineers Club, in 1915, conducted a party of one hundred, with fully equipped pack train and commissary, around the mountain.
It was named by The Mountaineers Club, during an ascent in 1909, in honor of Professor I.
Even in this war, Curignancu availed himself of the assistance of these mountaineers to harass the Spanish possessions in the neighbourhood of St Jago.
These are again subdivided into many tribes, all of which and the Chechehets also are called Serranos or mountaineers by the Spaniards.
All these mountaineers dress themselves in skins, paint their laces, subsist in a great measure by hunting, and lead a wandering and unsettled life.
The bodies were found, and the partisans of both the hunters began on that day a long and destructive warfare, in which other tribes became involved until mountaineers were arrayed against plainsmen through all that region.
So hideous is this demon that few of the mountaineers have courage to drink here, and they refuse to believe that the apparition is caused by the shape of the basin, or aberrated reflection of their own faces.
The fleet-footed mountaineers could travel as fast as the horse.
Soon the square was filled with hitched horses, and an auctioneer was bidding off cattle, sheep, hogs and horses to the crowd of mountaineers about him, while the women sold eggs and butter and bought things for use at home.
Sam was an anthropologist: he knew the mountaineers from Virginia to Alabama and they were his pet illustrations of his pet theories of the effect of a mountain environment on human life and character.
Below the hill, he saw the mountaineers drawn up in two bodies for battle and, as he led his followers towards them, the Hoosier owner of the plant rode out at a gallop, waving his hands and apparently beside himself with anxiety and terror.
The Lonesome Pine, the mountaineers called it, and the Lonesome Pine it always looked to be.
He could hear the mountaineers yelling on top of the hill, but he did not look back.
Once he saw the hominy block that the mountaineers had borrowed from the Indians, and once a handmill like the one from which the one woman was taken and the other left in biblical days.
He struck communities where the medium of exchange was still barter, and he found mountaineers drinking metheglin still as well as moonshine.
In some of the more extensive valleys, the apple and the peach arrive at perfection; and while the former are manufactured into cider, out of the latter the mountaineers make a very palatable brandy.
I'm afraid the mountaineers will also think we are Secret Service operatives and spies and make trouble for us.
But why should the mountaineers steal such a child?
And they think the mountaineers stole this package?
He had not as yet been to theMountaineers since his mishap with the police, and did not care to show himself there at present.
After the defeat of the mountaineers the lads felt safe, for they were once more within the borders of Montenegro and were unlikely, they knew, to encounter other enemies.
Montenegro, the smallest factor in the war, still was fighting hard--the rugged and gigantic mountaineersgiving a good account of themselves upon all sides.
But the mountaineers had no mind to remain idle and let the fugitives make all the plans.
And at last the mountaineers seemed to have hit upon a plan of action.
Finally, by the reboisement law of 1882, the complaints of the mountaineers were properly taken care of by placing the entire expense of the reboisement work on the state.
It appeared hard that the poor mountaineers should have to bear all the expense of the extinction of the torrents, and much complaint was heard.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mountaineers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
