alpenstock

And observe, a man is respected in Switzerland according to his alpenstock.

The alpenstock or baton of another saved its owner in a similar way.

He went, and, passing through the hall, left his alpenstock in the umbrella-stand.

With time the alpenstock and the axe were combined into one tool: the ice-axe.

The long-handled alpenstock was a predecessor to the modern ice axe.

Evidently, it is not considered safe to go about in Switzerland, even in town, without an alpenstock.

There are artisans all about Switzerland whose trade it is to burn these things upon the alpenstock of the tourist.

He swung his alpenstock vigorously, teeing off tussocks of grass.

The alpenstock must be of the best wood, for if it should break, loss of life might be the result.

In the other a miniature alpenstock.

Haines pushed the alpenstock he was carrying into it and scraped away the gas crystals.

Von Harben lowered his crude alpenstock over the edge of the rock fragment.

She wrote stories, articles and verse for magazines and periodicals, sometimes under the pseudonym Alpenstock.

"Inky, do you have an alpenstock?"

His feet are planted wide apart, arms locked around an alpenstock behind him; the katy is pushed back releasing a forelock.

Milkmaids swinging pails and mountaineers in alpenstock hats emerged from clocks, appearing very real.

To test the feasibility of the idea, be lowered himself into the water, holding to one end of his alpenstock, while Gabula seized the other.

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.

"What's an alpenstock?"

There was a pair of mackintosh waders; there were shooting-sticks and an Egyptian fly-whisk and an alpenstock.

And eight different hats and an alpenstock and a flywhisk and four walking-sticks.'

The rake or pitchfork, or whatever it was, he used sometimes as an alpenstock, sometimes (I was told) as a weapon.

Calmly, Felice pulled a spear from a dead shape-shifter and used it for an alpenstock as she climbed over the noisome mound blocking the doorway.

In the garden he's approached by a nine--or ten-year-old boy dressed in a Swiss costume, complete with alpenstock, a long staff used in mountain climbing.

Watson, searching for his friend, found only the detective's alpenstock - a long staff with an iron point that no mountain climber carries today - on a ledge overlooking the falls.