alpenstock
Example Sentences
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Brooks himself reads as the opposite of acrophobic: scaling the icy pinnacles of Hollywood without anything more than a pang of self-doubt, using humor as his alpenstock.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2021
Has no intention, as things stand, of reaching for his alpenstock.
From Time Magazine Archive
Following closely behind them perhaps there would have strode a professional pilgrim, supporting himself on a stout knobbed staff shod like an alpenstock and weighed down with blessed medals, relics, shells, vernicles and so forth.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Piled in a corner, his hiking gear—boots, alpenstock, leather knapsack.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
So I laid my alpenstock down, drew a deep breath and started up.
From A Maid of the Kentucky Hills by Edwin Carlile Litsey
