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

The perspiration streamed from his face—less from the weight than from anxiety lest he should fall, and several times he only saved himself by means of his alpenstock.

From Dorothy's Double Volume II (of 3) by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)