She accepted the "alpenstock" gratefully and soon found it useful for both purposes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party] Reference

He upbraided her for leaving her alpenstock down the slope.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rim of the Desert] Reference

I bought one, and a green felt hat and an alpenstock to keep it company.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greenmantle] Reference

"Oh, but we must make the summit," exclaimed Marcia, taking up her alpenstock.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rim of the Desert] Reference

"Test the snow-bridges carefully with your alpenstock before you venture on them!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Soap-Bubble Stories For Children] Reference

She waved her alpenstock, and as he doffed his cap, rounded the brink and disappeared.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHAPTER 4] Reference

Hatchet, pouch, knife and knapsack, with alpenstock on occasion, about comprise his kit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference

She gave him a quick glance and, setting her alpenstock, sprang from his detaining hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rim of the Desert] Reference

Once I slipped, and my legs fell in, and my alpenstock; but I clung to the stump till hauled up.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton] Reference

She used to call it her alpenstock, and make all Switzerland out of the New Jersey sands with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873] Reference

Then, with his alpenstock fixed, and his spiked heels set in the crust, he reached a hand to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rim of the Desert] Reference

He stooped to pick up the alpenstock she had dropped, then offered his hand down the step from the spur.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rim of the Desert] Reference

He then selected a stout alpenstock and tried it carefully, to see if the iron point was sharp and strong.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's Young People, November 4, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference

Then I give over my luggage, which consists of a suit-case, hand-grip, umbrella, and alpenstock, to Haleel.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Three Days in Gilead] Reference

The murderous German girl with her alpenstock, her hiking boots, calls to the old architect, Higher, higher!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Writing a Novel] Reference

She advances over the upland, jumps over the brook, with the aid of her alpenstock, and climbs up the hillock.    From Wordnik.com.  [When We Dead Awaken] Reference

Holding the flashlight in my mouth again, using the long stun-gun as an alpenstock, I ascended the unsteady heap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perseus Spur]

But the ant makes his long excursion with neither alpenstock nor luncheon, and without sleeping or even resting on the way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885] Reference

The veil and the spiked alpenstock are the signs of peril.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference

'I should have brought you my old alpenstock,' jested Harvey.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Whirlpool] Reference

Stand up as I do, and hold your alpenstock behind you like this.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps] Reference

"And I'll tell you her name;" and he leveled his alpenstock at his sister.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daisy Miller] Reference

If you go over, hold on to your alpenstock and try to stop yourself the best way you can.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps] Reference

The staff was as useful to them as the alpenstock to the mountain climber in Switzerland.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lieutenant at Eighteen] Reference

One drew his portrait in her album, another sought the honour of touching his alpenstock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tartarin On The Alps] Reference

I ran down steep paths, and, with the aid of my alpenstock, stopped myself in an instant.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Chosen Few Short Stories] Reference

Saxe started off to where Melchior was busy fitting an iron spike to a stout ashen alpenstock.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps] Reference

We descended the stair; the handle of a pitchfork doing, in my case, the duty of an alpenstock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference

Her only answer was to push on, plying her alpenstock eagerly in her haste to elude the others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party] Reference

Winterbourne presently released the child, who departed, dragging his alpenstock along the path.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daisy Miller] Reference

Switzerland, buy an alpenstock on which are printed the names of the mountains they have ascended with its help.    From Wordnik.com.  [Up The Baltic Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark] Reference

Frank looked round apprehensively for Saul Arthur's alpenstock, and was relieved when he failed to discover one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Who Knew] Reference

Saxe looked at him inquiringly, and took off his cap and wiped his brow, while his alpenstock rested in the hollow of his arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps] Reference

The climber puts his alpenstock before his foot, he tests with his foot before he rests his weight, for a false step and down he goes!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John] Reference