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chamois
1. Home of the Alps, vineyards and chic coastal resorts of Nice and Cannes, lots of wildlife lives here too: wild boar, roe and red deer, wolf, fox, brown bear, badger, ibex and chamois, plus semi-wild horses and lizards
2. Chamois hunter Wil-
3. Ibex and chamois that seemed puzzled at my presence in their domain
4. When she finally stopped running, she was nearing the path in the woods that led to the footbridge and the Chamois
5. Veronique opened her eyes and found herself standing at the edge of the Chamois looking out across the water and up at the footbridge
6. the sand at the edge of the Chamois
7. Encourage a healthy shine by buffing the nails with a soft chamois leather buffer
8. "There are two of us to help each horse, one pulling the head, the other pushing the rump of the animal, which can climb with the skill of a chamois
9. Wood or plastic; a loden coat or digital camouflage; a rakish hat decorated with chamois hair, or a baseball cap with a skull-and-crossbones; they're all the same: whatever we choose, we can still be ethical, successful hunters
10. That's why wise old chamoix hunters say that when shooting uphill, or down, you always have to aim a little low as, irrespective of how far the chamois is, from a bal istic point of view, it is as if the target was nearer
11. A chamois is also a must-have to prevent scratching the paint of your car when you are wiping it clean
12. On the string were two crosses, one of Cyprus wood and one of copper, and an image in silver filigree, and with them a small greasy chamois leather purse with a steel rim and ring
13. "I took a purse off her neck, made of chamois leather
14. Just at this moment there came in at the gate of the inn a man entirely clad in chamois leather, hose, breeches, and doublet, who said in a loud voice, "Senor host, have you room? Here's the divining ape and the show of the Release of Melisendra just coming
15. "Your worship is welcome, Master Pedro," continued the landlord; "but where are the ape and the show, for I don't see them?" "They are close at hand," said he in the chamois leather, "but I came on first to know if there was any room
16. When his armour was removed, there stood Don Quixote in his tight-fitting breeches and chamois doublet, lean, lanky, and long, with cheeks that seemed to be kissing each other inside; such a figure, that if the damsels waiting on him had not taken care to check their merriment (which was one of the particular directions their master and mistress had given them), they would have burst with laughter
17. Seeing which Don Quixote quitted the soft down, and, nowise slothful, dressed himself in his chamois suit and put on his travelling boots to hide the disaster to his stockings
18. The first thing he did was to make Don Quixote take off his armour, and lead him, in that tight chamois suit we have already described and depicted more than once, out on a balcony overhanging one of the chief streets of the city, in full view of the crowd and of the boys, who gazed at him as they would at a monkey
19. density—despite my heavy clothing, copper headpiece, and metal soles, I climbed the most impossibly steep gradients with all the nimbleness, I swear it, of a chamois or a Pyrenees mountain goat!
20. These animals, though wild and agile as chamois, were too much like domestic goats, and Franz could not consider them as game
21. He bounded like a chamois, cocking his carbine as he went, and in a moment reached the summit of a hill opposite to that on which he had perceived the traveller
22. Lvov, in a house coat with a belt and in chamois
23. She wore a pale chamois leather suit of a vaguely western style, turquoise jewelry, and a perfume of magnolia
24. ) He’d borrowed a mallet and a chamois cloth from the super, wrapped one inside the other
25. All this I recounted while Dolores took a chamois cloth to the silver
26. He laid it, unfolded, in the light shed by the bed-lamp, he took off his shoes and his wet socks, he turned out the overhead light, using the switch next to the door, and at last he put on his chamois mustache cover and lay down without removing his trousers and shirt, his head supported by two large pillows that he used as a backrest for reading
27. He lives on the sea, as prairie cocks in the prairie; he hides among the waves, he climbs them as chamois hunters climb the Alps
28. "I do not doubt that he hovers near the spot which I inhabit, and if he has indeed taken refuge in the Alps, he may be hunted like the chamois and destroyed as a beast of prey
29. ‘I took a purse off her neck, made of chamois leather … a purse stuffed full of something … but I didn’t look in it; I suppose I hadn’t time…
30. When leaving the court she asked the usher if she could send some money to Maslova, and, receiving an affirmative answer, she removed a chamois glove, and, from the back folds of her silk dress, produced a stylish pocket-book, and counted out the money into the hands of the usher who, in her presence, handed it to the guard
31. Accordingly, he bid me don my patent leather boots, and was horrified to find that I wanted to put on gloves of peau de chamois
32. The end of the whole matter was that the close of September found me on the way to New York, warmly clad in the clothes over which mother had reddened her pretty eyes and pricked her pretty fingers, an emergency fund of a hundred and twenty-five dollars—those blessed broilers!—in a chamois bag between my excellent woolens and my stout muslins, a room in the Margaret Louisa Home engaged for me for any period up to a month
