mountain goats
- plural of mountain goat.
Example Sentences
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However, the horse could and did go up the steep, though it taxed him to the utmost, and these horses are like mountain-goats, for there is hardly any level land in the Marquesas.
From White Shadows in the South Seas by O'Brien, Frederick
But he has asked how long a conservatory would last with two young mountain-goats gamboling along its leads....
From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)
We started several Gazelles, the only game I have seen in the peninsula, except mountain-goats.
From Travels in Syria and the Holy Land by Burckhardt, John Lewis
Still, I don't think there is the slightest chance of our having that experience, for I understand that the mountain-goats are among the shyest and most difficult to kill of all wild animals.
From Harper's Round Table, July 9, 1895 by Various
I flew to the pleasant fields traversed so oft In life’s morning march, when my bosom was young; I heard my own mountain-goats bleating aloft, And knew the sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert
