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The young herr swims, I know, and so do you, herr; but if we have to make for the lower end of the schlucht, try and remember this: Don't struggle to get to the surface, for it is waste of strength.
The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps George Manville Fenn 1870
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I am sure about our way to the mouth of the schlucht.
The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps George Manville Fenn 1870
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"Answer me, herr, as a gentleman," cried Melchior warmly: "do you feel that you could safely carry that pannier through the schlucht?"
The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps George Manville Fenn 1870
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Dale hurried on, with Saxe close behind him, till they were out of the gloomy schlucht, and scrambling over the rocks by the rapidly widening stream, whose waters had now grown turbid, and were bearing great patches of grey froth upon their surface.
The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps George Manville Fenn 1870
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He took a dozen steps toward the schlucht, and passed round a huge mass of rock, behind which a pure fount of water gushed out from a rift, at whose foot Gros was drinking where the water ran down to join the river.
The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps George Manville Fenn 1870
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Then I was plunged suddenly into deep, roaring water, and felt myself swept round and then onward as if I had been once more in the schlucht; for I had fallen into one of the great water holes in the river below the gletscher, and then was carried along. "
The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps George Manville Fenn 1870
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At the other end, beyond the schlucht, we shall be in the greater valley, between the mountains I pointed to this morning; and there you will find steeper places than this, wilder and stranger, where we can camp for to-night, and to-morrow you can choose. "
The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps George Manville Fenn 1870
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"No, no," cried Melchior firmly, "neither of you could carry that pannier through the schlucht.
The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps George Manville Fenn 1870
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