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Usage examples of chamonix.

Valley of Chamonix, bounded on one side by the Mont Blanc range and on the other by the Aiguilles Rouges chain, was like a natural platform from which to view the highest peak of Europe.

I will condense this account, as follows: On the 12th of August, 1861, at the hour of the close of mass, a guide arrived out of breath at the mairie of Chamonix, and bearing on his shoulders a very lugubrious burden.

And it will be a great thing for Chamonix, in the matter of attracting tourists.

His idea was conveyed to the public officials of Chamonix, and they gravely discussed it around the official council-table.

We hired a sort of open baggage-wagon for the trip down the valley to Chamonix, and then devoted an hour to dining.

The office of that great personage, the Guide-in-Chief of the Chamonix Guild of Guides, was near by.

Chief Guide put us off, with one pretext or another, during all the time we stayed in Chamonix, and we ended by never getting them at all.

A frightful tragedy was once witnessed through the Chamonix telescopes.

At the same hour that these three began their dangerous ascent, the official Guide-in-Chief of the Mont Blanc region undertook the dangerous descent to Chamonix, all alone, to get reinforcements.

On the 5th of September, 1870, a caravan of eleven persons departed from Chamonix to make the ascent of Mont Blanc.

If Jim should leave Chamonix unexpectedly, she must contact me at once.

This was located in a small hamlet on the outskirts of Chamonix, the lovely ancient town that nestled at the foot of Mont Blanc.

Her mother was quite irritating when she went on and on about him in this ridiculous way, and Emily was pleased when she saw the town of Chamonix looming immediately ahead.

Stepping up to the metal rack holding cards of Chamonix, she selected four and went to pay for them.

Alexander had returned from Chamonix grief-stricken and crushed by sorrow.