Use climb in a sentence
Sentences starting with climb
- Climb up! [13]
Sentences ending with climb
- The road led sharply uphill, all the way, through grass and flowers and woods, and was a pleasant walk, barring the fatigue of the climb. [5]
- The Minorite had scarcely been right in the assertion that only the first rounds of the ladder which leads to heavenly bliss were hard to climb. [10]
- At Sillery, west of the town, there was a hollow in the cliffs, up which men, secretly conveyed above the town by water, could climb. [11]
- There was the lodge, with its iron gates shut, and the wall which Nick had threatened to climb. [9]
- It was for him to realise now how deep are the depths to which the human soul can sink, even while labouring to climb. [11]
- At length his further advance appeared futile, for the reason that the stream disappeared in a split at the base of immense rocks over which he could not climb. [13]
Short sentences using climb
- We climb up to it. [4]
- You must climb out. [5]
Sentences containing climb two or more times
- To tighten up his girth, he thinks, to climb a tree, I think; I saw him climb nine trees in a single night. [5]
- The one we had to climb --the one that contains the active volcano--seemed about eight hundred or one thousand feet high, and looked almost too straight-up-and-down for any man to climb, and certainly no mule could climb it with a man on his back. [5]
- He sees a cluster of logs gather and climb, and still gather and climb, and between him and that cluster is a rolling waste of timber, round and square. [11]
- Climb, and climb, and climb--and wind up on the Supreme bench. [5]
More example sentences with the word climb in them
- I'd willingly spare you the climb, but he's watching for the carrier-pigeons that have been sent out, and won't even come down to his meals. [10]
- No man ever yet 'by aid of Greek climbed Parnassus,' or taught others to climb it. [14]
- They could neither wrestle, shoot, nor climb, so we gave them little thought, and anything like actual flirtation was unknown--we had so many better things in our heads. [10]
- And now the whole glittering show of charity had vanished for the time, and Father Damon--The little doctor stopped, consulted a memorandum in her hand-bag, looked up at the tenement-house she was passing, and then began to climb its rickety stairway. [4]
- She obeyed, and wherever it was necessary to climb over the rocks, he supported and lifted her, but he only spoke when she addressed him. [10]
- I know just where to make the climb, and I'll never forget. [13]
- For a change, when you wanted one, you could stroll to the Castle, and burrow among its dungeons, or climb about its ruined towers, or visit its interior shows--the great Heidelberg Tun, for instance. [5]
- In a small way we were the same sort of simpletons as those who climb unnecessarily the perilous peaks of Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn, and derive no pleasure from it except the reflection that it isn't a common experience. [5]
- The huge round waves of ice were slippery and difficult to climb, and the chances of tripping and sliding down them and darting into a crevice were too many to be comfortable. [5]
- And though I was often tempted to climb it, I felt that disobedience was disloyalty to my father. [9]
- Sure enough, it was just as I had dreaded, he started in to climb the tree----" "What, the bull? [5]
- I used to walk down there and sit on the stones of the ruined mill; or climb to the crests on the far side of the pond to gaze for hours westward where the green billows of the Alleghenies lost themselves in the haze. [9]
- It is a very agreeable climb up Newport, and not difficult; but if the sun is out, one feels, after scrambling over the rocks and walking home by the dusty road, like taking a long pull at a cup of shandygaff. [4]
- I will climb up, and from the top of the tower there I can see where the dogs come from. [10]
- Now you shut up that nonsense and climb out of this. [5]
- There is another up above, but the stair has got harder to climb o' late years, and I never use it. [12]
- It was not until we reached the road and had begun to climb out of the valley that the silence was broken between us. [9]
- To climb a tree and shake it, to club it, to strip it of its fruit, and pass to the next, is the sport of a brief time. [4]
- One flashing thought tore in hot temptation through his mind--why not climb up into the gorge, roll Balancing Rock down the trail, and close forever the outlet to Deception Pass? [13]
- It seemed almost too steep to climb, but a practised eye could see from a distance the zigzag lines of the sheep-paths which scaled it like miniature Alpine roads. [6]
- We saw ancient tombs and temples of fanciful architecture carved out of the solid rock high up in the face of precipices above our heads, but we had neither time nor strength to climb up there and examine them. [5]
- We were besieged to take this and that horse or mule, to buy walking-sticks for the climb, to purchase lava cut into charms, and veritable ancient coins, and dug-up cameos, all manufactured for the demand. [4]
- They turned aside to skirt this wall, and gradually ascended until their way was barred by a "maze of gigantic snow crevices,"--so they turned aside again, and "began a long climb of sufficient steepness to make a zigzag course necessary. [5]
- As he intended to make the move under cover of darkness, he wanted most to be able to tell where to climb up. [13]
- You could get to it by a hard climb up a precipitous pathway, or by a ladder of ropes which swung from his cottage door down the cliff-side to the sands. [11]
- Suddenly it occurred to him that if he could but climb upon the ledge where the bayonet had been, there might be safety. [11]
- I was forced to climb the main rigging in order to escape being hacked to pieces. [9]
- I was burning to climb the bank and ask him whether he had seen the Indian fall. [9]
- It was delicious to be out of his reach, perfectly delicious, and made me feel good and thankful all up one side; but I was hanging there helpless and couldn't climb, and that made me feel perfectly wretched and miserable all down the other. [5]
- But after a tiresome march of almost half a mile, we came to a hill covered thick with a crumbly rubbish of stones, and so steep that no man of us all was now in a condition to climb it. [5]
- There are just thirty-two of them, as there were five and thirty years ago, but they are steeper and harder to climb, it seems to me, than they were then. [6]
- And nobly do they climb up to the duties of their position. [4]
- To these deficiencies there might be added one still more serious, namely, that he cannot climb quickly, and so escape from enemies. [1]
- When I climb the trees, and throw down the dusky fruit, Polly catches it in her apron; nearly always, however, letting go when it drops, the fall is so sudden. [4]
- High up on the sides of the precipices, where it seems impossible for a goat to climb, are vineyards and houses, and even villages, hung on slopes, nearly up to the clouds, and with no visible way of communication with the rest of the world. [4]
- The woods on the side are dense and impenetrable, and the only way was to keep in the stream and climb over the bowlders. [4]
- She would climb the rugged old hemlocks now and then for the sake of a wide outlook, or to peep into the large nest where a hawk, or it may be an eagle, was raising her little brood of air-pirates. [6]
- We climb to the roof of the quaint old building, and sit there to drink in the strange oriental scene. [4]
- I'll go up the river to an aisy p'int a mile above, get in, and drift down to a p'int below there, thin climb up and loose the stuff. [11]
- This law: that the merit of every great unknown and neglected artist must and will be recognised and his pictures climb to high prices after his death. [5]
- The pillars of the front and back piazzas are pine stems stained, with the natural branches cut in unequal lengths, and look like the stumps for the bears to climb in the pit at Berne. [4]
- It is not the fault of the railroad, but its present inability to climb a rocky hill, that it does not run into the city. [4]
- But I'll close the door against them all--which will "fix" all of the lot except Twichell, who will no more hesitate to climb in at the back window than nothing. [5]
- By that time the deed would be done, if he could climb Perce Rock at all. [11]
- I feel humiliated that I consented to climb this mountain. [4]
- Who was it that could venture in this pitch-dark night to climb from rock to rock? [10]
- Therefore, as the sun was blazing hot, we did not climb up there, but took the place on trust, and observed it from a distance while the horse leaned up against a fence and rested. [5]
- For he was strong of arm, and there was no place in the hills to be climbed by venturesome man, which he could not climb with crutch and shrivelled leg. [11]
- Continue with the stream until it turns towards the east, then you must climb over the mountains, and keep ever northwards. [10]
- Time and again, strangers were astounded to see a wasted, pale, and woe-worn man laboriously climb a telegraph-pole in wintry and lonely places, perch sadly there an hour, with his ear at a little box, then come sighing down, and wander wearily away. [5]
- We did not stay at Zermatt, but pushed on for the hotel on the top of the Riffelberg,--a very stiff and tiresome climb of about three hours, an unending pull up a stony footpath. [4]
- And the vine started for the pole, and began to climb it with determination. [4]
- He began to spring and climb again. [5]
- They were not smart; they ought to have sent only one highwayman, with a double-barrelled shot gun, if they desired to see the author of this volume climb a tree. [5]
- Suddenly she stopped short, "Ranulph Delagarde," she said vehemently, "you can't climb Perch Rock. [11]
- With trembling knees she forced herself to climb one after another of the blocks that formed the staircase. [10]
- He had even seen the polar bear climb the pole. [5]
- You yourself have seen it climb up to six hundred and fifty dollars--and alas, even that is not the end! [5]
- It did not seem possible that the imaginary chamois even could climb those precipices. [5]
- Verus was no schemer; he walked in at the front door with a free and careless step, and scorned to climb the backstairs. [10]
- But it is safe to say that if he had one well-defined purpose on this trip, it was not to climb Mitchell. [4]
- Jane, bring your saddle-bag and climb after me. [13]
- The subjects are sacred; and with the sacred is mingled the comic, here as at Augsburg, where over one portal of the cathedral, with saints and angels, monkeys climb and gibber. [4]
- The rhymes which rose before him unbidden were as the rounds of Jacob's ladder, on which he would climb to a heaven of-glory. [6]
- It used to roam the earth in the Old Silurian times, and lay eggs and catch fish and climb trees and live on fossils; for it was of a mixed breed, which was the fashion then. [5]
- He ceased to ride, to climb, to lift weights with his strong arms, as he had--poor cripple--been once so proud to do. [11]
- Whoever, like you, remains in seclusion and mounts a tall tree to be entirely alone, will be deserted; for who would be kind-hearted enough to learn to climb for your sake? [10]
- They may have recognized their kinship to him, for he could climb like any squirrel, and not one of them could have clung more securely to this bough where he was swinging, rejoicing in the strength of his lithe, compact little body. [4]
- Every time it rains in the night we have to climb out and roost in the trees and sometimes we are wakened suddenly by the chilly water trickling down the back of our necks. [5]
- We had been preceded in our climb all the way by a huge bear. [4]
- If it was possible to climb the wall, he might hide behind it. [10]
- It was not possible to climb out of the gorge; it was impossible to find a way by the side of the river; and getting down the bed, over the falls, and through the flumes, was not easy, and consumed time. [4]
- Some of the party, exhausted by the climb, and shivering in the rude wind, wanted a fire kindled and a cup of tea made, and thought this the guide's business. [4]
- Reproached by a pagan friend of his youth for his apostasy, he confesses that principle, when unsupported by an assenting stomach, has to climb down. [5]
- What could any oyster want to climb a hill for? [5]
- You can climb over there, and not hurt anything. [5]
- We climb mountains over scoria that frays and lava that burns. [11]
- And if the outlet's closed we'll climb up the cliffs and over them to the valley and go down on rope ladders. [13]
- Alison's smile seemed only to increase the solemnity of his adoration, and presently he attempted to climb over the barrier between them. [9]
- Miss d'Angeville put on a pair of men's pantaloons to climb it, which was wise; but she cramped their utility by adding her petticoat, which was idiotic. [5]
- Better men grow old and gray in the service before they climb to a sublimity like that. [5]
- There are plenty of men who have taken advantage of like conditions to climb from one position to another, and have then kicked down the ladders behind them as fast as they attained a new footing. [4]
- For instance, one of his favourite disciples was willing to shake the nuts from the rotten branches of a nut tree which no one dared to climb if he might have half the harvest. [10]
- These Alpine heights of extravagance climb up from the humble valley where shillings and sixpences are all that are required to make you a purchaser. [6]
- Suppose a party of armed foreigners were to enter a village church in America and break ornaments from the altar railings for curiosities, and climb up and walk upon the Bible and the pulpit cushions? [5]
- He would then not unfrequently walk out alone in the common roads, or climb up the sides of The Mountain, which seemed to be one of his favorite resorts. [6]
- The public does not demand that an actor shall come in at a private door and climb a steep staircase to get to the stage. [4]
- Ian, I could not bear to see what would come at last--the disappointment in your face the look of hope gone from your eyes; your struggle to climb, and the struggle of no avail. [11]
- If you are not afraid of a climb, and will lead your horse behind you for a mile or two, I can show you the way, and to-morrow evening we will be at the camp. [10]
- Certainly he took no more real pleasure in distorting history, concealing facts, propagating immoralities, and appealing to the sordid side of human nature than did you; but he was his party's property, and he had to climb away down and do it. [5]
- We could see nearly the whole of it, at a great height above us, on the opposite side of the river, and it would require an hour's stiff climb to reach its foot. [4]
- They entered the narrow gorge to climb around the fence long before built there by Venters. [13]
- One of the mournfulest calamities which men's disposition to climb dangerous mountains has resulted in, happened on Mont Blanc in September 1870. [5]
- The artist and Miss Lamont, in search of the picturesque, had the courage, although the thermometer was in the humor to climb up to ninety degrees, to explore the Baptist encampment. [4]
- Once he put me in ze calaboose when I tried to climb ze balcon'. [9]
- He concluded to make the climb and descent into Surprise Valley in one trip. [13]
- It was a lucky piece of sagacity in us that we concluded to stop a man whom we met and get a light for our pipes from him instead of continuing the climb to that lantern to get a light, as had been our purpose. [5]
- It sometimes even lay in my way to climb a tree to look for a crow's nest, or to swing in the top, and to try if I could see the steeple of the village church. [4]
- It was a laborious climb, in that thin atmosphere, to ascend from D to A street, and you were panting and out of breath when you got there; but you could turn around and go down again like a house a-fire--so to speak. [5]
- But yet I know however high you climb you will never find peace. [11]
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