Use climbing in a sentence
Sentences starting with climbing
- Climbing a tree was of no use, with so good a climber in the rear. [4]
- Climbing out of the ravine was, in most places, simply impossible; and I began to look with interest for a slide, where bushes rooted in the scant earth would enable me to scale the precipice. [4]
- Climbing the steep precipice was no easy task, but we succeeded, and were then lowered from above into the crevice. [10]
- Climbing was the most unsatisfactory use to which a mountain could be put. [4]
- Climbing to the highest rock, so that he would show against the sky-line, he stood and waved his hat. [13]
- Climbing to the deck, we found that the boat was already under way, running southward in the current through the misty rain. [9]
- Climbing slowly one day up the Balcony,--he was more than usually calm and slow,--he espied an exquisite fragile flower in the crevice of a rock, in a very lonely spot. [4]
- Climbing to the attic, he found two valises--one of which he had brought back from Pepper County--and took them to his own room. [9]
Sentences ending with climbing
- The higher they went, the deeper grew the snow, the more wearisome the wading and climbing. [10]
- Two thirds of the way up, I saw specks of people climbing. [4]
- Honora sat in the straight-backed seat of the smaller train with parted lips and beating heart, gazing now and again at the pearly mists rising from the little river valley they were climbing. [9]
- Thee has climbed quickly, but fast climbing is not always safe climbing. [11]
- We go running on as happy as can be, like Biribi there in the garden, and all at once we stop short at a hedge, just as he does there--a hedge just too tall to look over and with no foothold for climbing. [11]
- He made note of the fact that he was turning and climbing. [13]
- No, it was not Mont Blanc,--it was not any one of the frozen Alpine summits; it was Hecla that he was climbing. [6]
- And so watch him fretting to the slow-coming end, while now and again you give him a taste of hope, to drop him back again into the pit which has no sides for climbing. [11]
- The sun beat down unmercifully, the way was stony, and the horses did not relish the weary climbing. [4]
- The tangled thicket and the long slant of dust and little chips of weathered rock and the steep bench of stone and the worn steps all were arduous work for Bess in the climbing. [13]
Short sentences using climbing
- Tull was climbing. [13]
Sentences containing climbing two or more times
- Mooning along a whole week, and these terrific expenses climbing and climbing all the time! [5]
More example sentences with the word climbing in them
- My thoughts gave zest to my actions, and I was climbing the steep, pine-clad slope with rapidity when I heard Miss Trevor below me calling out to wait for her. [9]
- But I warrant you there would be no climbing of balconies in her dominions. [9]
- And yet you, you miscreant, accuse me of climbing trees! [5]
- A doorway, closed with light curtains, opened on to a long balcony with a finely-worked balustrade of copper-gilt, to which clung a climbing rose with pink flowers. [10]
- Followed through one winding alley and then another,--and climbing, always climbing--till at last we gained the breezy height where the huge castle stood. [5]
- The romantic traits which I have attributed to the character of my hero, who travelled throughout the world, climbing mountains to rejoice in the splendor of he rising sun, are authentic. [10]
- His journalistic style was climbing, steadily; it was already up to the back settlement Alabama mark, and couldn't be told from the editorial output of that region either by matter or flavor. [5]
- In 1830 it was a snug collection of modest one- and two- story frame dwellings, whose whitewashed exteriors were almost concealed from sight by climbing tangles of rose vines, honeysuckles, and morning glories. [5]
- In my previous visit to Edinburgh in 1834, I was fond of rambling along under Salisbury Crags, and climbing the sides of Arthur's Seat. [6]
- It generally has vines climbing over it. [5]
- At last it ventured out,--showing at intervals, like the boat rising on the billow, sinking into the hollow, and climbing again into notice. [6]
- They dragged themselves upward in a worn and weary way, for they had been climbing steadily from the Grand Mulets, on the Glacier des Dossons, since three in the morning, and it was eleven, now. [5]
- The meadow sloped up to a belt of balsams and firs, a steep rocky knob, and climbing that on foot we stood upon the summit of Mitchell at one o'clock. [4]
- They were roped together with a string, they had mimic alpenstocks and ice-axes, and were climbing a meek and lowly manure-pile with a most blood-curdling amount of care and caution. [5]
- The back belonged to a, gentleman who was energetically climbing the embankment in front of him, on the top of which Major Sexton, a regular, army officer, sat his horse. [9]
- There was also there another of the same country, got up for the most dangerous Alpine climbing, conspicuous in red woolen stockings that came above his knees. [4]
- Bawling, climbing, goring, the great mass of steers on the inside wrestled in a crashing din, heaved and groaned under the pressure. [13]
- Our cheers told the general the news, and soon hundreds of soldiers were climbing the hard way that we had come. [11]
- Even ladies catch the climbing mania, and are unable to throw it off. [5]
- Did they notice that they could make money by climbing down out of that arched sapling and just stepping aboard when the ark scraped by? [5]
- It seemed a terrible climbing up the sides of a cliff, and, as he struggled fainting on, all sorts of sounds were in his ears, but he realised that the Whisperer was no longer there. [11]
- During the first ten days following the mailing of the letter Tracy's spirits had no idle time; they were always climbing up into the clouds or sliding down into the earth as deep as the law of gravitation reached. [5]
- In five minutes Tarboe was climbing up the side of the Free-and-Easy, and presently was in Gobal's cabin, with a glass of wine in his hand. [11]
- They often ascend stairs on all-fours; and are curiously fond of climbing up furniture or trees. [1]
- We were all silent the rest of the way, climbing the slender trail through the forest over the gap into the next valley. [9]
- He had a shambling, loose-jointed gait, not unlike that of the bear: his short legs bowed out, as if they had been more in the habit of climbing trees than of walking. [4]
- The Welshman admitted several ladies and gentlemen, among them the Widow Douglas, and noticed that groups of citizens were climbing up the hill--to stare at the stile. [5]
- He did not seek the road directly, but, climbing a fence near by, crossed a hay-field, going unseen, as he thought, to the village. [11]
- Jim was for putting our traps in there right away, but I said we didn't want to be climbing up and down there all the time. [5]
- Quiet night and pretty comfortable day, though our sail and block show signs of failing, and need taking down--which latter is something of a job, as it requires the climbing of the mast. [5]
- It was everywhere positively asserted that a knight belonging to the Emperor's train had been caught at the Ortlieb mansion, either in a nocturnal interview or while climbing into the window. [10]
- We spent two, perchance three, days climbing and descending and fording. [9]
- Thus we have our good seasons and our bad seasons, our good days and our bad days, life climbing and descending in long or short undulations, which I have called the curve of health. [6]
- Jane reflected that one hundred and twenty miles, with probably a great deal of climbing on foot, all in three days, was enough to tire any rider. [13]
- As he lay on his back in that room among the chimney tops trying vainly to solve the problem of how he was to earn his salt in the country, a visitor was climbing the last steep flight of stairs. [9]
- I must go on alone, with naught of what makes life bearable; you will keep climbing higher by your vanity, your strength, and your deceit. [11]
- At the ripe old age of seventy-two he was climbing around a corner of a lofty precipice of the Pic du Midi--nobody with him--when he slipped and fell. [5]
- The tail end of this procession was climbing the market house stairs when the twins arrived in its neighborhood; when they reached the hall, it was full of people, torches, smoke, noise, and enthusiasm. [5]
- When the people of the hotel found that I had been climbing those crazy Ladders, it made me an object of considerable attention. [5]
- There's too much of the Climbers in us all--not social climbing, I mean, but wanting to get somewhere that has something for us, out in the big material world. [11]
- There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it. [5]
- She obeyed her motherly impulse to encourage Polykarp with some loving words, and climbing up the narrow stair that led to the roof, she went into his room. [10]
- Something like a minute later I was climbing the pilot-house steps with some of my clothes on and the rest in my arms. [5]
- The climbing fire lit up their faces and threw its ruddy glare upon the pillared tree-trunks of their forest temple, and upon the varnished foliage and festooning vines. [5]
- A half hour later he was climbing the hill where he had seen the white horse and its rider. [11]
- Our impression of its height was confirmed by climbing the very steep slope at its side some three or four hundred feet. [4]
- How strange it is to look down on one's venerated teachers, after climbing with the world's progress half a century above the level where we left them! [6]
- She leaped quickly into the doorway before him, and stood facing him, framed in the climbing roses. [9]
- Some of these insist upon climbing up to the narrow deck, to sit on the roof and enjoy the moonlight and the cinders. [4]
- I have often, indeed, seen white sails climbing up there, and fishing-boats, at secure anchor I suppose, riding apparently like balloons in the hazy air. [4]
- If Jethro had indeed instructed Bijah to look after his flock at Coniston, it was an ill-conditioned move, and some of the flock resented it when they were quite sure that Bijah was climbing the notch road toward Clovelly. [9]
- Wherever you go, in town or country, you find those snowy houses, and always with masses of bright-colored flowers about them, but with no vines climbing their walls; vines cannot take hold of the smooth, hard whitewash. [5]
- He got hurt in the old Hal Clayton claim that was abandoned like the others, putting in a blast and not climbing out quick enough, though he scrambled the best he could. [5]
- We was there in no time, and come a-whizzing down amongst them, and they broke and scattered every which way, and some that was climbing the ladder after Jim let go all holts and fell. [5]
- On the contrary, I see no reason to doubt that more perfectly constructed hands would have been an advantage to them, provided that they were not thus rendered less fitted for climbing trees. [1]
- And now the house came in view--first the big roof, and then the latticed windows, the balconies, where there were pots of flowers, and then the long veranda with its hammocks and climbing vines. [4]
- He may find himself climbing through cedar thickets an almost inaccessible cliff, or immersed in the intricacies of a marsh. [4]
- And this would help him to understand why constructing artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill is work, while rolling ten-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement. [5]
- Two of them had been uncorded and a wounded officer was climbing into one of them helped by an orderly. [2]
- It seems a good idea.... She has been climbing that tree again. [5]
- Why wasn't it finished, and why must he go on climbing again and again that frightful scaffolding? [10]
- A hundred and fifty miles of holding back of six vindictive mules and keeping them from climbing the trees! [5]
- In climbing a fence, the rope slipped, caught him by the neck, and strangled him. [6]
- Every pillar and every statue was built round with a scaffolding reaching to the ceiling on which men were climbing and crowding each other just as the sailors climb into the enemy's ships in the Naumachia. [10]
- We met an everlasting procession of guides, porters, mules, litters, and tourists climbing up this steep and muddy path, and there was no room to spare when you had to pass a tolerably fat mule. [5]
- There was the Emperor climbing the hill-side where he could see him, and messengers were expected and he had been charged to receive them. [10]
- At odd times during the day, when this joy forever happened to have nothing particular on hand, she put in the time by climbing up on places, and falling down off them, uniformly damaging her self in the operation. [5]
- I resolved to devote my first evening in Zermatt to studying up the subject of Alpine climbing, by way of preparation. [5]
- That night, after Cynthia's candle had gone out, when the minister sat on his doorsteps looking at the glory of the moon on the mountain forest, he was startled by the sight of a figure slowly climbing toward him up the slope. [9]
- We kept on climbing, through the oppressive gloom, till I thought we ought to be nearing the top of the pyramid again, and then came to the "Queen's Chamber," and shortly to the Chamber of the King. [5]
- It was hard climbing, but, following in our careful steps as silently as they might, the good fellows came eagerly after. [11]
- The soldier began climbing, and McGilveray caught the oars and was instantly away towards the raft. [11]
- We had been climbing up the long shoulders of the Rocky Mountains for many tedious hours--we started down them, now. [5]
- Although George was climbing the mountain, his breath came freely, and all at once, without any reason, he burst into song. [10]
- She has been climbing that tree again. [5]
- There was a canker gnawing at his heart; the noblest inspiration of his soul eluded his endeavor--viz: he could not make of the turnip a climbing vine. [5]
- Her father had built the cabin, a large one with a loft and a ladder climbing to it, and a sleeping room and a kitchen. [9]
- The study is built on top of a tumbled rock-heap that has morning-glories climbing about it and a stone stairway leading down through and dividing it. [5]
- You must always be fighting for something, always climbing higher, because you see some big thing to do which is so far above you. [11]
- The fact that automobiles full of laughing people from Leith hummed by occasionally made no apparent difference to Pepper, who knew only the master hand on the reins; the reality that the wood roads were climbing great hills the horse did not seem to feel. [9]
- The cage ascended at first quickly, then more slowly, swaying up and down a little on the cable, and climbing higher and higher through the air to the mountain-side. [11]
- A born climber's appetite for climbing is hard to satisfy; when it comes upon him he is like a starving man with a feast before him; he may have other business on hand, but it must wait. [5]
- She began climbing, and Ranulph pulled steadily. [11]
- Parties with baskets and bundles were climbing up on the roof. [5]
- You will be always for climbing, if some woman does not drag you back. [11]
- He went climbing along on all fours on the roof toward the chimney where the cats were. [5]
- Within six years after Patay he was leading storming parties himself; fighting in fortress ditches up to his waist in water, and climbing scaling-ladders under a furious fire with a pluck that would have satisfied even Joan of Arc. [5]
- Others were sometimes absent, and sometimes came to time when they were in a very doubtful state, looking as if they were saying to themselves, with Lear,-- "Down, thou climbing sorrow, Thy element's below. [6]
- This cat had a fashion of climbing up the elephant's hind legs and roosting on his back. [5]
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