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  • Then you get back up and continue the climb.
  • I shall climb very high mountains in Norway and see much ice and snow.
  • To climb means to go up.
  • When she arrived, the mustang was parked so close to the apartment that she had to walk around it to climb the stairs.
  • Some climb trees and feed on leaves, while others tunnel between bark and wood.
  • Unable to move, barely able to breathe, she watched the sun climb into the sky.
  • Alex took another step forward, reaching for her and she tried to climb Carmen.
  • It was here Donald Ryland planned to tackle a mixed rock and ice climb innocuously called Rosebud.
  • Elisabeth struggled to climb onto the sofa.
  • Jerome plans to climb tomorrow, so he can show everyone how much of a macho stud he is.
  • She clung to one of the warriors, attempting to climb him as the cat-like critter-- convinced it was a game-- wagged its tail and chased her around the large man in the center of the room.
  • You may GO down, but you can only CLIMB up.
  • He loves to climb much better than to spell, but that is because he does not know yet what a wonderful thing language is.
  • Their wanderings finally took them back to the car, and as Clara opened the door to climb in, she hesitated.
  • Sarah watched him climb the stairs while tears ran down her face.
  • I, in turn, used her to climb the Immortal ladder.
  • They began the arduous climb, puffing in the high elevation for ten minutes until the trail leveled and opened to their left.
  • They climb all over the counters.
  • Its legs were jointed outwards like a spider's, and its ability to climb walls resembled that of a spider.
  • After the obligatory shower, fresh clothes and a hearty supper, the tired body was beginning to revive, as long as the mind kept mum about tomorrow's 90 miles and the 10,850­foot climb up Wolfe Creek Pass.
  • It seemed every other rider had passed him on the climb until he looked down the mountain and saw hundreds of dots of color still struggling up the incline behind him.
  • As she watched him climb into his truck, she decided that she could tell him in the morning.
  • Obviously she couldn't climb up, but maybe she could slide down.
  • The second stratum of the town lies ten minutes' climb up the side of the island.
  • Raised above it, is an impossible attitude, nor do snakes ever climb trees in spiral fashion, the classical artistic mode of representation.
  • It had been foolish to climb into the car with him.
  • Darting down the stairs, she ran to the stage office, arriving as the driver was preparing to climb into the seat.
  • "Don't get us lost," Cynthia cautioned as the trio began the climb downward, away from the mine.
  • I'll ice climb during the day, then drive back up to Grand Junction.
  • The others might be below, but Shipton would attempt the same climb where he had fallen two weeks before.
  • (3) Tree snakes, which are able to climb bushes or trees with facility or pass even the greater part of their existence on trees.
  • I felt badly that I wasn't able to watch him climb but it made me nauseated to even look over the edge.
  • Why would he be fool enough to go back up there and climb again?
  • Do me a favor and don't climb back up on your soapbox.
  • 2, a), while in many beetles that burrow into the earth or climb about on trees the fore-legs are broadened and strengthened for digging, or lengthened and modified for clinging to branches.
  • The creeping or trailing type is a common one, as in the English bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis), which has also a tendency to climb, and Calystegia Soldanella, the sea-bindweed, the long creeping stem of which forms a sandbinder on English seashores; a widespread and efficient tropical sand-binder is Ipomaea Pes-Caprae.
  • The illustrative strings and the orange stick representing the poles seemed so real that even to this day the mere mention of temperate zone suggests a series of twine circles; and I believe that if any one should set about it he could convince me that white bears actually climb the North Pole.
  • Shipton, climb back up!
  • Instead, he was working his backside off trying to climb an 11,000-foot mountain that never ended with the only power provided by his two aching legs.
  • In England, on the other hand, it was thought by most people that if a firm enough attitude were adopted Mr Kruger would " climb down," and the effect of this error was shown partly in the whole course of the negotiations, partly in the tone personally adopted by Mr Chamberlain.
  • I should make too good a target for the French, besides I am afraid I should hardly be able to climb onto a horse.
  • The road continued to climb at a seemingly impossible grade, more rugged now with jagged rocks littering the uneven way.
  • He started to resume his climb, then paused.
  • Before the couple left for their climb, Dean pulled Penny aside.
  • He didn't say I had to climb down on some rope and hang by my thumbs!
  • Terminating the short annual shoot which bears a whorl of four or more leaves below the flower; in this and in some species of the nearly allied genus Trillium (chiefly temperate North America) the flowers have a fetid smell, which together with the dark purple of the ovary and stigmas and frequently also of the stamens and petals, attracts carrion-loving flies, which alight on the stigma and then climb the anthers and become dusted with pollen; the pollen is then carried to the stigmas of another flower.
  • They climb by means of tendrils, which are stipular structures arising from the leaf-sheath.
  • Another breathless climb brought our adventurers to a third landing where there was a rift in the mountain.
  • "She couldn't climb DOWN, Jim," said Dorothy.
  • If that pansy Ryland can ice climb, it can't be much of a challenge now can it?
  • "It won't hurt to look," he said with a smile as they began to climb to the now-empty upper floors.
  • Instead he mounted his bike and began the long climb up the hill, killing time before his Thursday night date.
  • The last thing David Dean had wanted to do was to climb back in his tired automobile and drive to Philadelphia in the middle of the night.
  • The climb didn't quit—it keep going and going and going.
  • He was hardly underway before he geared down for the long climb and gradually fell into a rhythm of sorts, muscle-pulling pain and gasps of breath as he inched his way up the first long incline.
  • They climb with great facility, and are agile and graceful in their movements.
  • "Well, I'll climb up when I get back, then," said the boy, with a laugh.
  • Then the line was let down again for Zeb to climb up by.
  • Sometimes they had to climb over heaps of loose rock, where Jim could scarcely drag the buggy.
  • It was very deep, and there was no way to climb out of it.
  • The shade was grateful, and the tree was so easy to climb that with my teacher's assistance I was able to scramble to a seat in the branches.
  • He loves to climb the bed-posts and unscrew the steam valves much better than to spell, but that is because he does not understand that words would help him to make new and interesting discoveries.
  • She fed the elephants, and was allowed to climb up on the back of the largest, and sit in the lap of the "Oriental Princess," while the elephant marched majestically around the ring.
  • The instant I felt its warmth I was reassured, and I sat a long time watching it climb higher and higher in shining waves.
  • She couldn't outrun it - in any condition, and it could climb a tree as fast as she could.
  • She watched him climb stiffly into his wagon and knew a moment of sadness when she remembered that before long she would be leaving and she would never see him again.
  • She didn't understand what her instincts were trying to tell her, but right now, they wanted her to climb a tree to see the lake from above.
  • "Hannah used me to climb the social ladder, and I did not mind, because she is a beautiful, sweet girl," he said.
  • With each turn in the road he expected to see the summit but was only greeted with another long uphill climb until he lost track of the numbers.
  • In Campania the vines are allowed to climb freely to the tops of the poplars.
  • Jim stopped sometimes to rest, for the climb was rather steep and tiresome.
  • There was no place where he could set his foot to climb out.
  • He loved to climb hills, the higher the better.
  • The ice climbers decided to get in a quick climb and blame their delay returning home on the cops.
  • You mean climb trees?
  • On the margins of the plateau there are several gaps or indentations, which can best be likened to gigantic trenches, like railway cuttings, as with an insensible gradient they climb to a higher level.
  • Her first instinct was to scramble to the back of the bus and climb out.
  • Just rappel down and climb back up.
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