As the mere announcement of the fact vividly exhibits the staying powers of the auto in a long, stiff climb, the engineering details may be disregarded.

It was a steep climb and I perspired most visibly right through my thin tunic.

The ghyll is a rough climb in daylight, and summer tourists, trying to cross the fells, often turn back at the bottom.

Looking around, I saw that Mr. Preuss had gained the shore on the same side, about twenty yards below; and a little climbing and swimming soon brought him to my side.

An hour before noon, after a tedious climb to the top of a frozen ridge, Croisset pointed down into a vast level plain lying between them and other great ridges far to the north.

It is a rolling country, and there are steep descents and sharp climbs, through the thickly-scattered and characteristic villages and small old towns of the Nord, villages crowded all of them with our men.

A steady climb of three quarters of an hour took us to the northern rim of the valley.

The slow climb there had proved to her how much she needed rest.

I am that which lurks, Ready to spring whenever a bar is loosed; The ancient trait which fights incessantly Against restraint, balks at the upward climb; The weight forever seeking to obey The law of downward pull;and I am more: The bitter fruit am I of planted seed; The resultant, the inevitable end Of evil forces and the powers of wrong.

Contours are often puzzling to a beginner in map reading, but knowledge of what they represent may save a party from a weary climb back up a place they have gaily ski-ed down, thinking they could get through but finding an impossible slope or fall of rock which forced them to retrace their steps.

When pride, by guilt, to greatness climbs, Or raging factions rush to war, Here let me learn to shun the crimes, I can't prevent, and will not share.

My journey took about a quarter of an hour; walking it would have taken about three hours of very stiff climbing.

But this house is at the bottom of the long ascentnearly an hour's severe climb from the conventan arrangement which necessarily involves much additional fatigue to a lady visitor.

Steady climbing now, and then a turn to the right

The lonely stretch of uphill road, upon whose yellow clay the midsummer sun beat vertically down, would have represented a toilsome climb to a grown and unencumbered man.

"Sis' JohnnieSis' Johnnie!" crowed Deanie; and then she was aware of sober, eleven-year-old Milo climbing down over the wheel and trying to help Lissy, while Pony got in his way and was gravely reproved.

A pleasant climb.

"You're sure you don't mind a little climb?" he said.

Edd told of the fearful climb he and his father had made, how they had shot at the grizzly a long way off, how funny another bear had rolled around in his bed across the canyon.

While the prices may not be extravagant enough for Americans, still, those who have scaled these noble elevations may well account the prospect as one of the most striking features of a foreign climb.

" They delayed no longer, and, Willet still leading, began the frightful climb, choosing the westward cliff which towered above them a full four hundred feet, and, like the one that faced it, almost precipitous.

The gentle climb faced the east, and it was here that the hunter and Robert watched, while Tayoga, for the sake of utmost precaution, kept an eye on the steep sides.

"We have had a glorious climb," he said, "Now it's over, I hope you're not going to stand me off again.

[Illustration: "The heat and sweat of the hay fields"] III THE JOY OF POSSESSION "How sweet the west wind sounds in my own trees: How graceful climb these shadows on my hill.

How these impatient climb, While others at the root incessant bay: They put him down.