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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

A pleasant climb.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

" 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.

I observed a little, insignificant urchin climb up the walls, and plant it during the contest.

Feeling that our laborious climb deserved to be rewarded by, at any rate, the sight of game, and Ahmed Bot having sent a special message to the Lumbadhar at Kulgam directing him to keep the nullah quiet, we were justly incensed when, having toiled up some couple of thousand weary feet, we met a gay party of the élite of Kulgam pranci

It is to be remembered, that the poets, as well as the vulgar, use some forms which a gentleman would be likely to avoid, unless he meant to quote or imitate; as, "So clomb the first grand thief into God's fold; So since into his church lewd hirelings climb.

From boyhood I have never seen a great bridge or watched a locomotive climb a difficult hillside without a thrill; and a lighthouse still seems to me quite the finest monument a man can build for himself.

Whilst now the Multitude expect the Time, And their tir'd Eyes the lofty Mountain climb, A thousand Iron Mouths their Voices try, And thunder out a dreadful Harmony; In treble Notes the small Artill'ry plays, The deep-mouth'd Cannon bellows in the Bass.

It was a mad climb.