191 examples of climber in sentences

He, too, is a brave and hardy climber, fearlessly crossing the wildest summits, and braving the severest storms, but he is shaggy, short-legged, and much less dignified in demeanor than the sheep.

To think so is so common an illusion to the climber that the Boy had heartened himself by saying, when he got there he would find it like the rest, horribly steep, but not impossible.

The poet, owing to his physical defect, was not a great climber, and we are informed, on the authority of his nurse, that he never even scaled the easily attainable summit of the "steep frowning" hill of which he has made such effective use.

No Martial balloonist, much less any Martial mountain-climber, has ever, save once, reached a greater height than 16,000 feetthe air at the sea-level being scarcely more dense than ours at 10,000 feet.

I have seen her standing at the back door whistling for Malta, and the pretty creature's head would appear somewherealways high up, for she was a great climber, and she would come running along the top of the fence, saying, "Meow, meow," in a funny, short way.

She stood where the pink-blossomed climber streamed up the columns of the little porch, and her arm was twined among the strands to draw them to her face.

An ascent, which, to the unpractised cliff climber, might seem the work of an hour, will consume an entire day.

"You remember these?" she said, "from the great climber round my bedroom window?

He is a vigorous pedestrian and mountain-climber and holds surprising records for endurance tests in the gymnasium.

He added: "These lanterns may belong to the profession of detectives and burglars, but I've found them the most useful articles a cliff-climber can own.

My father was an ardent mountain climber, glorying not only in the difficulties of the ascent, but particularly in the satisfaction coming from the magnificent view to be obtained at the top.

A tremendous howl of pain came from the owner of the hand, the pinioned member was torn from beneath the blade, and as we pushed our heads over the edge, the top climber fell backward, swept his companion from the pillar, and the pair struck the coral rock beneath the table with a thud that was suggestive of broken bones.

Sometimes it stays bewildered in a bog, and here the climber must plunge.

From them we stole refreshment, and did not find the waters mineral and astringent, as Mr. Turner, the first climber, calumniously asserts.

It is pleasanter to look up than to look down, for, being no climber of mountain peaks, I do not enjoy the sensation of clinging to the side of a precipice like a caterpillar to a leaf.

Here is where the climber came down, and then the two went on, walking slowly.

He paused, and gazing in absent fashion at the topmost rose on the climber in the porch, asked whether I could take three!

The high climber.

"Not to a good climber.

The climber laughed with savage mockery.

The Bramble-flowered rose is a climber, and though not needing so strong a soil as other kinds, requires it to be rich, and frequently renewed, by taking away the soil from about the roots and supplying its place with a good compost of loam, leaf mould, and well rotted dung, pruning the root.

The RACEMOSE ASPARAGUS, A. racemosus, Sadabooree, sutmoolee, is a native of India, and by nature a trailing plant, but better cultivated as a climber on a trellis, in which way its delicate setaceous foliage makes it at all times ornamental, and at the close of the rains it sends forth abundant bunches of long erect spires of greenish white color, and of delicious fragrance, shedding perfume all around to a great distance.

I forget what year he left us for good, but in a letter of Henry's dated September, 1888, written during a provincial tour of "Faust," when I was ill and my sister Marion played Margaret instead of me, I find this allusion to him: "Wenman does the Kitchen Witch now (I altered it this morning) and Mead the old onethe climber.

So genius toils higher and ever higher, and like the climber of the glacier, plants his foot where only his hand clung the moment before.

'Tis but the mountain's peak thou seest, and not The toilsome climb to reach it, nor those steps By which alone the climber guides his feet.

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