A ramp unfolded to reveal two equally shimmering space beings.

They descended (or rather, floated) down the ramp and stopped less than three feet from the boy.

Yer so thin, I didn't see ye sittin' edgeways, but ye needn't to ramp an' roar.

climb, clamber, ramp, scramble, escalade^, surmount; shin, shinny, shinney; scale, scale the heights.

V. leap; jump up, jump over the moon; hop, spring, bound, vault, ramp, cut capers, trip, skip, dance, caper; buck, buck jump; curvet, caracole; foot it, bob, bounce, flounce, start; frisk &c (amusement) 840; jump about &c (agitation) 315; trip it on the light fantastic toe, trip the light fantastic, dance oneself off one's legs, dance off one's shoes.

Soon a few dozen passengers would walk off the ramp, carrying shopping bags, slipping day packs over one or both shoulders, holding dogs on leashes.

The Hut and the Western Mountains from the Top of the Ramp 194 Cape Royds, looking North 199 The Castle Berg Facing p. 205

Another smaller one is to go on top of the Ramp.

Went up the Ramp this morning.

Few of us went far; Wilson and Bowers went to the top of the Ramp and found the wind there force 6 to 7, temperature -24°; as a consequence they got frost-bitten.

This morning I went up the Ramp.

For exercise a run on ski to the South Bay in the morning and a dash up the Ramp before dinner.

On the Ramp the minimum was -31°, not the first indication of a reversed temperature gradient.

Read Church Service as usual; in afternoon walked up the Ramp with Wilson to have a quiet talk before he departs.

Taylor and Atkinson went up to the Ramp thermometer screen.

He must have waited there some time, then groped his way to the western end thinking he was near the Ramp.

Went up the Ramp at noon yesterday and found no advantageone should go over the floe to get the earliest sight, and yesterday afternoon Evans caught a last glimpse of the upper limb from that situation, whilst Simpson saw the same from Wind Vane Hill.

Climbed the Ramp in the afternoon, the shouts and songs of men and the neighing of horses borne to my ears as I clambered over its kopjes.

We are now pretty well convinced that the Ramp is a moraine resting on a platform of ice.

I have mentioned the curious cones which are the conspicuous feature of our Ramp scenerythey stand from 8 to 20 feet in height, some irregular, but a number quite perfectly conical in outline.

Thursday, August 31.Went round about the Domain and Ramp with Wilson.

The Ramp is undoubtedly a moraine supported on the decaying end of the glacier.

We are now quite convinced that the queer cones on the Ramp are merely the result of the weathering of big blocks of agglomerate.

As we toil, perspiring, up the long ramp which for a weary mile slopes sidelong up the scarped flank of the mountain, and pass through the seven gates which guarded the way, and every one of which was the scene of many a grim and bloody struggle, I will try to sketch the outline of the history of the famous fort, for many centuries the headquarters of the royal race of Mewar.

Masons and most skilful carvers in stone were busily engaged in the restoration of parts that had fallen into dangerous decayan extremely flimsy-looking scaffolding, made apparently of light bamboos, tied together in wisps, and forming a fragile-looking ramp, wound spirally up the outside of the tower.