4930 examples of scaling in sentences

The flower of our young manhood is scaling the ladder of success.

"Ford," suddenly exclaimed Dab, as he finished scaling a large porgy, "what if mother should make a mistake!" "Make a mistake!

The last, he who had three cartridges, did not leave until the soldiers were actually scaling the summit of the barricade.

A scaling and a burglary; an assault by scaling-ladders on the constituted authority, a burglary on the Law.

A scaling and a burglary; an assault by scaling-ladders on the constituted authority, a burglary on the Law.

In this volume no descriptions of scaling ice-walls, searching for the lammergeiers' nests, or any other great feats, will be found.

"The longest ladder in the fire department won't reach up to that wire, and they can't use extension ones, or scaling ones as they could on a building.

Caesar having fortified his camp, ordered scaling ladders and pent-houses to be made for a sudden assault, and hurdles to be provided.

In 542 the besiegers of Syracuse during a festival in the city succeeded in scaling a portion of the extensive outer walls that had been deserted by the guard, and in penetrating into the suburbs which stretched from the "island" and the city proper on the shore (Achradina) towards the interior.

There is much the same effect when steaming through the Kyles of Bute, for there the ship seems to be going full speed for the shore of an entirely enclosed sea, and here, saving for the tell-tale railway, there seems no way out of the abyss without scaling the perpendicular walls.

And now, on this oppressive July morning, let us throw aside our cares, and come out from our daily round of duties, where we have been scaling with our eyes the tall brick barriers which shut out God's beautiful blue sky and sunshine.

We, who erewhile, indignant at the storming of Saguntum, appealed not to men only, but to treaties and to gods, behold Hannibal scaling the walls of a Roman colony unmoved.

True, this policy averts the bankruptcy of the intellect by scaling down the intolerable charges on it.

The same Art of Scaling has likewise been practised with good Success by many military Ingineers.

He was ready to go with me into any cavern; but I am sure he would have much preferred scaling dangerous rocks in the broad sunlight, for there he would have felt at home.

Some of those in front bore canoes between them, and as they reached the stockade they planted them against it and swarmed up them as if they had been scaling-ladders.

In the preparation of this book, the three excellent biographies already written, "Scaling the Eagle's Nest," by Wm.

"Not a man in the mountains," wrote one of those who watched him in that interesting sketch of Mr. Conwell's life, "Scaling the Eagle's Nest," "would have thought it possible to do anything else but shoot, that nest down.

"Then he loosed the rope which held him to the tree, and pulling himself up with his hands on the scaling line, digging his bare toes, heels and knees at times into the ragged bark, he was up in two minutes to the nest.

"His youthful oratory," says the author of "Scaling the Eagle's Nest," "was a wonderful thing which drew crowds of excited listeners wherever he went.

Mr. Higgins, who knew him personally, writing of these busy days in "Scaling the Eagle's Nest," says: "He prepared and presented many bills to Congressional Committees at Washington, and appeared as counsel in several Louisiana and Florida

And the navigator, followed by a crew as numerous as it was imaginary, would leap ashore, sword in hand, scaling some mountains of books that were the Andes, and piercing various volumes with the tip of an old lance in order to plant his standard there.

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Then our position would suddenly change, and we would be scaling the opposite bank, at the imminent risk of falling backward into the ravine below.

They caught many large mullet and then went on shore and made camp, and the red ladies began scaling the fish.

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