By the time we were clear of the village, it was getting light, so, keeping close to the edge of the hills, we struck up a side nullah, took a slant across it, and then began the climb.

Greatly as I appreciated his kindness in making way for me, I could only acquiesce in so far as to continue the climb by his side.

The sun rose from its morning bath on the left, and sank to its evening bath on the right, and in making its climb of the spacious arc between, shed a heat as great as that of summer, but not the heat of summer, on the pretty world of villas and hotels, towered over by the olive-gray slopes of the pine-clad heights behind and above them.

But he had either reached the limit of his physical endurance or, shaken and unnerved, he had not the courage to attempt the steep climb.

The view was splendid, almost worth the climb.

When he starts an awkward climb he reckons up all the obstacles and is ready to get round them when they come.

"Don't forget it, Parker," Skinny called earnestly, "I actually need it!" Carolyn June and Skinny stood on the porch and watched the car climb the grade and out on to the bench.

But I watched steadfastly, and presently I saw the black Hump climb up from the Vale of Red Fire upon this side, and come through the night, so that in scarce a minute it had come halfway across that part of the Night Land.

After a while she would resume her climb.

He first thinks fit no sonnetteer advance His censure farther than the song or dance, Your wit burlesque may one step higher climb, And in his sphere may judge all doggrel rhyme; All proves, and moves, and loves, and honours too; All that appears high sense, and scarce is low.

So it is with the little Ant-eater, {91b} who must needs climb here to feed on the tree ants.

"There," said Sir David, "let the Regent climb when he returns from France for the head of his favourite; it is thus that Home of Wedderburn revenges the murder of his kindred.

Good guides necessarya difficult climb.

As a matter of fact I had already that very day accomplished a climb not at all easy for the Arizonian, and I should have been happy.

This path they began to follow, and it took them by so many twists and turns that they hardly noticed the climb.

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

That afternoon Edd and Doyle arrived, reporting an extremely rough, roundabout climb up to the rim, where they had left the wagon.

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.

[Goethe] upon which my love has risked the climb, there is no possible path down again.

My heart won't stand any more climb.

These mountains, piercing the blue sky With their eternal cones of ice, The torrents dashing from on high, O'er rock, and crag, and precipice, Change not, but still remain as ever, Unwasting, deathless, and sublime, And will remain while lightnings quiver, Or stars the hoary summits climb, Or rolls the thunder-chariot of eternal Time.

The roads were rough and often steep, and I found the tramp fatiguing; but when I asked if he, too, were not tired, he laughed at the idea, tossing his burden or taking an extra climb as fresh as at the start.

Even they whose home my mouth proclaimeth to be Aigina's glorious isle: a tower is she, builded from long ago, to tempt the climb of high-adventuring valour.

If narrow and steep is the way and hard and toilsome the climb this Monte Tofana route most certainly repays one when it reaches the Falzarego Pass (6,945 feet high) which is certainly an earthly Paradise!

En dere de dogs stood en barked, en bayed, en pawed at de tree, en tried ter climb up on it; en w'en dey wuz tuk roun' thoo de swamp ter look fer de scent, dey broke loose en made fer dat tree ag'in.