Climbing
['klaɪmɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Climb
(-) p. pr. & vb. n. of Climb.
Editor: Lorna
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of climbing up a hill or mountain and reaching the top, you will overcome the most formidable obstacles between you and a prosperous future; but if you should fail to reach the top, your dearest plans will suffer being wrecked. To climb a ladder to the last rung, you will succeed in business; but if the ladder breaks, you will be plunged into unexpected straits, and accidents may happen to you. To see yourself climbing the side of a house in some mysterious way in a dream, and to have a window suddenly open to let you in, foretells that you will make or have made extraordinary ventures against the approbation of friends, but success will eventually crown your efforts, though there will be times when despair will almost enshroud you. See Ascend Hill and Mountain.
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Examples
- With respect to climbing plants, I need not repeat what has been so lately said. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Fighting fish are a small fish and belong to the climbing perch family. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He turned past the door of the parental bedroom like a shadow, and was climbing the second flight of stairs. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- When you go out to look at my island, I will supply you with a less embarrassing dress—more adapted for walking and climbing. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Pilar was climbing the bank into the timber carrying three rifles. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- As they came up, still deep in the shadow of the pines, after dropping down from the high meadow into the wooden valley and climbing up it on a trail that paralleled the stream and then left it to gain, steeply, the top of a rim-rock formation, a man with a carbine stepped out from behind a tree. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- We will now turn to climbing plants. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Darkness, outstripping some visitors on mules, had risen thus to the rough convent walls, when those travellers were yet climbing the mountain. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It is such tremendous trifles, not the climbing of mountains and the bridging of chasms, that make the transcontinental line one of the wonders of the ages. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But the wall--the hedge--it is such hard work climbing, and you are too slender and young to help me without hurting yourself. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Can a more striking instance of adaptation be given than that of a woodpecker for climbing trees and seizing insects in the chinks of the bark? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Then we will be down for thee, Primitivo said and started up the slope after the gypsy, who was climbing fast. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The drink in his stomach warmed him and his feet were warming now climbing. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Here I put in my canoe, and climbing a part of the rock, I could plainly discover land to the east, extending from south to north. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- He brought me a lovely tropical parrot in faience, of Dresden ware, also a man ploughing, and two mice climbing up a stalk, also in faience. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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