Adverb
In a climbing manner.
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With ghastly faces ghastlier from the lamp, / That swung and flicker’d with its yellow flare, / And feebly stain’d their frighten’d features, damp / With chilly sweat and rigid with despair, / Or list’ning to the terrifying tramp / Of feet above the cabin where they were, / Or gazing, as they shrunk and huddled more / And more together on the shelving floor, / Upon the fierce irruption of the seas, / Which now had grown a formidable tide, / That climbingly increas’d by swift degrees, / The passengers were kneeling side by side, / Gentle and simple; but alarm did freeze / Their accents, and the pray’r unutter’d died / Within their lips, ’till fell the mast, and then / « Oh! God! » they cried, and straight were still again.
Rig, w. to reach about climbingly.
Like the beginners of all arduous under- and upper-takings, we set off at a round pace, and got on swimmingly, or rather climbingly.
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We were refreshed with a night’s good rest, and our journey up went on swimmingly—or climbingly.
Youth no more, / Only age, / Yet mark the score / How it crowds the page, / How the leaves are thin, / Finger-worn, / Spotted and torn / Where you begin / To think the song / Is fading too, / As all along / The avenue / Of notes the blight / Is through and through / To tax the sight / And lip of you, / Till one full day / You shall hear / Your same notes play / New and clear, / Climbingly strong / As they were then, / For here is your song, / In the wind again!
Of course the metal of the car wheels and the caliber of the baby must be topnotch to allow either of them to react upon grit climbingly.
One of the men, the slender fellow, walked climbingly out on the jib boom; and from there, leaped.
Eugene, the fortunate, the handsome, the gifted, the prize-winner of the season’s most noted beauty, utterly in love and climbingly successful, did not present the appearance, to those who knew him, of an indisputably happy man.
From Ford Lahaye it is a three hours’ sail in a canoe, along a coast indented with green valleys that run back climbingly through fields of sugar cane.
Everywhere the picture is one of mingled evil and good: insensitive men amassing wealth ruthlessly, idle women driving them on climbingly; rich men giving handsomely, beautifying cities, endowing research, financing medicine and opening new schools; instalment stimulating employment and intensifying ruin;[…]: how shall we ever generalize in the face of such obstinately individual facts? how shall we ever come to any simple conclusions?
Silence: low, clear, and sweet, begins a negro spiritual climbingly which wanders (groping) openingly radiates hope faith, love (hushing the song rebuilds) luminously (searching brightly) seeking (gloriously finding peace, trust, joy) deeply (again softly enters) whispering grows (mounting purely) sweetly (passionately ascending firmly) marching (seriously) toward a truly (toward a shining alive) only toward some unimagined Self—stopped suddenly voices do not sing—light
who(on this busily nowhere rollingest it)’s the dizzily he most him—the climbingly fallingest fool in this trickiest if?
everyone has seen a wave grow climbingly & topple to crash thundering in hugely racing snow
priplézati to climb towards, to reach climbingly
All the family’s collectibles — sculptures, pottery, photographs — are temptingly and climbingly within reach of the towheaded youngster.
Her fingers curled climbingly along the stem of her wine glass and Merrick noticed a slight tremble to their otherwise composed motion.
For the first time, Brooks’ ear-chewing tirades are madly, climbingly funny.
and there he was, a blackened sketch against a murky-milk sky its arms stretched out climbingly
Even the most devoted husbands confessed that the adorable, irresistible, captivating loves of their lives at times drove them wall-climbingly, teeth-grindingly nuts.
As one rises here, what vanish are distinctions, just as specific associations eventually disappear for Ishmael as he climbingly circumnavigates the whale in his chapter on whiteness.
Relay ascending / Jumpingly ascending / Climbingly ascending
For the slow or step-climbingly-challenged, the rocks and roots here make a perfect spot for the first sit-down water or snack break (you’re less than 20min. outside of Monterosso).
Your mother and another box of ashes—her ashes your ashes—and how, flashing, those last days passed climbingly drowningly