A thousand flitting hues of light and shade played over the expanse of wild moor, rocks, and inlets, which, as they climbed higher and higher, spread in wide and wider circuit around them.
It hath shined more brightly before than it does now, and though many have climbed up the hill, and attempted to search for it, yet they could find nothing.
I climbed down to a point just above that which they could reach by leaping, and there I reclined at my ease and slashed at them with my knife as long as they were inclined for the game.
A Tyrolese legend[9] relates how a boy who had climbed a tree, "overlooked the ghastly doings of certain witches beneath its boughs.
Another time he climbed up my dress to my black tie and, fastening his claws in the silk, clung with his head in the dark folds as if he liked the shade.
One day the small boy of the family climbed up to the hummingbird's nest in the oak "to see if there were eggs yet," and the frightened brood popped out before his eyes.
Poor little Jacob climbed as if afraid of falling off, taking short hops up the side of the tree, bending his stiff tail at a sharp angle under him to brace himself against the bark.
It was in a mass of poison ivy that had climbed up on a scrub-oak.
Hub deep the big motor stood quivering as Freckles climbed in and backed it to dry sand.
It climbed on her fingers quietly and obligingly clung there without moving.
Billy climbed on the fence, took one long look and turned an astounded face to Wesley.
They went down the road to the swamp, climbed the snake fence, followed the path to the old trail and then turned south upon it.
He could see nothing although he climbed the fence and walked back opposite the window.
Mrs. Comstock, as she climbed into the motor car for her first ride, in company with Philip and Little Brother.
He reached the low branches and climbed the willow.
Throwing these beside the back door she climbed to the loft over the spring house, and hunted an old lard oil lantern and one of first manufacture for oil.
The moth climbed to the end of the projection, up it a little way, then suddenly reversed its wings, turned the hidden sides out and dropped them beside its abdomen, like a large fly.
Elnora sprang up and ran down the road, but when she approached the cabin she climbed the fence, crossed the open woods pasture diagonally and entered at the back garden gate.
She went over to the fountain, took a drink, climbed to the first landing and looked around her, and then without thought to the second.
He reeled in his line, laid his rod across a bush and climbed the embankment to Elnora's side, produced a knife and began the work of whittling a deep groove around the cocoon.
Then she climbed the narrow stairs to the attic she had occupied since a very small child, and dressed in the hated shoes and brown calico, plastered down her crisp curls, ate what breakfast she could, and pinning on her hat started for town.
It climbed up the wood, its stout legs dragging a big pursy body, while it wildly flapped tiny wings the size of a man's thumb-nail.
Then she climbed upon his knee, and laid her head against his shoulder.
The fame of the pine lured a young engineer through Kentucky to catch the trail, and when he finally climbed to its shelter he found not only the pine but the foot-prints of a girl.
That night after the simple supper was over, the few dishes washed and put away, Nance climbed upon Martin's knee.
It seemed to her as if she must already have climbed down several times the length of the ladder.
But take care of that book," warned Teresa, as she climbed down.
Teresa, as she climbed a few minutes later into the back seat with Jim, and Dan pulled out the whip.
She broke a window and climbed in--she says the floor was hot to her feet then--and she and the kids ran up the inside flight to the trap-door.
They all climbed out, and faced the trackless darkening stretch of pools and hummocks, the treacherous, uncertain ground beneath a tangle of coarse grass.
There wasn't a tree Winn hadn't climbed or an inch he hadn't explored, fought over and played on.
Old Sir Ferdinand was the first of your crowd as ever climbed to the top of the tree, and I can remember him when he was no better off than I am.
Sergeant to himself; but the words were silent, and he felt a simple throb of admiration for the set mouth and resolute eyes of the man who had climbed past him, and wished himself in his place.
He dropped into the front trench and trod upon a wounded man who screamed beneath his heel, and climbed out on the further side.
But as his father had climbed hand-over-hand to wealth, and as one local honour after another had fallen upon him, the prospect grew clearer.
The men--three or four thousand of them, as one might guess--climbed into the trench of the first parallel and were lost to sight.
The negro climbed onto the baggage and squatted there with his arms wrapped round his knees.
Pale and excited, his heart full of love, Tartarin jumped out of bed and as he climbed into his ample underwear he asked "What shall I do now?
There was so much sunshine, so much dust, the bivouac tent was so heavy, that Tartarin could not face the walk back to the town and he hailed the first horse-drawn omnibus which came along and climbed in.
I thereupon climbed up to the place where they stood, when they instantly surrounded me, and with this escort I was marched into the fort, which might have been a strong place in its time, but was now rather ruinous.
Descending a tree, he climbed along one of the lower branches, from the end of which he had easily dropped down on the bully's back.
He climbed up to it and seeing another, and another, clearly defined the path the hare had taken.
The moment Ellis reached them he threw in his oars, and wisely leaning over the bows, caught hold of Arden's collar and lifted him partly out of the water, while Ernest swam round to the stern and climbed in over it.
They did not hesitate; up they climbed Fairway Tower was in sight; a wide valley full of streams and rather difficult country was, however, between them and it.
They indeed climbed the cocoa-nut trees, and threw us down the nuts, without requiring any thing for them; but I took care that they should always have somewhat in return.
The 15th being a pleasant morning, a party of us went over to the East Bay, and climbedone of the hills which overlooked the eastern part of the Strait, in order to look for the Adventure.
She came to a fence, climbed over it, lurched as she landed, leaned against it weakly for support, one hand on her aching heart.
The thruway climbed easily up the slight grade cut through the hills north of Wheeling, West Virginia, and once more snow began falling.
Clay climbed into the cab and surveyed his grease-stained uniform coveralls and filthy hands.
Ben went back and retrieved the caution blinker and re-racked it in the side of the patrol car, then climbedup into the cab.
He disconnected the tow bar and the two officers climbed out into the cold night air.
I'll mail you all cigars when I get home," he shouted as he waved and climbed into his car.
Satisfied, Ben shut the inspection port andclimbed into his seat.
From that time the steps had led always upward, and Osmond climbed them with him.
Sometimes I climbed up in the branches--in the roof, I mean.
Billy was one who, having made up his mind to a thing, cast care behind him, and if it climbed up on the saddle-bow, he promptly knocked it off again.
He sprang towards it, flung his oil-can into it, and in another moment, though the chute was above his head, he hadclimbed the slippery wall and entered it.
In a few minutes they had reached the bottom of the break, climbed the rickety ladder, and once more they stood in safety beneath the starlit sky of the outer world.
Led by Job Taskar, the four Mollies eagerly and carefully explored every foot of the gangway, and even climbed up into several worked-out breasts at its side, thinking the fugitives might be hidden in them.
Don Pablo approached this tree, and seizing the branches drew himself up, and then climbed on towards its top.
Without another word Leon climbed up, and taking hold of the two spotted animals, returned with them out of the cave.
Following the rugged and winding path, the travellers had climbed to a height of many thousand feet above the ocean level.
It was still grey light when Guapo climbed up to the rock.
This tree rose higher than the rest, and the most of the monkeys having climbed among the top branches, were visible from the balza.
Then mounting, he rode off to the place where the road leading from Cuzco ascended upon the table-land, and having tied his horse to a bush, he climbed upon a projecting rock and sat down.
Within this semicircle the hammocks were stretched from tree to tree; and, as all were fatigued with the day's exertions, they climbed into them at an early hour, and were soon asleep.
He leaves the party, and, with a melancholy air, has climbed up and seated himself upon a projecting rock, where he intends to pass the night.
The marimondas, having climbed the trunk, ran out upon the lowermost limbs, until they were directly above the palms.
Numbly he climbed into the rest of his clothes and made damned sure the .
They climbed out of bed and he helped her into her shorts and halter.
They climbed out and dropped to the floor as a crew of repair men went to work on the ship.
Men, women, and children came running down the narrow steep street which climbed up the hill from the harbour.
There she saw that the firemen had climbed the ladder and were stationed on the roof and on window ledges, holding the hose from which the water poured in torrents upon the fire inside.
He heard the sound of her footsteps grow fainter and fainter as she climbed the hill, until they were lost in the rustle of the wind through the undergrowth.
Mary mounted beside him and supported his head, while Toft climbed to the box, and at a footpace they set off across the sward, the laborer plodding at the tail of the carriage, and Lord Audley and Stubbs following a score of paces behind.
She climbed to the deck again, and was seeking some corner where she could sit, sheltered from the wind and rain, when the captain saw her and fell foul of her.
He broke a stick from a dry bush and climbed up the steep sides of the hill.
He climbed up the short stem of the plant and saw that it had not only leaves as long as himself, but between the leaves were big bunches of long, thin fruit, as thick as three fingers and similar in shape to a cucumber.
Illustration] When Robinson observed this he went on shore and climbed to a high point to see if it was safe to venture.
He picked off a nut and threw it down and then several more, and climbed down again.
Robinson climbed up into the tree, made himself as comfortable as possible, said his prayers, and as he was thoroughly exhausted, he soon fell asleep.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "climbed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
