How the shock absorbers of your spine are brought into play and how infinite are the windings on this mountain road; yet it is worth climbing for the scenes are thrilling.
At a very steep incline, still far from the top, we met a colored man holding a parley with some others who were climbing the mountain in a Ford.
After climbing by many and various curves you finally reach the top of a towering cliff and look down on the wondrous picture spread before you.
It was no more to be noted than if a troop of dim and silent gray monkeys had been climbing a grapevine into the clouds.
When they halted at the door and Trescott was climbing out, Williams cried, "Will she stand, docteh?
There she comes," cried Kitty, as Marianne was heard climbingthe stairs.
At the sound the scene shifted, the tree dissolved as in fiery rain, and the cones, raising themselves and climbing upward, stood ranged in a group on the topmost log, like a choir of musicians about to play.
Behind me was the road climbing through a long cleft in the hills, which was the upper glen of some notable river.
Low down in the south a monoplane was climbinginto the heavens.
For three weeks Ulrich had not been to the edge of the precipice from which he had looked down on the village, and he wanted to go there before climbing the slopes which led to Wildstrubel.
The last of the morning mist had disappeared and the large summer sun was climbing in the blue sky.
Thus they went, plunging through the thickets, dashing across the beds of streams, climbing the hillsides, descending the gorges, and blowing the horn as loud as they could to attract their people and the dogs.
Two hours later I was climbing the edge of the deep funnel that incloses Lake Pavin in a marvelous and enormous basin of verdure, full of trees, bushes, rocks, and flowers.
Way back on the trail, old Kirkby and Robert Maitland, the storm having ceased, were rapidly climbing up the canyon.
He compromised with himself at last by climbing the ridge that had shut off a view of the pool, and looking down at the place so memorable to him.
The situation was awkward, the predicament annoying; she was wearing bloomers and a short skirt for her mountain climbing and she did not know quite what to do.
South America, annual or perennial herbs of trailing or climbing habits--Nasturtium, &c.
Go up to the top again," Hawtry said, climbing back to them.
After climbing out and leaving the damp, cool subterraneous air, the atmosphere felt dry and warm, as we sat down to rest at the mouth of the cavern, surrounded by our Indian torch-bearers.
After climbing up the barranca, one of them ran off along the edge of the cliff, as if he were determined to cut the whole concern, and we wasted some time in catching him.
We have spent some days here very pleasantly; riding amongst the hills in the neighbourhood, exploring caves, viewing waterfalls, and climbing on foot or on horseback, wherever foot or horse could penetrate.
But the enemy had now begun climbing the hill-sides behind him so as to cut him off from Lieutenant Edwardes, and he was forced to retire.
All this was easy work for troops highly skilled in hill warfare, though the climbing was very stiff; but the really stern trial came when the hour arrived to retire to the bridge head.
Noah, shouldering the crowbar and climbing up the rope ladder to the deck.
Marjorie stood on a chair and, climbing upon the table, walked over to the Ark.
Righto," said Bob, climbing out to the fuselage, behind the slowly revolving propeller.
Anyhow," said Jack, breaking it, "it would be ticklish work for any of us to get over that fence by climbing the tree.
Very well, sir," answered Bob composedly, climbing back from the fusilage to his seat in the pit.
Wyn fell behind with a pair of boy Eltons, and the girls chatted until they reached the little whitewashed school--close by the church, with a great climbing rose hanging over its rustic doorway.
Meanwhile Brigadier Forbes was climbing the Alleghanies, hewing his way through the forests of western Pennsylvania, and toiling inch by inch towards his goal of Fort Duquesne.
Other than this no sound could reach the strained ear of Wolfe but the gurgle of the tide and the cautious climbing of his advance-parties as they mounted the steeps at some little distance from where he sat listening.
There was scarcely any game, and the barren wilderness yielded no sustenance but a few lily bulbs and the tubers of the climbing plant called in New England the ground-nut.
The twenty-four volunteers led the way, climbing with what silence they might, closely followed by a much larger body.
As we arrived at the spot and were looking everywhere for the goats, I saw two goats, a nanny and a kid, moving away about 400 yards off and climbingsteadily up the face of the cliff.
Climbing about 500 feet up, we arrived practically at the summit and were spying as to the best way to try a stalk, for the valley was now disturbed and the goats were on the alert and looking about in every direction.
One breaks records climbing mountain peaks at the risk of her life and then lectures to thousands upon the perils and pleasures of her feats.
For a woman to go into business used to be like climbing a mountain; now it is almost like going down a toboggan slide.
An arboreal animal would necessarily use all four limbs, asclimbing animals actually do.
The moor fowl had scarcely shaken the dew from off their wings ere the two sons of the dead Earl Hamish wereclimbing the heathery heights behind Rothesay.
Over at Inch Marnock," she said, "and ill with his foot that he hurt in climbing the rocks two days since.
It was like climbingto the top of an old castle, instead of walking through a village.
Climbing from the beach, up the precipitous face of the cliff, a little fishing village coyly shows itself.
A little hard white cloud, that looked like a hundred fleeces of wool rolled into one, was climbing rapidly along up the northwestern ridge, that ascended to the lonely top of Great Haystack.
On seeing Roberts he called to mind the story of Zaccheus, and declared that the word was now to all who were seeking Christ by climbing the tree of knowledge, "Come down, come down; for that which is to be known of God is manifested within.
The dear little old lady was so tiny and so timid, and the wind so big and boisterous, that even without the accident she would have had difficulty in climbing the slope to her big house on the corner.
