climbingly

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "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."