Word: clambering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...PERSUADED TO CLAMBER DOWN TO THE REALITIES OF THE BUSINESS IN WHICH HE IS EMPLOYED...
...blue eyes were as genuine as those of the legendary Christmas saint himself. When Adrien made his appearance last year in the toy department of one of the biggest department stores on the Left Bank, children left the firm grip of parental hands with a shout of joy to clamber into his lap, pull his beard and whisper their hopes into his ear. As far as the merchants of the Left Bank were concerned, the definitive Père Noë had come to Paris to stay. Adrien's own old heart was bursting with happiness and good news...
...life, is much like other mammals. After only 12½ days' gestation, the mother props herself into a sitting position and delivers a large litter of tiny (20 can fit into a teaspoon), wormlike young. Still little more than squirming, pink embryos, the baby possums clamber upward over their mother's soft, warm underbelly and into the pouch that opens and closes like an old-fashioned tobacco sack. There they fasten themselves to one of 13 pinhead teats and are nourished for two months while they grow to the size of young rats. Outside the pouch, they...
...whole business takes plenty of practice. Training groups clamber on the rooks of the Quiney quarries on weekends. The team, in varying numbers, has played around on Washington, attempted two New Hampshire ledges, and Schwangunk, in the lower Catskilla, this season. Another trip leaves for Schwangunk this weekend...
...Yongdung rail junction, outside Seoul, 20,000 refugees squatted in an area about 100 yards wide and half a mile long, waiting for a chance to clamber aboard freight trains. They strapped themselves to the sides of flatcars, clung to perilous footholds by slender strands of rope. On one engine, a woman wedged herself atop a steam valve to keep warm, not realizing that when the train started moving she would inevitably freeze and topple...