What does climbingly mean?
Climbingly means In a climbing manner..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adverb
In a climbing manner..
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.
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.
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Climbingly means 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.
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