Meaning of climbingly | Babel Free

Definitions

In a climbing manner.

Examples

“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.”

“From Ford Lahaye it is a three hours’ sail⟳ in a canoe, along a coast indented with green valleys that run⟳ back climbingly through fields of sugar cane.”

“Everywhere the picture is one of mingled evil and good: insensitive men amassing wealth ruthlessly, idle women driving them on climbingly; rich men giving handsomely, beautifying cities, endowing research⟳, financing medicine and opening new schools; instalment stimulating employment and intensifying ruin;[…]: how shall we ever generalize in the face⟳ of such obstinately individual facts? how shall we ever come⟳ to any simple conclusions?”

“Silence: low, clear, and sweet, begins a negro spiritual climbingly which wanders (groping) openingly radiates hope⟳ faith, love⟳ (hushing the song rebuilds) luminously (searching brightly) seeking (gloriously finding peace, trust⟳, joy) deeply (again softly enters) whispering grows (mounting purely) sweetly (passionately ascending firmly) marching (seriously) toward a truly (toward a shining alive) only toward some unimagined Self—stopped suddenly voices do not sing⟳—light⟳”

“who(on this busily nowhere rollingest it)’s the dizzily he most him—the climbingly fallingest fool in this trickiest if?”

“everyone has seen a wave⟳ grow⟳ climbingly & topple to crash⟳ thundering in hugely racing snow⟳”

“priplézati to climb⟳ towards, to reach⟳ climbingly”

“All the family’s collectibles — sculptures, pottery, photographs — are temptingly and climbingly within reach⟳ of the towheaded youngster.”

“Her fingers curled climbingly along the stem of her wine glass and Merrick noticed a slight tremble to their otherwise composed motion.”

“For the first time, Brooks’ ear-chewing tirades are madly, climbingly funny.”

“and there he was, a blackened sketch⟳ against a murky-milk sky its arms stretched out climbingly”

“Even the most devoted husbands confessed that the adorable, irresistible, captivating loves of their lives at times drove them wall-climbingly, teeth-grindingly nuts.”

“As one rises here, what vanish are distinctions, just as specific associations eventually disappear⟳ for Ishmael as he climbingly circumnavigates the whale in his chapter on whiteness.”

“Relay ascending / Jumpingly ascending / Climbingly ascending”

“For the slow or step-climbingly-challenged, the rocks and roots here make⟳ a perfect spot for the first sit-down water or snack break⟳ (you’re less than 20min. outside of Monterosso).”

“Your mother and another box of ashes—her ashes your ashes—and how, flashing, those last⟳ days passed climbingly drowningly”

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