climbings

There were beautiful things in them that I wish I had time to tell you about – such as climbings and discoveries and books with pictures, and a bureau with a secret drawer.

The House of Arden Edith 1923

Bottom; but did find safe places in the downward way where they built them Houses, and made to live, and begot them children; and these grew up to that life of constant and great climbings, and of hard workings upon The Road, which was the One Intent of that

The Night Land 2007

Not only were there long solitary walks and hill-climbings, but on several occasions he had heard up the lake at midnight, as if under her windows, a flageolet playing a little Indian air to which Julia Mannering was partial.

Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Samuel Rutherford Crockett

[Footnote B: Even Stevenson acknowledged secrecy in his earlier climbings.]

Conversation What to Say and How to Say it Mary Greer Conklin

Chupcha to be ten miles from Panga, and 8,000 feet high, the greatest height we crossed being 8,600 feet, and this day we were told, that all our climbings had ceased.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

When we had picked enough, we sat down on the moss-grown stones at the end of a long arcade, where it opened out on the harvest-golden valley below us, our jaws exercising themselves vigorously on the spoil of our climbings.

The Story Girl Lucy Maud 1911

Maud with her venturous climbings and tumbles and childish escapes,

Maud. Part I 1909

When we had picked enough, we sat down on the moss-grown stones at the end of a long arcade, where it opened out on the harvest-golden valley below us, our jaws exercising themselves vigorously on the spoil of our climbings.

The Story Girl 1908

In the course of his climbings Dave presently came to a new turn, one which had before escaped his attention.

Dave Porter in the Gold Fields The Search for the Landslide Mine Edward Stratemeyer 1896

He must be next best thing to an Alp, and I have read of his climbings with envious delight.

Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters 1891