1 But I was so horribly alone, and even to clamber down into the darkness of the well appalled me.
2 I had to clamber down a shaft of perhaps two hundred yards.
3 Levin walked after him and often thought he must fall, as he climbed with a scythe up a steep cliff where it would have been hard work to clamber without anything.
4 I stepped on it, but it bent and gave way and I began to clamber up a fence which I could scarcely reach with my hands.
5 Then he entered through a gap in the fence into the elephant's enclosure and helped the young ones to clamber through the breach.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ... 6 The musicians clambered upon their platform, black, grinning, their fat cheeks already shining with perspiration, and began tuning their fiddles and sawing and whanging with their bows in anticipatory importance.
7 We clambered up to the front seat and jolted off past the little pond and along the road that climbed to the big cornfield.
8 Anna Hansen shook the reins and they drove on, while I zigzagged back to my inlet and clambered up behind an overhanging elm.
9 He came to a fence and clambered over it.
10 I clambered out upon the sill, but I hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB 11 Then he clambered up to the rim of the hollow, and crawled about among the ferns and bushes.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze 12 But a terrible dread of lying helpless in that remote and awful twilight sustained me while I clambered upon the saddle.
13 At twilight, he clambered down over the wall into the garden of the enchantress, hastily clutched a handful of rampion, and took it to his wife.
14 In the gloom of evening therefore, he let himself down again; but when he had clambered down the wall he was terribly afraid, for he saw the enchantress standing before him.
15 And clutching at the cold door post, she clambered up the steps and got rapidly into the corridor of the carriage.