clomb
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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From Time Magazine Archive
All day long we slowly clomb the lofty heights which at evening were robed in azure, rose, and violet.
From Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels by France, Anatole
The sun clomb the sky, the woods were green, the birds were all at matins.
From House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court by Gull, Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger
It is said that he clomb the still standing tower or gable of the old church so high that he found it impossible to get down, and was in a position of great danger.
From Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland by Russell, T. O.
Now where Mahendra's peaks arise Came Ráma of the lotus eyes And the long arm's resistless might, And clomb the mountain's wood-crowned height.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
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