Clambering

Some in flight / rush diverse to the ships and trusty tide; / some, craven-hearted, in ignoble fright, / make for the horse and, clambering up the side, / deep in the treacherous womb, their well-known refuge, hide.

Tom is clambering about on the roof, repairing the chimney.

Tom is clambering about on the roof, repairing the chimney stack.

"Hey! What are you doing there, clambering about on our garage roof?" "A football landed up here. I was just going to fetch it down quickly." "Well, you could've asked first!"

What is a club in any case? Not the buildings or the directors or the people who are paid to represent it. It’s not the television contracts, get-out clauses, marketing departments or executive boxes. It’s the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging, the pride in your city. It’s a small boy clambering up stadium steps for the very first time, gripping his father’s hand, gawping at that hallowed stretch of turf beneath him and, without being able to do a thing about it, falling in love.

It was his hope that he should find something of archaeologic compensation for his clamberings. He found Noah's Ark.

Its hills of smiling green swelled gently one above another, crowned with lofty trees of luxuriant growth; some pointing their tapering foliage towards the clouds, which were gloriously transparent; and others loaded with a verdant burthen of clambering vines, bowing their branches to the earth, that was covered with flowers.

The panes are ruddy through the clambering vines And blushing leaves, that Summer intertwines In warmer tints than e'er luxuriant Spring, O'er flower-embosom'd roof led wandering.