"To '
climb down' is sometimes used as a figure of speech," remarked the Wizard.
He developed too great a tendency to
climb down from his truck and fight with other drivers.
LITTLE Benjamin said, "It spoils people's clothes to squeeze under a gate; the proper way to get in, is to
climb down a pear tree."
A little later he began to
climb down. He went very quietly, pausing every moment or so to stretch his neck or to feel it with his hand.
But this week if we sent him to the well he'd try to
climb down into it.
I was so shocked at the sudden and strange appearance of this ape-man that I hesitated whether I should not
climb down again and tell my experience to my companions.
So compulsive was the prod of his heart to gain to Skipper at any cost, so clear was his comprehension that he could not
climb down the ladder head first, with no grippingness of legs and feet and muscles such as were possible in the ascent, that he did not attempt it.
"Joe and I," said Kennedy, "will
climb down the tree by the ladder."
As we travelled, Infadoos told us that there was another pass over the mountains to the north of the one followed by Solomon's Great Road, or rather that there was a place where it was possible to
climb down the wall of cliff which separates Kukuanaland from the desert, and is broken by the towering shapes of Sheba's Breasts.
Officers tried to get the schoolboys to
climb down for more than an hour until they eventually came down and ran off, a police spokesman said.
ISLAMABAD -- Comedian Shafaat Ali Saturday proved to be handy for the rescue authorities of Islamabad as he successfully convinced a man to
climb down from a mobile phone signal tower.
As police tried to bring him down, the man maintained that he will only
climb down if they promise to make him prime minister or else the authorities should make arrangements for Prime Minister Imran Khan to talk to him on matters of national interest.
climb down - come down; "the birds alighted"