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Up the track, sweeping in a great circle as it swung the curve, a headlight's glare cut through the night -- and Toddles "shinned" the foot.

The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories Franklin K. [Editor] Mathiews

My climbing experience gained during my expeditions with Wakometkla, now stood me in good stead, and I "shinned" up the tree with the agility of

Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography Edwin Eastman

I "shinned," and reached the ledge with a good deal of skin peeled from various parts of my person.

Raw Gold A Novel Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

His admonition would dissolve in an unrestrained roar of laughter as she wickedly "shinned" up the porch post to a coign of vantage on the vine-covered roof.

The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories William Patten 1902

At first, in spite of his sex, it was hard not to believe that his nest was in the tree; and to satisfy himself, my companion "shinned" it, schoolboy fashion, -- a frightful piece of work, which put me out of breath even to look at it, -- while I surveyed the branches from all sides through an opera-glass.

The Foot-path Way Bradford Torrey 1877

He "shinned" down the tree in a manner not unlike the grizzly, and approached the spot where the huge foe was lying, the life-blood flowing from his throat.

The Young Miner or Tom Nelson in California Horatio Alger 1865

Muscovite's career for a time was a very unfortunate one, for when in Dockeray's stable he was so "shinned" that his chance for the Goodwood Stakes was completely out, and his trainer, who could not discover the offender, and who was terribly annoyed at the circumstance, begged he might be transferred to William

The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Volume 1 (of 3) Charles Greville 1829

With the score delicately tied at 1-1 deep into extra-time, Crystal Palace failed to deal with a Garry Parker free-kick and as the ball was nodded into the penalty area, Steve Claridge "shinned a volley into the top corner".

Beers named after footballers redux John Ashdown 2010

It is very revealing that modern medicine with so many new diseasesAIDS, SARS, Lymehas not to my knowledge in the last fifty years come up with a metaphor as colorful as the mulberry molar or the cracked-pot skull or the saber-shinned tibia.

Abraham Verghese - An interview with author 2010

Sharp-shinned and cooper's hawks, as well as merlins, are rare, but not unheard of, and this time of year, the south-bound migration brings red-shouldered, broad-winged, and rough-legged hawks passing overhead.

Knowing a hawk from a handsaw, pt 1 2008