Literary notes about Clamber (AI summary)
In literature, "clamber" vividly conveys the effort and determination required to overcome physical and metaphorical obstacles. It is often employed to describe a ragged, strenuous ascent, whether scaling a rocky cliff ([1]), scrambling over tangled rigging on a boat ([2]), or maneuvering past ruins and shattered structures ([3], [4]). Authors use the term to evoke a sense of urgency and peril in action scenes, as when characters must quickly climb aboard a moving vehicle ([5]) or struggle upward through treacherous terrain ([6]). Beyond physical exertion, "clamber" can also embody the inner struggle and persistence required to surmount personal challenges, giving readers a powerful visual of laboriously ascending against all odds ([7]).
- The base of the cliff was heaped with loose stones at the spot, and it was not difficult to clamber up.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle - It was exhilarating to clamber right up into the bows among coils of rope and to see how the boat charged through the spuming water.
— from Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie - Frank turned to clamber down from the wreck, but even as he did so he caught sight of a deadly peril.
— from Frank Reade, Jr.'s Search for the Silver Whale Or, Under the Ocean in the Electric "Dolphin" by Luis Senarens - The staircase had been destroyed; and they had to clamber up the shattered masonry in order to reach the first floor.
— from The Woman of Mystery by Maurice Leblanc - Now here's the plan: I hop into the water just here, and swim up alongside the steamer, and when I get to her bows, I clamber aboard somehow.
— from On the Road to Bagdad: A Story of Townshend's Gallant Advance on the Tigris by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton - We clamber up an embankment which slips away and avoids us, we drag and push the rebellious and implacable burden.
— from Light by Henri Barbusse - My contempt and my longing increase together; the higher I clamber, the more do I despise him who clambereth.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
