Smaller images, no more than two inches high, shinnied up a table leg.
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I grinned and shinnied up a side rope ladder up to the mast almost.
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When he shinnied up to remove the banner, some in the crowd hooted catcalls.
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Like one of the Sliding Wallendas, he shinnied down the wire toward the screen.
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Silently, the manikin clasped the nearest table leg, shinnied up and hauled himself over the top.
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One of the children shinnied up and tore a piece of cloth off, and slid back down.
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The meat of the wing is shinnied down the main bone and wrapped with the skin around one end.
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He shinnied up it quickly and began carefully testing his weight on the small deck of the first house.
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With considerable difficulty he had shinnied up the table leg, and had hoisted himself over the awkwardly projecting table edge.
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From the look of things — Cranston shinnied up the back fence to take a peek — the water hadn't been changed since.
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Keeping a lookout over his shoulder he dragged the heavy lump of metal to the fence, boosted it over, and shinnied after it.
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Soon the steepness decreased, but the climbing remained strenuous for the next two hours as we shinnied up complex chimneys and followed jagged ridges.
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Once a week, however, it shinnied down a trunk to the ground where it took a long, healthy shoot at the base of the tree.
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He must have lost his nerve when he made out your smoke and shinnied up there to stow away, taking the ship's papers with him.
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After a few moments' rest, he climbed onto the pile of timbers and, finding a long one that slanted up to the riverbank, he painfully shinnied up it.
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I actually shinnied up the tree another couple of feet, and by tilting my head and looking through one eye, I was able to see the matching six points on the other side.
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He raised the pole above his head, drove the spike into a log at his feet, shinnied up the pole, and to a chorus of cheers, bowed as he stood upon the far side, triumphant.
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With the aid of a scrap of burlap looped around his bare feet, he shinnied fifty feet to the top, pulled a machete from his belt loop, and cut loose a clump of branches that sprouted beneath the spreading fronds.
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David Greig "Skippy" Browning Jr. (June 5, 1931 – March 13, 1956) was a diver from the United States and Olympic champion. He represented the US at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, where he received a gold medal in springboard diving. After his Olympic victory in Helsinki, Browning shinnied up a flag pole to steal an Olympic flag and was arrested. Browning married Corinne L. Couch on September 7, 1950.
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Others told that a soldier shinnied up the gibbet to grab the noose, twist the rope and raise the condemned off the ground. Military doctors who examined Dodd's body reported death due to "a disrupted spine." Just prior to the funeral, Union headquarters ordered no spoken or sung words at the memorial service, and that only Dodd's relatives in Union- held territory (two aunts and their husbands) would be allowed to attend. The town was tense; a riot was possible and there was fear that a Confederate raid would take advantage of the situation.
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The resulting explosions were messy and loud but the gang liked to operate in the dead of winter in small farm towns where two men armed with shotguns could keep the few townspeople at bay while the money was hustled out to waiting cars - Studebaker and Cadillac being the preferred makes. Prior to entering the bank, Willis usually shinnied up a pole outside the telephone office and cut the phone lines at a strategic point, thereby insuring a clean getaway once the county line had been reached. In Hondo, Texas, the gang hit two banks the same night after discovering the first vault door open. Occasionally the tactics would change, and the crew planned daytime robberies, like in New Braunfels, Texas, a simple bank hold-up on March 9, 1922, or the daring and overly ambitious multiple attack on pedestrian bank messengers in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on July 24, 1923, when the Toronto Currency Clearinghouse was hit in downtown morning rush hour.
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