They developed extraordinary climbing skills, scaling thousand-foot precipices with cowhide ropes to harvest fulmar from the cliffs of Hirta, puffins from the Dun — a dinosaur spine of an islet, broken off from Hirta a few centuries ago — and gannets from two great sea stacks.
His extraordinary political climb -- leapfrogging over several formidable opposition candidates, including the mayor of Lima and a former director of the social security system -- has been called the "Toledo phenomenon" by the press here.
As the history of the Rockefeller drug laws suggests, if crime rates climb to extraordinary levels, black citizens may once again value public safety more than civil liberty — and all the marching and shouting will have been for naught.
We climbed the extraordinary red, curved double staircase at the 1906 art nouveau bookshop, Nouveau & Irmao, in Rua das Carmelitas.
The vine will root readily when in contact with moist soil or when left on plant debris and will grow at an extraordinary rate once established, climbing on any vertical support it finds in its way.
At one extraordinary moment, Smith began climbing up the steps of the major scale, as if he had found a stairway to the light; but then he let his tone crack, reverted to halting chromatic steps, and fell silent.
The four-legged modules have an extraordinary sense of balance, can climb steep grades and even move on icy surfaces.
His father was nicknamed El Matador - and Carlos Sainz also demonstrated extraordinary bravery and commitment to climb off his hospital bed after a horrifying crash in practice to produce a superb drive in the Russian Grand Prix.
We're not just talking about the Spanish-language smash Instructions Not Included, which in its third weekend climbed to an extraordinary $27m through Lionsgate's Pantelion division.
At that stage Freeserve was still making big losses but its value climbed to an extraordinary £9bn - more than its parent company Dixons.
