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. |
The meat of the wing is shinnied down the main bone and wrapped with the skin around one end. |
From the look of things — Cranston shinnied up the back fence to take a peek — the water hadn't been changed since. |
Keeping a lookout over his shoulder he dragged the heavy lump of metal to the fence, boosted it over, and shinnied after it. |
Soon the steepness decreased, but the climbing remained strenuous for the next two hours as we shinnied up complex chimneys and followed jagged ridges. |
He shinnied up it quickly and began carefully testing his weight on the small deck of the first house. |