He had not climbed down the wall, or we would have seen him.
You climb down a little way and you're in the past.
They climbed down again and went back to the girls.
They climbed down with great care, only one man moving at a time.
I began way over the top, and I'm beginning now to climb down.
Without saying anything, he had us climb down to the river bank again.
My mother looked up at him as he climbed down.
What'd he do, climb down the outside of the building?
"He may be waiting for one of us to tell him how to climb down."
It took less than an hour for the three friends to climb down.
I can't tell you how much pleasure it would give us to make them eat their words.
But, if this story is any indication, he's well on his way to making everyone eat their words.
"They're not willing to back off because it means eating their words of a year ago."
But within half an hour she found herself eating her words.
I was forced to eat my words, and six eggs, in one sitting.
But we don't much wish to eat our words, as they say.
I was determined they would all eat their words some day.
A few days later Bell would have liked to eat his words.
It is now time, however, that I eat my words.
James has spent the past two days trying to eat his words.
I was so caught up in trying to be open for once, I swallowed my own words.
"Different room each time," I said, half swallowing my words.
She can also put on a fair imitation of an American accent by swallowing all her words.
So she swallowed her words and merely shook her head.
The green silence of the forest swallowed his words.
"Awfully quiet in here," he said, and the air seemed to swallow his words.
The stone swallowed my words, rather than echoing them.
The swelling roar of fighting and dying swallowed his words.
Recently however, many of the skeptics have had to swallow their words.
The invisible wall swallowed her words, but he could still hear her thoughts in his mind.
As a generation, we are not good at acknowledging error, however.
But, the teacher added, the President waited too long to acknowledge his error.
"I think now everybody understands that we have got to acknowledge our error, stand up, take a step back."
Late last month, the company acknowledged accounting errors that could lower its net worth by $1.7 billion.
By the time they acknowledged their error, some had sold millions of shares at prices that were just a memory.
Even today Sharon is seldom, if ever, known to acknowledge error or regret.
Other suggest that the agency is simply being stubborn, refusing to acknowledge error.
He also acknowledged inadvertent "errors" in the city's recent financial statements.
But the magazine, while acknowledging possible errors in the article, stopped short of retracting it.
The statement reiterated the rule on a safety and acknowledged the official's error.
He has admitted his mistakes and paid a very heavy price.
Should he admit his mistake and try to correct it?
The judge has had the grace to admit his mistake.
But only when we're honest enough to admit our mistakes can we move on.
We now have to admit our mistake and remedy the situation.
As time went on, it was easier for them to admit mistakes.
It takes a lot of courage to admit your mistakes.
The players like him, and the coaches respect that he has admitted his mistakes along the way.
She's not going to love you any less for admitting your mistakes.
What a world it would be if everyone were willing to admit his mistakes and try to correct them before more damage was done!
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