103 adjectives to describe rope

" Bunny Bright Eyes said, "Can you walk a tight rope?" Tippy Toes said he did not know, but Snubby Nose said he had walked a tight rope off and on all his life!

Coils of thick wire rope and diving gear occupied her shallow hold, and Cartwright was annoyed because she could not take the massive centrifugal pump which he had sent by an African liner.

Two or three others, dragging a thin, stiff wire rope, floundered unsteadily across the deck.

Chains attach the ends of the frame to a stout rope, so that when the bag is dragged along by the rope the edge of one of the scrapers rests on the ground, and scrapes whatever it touches into the bag.

He would climb the walls of a citadel with a knotted rope, at night, rocked by the storm, while sparks of fire clung to his cuirass, and molten lead and boiling tar poured from the battlements.

There was the end of the broken tie-rope; there the tracks showing the way Buck had gone, in full, headlong flight.

He was a grotesque figure, clad in an undershirt and a worn pair of trousers, fastened with an old bit of tarred rope in lieu of his suspenders, which I had been repairing.

I went down the aisle; and as I passed by the hempen rope in the vestibule that so often had set the bell a-ringing, a longing came to do it now, to tell the village-people, by voice of sacred bell, that there was a new-born worship come down from Heaven.

They had a little rope that ran back and forth instead of slats.

I yelled, and the next moment I was tugging furiously across the intervening space with the loose tow rope trailing behind me.

At times you thought of it as an enormous rope under the constant pressure of soldiers on either side, who now and then, with an "all together" of a tug-of-war at a given point, straightened or made a bend, with the result imperceptible except as you measured it by a tree or a house.

They resemble a bunch or knot of dark brown small rope or cord.

I had calculated that the double rope was long enough to take me to within a few feet of the ground, and this proved to be the case.

The whole of this house can be easily pulled down and taken to pieces, like a tent, and readily set up again, as it is all built of cane, and very light; and when it is erected, it is fastened by two hundred silken ropes, after the manner of tent cords, to prevent it from being thrown down by the winds.

I stammered, as I uncoiled the piece of spare rope from my shoulders; "I want you a minute.

He felt as if he were the demon in the legend, condemned to twine endless ropes of sand.

" "This brown husk," continued his governess, "is a valuable part of the nut, for the toughest ropes and cables are made of its fibres, as well as the useful brown matting so generally used to cover offices and passages.

The Colonel sat on the packed sled, undoing with stiff fingers the twisted, frozen rope.

The torn and shattered arbors under their network of twigs, the rolling of an upset cask, the high swing whose wet rope groaned in the damp wind, and the inscriptions over the door, furrowed by bullets; "Cabinets de societéAbsintheVermouthVin à 60 cent.

They threw a noose rope down repeatedly, that they might pull him up by the neck!

Shambling along with knees bent together, sores on every joint, and frequently an eye knocked out, the poor pony's back gets cruelly galled; when the bazaar is reached, he is hobbled as tightly as possible, the coarse ropes cutting into the flesh, and he is then turned adrift to contemplate starvation on the burnt-up grass.

The great room with its dingy wainscot only half lighted by the candles on the table before us, was cluttered with a hundred odds and ends that collect in a deserted housea ladder, a stiff, rusted bridle, a coil of frayed rope, a kettle, a dozen sheets of the Gazette, empty bottles, dusty crockery and broken chairs.

AFTER HIM LIKE A DIRTY ROPE A BLACKBIRD AND A STARLINGTHE ONE LIFTS ITS SKIRTS, WHILE THE OTHER WEARS A WALKING DRESS THE NOSTRILS OF THE APTERYX ARE AT THE TIP OF ITS BEAK

The Reverend Timothy Maloney helped me to put up the tents, long practice making the process easy, and while he drove in pegs and tightened ropes, his coat off, his flannel collar flying open without a tie, it was impossible to avoid the conclusion that he was cut out for the life of a pioneer rather than the church.

We could then perceive a rope fast to each leg of the sufferer, which was pulled with violence by people under the gallows, and an additional rope, to use a sea term, a preventer, was round his neck, and secured to the gallows, to act in case of accident to the one by which the body was suspended.

103 adjectives to describe  rope