Immediately we heard Croz's exclamation, old Peter and I planted ourselves as firmly as the rocks would permit; the rope was taut between us, and the jerk came on us both as one man.

Then there appeared a stir among the foretop-men and on the forecastle, where a rope was rove at the fore-yard-arm, and a grating was rigged for a platformunerring signs of the approaching execution.

And the rope was not the only gift we received.

The rope is about an inch in diameter.

The rope has been round my own neck and not round that of others.

Rat, gnaw, and rope are tangible, perceptible things; the words bring to us visions of particular objects and actions.

All the rope that came to my attention in South America was three- strand hemp, a hard material, good for standing rigging but not good for tackle or for use aboard canoes.

From two great uprights, formed from solid tree-trunks, three strong ropes were stretchedthe upper two parallel, and the third, about four feet lower, was equidistant from each.

She made better moccasins than any of all the young girls, and the bark-rope she braided was the stoutest.

It seemed as if they were able to throw a rope over a calf's head or around either leg they desired, with better aim, and at as great a distance as one could shoot a Colt's revolver, and we saw at once that a good raw-hide rope, in the hands of an experienced man and well-trained horse, was a weapon in many respects superior to firearms of any kind.

The rope is 90 feet, and the amount remaining showed that the depth of the bridge was about 65 feet.