Why, he expected you to come tumblin' down the ladder head over heels to see hima handsome fellow like that!

" The old hook and ladder company was one of the representative institutions of the city.

Say, how d'ye 'spose they ever found that ladder agin after we hid it?" "'Course Andy got it for 'em.

The tall red cliffs seemed suddenly at a vast distance, and he saw, as though they were creatures in another world, two minute workmen engaged in the repair of the ladder-way, and little suspecting the race for life that was beginning below them.

Jerry Todd's Up-the ladder club.

But he, having no understanding in his polite way, brought in upon us, to get in his money, ladder-dancers, rope-dancers, jugglers, and mountebanks, to strut in the place of Shakespeare's heroes and Jonson's humorists.]

The ladder jinx.

How but by following her, replied the dame, To whom derived from sire to son they came; Where every age does on another move, And trusts no farther than the next above; Where all the rounds like Jacob's ladder rise, 220 The lowest hid in earth, the topmost in the skies.

A ladder-stair led to a closed trap-door in the floor above.

Betty, sitting on the ladder step, straining her ears to catch the first sound, became conscious of a light sound as Geoffrey swung himself from the chimney top to the roof, and she sped up the ladder to unhook the door of the trap just as he reached it.

R. I fownd a ladder theire.

I reached the top of the ladder-a lantern flashed in my eyes.

Quick as thought, she made one step to the window, pushed the ladder outwards with all her force, and shut down the sash.

One Chinaman slid down the ladder-rail whirling like an acrobat in the air before he landed, and another followed him, but they were the two last, and Buckrow and Long Jim started after them.

It had nothing but an old-fashioned engine, a hose-cart, and a ladder-truck, all of which had to be drawn by two-footed steeds, the volunteer firemen of the village.

[Motion upwards] Ascent N. ascent, ascension; rising &c 309; acclivity, hill &c 217; flight of steps, flight of stairs; ladder rocket, lark; sky rocket, sky lark; Alpine Club.

It served to support her weight at least until she felt the ladder underfoot.

The cliffs in this direction are very high, but down the red face of them in one place a kind of ladder staircase has been made.

Or up to heaven a shining ladder builds.

On the day of the assault (10th of October, 1437) he went down into the trenches, remained there in water up to his waist, mounted the scaling- ladder sword in hand, and was one of the first assailants who penetrated over the top of the walls right into the place.

As I put my hand out to take the ladder-guard, Petrak thrust himself before me and barred the way.

" He was up that ladder hand over fist, with me close behind 'im, and as soon as he 'ad got on to the wharf started to run to 'is ship.

This is not the first time my feet have tried ladder-bars; in the country-spent vacations of my school-days, how many times have I alertly scaled the highest leading to granaries, to barn-lofts, to bird-houses, to all quasi-inaccessible places, whither my daring ignorancereckless, because unconscious of dangerhad tempted me!

At the little ladder-housing sounded a warning shout.