But he could have had more genuine successes than all the Don Juans and Romeos and Fausts who ever climbed rope ladders.

There is another class of adepts, such as sleight of hand performers, slack rope dancers, teachers of animals to perform extraordinary tricks; in short, those persons who delude the senses, and practise harmless deceptions on spectators, included under the common appellation of jugglers.

Finally Marcos passed through the wide Calle de San Ignacio to the drawbridges across the double fosse, where the rope-makers are always at work, walking backwards with an ever decreasing bundle of hemp at their waists and one eye cocked upwards towards the roadway so that they know all who come and go better even than the sentry at the gate.

Here he should tear down this row of cottages, and make his garden wall; there that long rope-walk should give place to vine-covered ardors; the bakery yonder should make way for a costly conservatory; that wine warehouse should come down, and the mansion go up.

The handkerchiefs were used to relieve the pressure in places, and rope-yarns from the ratlin stuff furnished the means of securing everything in its place.

The only light we had was a torch, made from a rope end.

But we tumbled from one of those damned rope-bridges, you see, andyou couldn't expect a man to laugh much after that?" "Take some more whiskey and go on," I said.

All absurd efforts of agility which you ever saw at a seance of the Hylobates Lar Club at Cambridge are quiet and clumsy compared to the rope-dancing which goes on in the boughs of the Poui tree, or, to their great detriment, of the Bougainvillea and the Gardenia on the lawn.

The Cologne Central Towing Company (Central Actien-Gesellschaft für Tauerei und Schleppschifffahrt), by whom the wire rope towage on the Rhine is now carried on, was formed in 1876, by an amalgamation of the Rührorter und Mulheimer Dampfschleppshifffahrt Gesellschaft and the Central Actien-Gesellschaft fur Tauerei, and in 1877 it owned eight wire rope tugs (which it still owns) and seventeen paddle tugs.

The iron rope work that divides the sacristy from the chapel is a marvel of workmanship.

Each front rank man joins his pole, inserts the top in the eyes of the halves, and holds the pole upright beside the bayonet placed in the ground; his rear rank man, using the pins in front, pins down the front corners of the tent on the line of bayonets, stretching the canvas taut; he then inserts a pin in the eye of the rope and drives the pin at such distance in front of the pole as to hold the rope taut.

MANSON, J. L. Tiger wire rope slings, fittings, and specifications.

I bowed to my audience aged five with the grandeur of a tight-rope performer who has just done his best thriller as a climax to his turn.

I could have a long pair of rope-lines and drive him myself; then when the roads were rough and bad the canal would always be smooth.

Then came the athletes and the jugglers, the tight-rope walkers and the trapeze performers, the trained dogs and horses, the clowns and the monkeys, the riding and the races; all of it too wonderful, too mirthful, too complete to be adequately described.

My missus had a rope bed and she covered the ropes with a cow hide.

As soon as it came clear of the edge, he drew it towards him, lowered it to the ground, took off its rope collar, and rolled it out of the doorway.

Was it possible that Bubbles possessed uncanny powerspowers which had something to do with the immemorial magic of the immemorial East? Blanche had once heard the phenomenon of the vanishing rope trick discussed at some length between a number of clever people.

Last week you tore down the schoolhouse chimney with your ridiculous tight rope performances.

There was a heavy baulk of timber lying near the door, with rope-handles knotted into holes bored through it at intervals.

They can be hoisted from the deck without the necessity of climbing the masts, because they are not fastened on the yards by means of rope-bands, which must be previously loosened.

With engraving of wire rope tug boat.

Not a word must pass the lips of either, as to what you seenow pull, but with great care, lest the rope break.

" "There's a blanket, andand a rope halter.

I stood on the look-out to prevent an attack, one man being abundantly able to keep at bay a dozen who could approach only by ascending a rope hand over hand, while Marble went below to look after the two worthies who had been snoring all night in the cabin.