At last the youngest of thema Circassian girl of not more than fifteen or sixteen years of ageventured upon the ladder, clasping the hand-rail with one hand, while with the other she held together the folds of her cumbrous feridjee.

It is seventy cubits high, situated on a pedestal of twenty feet, to ascend which requires a ladder.

" "How did you get up there?" "Ladder.

He watched her nimbly climb the ladder.

Finally, when they had reared a tall ladder to the first gallery, and had crowded it with men, Quasimodo, by sheer force, pushed the ladder away, and it tottered and fell right back.

Finally, when they had reared a tall ladder to the first gallery, and had crowded it with men, Quasimodo, by sheer force, pushed the ladder away, and it tottered and fell right back.

Quasimodo tried to make out what it was the priest stared at, and then he recognised Esmeralda in the hangman's arms on the ladder, and in another second the hangman had done his work.

"And lastly, the hard-a-weather old quarter-master, stepping down the ladder, grunts out to the sentry at the cabin door, 'Turn the glass, and strike the bell!' "By this time the boatswain's call has been in his mouth for several minutes, his elbow in the air, and his finger on the stop, ready to send forth the glad tidings of a hearty meal.

Their mode of travelling is on horseback, and the only access to their huts, which are square, with open galleries on the top, is by a ladder, which is removed during the night.

A short ladder at the entrance enabled them to get in and out.

" He got his burden out of bed at last, and staggered to the foot of the companion-ladder with it.

Four times did the exhausted cook get his shoulder under his burden and try and push it up the ladder, and four times did it wriggle and fight its way down again.

" "Sitting," began the horrified cook; "sitoh, lor!" He stood with his writhing burden wedged between his body and the ladder, and looked up despairingly at the mate.

The cook placed his burden upon its feet, and running up the ladder stood by the mate shivering.

So saying, the young surgeon sprang down the companion ladder, leaving the old salt to smoke his pipe in solitude.

" Before this brief conversation came to a close, Fred Ellice and Tom Singleton sprang up the companion ladder, and stood on the deck gazing ahead with feelings of the deepest interest.

"That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face.

Jacob's ladder.

As we climbed in the ladder of the parallels of latitude, we began to notice a crispness in the air, and it was lovely to the lungs.

he cried, making a gesture to Trysail to descend from the ladder, in order that he might pass.

But Alida and her companion arose, like those who had more confidence in their visiter, and, arousing the negress from her sleep, they descended the ladder and entered the cabin.

Stepping lightly up the ladder, Ludlow saw that it was the veteran seaman who was rated as the captain of the forecastle.

Ludlow stood at one ladder and the free-trader at the other, in order to be certain that none proved recreant in so trying a moment.

Throwing himself on a ladder, he glided into the bows of one of the boats, and, holding by the ropes with a vigorous arm, he resisted the efforts of all the oars and boat-hooks, while he denounced destruction on him who dared to quit the ship.

Swinging off upon the ladder, the furious seaman saw the boat glide from his grasp, and depart.