Lifting it above his head he pointed silently to a rickety staircase in the far corner, up which we groped our way with the help of a rope pendent from an upper beam.

" Lister signaled a man on board the tug, the winch rattled, and a big iron bucket, hanging by a wire rope, dropped into the hold.

As this great rascal Bishop came out of Rochester Castle, the English youths sang out "Rope and Cord!

Rope and Cord for the traitor Bishop."

It is Sympathy, Feeling, and Hope, That pull out in the Life-boat to fling ye a rope.

Each "soul" has his appointed place, his appointed duty, and his special contributionbe it bucket or rope or ladderto bring to the conflagration.

God made man's feet for the earth, and not for the tight-rope.

THE ALL PULL TOGETHER SHOT There was a regular celebration at Pepper hill, north of Verdun, where a battery of Rhode Island artillery rigged a twenty-foot rope to the lanyard of a .155 cannon, and every man in the company, from the captain to the cook, laid hold of it and waited.

At the tick of eleven o'clock they gave that rope one mighty yank, all together, and the gun roared out the last shot of the war.

Tom Stubbins began a lengthy story of an elopement that happened down at the "Carp," where the bride made a rope of the sheets and came down from an upstairs window.

Is there a rope of any kind to be had?" "Only this curtain cord; it is not large, but strong."

My coming had silenced the others, and we waited motionless, the stillness so intense I could hear the lapping of waves against the side, and the slight creak of a rope aloft.

I'd hate to lie in here waiting for you to go all the way to camp and get a rope," grumbled the imprisoned one.

Bring some rope and an aid kit.

It swings across the river on a wire rope, with a running tackle, by the force of the stream and the aid of a large rudder.

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.

For the sentries are changed three or four times a day, while the rope-maker goes on forever.

Marcos pulled the bell-rope swinging in the wind outside the great door of the monastery, while Sarrion tied the horses to a post.

The third edition with the elephant on the tight-rope was published in 1736.

These fibers may be found so interwoven as to form a sheet, as in the periosteum of the bone, the fasciæ around muscles, and the capsules of organs; or they may be aggregated into bundles and form rope-like bands, as in the ligaments of joints and the tendons of muscles.

My work was to help the people plough, and now and again go out with some of the Army and see what the other villages were doing, and make 'em throw rope-bridges across the ravines which cut up the country horrid.

The King lost his head, so he did, all along o' one of those cunning rope-bridges.

They marched him a mile across that snow to a rope-bridge over a ravine with a river at the bottom.

At first he thought this was the clutch of human hands; then as the lantern-light revealed more clearly the things about him and the outlines of his own figure, he saw that it was a rope, and he knew that he was unable to cry out because of something tight and suffocating about his mouth.

On a stone by the roadside sat Sinis himself; and when he saw Theseus coming, he ran to meet him, twirling a long rope in his hands and crying out: "Welcome, welcome, dear prince!