To enter the rooms on the ground floor from the outside, one must mount the ladder to the first balcony or terrace, then descend through a trap door in the floor by another ladder on the inside.
A hole is left in the top, which serves as chimney and door, a rude ladder or notched pole communicating with the cellar below, and a similar one with the ground outside.
To Elm Island he hurried (when he had driven the last nail), and repaired the platform in the top of the tree and the ladder leading to it, both having become somewhat decayed since the boy-days of John Rhines and Charlie Bell.
Then a ladder was let down, and God, leaning upon it, turned to Jacob and "sang majestically to the sound of many instruments, in a sonorous bass voice.
But it isn't safe to come like that; I nearly lost my balance, theladder bends so.
This here ladder's about the awkwardest and heaviestladder as ever was for his size.
Look here, Smith, I don't think you men need carry that ladder on to-night.
Look-ye here, if I was you I'd stand that there ladder straight up, and then go aloft and sit on the top rung.
Take my gun, Smith, and I'll carry the ladder for a bit.
It's my spell with the ladder, and I'm a-going to carry the ladder till it's time to give it up.
When the children go to bed they have no brightly burning lamp to light them to their several bedrooms, but they climb the ladder to the open, unfinished loft with no light except what comes to them from the embers upon the hearth.
In one corner was the staircase, which sometimes was merely a ladder or perhaps a few cleats nailed on the framework.
At the edge of each side porch a Bamboo ladder reached up from the ground.
He turned from me, leaving me standing there in the kitchen, and I saw him moving with a ladder to the loft overhead.
A man at the top of a ladder was gulping whiskey from a bottle, and when the water sprang at his throat he went down with a mad defiant cry.
An iron ladder was attached to the skylight, and Phillips pointed out to his companion that the ladder appeared to have been regularly used.
He melted into the darkness, and I stood holding on to the ladder as though in danger of falling, and staring at the top of the wall, where I had last seen Swain.
You can step from one ladder to the other," I pointed out, "without touching the top of the wall.
Then we reached the wall, and there was the dim white line of the ladder leaning against it.
Simmonds followed him up the ladder without a word, and I came along behind.
So it was in silence that I followed Godfrey up the ladder and took my place on the limb.
We can stand on the top of the wall," he said, at last, "and lift this ladder over.
The ladder was a long one, and, as I went up and up, I could feel Godfrey mounting after me.
No doubt, if these people had been garbed in the clothes of every day, I should have felt at the outset that all this was none of my business, and have crept down the ladder and gone away.
Slow minute followed minute, and the hand with which I clutched the ladder began to tremble.
The other ladder is still there," he said, and took off his cap and rubbed his head perplexedly.
His was the difficult part, to draw up the ladderand lower it again.
A moment later, something slid down the wall, and I knew that the person at the top had lifted the other ladder over.
Swain placed his ladder against it, and mounted quickly to the top.
At last, Godfrey motioned me to precede him, and, when I was over, reached one ladder down to me and descended to my side.
Without much difficulty, I found the tree with the ladder against it, which we had mounted the night before.
The swells were so high that no accommodation ladder was needed.
As the Ramona dropped her anchor, he sent the Tartar alongside, and on his official hail a ladder was lowered.
Presently a small boat, containing three men, was lowered, for the sea was very smooth, and in a little while a trim-looking lieutenant was at the accommodation ladder of the Tartar.
Although the torches had been extinguished I could see, by the faint light which penetrated from the entrance, that Madus ascended a rope ladder to a deep hollow high up in the wall, and drew the ladder up after her.
After climbing a ladder and walking through a narrow passage, they came to a secret door which opened into a bedroom.
A king held the ladder for Dürer, and a Counselor treats his beloved pupil like a rogue.
Lamb speaks of him on one occasion as on the top round of his ladder of friendship.
This won't do--they will climb the ladder in a moment.
Alas for Billy, he was standing under a ladder when he spoke, and when he jumped "bump" he hit his head on the topmost rung.
Was it because Jacob's ladder has been supposed to have had fifteen steps?
We then ascended the ladder and started for the place where we had left our animals.
Corporal Frank climbed the ladder two rungs at a step, while Henry and I remained to thank the governor for his kindness and bestow some trifling gifts upon the rabble of children that had followed us closely throughout our visit.
He will want supper it may be," and she went on to the main deck to let a ladder down to him, for most of the crew were on shore still.
Wait a moment, and I will let down a ladder to you.
It was useless for me to remain any longer in the wheel-house, and I descended by the forward ladder to the deck.
I crawled up theladder to the bridge feebly, for I was becoming stiff from the bruises of the fall from my horse.
When my operation was over, I left the room and moved silently along the corridor till I came to the ladder leading to the deck.
You get down from that ladder and go out to the Long Walk and Miss Mary will meet you and bring you here.
In fact, being a stubborn old party and not having entire faith in Magic he had made up his mind that if he were sent away he would climb his ladder and look over the wall so that he might be ready to hobble back if there were any stumbling.
The man dropped back from the ladder to gaze at him, and then uttered a few words excitedly as he pointed back into the forward part of the dark hold.
Mark answered the question by stumbling up the ladder till he could put his face over the combings of the hatch, and breathe the air blowing over the vessel, Tom Fillot following suit.
Mauro stepped upon the ladder first, the next man pressed after him, and the rest followed his companions, while Tebaldo stood in the shadow, dazed and shaking with excitement.
The house would be hard to enter without a ladder at the one weak point.
The main thing is to reach the ladder quietly and all together.
Tebaldo glanced to the right and left, and saw the ladder in its place.
Tebaldo went to the foot of the ladder and listened, though the river would have prevented him from hearing any but a very loud sound from within.
I had better go up theladder first,' he suggested.
I shall lead the band to the foot of the ladder at about one o'clock, I fancy.
One of the passengers, a tall, stout man, was somewhat handicapped by his nether garments slipping down and finally getting in a ruck round his ankles when he was climbing up the ladder on to the raider.
We clambered down a ladder to partake of our first meal as prisoners.
Two German sailors stood at the bulwarks to help us off the rope-ladder into the well deck forward, and by 5.
A German sailor, to ease his passage, went down the ladder and relieved him of them altogether.
The ship was rolling considerably, and it is never a pleasant or easy task for a landsman, much less a landswoman, to clamber by a rope-ladder some twenty feet up the side of a rolling ship.
He is occupied at this moment in writing a serious book, which may serve as a ladder by which to mount to the Chamber of Deputies.
Unfortunately, in wishing to make an elegant flourish, he gave such a violent shake to the ladder that it fell to the earth, carrying with it in its fall the schoolmaster with his pot of black, and all rolled together into the stream.
If he was down there I could fix a ladder for him so he could climb up.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ladder" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
