And if all ladders henceforth fail thee, then must thou learn to mount upon thine own head: how couldst thou mount upward otherwise?
The ditch was bridged and, banner in hand, the Maid started up one of the scaling ladders as at the Tourelles and tried to mount the wall.
As the body of the men rushed into the fosse to plant the scaling ladders Suffolk tried to parley, but it was now too late.
Again and again the ladders were flung down, the climbers were shot, or smitten, or grappled with and dashed into the fosse.
With a shout the French swarmed over the fosse with their ladders until there seemed a forest of ladders against the walls.
Then bravely as she had climbed the scaling ladders at Orleans and Jargeau the Maid ascended the steps of the scaffold to the stake.
The ladders were long and steep, but the descent was made without incident.
The engineer had advised them not to climb the ladders but to walk along the foot of the dam till they reached a place where a flight of steps had been moulded in the concrete.
Before long they reached a place where ladders were stretched from the ground to the top of the dam.
He followed David into the hull, through devious ways up ladders and along narrow catwalks.
He followed Colonel Porter along the catwalks, among the fuel tanks, and then up the many laddersto the observer's platform, where they lifted the trap and stepped out on the very top of the ship.
Men were painting the window casings of the gondola, others were testing the screws and bolts holding the ladders leading from the five eggs into the hull.
All along the Loire the walls had a stone parapet with machicolated battlements, whence pavingstones could be thrown, and whence, when attempts were made to scale the walls, the enemy's ladders could be hurled down.
He came, and straightway the ladders were brought.
By and by the day of fate arrived, so did the workmen and the coolies, with ladders and all other needful means and appliances.
All were shot, or hurled over the walls; and most of the ladders were overturned before anyone could reach the upper steps.
We had taken our positions in the front line trenches the night before and had erected trench climbing ladders for jumping over the parapets.
Orders came to disembark, so we all helped to lower the life boats, and climbed down the rope ladders into them.
On the evening of the 22nd the general received news that the Afghans, having prepared a great number of ladders for the assault, intended to attack that night.
Half a dozen of the ladders were upset, the men who had mounted them coming heavily to the ground.
The whole village set to work, ladders were fixed against it; and the men, ascending, hacked away with krisses and stone hatchets at the trunk.
The remainingladders were instantly overthrown, and a shower of arrows poured upon their assailants.
With exulting shouts, the warriors of the village poured down their laddersfrom the huts, and took up the pursuit; and soon no one remained in the village, save the white lads and the women and children.
These, upon seeing the lads, uttered cries of warning and, instantly flying to the ladders, which were constructed of light bamboo, climbed to the huts and raised the ladders after them.
The women screamed and, running up the ladders to their tree abodes, began gathering together the various articles of value, in their eyes.
Curious faces were watching from every hut and, as soon as it was seen that peace was established, the ladders were lowered and a swarm of men, women, and children soon surrounded the visitors.
By August the ladders had been completed by Thomas Flemming, and John Dalton was ordered to procure locks with proper staples for securing the ladders under the "piazza of the Court House.
Three ladders were then finished but most of the buckets were at the painters being marked with owners' names and numbers.
They brought laddersfor the purpose of scaling, and in order to prevent their troops from resorting to any other course excepting the bayonet, had caused all the flints to be taken from their muskets.
They caught him up among them, handed him to the window, and those who stood upon the ladders passed him down upon the pavement of the yard.
Then he went down theladders and found Max, who had brought the carpet for the box and was looking over his work.
For the present a series of eight ladders zigzagged up from landing to landing.
Max here'll go along the ladders and steady you if you swing too much.
They started up, Hilda sitting in the box and holding tightly to the sides, Max climbing the ladders with the end of the line about his wrist.
The ladders and landings occupied only about a third of the space; the rest was open, a clear drop of eighty feet.
The rope ladders were made of two parallel side straps, tightly stretched between the fixed sticks, and then at intervals of fifteen inches we inserted the ends of the ladder rung between the strands of the rope.
Our first task was to build steps and ladders in the steepest parts.
I found they had already applied ladders to the walls of the apartment, and were well provided with buckets, but the water was at some distance.
By these means those who were mounting the ladders were so much aided in their efforts that they soon succeeded in gaining possession of the wall, and thus made themselves masters of the city.
And five and five like a mason gang, That carried the ladderslang and hie; And five and five like broken men, And so they reached the Woodhouselee.
Satchells knows that the ladders were made at Woodhouselee; it took till nightfall to finish them.
Both stories are erroneous; the ladders were too short; the rescuers broke into a postern door.
The ladders were too short, and the Scots broke in a postern door.
Zokoli ordered the assault to be sounded, and soon the brave soldiers, always accustomed to be victorious wherever they went, might have been seen climbing the ladders on one side of the "Cube.
And it was no small labor to ascend and descend so often, especially byladders of cane; which are used everywhere.
These ladders are well adapted to such needs, for being, as they are, strong and yet hollow, they are not very heavy, or hard to move.
Ladders for scaling the ramparts have reached the Versaillist outposts in the Bois de Boulogne.
At the dead of night, several rope-ladders were dropped from the walls; the light Calabrians ascended in silence; and the Greeks were awakened by the name and trumpets of the conqueror.
They are rectangular or square rooms, built of stone, with openings just large enough to admit the head serving as windows, and still preserve the old form of entrance by ladders through a sky hole in the roof.
Most of the houses are reached from the flat roofs, using their ladders to go to the streets.
The ladders which they have for their houses are all movable and portable, which are taken up and placed wherever they please.
The French and Scottish leaped into the fosse, they set ladders against the walls, they reached the battlements, and were struck down by English swords and axes.
He stood up on the battlements, and dashed down the ladders till he was shot by a famous marksman of Lorraine.
The Germans were hoisting newladders for the assault.
Every attempt to scale the lofty stronghold with ladders had during former sieges been beaten off with fearful loss, after desperate combats at all hours of day and night.
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