Then he gathered the noose and the four other pieces of rope into his left hand and rose and stood before the door, drawing a deep breath and listening.
The last piece of rope fell on the floor, and she lifted the slip noose from about Crockett's neck.
Crockett emitted a strangled oath and started to rise, but Merriam with one hand on his shoulder thrust him down again, and with the other tightened the noose about his throat.
Merriam, however, remained warily at his post in charge of the slip noose while Margery tied both arms.
The arm referred to was immediately raised away from the chair, but the noose tightened with a further jerk, and the arm fell limply back.
Sir Nigel turned upon his heel, while two seamen cast a noose over the pirate's neck.
The Lady Tiphaine was lowered with a noose drawn fast under the arms, and the other five slid swiftly down, amid the cheers and joyous outcry of their rescuers.
An electrical flash showing the scaffold with the noose above it would have no force to stop an instinct and emotion fully aroused.
At a certain point he has reached a prison or is waiting for the hangman to tie a noose around his neck.
The cord is prolonged beyond the trigger in a slip noosewhich lies open on the platform completely across the gap, so that any small animal entering the gap, and stepping upon the platform, necessarily places its feet within the goose.
Here, let me have the noose end of your rope, Toby; I'm going to slip it around under my arms.
Bessie; and Steve hearing her say this felt as though he ought to be the one to have that noose fastened under his arms, rather than Bandy-legs, who could not swim quite as good.
His first act was to slip the noose from under his arms, and his next to secure that end of the rope to the bow of the boat.
And, Bandy-legs, slip that noose at the end of the balance of the rope under your arms.
Catch Buckskin Bill putting his head back into the noose when once he had got away!
He knew that strong-room, had likened it to a condemned cell every time he had entered it, and with bitter humour he told himself that he had put his own neck into thenoose with a vengeance this time.
We shall pull his head right off if we do," said Hickathrift, but busily making the noose the while.
This long noose is then swung around the head, the weight of the iron ring at the end of the noose assisting in giving to it, by a continued circular motion, a sufficient force to project it the whole length of the line.
One end of the thong is attached to the saddle; the remainder is coiled in the left hand, except about twelve feet belonging to the noose end, which is held in a coil in the right hand.
But ever they took in the slack and paid it out again, until, ere he was aware, a similar noose tightened on his foreleg.
And Mulcachy knelt beside him, dared kneel beside him, and helped the fifth noose over his head and round his neck.
Next, Mulcachy laid hands on him, on his head, on his ears, on his very nose within an inch of his fangs; and he could do nothing but snarl and roar and pant for breath as the noose shut off his breathing.
The next moment, craftily lifted up about the girth of his leg by an iron fork, the noose tightened and the bite of it sank home into his flesh and pride.
The rope was wrenched from his hands, and the noose unloosened from the man's throat.
In the morning, for the purpose of trying the experiment, we equipped six of our fleetest coursers with riders and ropes, to noose the wild horses, if in our power to come among the band.
They will catch another horse with a noose and hair rope, when both are running nearly at full speed, with which they soon choke down the beast of which they are in pursuit; in short, they are probably the most expert horsemen in the world.
Each of the six hangmen tied a condemned man's hands, pulled a meal sack down over his head, placed the noose around his neck, drew it up tolerably close, and sprang to the ground.
Then picking up the large man as if he were a baby, he carried him to the scaffold and handed him up to Tom Larkin, who fitted the noosearound his neck and sprang down.
From beneath the table, the hanging cover of which had effectually concealed him, Jean Pylotte had managed to adjust the noose upon the floor about Nick's legs.
Instantly Nick felt a ropenoose jerked taut around his ankles, nearly throwing him from his feet.
You see, it makes a deal o' differ when a man's got a noose round his neck.
Do it yourself, then," growled Roberts angrily, hauling up the line and trident, before preparing to loosen the noosefrom his wrist.
There was not even a chair or a table in it, nothing but a long rope with a noose at the end of it, which hung dangling down from the ceiling.
The noosewas cast first about the neck of their captain, but the rope parting asunder, certain of Sir Francis' men held him under the water of the ditch until he was drowned.
What I purposed doing must needs be done very quickly, and one untoward accident might very well prick the bladder of my imposture and wreathe a noose about my neck.
But Leo slipped further back, and at the same time threw the noose of the rope over the uplifted proboscis.
The noosearound his neck, Leo tightened it considerably, and then fastened the end of the strap to the tree trunk.
Then making a noose of the longest strap, he watched his chance and dropped it over the brute's neck.
Mr. Black succeeded presently in getting a noosefastened about the porcupine's neck.
Now, Marjory, you run for the clothesline--we'll try to get a noose about his neck.
Tarzan stepped from the jungle behind them; hisnoose lay open upon the ground beside him.
He was upon the point of dropping hisnoose about the neck of one of them, who was a little distance from his companions, when he became interested in the thing which occupied the savages.
There was a quick movement of the right arm and the noose rose gracefully into the air, hovered an instant above the head of the unsuspecting youth, then settled.
Only half the original rope was there, the balance having been carried off by the angry cat as he bounded away through the jungle with the noose still about his savage neck and the loose end dragging among the underbrush.
So today, instead of staying his hand until a less formidable feast found its way toward him, Tarzan dropped his new noose about the neck of Horta, the boar.
So he clambered to the branch where the noose was caught and after removing it carried the rope far aloft and out upon a long and powerful branch.
The tightening noose was stopping the circulation of the blood in his legs--he was beginning to suffer.
The man-child had, in throwing hisnoose at a playmate in a tree above him, caught a projecting branch instead.
To tighten, hold noose in position and pull standing part.
Form a small loop on the standing part leaving the end long enough for the size of the noose required.
The second method is to mark the trees in which, frequently to the number of five or six together, they roost, and then at night to climb up and noose them.
This he whirls round his head, and by the dexterous movement of his wrist keeps the noose open; then, throwing it, he causes it to fall on any particular spot he chooses.
One end is attached to the broad surcingle, which fastens together the complicated gear of the recado, or saddle used in the Pampas; the other is terminated by a small ring of iron or brass, by which a noose can be formed.
First a noosewas slipped over Dick's wrists, and made fast.
Dick tied a string around the pigeon's neck, loosely enough not to choke the bird, and yet securely enough so that the noose could not slip off.
If the piles are very small they may be secured without transfixion in a single noose after being seized by a hook or forceps.
There is greater risk of the noose slipping than when the base has been transfixed.
