To facilitate this object a rope was suspended from the extremity of the spanker-boom, along which the men were recommended to proceed, and thence slide down by the rope into the boats.
Directions were at the same time given that every man should tie a rope round his waist, by which he might afterwards attach himself to the rafts, should he be suddenly forced to take to the water.
Another, and much more military style, consisted of rope fastened side by side, and so bound round the body that it had the appearance of a tight-fitting cuirass.
A rope acted like the string of a bow, and was wound back by a suitable apparatus, thus tending to draw the arms to a parallel position; upon its release the falarica was propelled in exactly the same manner as an arrow is discharged.
All in good time, sir," said I, and went over to the rope which led to the great bell and pulled it vigorously, so that the clangor filled the park below with stirring sound.
Looking round, I saw the Englishman engaged in coiling a rope close to me.
His dog came over to our house, starving, with a piece of frayed ropeon her collar," Terry burst out.
Arden wrapped the rope around her hand, and they both tugged vigorously.
The silky, white fur clung to her thin frame, and a piece of rope trailed from her collar.
The children are taught to walk upon these lines like tight-rope walkers, placing their feet one in front of the other.
To keep their balance they make efforts exactly similar to those of real tight-rope walkers, except that they have no danger with which to reckon, as the lines are only drawn upon the floor.
Such odd places have been chosen as a knot in a large rope that hung from the rafters of a woodshed; and again, amongst the wires of an electric light globe that was suspended in the front porch of a city residence.
A ladder gave us a twenty-foot start, after which I nailed up the cleats with the aid of a three-quarter-inch rope passed round the tree and my body.
Freddy, catching hold of the rope of one of the bells.
And now my foresight in fastening therope ~104~~around me proved, under Providence, the means of saving both our lives.
Strips of buckskin or bits of rope are passed through these U-shaped cavities, and then over the lower pole of the loom at the bottom of the extended series of warp threads.
As for this present man, I do hope that the law will find itself powerful enough to fasten a rope round his neck.
She rushed at the bell and pulled it till the bell rope came down from the wire, but nobody answered the bell.
He will be hardly expecting to see it, today, and may not be ready with the rope and disguises.
So saying, he took off his coat, fastened the end of the rope securely to the bars that had been left for the purpose, and, holding it firmly, made his way through the opening and swung himself over.
They did not lose a moment in setting to work, and, oiling the saws, one began to cut through the central bar, just above the point where the lowest cross bars went through it, as they determined to leave these to fasten the rope to.
Bring with you, at nine that evening, rope strong enough to bear us, and have disguises for three ready for us at foot of wall.
I don't think that it will make any difference, for the rope is strong enough to hold the three of us together.
Ned, with an eye to their great need; and only too gladly did the other scout jump forward to where the rope had been passed around that cleat under the rail.
We might have said that before, and yet there was the dangling rope that three of them climbed.
What was sauce for the goose might be sauce for the gander, too; and if only they could discover more rope they might also slide down it to safety.
You told us about those three men climbing aboard by means of a rope that was dangling over the side; am I right, Jimmy?
The sight of the rope against the whitewashed wall and the thought of the bloodsome uproar which was about to smash the peace of the night into hash served to deepen that rummy feeling to which I have alluded.
And every now and then you lose your grip on the rope and plunge into the sea and have to swim to your board again.
I noticed the first night, that the room where I was locked up was not far from the ground; and that it would be easy to let myself down from the window by tearing up the bedclothes and making a rope of them.
In fact, Father Garnett ordered this arrangement, fearing lest, otherwise, the rope might break by the weight of my body.
They hung him up by the hands to a pulley, and then tortured him by twisting a sailor's roperound his head.
This bundle we placed on the double rope to see if it would slide down of itself, but it stuck at once.
They fastened the rope to a stake, as I had told them; they found the leaden ball which we threw, and tied the string to the rope.
He meant to intimate, in the abundance of his charity, that he would take care I should go to Heaven by the rope before that time.
This they would find in the dark by the noise it would make in falling, and would attach the string to the free end of their rope, so that we, who retained one end of the string, would thus be able to pull the rope up.
In fact, with the rope so slack and my body hanging beneath it, I could hardly get on at all.
However, by God's mercy, the one who was thrown into the river caught a rope that was let down from the bridge, and was so dragged up and saved.
They had, however, before leaving the wall, untied the rope from the stake and cut off a part of it, so that it hung down the wall of the tower.
I have a bad name--an Irish dog goes about the world with a rope round his neck.
It is not an easy matter to board a ship in mid-current when tide and wind are at variance, and the fingers so cold that a rope slips through them like a log-line.
A boy went forward with a coil of rope on his arm, for the tide was running hard and the Garonne is no ladies' pleasure stream.
Just as I was about climbing up the rope to get out, I saw the man who is now below here, preparing to let himself down.
A rope was then made fast to the back of the cage, and attached to a horse standing outside the enclosure.
As I came up to him, I saw that a rope had been, already noosed around his neck.
The old convict was then lowered down; and, as soon as he had detached himself from the rope below, I noticed that the young man hastily drew it up and in a manner that betrayed some extraordinary excitement.
When the rope was placed around the neck of the unfortunate victim, a young man stepped forward, and claimed him as his father!
A man was climbing into the live oak--for the purpose of passing the rope over one of its branches.
This same ruffian gave the word to the mob, to pull the ropethat hoisted their unfortunate victim into eternity!
Those holding the ropesprang outward from the tree, and up rose Mr Leary.
Beeg feller hees loose dat rope, ron down on de bank hitching rope on willow tree an' roun' hees own shoulder an' jump on reever way down on bend an' wait for ole boss.
Her round bright eyes, indeed, had already sought and found the posy of violets which the King wore half-hidden by the rope of pearls around his neck.
There was no doubt but that it was the creaking of the rope by which the boat was tied.
Just like our swing rope creaks, when it's going slow.
He put the rope as best he could upon his thighs, but wishing to take off his hat, which was in his way, he took hold of it awkwardly, and it was soon dancing from plate to plate to join the packet of linen in the gutter.
By this stick I intended to attach my rope to the bed, and as the thread hung down to the floor of the room below, as soon as I got there I should pull the thread and the rope would fall down.
For nearly an hour I went to this side and that, keeping a sharp look-out, but in vain; for I could see nothing to which the rope could be fastened, and I was in the greatest perplexity as to what was to be done.
Put your cloak in a packet with some of the rope which must be divided equally between us.
This was enough, and tying my rope to the first round I dragged this troublesome burden after me to the window.
I noticed that their bells are not allowed to swing like ours, but are motionless, being rung by a rope attached to the clapper.
I could let go the ladder while I slackened the rope without any fear of its falling over, as it had caught to the parapet by the third rung.
For one it was easy enough, for the other could lower him by the rope; but I could not discover how the second of us was to get down afterwards, as there was nothing to which the rope could be fastened.
I now only had to push it in another two feet, as I was sure that I could get it in altogether by means of the rope from the roof of the window.
As soon as he had done so, I slid down the roof as before, and lying down on the dormer-roof with a firm grasp of the rope I told the monk not to be afraid but to let himself go.
I knew that this room was opened every morning, and I felt persuaded that, after I had made my hole, I could easily let myself down with my sheets, which I would make into a rope and fasten to my bed.
On the contrary, I straightway untied my bundle of rope and bound him strongly under the elbows, and making him lie flat down I lowered him feet foremost on to the roof of the dormer-window.
The lascar meditatively pressed his face, brown and begrimed with coal dust, streaked here and there with sweat, against the rope which formed the rough bulwark.
She was like a rope which has parted with many groans and wrenchings; broken and its strands scattering, its ends float lazily at the mercy of the waves, preparing to sink.
Before I have taken a dozen steps upward I am lost in the darkness; the steps are worn hollow and sloping, the rope is slippery--seems to have been waxed, so smooth has it become by handling.
As he spoke we entered a room quite filled with curious machinery, a medley of levers, wires, and rope above; below, two large cylinders studded with shining brass points.
The looming masts beyond the coil of ropewere transformed, in his eyes, into the enchanted rigging of a dream ship.
A very old man, a Mexican, in ragged white trousers and bare feet, sat on a horse-block in front of the barber shop, holding a horse by a rope around its neck.
He moved away impatiently, loosening the tie-rope with which the buckskin was fastened.
To lower a rope was the work of a minute; and before any one was aware that the ship's carpenter had left the ship, Stork and the two cooks were rowing frantically for the shore.
He was therefore in full possession of his senses and wide awake when a shadowy form ascended the poop steps, and passed to the taffrails at the very stern of the vessel, from which was suspended the rope of the ship's log.
There was no lack of rope on board, and the buoyancy of the raft was considerably increased by a number of life-buoys and belts.
He sank so deeply in the midst of the coils of rope that, in spite of the fact that it was an exceedingly bright moonlit night, his form was completely hidden from any one who might happen to be passing.
Hence, it was all that they could do to retain their hold, and neither would they have succeeded in this had it not been that a rope was attached along the entire length of the spar.
Now, those who know anything of the hardships of a sea-faring life are well aware that a coil of rope makes a couch that is far from being uncomfortable--as things go with those whose fate it is to serve before the mast.
The gangway had been lowered, as well as every rope ladder that the "Mondavia" had on board; and it was Jimmy Burke himself who was the first to know that he was saved.
The last rope was coiled, and deposited in its proper place, by the seamen, and for several minutes the stillness of death pervaded the crowded decks.
