There are holes in the wall, and ropes put through the holes, and a man outside on the veranda pulls the ropes, and keeps the punka moving.
That the Ainu have more muscular power in the head than either in the hands or feet when violent exertion is required is certain, as I had frequent proof when requiring natives to make my baggage fast with ropes to my pack-saddle.
The Ainu make their ropes out of the bark of this shina, though often young vine stems are used for the same purpose.
Where a European would have done this by passing the ropes round the baggage and pulling them fast to the saddle, the Ainu set his foot (generally the right) against the baggage and pulled the ropes with his teeth.
One large hole is perforated in each of these to allow ropes to be passed through.
Morgan, the mate, put them up to the ropes as to getting to Colonel Trelawney's residence, and a good thing it was that he did so, else assuredly they would have lost themselves.
The cook was severely injured, and but for the presence of mind and speed of two ordinary seamen, the ship would have caught fire, for the blazing coals had been dashed out of the range and ignited ropes and twine that lay not far off.
The coiledropes were a source of great amusement to him, and after unravelling one end he would seize it, and walk straight off with it as men do with a hawser.
Ropes were therefore attached to her masts, and all hands upon the ice bent on to these, pulling slowly with a long pull and a strong pull.
Ropes were also to be taken, they might come in handy in many ways.
He did all he could to put his brother up to the ropes also.
He went into the cutter; I released the ropes that bound her to the frigate and followed him.
At first I was afraid to go near him once our ropes were off the pawls, and I, as it were, was altogether his, but to my surprise there could be no pleasanter man than Risk when he had the wash of water under his rotten barque.
Blackness Castle," said he, and he had time to tell no more, for the skipper bawled upon him for a shirking dog, and ordered the flemishing of some ropes loose upon the forward deck.
I looked aloft at the straining spars; they seemed to prick the clouds between the swelling sails; the ropes and shrouds stretched infinitely into a region very grey and chill.
The German workman is already so entangled in the ropes of insurance, so harried by petty officials, so branded by the police, and he has permitted to increase such a host of guardians, that revolt or revolution is practically impossible.
We then passed the free ends of the ropes around the log, first under it and then over the top of it, then up to a group of men who, by pulling on the free ends, rolled the log (Fig.
Taking two ropes we fastened the ends securely inside the cabin.
I learned to pull the ropes which hoisted the sails, and also to haul round the long sticks to which they are attached.
Some three days after my arrival we untied the ropes by which the ship was tethered and we set off upon our journey.
Men, with ropes round their waists, and with spades in their hands, go down on the body of the whale.
Sails were flapping, ropes flying and lashing, and blocks swinging round here and there.
And down came the fore-topmast and all its rigging; the ropes flying about our heads, and the spars nearly striking us.
Then there were so many ropes to keep up the masts, and so many more to haul the sails here and there, that I thought I should never learn their names or their uses.
At other times we would have to land half our men at a time, with long ropes to pull the steamer and flat along, or we should have lost ground.
Ropes were thrown to them, but it was all in vain.
Then up, high up, for the ropes are long, And down, low down, for the branch is strong.
O'er the ropes so lightly skipping, O'er the grass so lightly tripping, The children are as glads as they.
Along the gun-deck stood the men at the guns; and an officer, describing the scene, says they took hold of the ropes as if they were about to jerk the guns through the ship's sides.
Her patched and dirty canvas was held in place by oft-spliced ropes and rigging none too taut.
The ends of the ropes on the ketch were passed to the hidden men, who pulled lustily upon them, thus bringing the little craft alongside the frigate.
Nature was in one of her most smiling moods, as these men with set faces, and hearts throbbing with the mingled emotions of fear and excitement, stood silent at their guns, or worked busily at the ropes of the great war-ships.
The people on the frigate were wholly deceived, and sent out ropesto the ketch, allowing one of the boats of the "Intrepid" to make a line fast to the frigate.
A mile along the level two Arabs were rhythmically swinging water up from a cutting by means of a shallow vessel with ropes attached to the side.
A tug boat appeared and ropes were stretched out to posts on the land and the water was being churned to foam by the paddles.
We let go the ropes which held the raft to the brig, and, seizing the poles, shoved away with all our might; then taking the paddles in hand, we exerted ourselves to the utmost to get as far as we could away from the sinking vessel.
The ropes were unrove, the hands were piped down, and the boats returned to their respective ships.
They at once sent us down ropes with which the wounded men were hauled up, though there was great risk of getting them hurt in the operation.
Ropes were rove through the main, fore, and mizzen-yard-arms.
All time they bring back to old chief strong medicine, like rattlesnake poison, like ropes of yucca fiber, like fifty coyotes fastened together.
The machine which helps to produce these ropes is called the carding machine.
The manufacturer must prepare the slivers, or rolls like ropes of wool, for the spinning frames as they are called to-day.
The stilts were duly secured, and then the order followed, "And now the ropes for the launching," and another glance prompted the lowering of the summer swings for their new use.
If we were the heroes of a dime novel we'd shoo these ropes away in a jiffy," went on Tom, with a grin his brothers could not see.
That is, they are left in their saddles-- compelled to stay in them by ropes rove around their ankles, attaching them to the stirrup-leathers.
Withes of wood were used in lieu of ropesand chains.
These ropes were very long, and had been but little worn.
Ropes were flung to them and Joe saw his good friend safely aboard before he went up the side.
The watches were set, ropes coiled down, and the tackles of the cannon overhauled.
Would ye have Charles Town rise and reeve the ropesabout our necks?
The weighty sea-chest swinging in air came down by the run as the ropes smoked through the blocks.
His sails were blowing to ribbons, ropes flying at loose ends, and it was with great difficulty that the vessel could be made to mind her tiller.
It was nothing unusual for at least a score of the 'sons of the soil' to yoke themselves with ropes to the plough, having put on clean smock-frocks in honour of the day.
Long ropes are attached to it, and thirty or forty men, stripped to their clean white shirts, but protected from the weather by waistcoats beneath, drag it along.
Ropes were grasped, and, with hands still trembling, were looped around the stems of the sapucaya.
These were of a peculiar sort,--the true sipos of the South American forest, which serve for all purposes of cordage, ropes ready made by the hand of Nature.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ropes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bond; connections; deal; game; intrigue; lobbying; ploy; rigging; rope; scheme; strings
