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Sentences ending with rope

Sergeant Gellatly there will wish he went to sleep forever in the snow, if Little Hammer come to the rope. [11]
The greatest men will hold out a hand to a beautiful woman, and time was when I could lead you all as with a rope. [10]
The clue-iron which we are trying to make serve for the broken block works, however, very indifferently, and will, I am afraid, soon cut the rope. [5]
Jim he spoke to the duke, and said he hoped it wouldn't take but a few hours, because it got mighty heavy and tiresome to him when he had to lay all day in the wigwam tied with the rope. [5]
Then she left the supporting pillar, approached the barrier, stopped at the rope which extended from one short stake to another, and gazed at the man who was following her outside of the rope. [10]
Then she hastily straightened herself, and with the bird cage in one hand and the winged staff of Mercury, which the clown had handed to her, in the other, she advanced to the centre of the rope. [10]
He left, and skipped the rope. [11]
But can't you see I've reached the end of my rope? [13]
Then she again saw herself upon the rope. [10]
Venters had to rope him, and then he kicked down a section of fence, stood on his hind legs, crashed down and fought the rope. [13]

Short sentences using rope

The rope was firm. [10]
Stand by with a rope! [5]

Sentences containing rope two or more times

I instructed him to guide himself back by the rope, in case of failure; in case of success, he was to give the rope a series of violent jerks, whereupon the Expedition would go to him at once. [5]
But there's one thing--he can have a rope ladder; we can tear up our sheets and make him a rope ladder easy enough. [5]
She had often jumped rope on the low rope, turning completely around so that she faced the other way. [10]
Zermatt gossip darkly hints that the elder Taugwalder cut the rope, when the accident occurred, in order to preserve himself from being dragged into the abyss; but Mr. Whymper says that the ends of the rope showed no evidence of cutting, but only of breaking. [5]
It encountered a bunch of long hair; he shuddered, but followed up the hair and found what seemed to be a warm rope; followed up the rope and found an innocent calf!--for the rope was not a rope at all, but the calf's tail. [5]

More example sentences with the word rope in them

Forty year ago, you had only to let down the bucket till the first knot in the rope was free of the windlass, and you heard it splashing in the cold dull water. [12]
In America this would have been a heavy leathern strap; but, all over the continent it is nothing but a piece of rope the size of your little finger--clothes-line is what it is. [5]
Slowly drawing the wonderful soft web of hair over her shoulders, she began to weave it into one wide strand, which grew and grew in length till it was like a great rope of spun gold. [11]
And how the woman with the red band around her neck, the mark of the rope by which she carried the stone, rushed at the other whose eye had been put out! [10]
But at last, when over half a mile of rope had slidden away, it stopped gliding and stood absolutely still--one minute--two minutes--three--while we held our breath and watched. [5]
But be danged well sure that you've got the bulge on iniquity here; for gen'lemen with pistols out in the street is one thing, and sittin' weavin' a rope in a court-room for a man's neck is another thing,' says Freddy Tarlton here. [11]
There was a well by the corn-crib; so I substituted thirty fathom of rope for the bridle, and fetched him home with the windlass. [5]
After a time we were able to do that which should have been done at first, and fixed rope to firm rocks, in addition to being tied together. [5]
When we judged we had gone half a mile, we momently expected to see the guide; but no, he was not visible anywhere; neither was he waiting, for the rope was still moving, consequently he was doing the same. [5]
The wizard's rope we disallow Was justice once,--is murder now! [6]
In due time we arrived at the "mine"--nothing but a hole in the ground ninety feet deep, and no way of getting down into it but by holding on to a rope and being lowered with a windlass. [5]
Across the top was laid a beam, to which the rope was fastened, and a dry-goods box served for the platform. [5]
Around her neck was hung a heavy rope of pearls. [9]
Her last appearance was at the age of seventy-six, which is rather late in life for the tight rope, one of her specialties. [6]
He heard the voice of a riverman as he toiled at a rope standing on the corn that filled his ghiassa from end to end, from keel to gunwale. [11]
He brought his vessel down the coast a little distance, put a rope about him and in the wild surf made for the shore. [11]
Suppose she should use the garland as a rope and venture to leap over it on this giddy height? [10]
If I get up," he added, "I'll let a string down for a rope you must get for me. [11]
His baggage was unpacked at once, and now he and a friend, laden with knapsacks, ice-axes, coils of rope, and canteens of milk, were just setting out. [5]
Whenever a climber tried to assist himself by the rope, it yielded and let him tumble backward. [5]
The traction engine travels about on its own wheels, till it reaches the required spot; then it stands still and by means of a wire rope pulls the huge plow toward itself two or three hundred yards across the field, between the rows of cane. [5]
Therefore, let the tourist rope himself up and go there; for I have shown that with nerve, caution, and judgment, the thing can be done. [5]
The chief mate took his stand in the glare of a torch-basket, a coil of rope in his hand, and his men grouped about him. [5]
You ought never to take your little brother's "chewing-gum" away from him by main force; it is better to rope him in with the promise of the first two dollars and a half you find floating down the river on a grindstone. [5]
Besides, I've got to go to the ship to get a rope, anyway. [5]
He had expected to find him a half-crazy villain, and his rage after he had heard the epigram against himself, left with the rope, had strengthened the chief priest's opinion. [10]
They dragged her to a tree and threw a rope over the limb, and began to make a noose in it, some holding her, meantime, and she crying and begging, and her young daughter looking on and weeping, but afraid to say or do anything. [5]
Presently a bull, tied to the end of a rope, was fiercely baited by dogs. [4]
He caught one, tied its legs together, passed the rope over his head, and started for home. [6]
It seemed as though the tempest had seized the ends of the rope, and was dealing terrible blows with them upon her shoulders, her back, and her feet. [10]
So I was thinking, when the pilot asked-- 'Do you know what this rope is for? [5]
That's what people think the rope found by him was for. [6]
I stayed down there an hour, and surprised the workmen when they hauled up and found a man on the rope instead of a bucket of rock. [5]
I staid down there an hour, and surprised the workmen when they hauled up and found a man on the rope instead of a bucket of rock. [5]
Every now and then one comes across a friar of orders gray, with shaven head, long, coarse robe, rope girdle and beads, and with feet cased in sandals or entirely bare. [5]
When some of them--frequently six at a time--had settled on the perches in the trough, it was drawn into the but by a rope, a net was spread over the water and there was nothing more to do except take the captives out. [10]
Macavoy, stripped to the waist, and carrying only a hatchet and a coil of rope tied round him, started away alone up the river. [11]
When Mena saw the twelve princes descending to the ground, he shouted through his hands, using them as a speaking trumpet, and called to Rameri, who was about to slip down the rope they had contrived, the last of them all. [10]
Many and many the 'tween-watch have I passed in a coil of rope in the tops, a volume of the classics in my hand. [9]
As soon as the rope was tied, the Expedition moved forward with that alacrity which the thirst for vengeance usually inspires. [5]
Twice he felt the rope suddenly jerk when she lost her footing, but it came in evenly still, and he used a nose of rock as a sort of winch. [11]
The next moment the rope sprang taut and yanked Sir Sagramor out of the saddle! [5]
He deftly threw the rope round a sapling, but not too taut, lest the moose's horns should be injured. [11]
I payed out the rope myself, while everybody watched the crawling thing with eager eyes. [5]
Abel then secured the rope in a most thorough and satisfactory complication of twists and knots. [6]
Take care that the rope hangs about the neck of the guilty. [10]
We held; but the rope broke midway between Taugwalder and Lord Francis Douglas. [5]
From the moment the rope broke it was impossible to help them. [5]
They were in the rapids, and would have rejected any friendly rope thrown to draw them ashore. [4]
When he allowed the ram to get up it fell to plunging around, trying to rid itself of the rope, and this was the signal which we had risen up with glad shouts to obey. [5]
The solution of the problem of the rope for afterwards, but he had been sent there to hang a man, and a man he would hang somehow. [11]
Ned entered, leading the prisoner with one hand and carrying a Bible and a rope in the other. [5]
You could follow the line of the procession back, and slanting upward into the sky, far away in a glittering snaky rope, till it was only a faint streak in the distance. [5]
We hauled in the ladder and dropped down till we was just above the reach of the animals, then we let down a rope with a slip-knot in it and hauled up a dead lion, a small tender one, then yanked up a cub tiger. [5]
It seemed, on the instant, as if the whole crew were tossed into the water; but some had successfully clutched the boat's side, and Hungerford hung by a rope with one hand. [11]
He objected that the first two miles was a dead level, with plenty of room, and that the rope was never used except in very dangerous places. [5]
At three in the afternoon we were nearly dead with exhaustion--and still the rope was slowly gliding out. [5]
Joshua now knew that it was the youth's sharp teeth gnawing the rope which had caused the noise that had just surprised him, and he immediately stood up and looked first upward and then around him. [10]
To his mind that could only be done by the axe, the rope or the bullet. [11]
The rope came taut, and presently he drew her up again to safety, and while she laughed at him and mocked him, he held her tight under his arm, and carried her to his lodge, where he let her go. [11]
A rope was stretched in front of them, and they were also guarded by their officers. [5]
But besides this, sounds frequently recurring at irregular intervals are highly disagreeable, as every one will admit who has listened at night to the irregular flapping of a rope on board ship. [1]
Perhaps--I always thought so--Hermon will represent her twisting the rope with which she is to kill herself. [10]
Firmly as ever she moved along the rope stretched through the wooden stay behind her, holding the balancing pole as she went. [10]
Ledscha did not seem to hear him, for while still clinging to the rope she looked sometimes at the sand at her feet, sometimes up to the full moon, which was now flooding both sky and earth with light. [10]
Something new, I say; and, above all, let me see the ringleaders in chains; the man who nailed up the rope, and the caricaturists. [10]
As he now saw nothing which was happening upon the rope, he had probably also failed to heed what she had performed, dared, accomplished, mainly for his sake, at the peril of her life, on the dizzy height. [10]
When on the rope she was no insignificant personage. [10]
Midway along the rope she turned, ran back to the cross-shaped trestle at the steeple window, handed the balancing pole to Loni, and received a cage filled with doves. [10]
He has the rope round his waist. [11]
I've got a rope on him and a half-hitch on this point of rock, so I can let him down safely. [13]
I ran the rope I had brought, through the iron ring at the bow, and was glad enough of that; for their lives perhaps depended on being able to do it. [11]
He took a rope from the stable with him, mounted his horse, and set forth in the direction of the Institute. [6]
We put a rope fence a hundred feet square around the platform to keep off the common multitude, and that finished the work. [5]
You've got no right to put that rope round his neck again. [11]
He recovered himself, reached the bell rope, "Damn you, I'll learn you," stepped to the door and called a couple of brakemen, and then, as the speed slackened; roared out, "Get off this train. [5]
Now he had reached Rameri, and bound one end of the rope made out of cloaks and handkerchiefs, round his body; then he gave the other end to Rameri, who held fast to the window-sill, and prepared once more to spring. [10]
After leaving the ram tied to the rope, he had wandered at large a while, and then happened to run across a cow. [5]
If you are quiet and come to your senses, he may live for aught I care; but if you are refractory, a rope and a stone can soon be found, and the stream runs close below. [10]
When the crier proclaimed that the "flying maiden" would ascend the rope to the steeple, Loni was sure of a great crowd of spectators. [10]
Then came the priest, for Iberville, battered as he was, would not stir until the abbe had gone up--a stout strain on the rope. [11]
But as he plunged by, rapidly getting into his stride, Venters made a perfect throw with the rope. [13]
With beads of perspiration on her brow, and eyes uplifted, she threw the cage aside, swung her Mercury staff aloft, and danced along the rope in waltz time, as though borne by the gods of the wind. [10]
For the greater part of the way there was no occasion, indeed, for the rope, and sometimes Hudson led, sometimes myself. [5]
Seven Mormons all packin' guns, an' a Gentile tied with a rope, an' a woman who swears by his honesty! [13]
The rope running over the pulley cut her tender hands; her beautiful face was terribly distorted; but she did not pause until they had succeeded in lifting the burden of the dying man higher and higher till he reached the floor of the scaffolding. [10]
And if the outlet's closed we'll climb up the cliffs and over them to the valley and go down on rope ladders. [13]
They demanded that our end of the rope be made fast to a tree, so as to halt the guide until we could overtake him and kill him. [5]
It is anchored on the shoalest part of the reef by a rope with a heavy stone made fast to the end of it. [5]
Then he pulled on the rope. [11]
While we stood on the floor one of the workmen swung loose from that gallery at the end of a long rope. [5]
Whenever she thought of that supplication she again felt the bitterness she had tasted on the rope. [10]
Particularly a rope of great diamonds, a lovely thing to look at and handle. [5]
With a choice of evils he should have preferred walking the plank, or even dying quietly in his bed, to being stifled by a rope. [11]
The first peep of day found him stirring, and as soon as it was light enough to distinguish objects, he took his lasso off his saddle and went out to rope the sorrel. [13]
I took three-quarters of a mile of rope and fastened one end of it around the waist of a guide, and told him to go find the road, while the caravan waited. [5]
You are thieves now; if you fight and kill, you will get the rope, every one. [11]
The last born nobleman I have seen, I saw this morning; he was pulling a rope that was fastened to a Maine schooner loaded with lumber. [6]
The boat had neither oar nor sail, but was towed by a couple of horses, who, with the rope to which they were harnessed slack and dripping in the water, were resting on the path. [12]
I out with my knife and cut the rope, and away we went! [5]

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