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"Rope up" Quotes from Famous Books

... I were. You are blind, Melton. How can we get that rope up the seventy feet stretch from the ledge to ...

— The River of Darkness - Under Africa • William Murray Graydon

... dead, and the only sound of life about the camp was the cropping of the grass by the picketed Horse. Tito crept near softly, so softly that the Horse did not see her till she was within twenty feet; then he gave a start that swung the tightened picket-rope up into the air, and snorted gently. Tito went quietly forward, and opening her wide gape, took the rope in, almost under her ears, between the great scissor-like back teeth, then chewed it for a few seconds. The fibres quickly frayed, and, aided by the strain the nervous Horse still kept up, the ...

— Johnny Bear - And Other Stories From Lives of the Hunted • E. T. Seton

... "Carry a rope up the cliff! Nothing of the sort. Yes; perhaps it is something of the sort. But since you have made such a poor guess, I shall keep you ...

— The Cliff Climbers - A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" • Captain Mayne Reid

... at the end of his rope up the tree, and for a long time the hunters paid no more attention to him. He could see them eating and he could hear them talking as they planned a ...

— The Grizzly King • James Oliver Curwood

... he troubled to exert was on the side of the angels. Yet it was whispered in the school that he was in the habit of parading the town at night in loud checks and a false beard. It was whispered, and disbelieved. I alone knew it for a fact; for night after night had I pulled the rope up after him when the rest of the dormitory were asleep, and kept awake by the hour to let it down again on a given signal. Well, one night he was over-bold, and within an ace of ignominious expulsion in the hey-day of his fame. Consummate daring and extraordinary nerve on ...

— The Amateur Cracksman • E. W. Hornung