... a span of sixty feet, and was constructed on the system of the "jhula," or rope bridge, of Cashmere, out of telegraph wire. The roadway, to admit of one person at a time, was made of two lengths of twisted wire, each ten strands thick. These being stretched tightly across the river, and the ends well worked into the ground and pegged down, were joined together by ... — The Record of a Regiment of the Line • M. Jacson Read full book for free!
... didn't, neither. The King lost his head, so he did, all along o' one of those cunning rope bridges. Kindly let me have the paper- cutter, Sir. It tilted this way. They marched him a mile across that snow to a rope bridge over a ravine with a river at the bottom. You may have seen such. They prodded him behind like an ox. 'Damn your eyes!' says the King. 'D' you suppose I ... — The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling Read full book for free!