It grips it between its claws like a wrestler clutching his opponent, and with head and feet together rolls up its paste like a ropemaker twisting a hawser. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
Poet, son of a ropemaker, was born at Saffron Walden, ed. at. From Wordnik.com. [A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature] Reference
Shakespear, son of John of Shadwell, ropemaker, was apprenticed to John. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare's Family] Reference
George Wentworth, Ben Scarlett and an old ropemaker, incur the enmity of. From Wordnik.com. [Gascoyne, The Sandal-Wood Trader A Tale of the Pacific] Reference
Wentworth, Ben Scarlett and an old ropemaker, incur the enmity of a young. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Lieutenant or, The Adventures of an Army Officer] Reference
Victor, the carpenter, ropemaker, and general roustabout had performed his part. From Wordnik.com. [Voyage of the Liberdade] Reference
Ignacio Taimanglo, a builder of traditional huts and ropemaker, also will assist with instruction. From Wordnik.com. [guampdn.com - Local News] Reference
Ripping yarns: Kent ropemaker Fred Cordier threads yarn through a die before it is formed into strands. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
For the poor ropemaker, however, a struggling weaver and for the two gentlemen, Sa'd and Sa'dÝ, three rich students are substituted. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
"The wind can never have overturned this heavy mass of limestone," said a ropemaker: "And see how far it stands from the broken ground.". From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
Two were sailors from ships lying in the harbour, and they, together with the remaining victim, a ropemaker, had been actively engaged in the affray. From Wordnik.com. [The War of Independence] Reference
The farmer hath already sown the hemp, the ropemaker hath twisted it; sawyers saw the timber, carpenters tack together the shell, grave-diggers delve the earth. From Wordnik.com. [Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby, and Silas Gough, Clerk] Reference
His father was a ginger-bread and spicemaker at York, and his mother -- a woman of considerable force and originality of character -- was the daughter of a ropemaker. From Wordnik.com. [Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance] Reference
Inside these walls the ropemaker twisted his ropes along a walk built like a gallery, and in the cracks and crevices of the walls elderbushes grow and stretch their green boughs over the small houses which stand below. From Wordnik.com. [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen] Reference
"We are now," said he to Saadi, "not far from the street where Hassan the ropemaker lives; let us call and see what use he has made of the two hundred pieces of gold you gave him, and whether they have enabled him to take any steps towards bettering his fortune.". From Wordnik.com. [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Complete] Reference
The freshly-cut ends of it, however, with their greenish colour and running sap, told it to be some species of creeping-plant -- one of the parasites, or epiphytes, that abound everywhere in the forests of Borneo, as in those of all tropical countries, and render the trade of the ropemaker altogether superfluous. From Wordnik.com. [The Castaways] Reference
Captain Minors, which we did, and dined; and there happened to be Mr. Prichard, a ropemaker of his acquaintance, and whom I know also, and did once mistake for a fiddler, which sung well, and I asked him for such a song that I had heard him sing, and after dinner did fall to discourse about the business of the old contract between the King and the East India. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 61: January 1667-68] Reference
A ropemaker: "And see how far it stands from the broken ground.". From Wordnik.com. [The Emperor — Complete] Reference
The three heroes, George Wentworth, Ben Scarlett and an old ropemaker, incur the enmity of a young Tory, who causes them many adventures the boys will like to read. ". From Wordnik.com. [Dick, Marjorie and Fidge A Search for the Wonderful Dodo] Reference
The association between the craft of builder, carpenter, tanner, jeweller, watchmaker, woodcarver, ropemaker, etc., and the painter's art is small at best, and in most cases is non-existent. ". From Wordnik.com. [Applied Eugenics] Reference
“‘A sailor, a ropemaker, a sailor again — and then — —;’ but the word ‘beggar’ choked me. From Wordnik.com. [Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund] Reference
Ben Scarlett and an old ropemaker, incur the enmity of a young Tory, who causes them many adventures the boys will like to read. ". From Wordnik.com. [Slow and Sure The Story of Paul Hoffman the Young Street-Merchant] Reference
A royal ropemaker, who is in Mexico. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 02 of 55 1521-1569 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
James Hall ropemaker. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies] Reference
"Nonsense!" cried the ropemaker. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
Mr. Samuel Gray, ropemaker, killed. From Wordnik.com. [The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England Gleanings Chiefly from old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts] Reference
(4) The old wife of the Court ropemaker. From Wordnik.com. [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference
"Publications and Marriages, 1654: John Shakespear, of Ratcliffe Highway, ropemaker, aged thirty-five, and Martha Seeley, of Wapping Wall, mayde, nineteen years. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare's Family] Reference
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