Article on how to build a "ropewalk" for constructing rope for ship models. From Wordnik.com. [MAKE Magazine] Reference
Whandall thought he saw shadows moving near the ropewalk. From Wordnik.com. [The Burning City]
The cistern has long been empty, and is used as a ropewalk. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876] Reference
There's a fight between the ropewalk workers and the soldiers. From Wordnik.com. [The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory & the American Revolution] Reference
Then we can walk back by the avenue of birches or through the ropewalk. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
There's enough for your ropewalk, I think, if you and Carter stay together. From Wordnik.com. [The Burning City]
Rigmaster's ropewalk was a long building with no windows but plenty of hemp in storage. From Wordnik.com. [The Burning City]
The Walstons lived in Apartment K3 along the ropewalk, later moving to A14 at the front. From Wordnik.com. [Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography]
The square, the new ropewalk we'd paid so much to build after we lost the Ropewalker family!. From Wordnik.com. [The Burning City]
I don't know if he can afford a ropewalk-he's got Fawn to marry off too-but he'll do what he can. From Wordnik.com. [The Burning City]
There was a ropewalk here which extended from where the angle of the building faces the Amphitheatre, as far as Renshaw-street. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Old Liverpool] Reference
On the land side of First stood the old brick shipbuilding factories, including an obsolete ropewalk building a quarter mile long. From Wordnik.com. [The Town] Reference
Whandall, we'll talk when we're over the pass, discuss arrangements, where the kids want to live, what it takes to set up a ropewalk. From Wordnik.com. [The Burning City]
No important action was taken by the Council, although the apprehension was expressed that the ropewalk affair might grow into a general quarrel. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863] Reference
It was arranged as formerly that Roswitha should come to meet her at the end of the ropewalk, or near the churchyard, but they missed each other oftener than before. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
Call (812) 464-1989 or visit www. usi.edu/ropewalk. From Wordnik.com. [courierpress.com Stories] Reference
The ropewalk method - which was also in use in China - is very simple. From Wordnik.com. [MAKE Magazine] Reference
He passed an empty ropewalk, the hemp strewn untidily about, as if the workers had left hurriedly. From Wordnik.com. [The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West] Reference
Dwelling-house and laud iu Boston at the South end, ropewalk iu tenure of John Harrison N.W.; John Harrison N.E. From Wordnik.com. [Suffolk deeds] Reference
Turner, then Col. Pickman, then Mr.J. Cabot, &c. There was but one ropewalk, and that was on the neck, inside the gate. From Wordnik.com. [The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6: Literary Curiosities Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts] Reference
While Hebner tried to untie Daniels from the Tree, Skipper ran in, crotched Sabin on the top rope, then hit the ropewalk rana. From Wordnik.com. [PWInsider Latest Articles] Reference
Vader counters the ropewalk with leverage, and then hits a lowblow (with great facials from UT), and we head to the resting portion of the match. From Wordnik.com. [Scott's Blog of Doom] Reference
No wonder that it made an inexperienced boy want to go to sea, and especially such boys as led an uneventful life in the ropewalk or in the candle shop!. From Wordnik.com. [True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin] Reference
You grew your own hemp, had your own ropewalk, twisted your own twine; you grew your flax and wove your linen; you tanned and dressed your own leather, cut and spun your own wool, made, no doubt, your own clothes. From Wordnik.com. [In a Green Shade A Country Commentary] Reference
Expensive to set up, but a ropewalk makes good money, "he said. From Wordnik.com. [The Burning City]
"She can't take back a ropewalk!". From Wordnik.com. [The Burning City]
There were torches over by the new ropewalk. From Wordnik.com. [The Burning City]
The ropewalk was in Pelzed's forbidden zone. From Wordnik.com. [The Burning City]
"Greathand can't afford a ropewalk," Carter said. From Wordnik.com. [The Burning City]
"On the 2nd of March, 1770, a fray took place near Mr. Gray's ropewalk, between a private soldier of the 20th Regiment and an inhabitant. From Wordnik.com. [The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816] Reference
The ropewalk lends its 'prentice crew. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 07: Songs of Many Seasons] Reference
UT comes back with the ropewalk and a chokeslam. From Wordnik.com. [Scott's Blog of Doom] Reference
"We'll find him on the ropewalk. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Hugh] Reference
We have a ropewalk in the Pond District - ". From Wordnik.com. [The Burning City]
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