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"Rope up" Quotes from Famous Books

... throws a rope up in the air, right up in the empty air, with nothing for it to catch ...

— The Faith Healer - A Play in Three Acts • William Vaughn Moody

... "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

... bellies. I am going up with all the materials. Give me your haversack—you will go up lighter; and recollect, should any accident happen to me, you run to bed again. If, on the contrary, I pull the rope up and down three or four times, you may sheer up it as fast as you can." O'Brien then loaded himself with the other rope, the two knapsacks, iron crows, and other implements he had procured; and, last of all, with the umbrella. "Peter, if the rope bears me with all this, it is clear it will bear ...

— Peter Simple and The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 • Frederick Marryat

... "'Let's rope up a divine some'ers,' exclaims Boggs, 'an' have 'em married. If that Mockin' Bird girl wants Turkey Track she shall shore have him. I'd give her his empty head on a charger, if she asks it, same as that party in holy writ, she singin' "Suwannee ...

— Faro Nell and Her Friends - Wolfville Stories • Alfred Henry Lewis

... 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