"Rope up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... shepherd boy closed his eyes and gave himself up for lost. But the Seven Sisters of the well kept moving down as fast as the servants told out the rope, until at last they could not lower him any farther. The servants danced the rope up and down seven times, and the people screamed and clapped their hands, crying out, "All those who write love verses come to a bad end!" But the poet was never yet born who had not a friend greater than all his enemies. At that moment the spirits ...
— Waysiders • Seumas O'Kelly
... 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
... "'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
... 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
... to rope up the husky janitor with a squirming hose, but when Clay stepped back to inspect his job he knew he was looking at one that ...
— The Big-Town Round-Up • William MacLeod Raine
... had bent on a much greater rope to the bight of the three-inch hemp, having merely intended the latter for a hauling-line by which to get the heavier rope across the weed to the island. Thus, after a weariful time of pulling, we got the end of the bigger rope up to the hill-top, and discovered it to be an extraordinarily sound rope of some four inches diameter, and smoothly laid of fine yarns round and very true and well spun, and with this we had every reason ...
— The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" • William Hope Hodgson |
