"Rope's-end" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... one of them. "The skipper 've got a very queer temper, as you may see, sir; and if you don't come he'll lay the blame on to us; and'll think nothin' of takin' it out of us with a rope's-end." ...
— Dick Leslie's Luck - A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure • Harry Collingwood |
