I was a dyer's helper in Pyonhan, a gold-miner in the placers of Kang-wun, a rope-maker and twine-twister in Chiksan. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Her father had a small business as a rope-maker for the shipyards. ❋ Elizabeth Kerri Mahon (2009)
She asked all the neighbours if they had seen the children, but no one knew anything about them, except that the eldest had not been with the blue-eyed daughter of Jacob the rope-maker. ❋ Unknown (2003)
It grips it between its claws like a wrestler clutching his opponent, and with head and feet together rolls up its paste like a rope-maker twisting a hawser. ❋ Unknown (2000)
Lieutenant-Governor relative to the provoking conduct of the rope-maker which brought on the affray; and thus this affair became the occasion of political consultation, which tended to intensify the animosity between the parties. ❋ Various (N/A)
On their way they saw a rope-maker, Lucas by name, who by his condition showed his great suffering from poverty. ❋ Dean Spruill Fansler (N/A)
As has been said, Lucas was very poor and was a rope-maker. ❋ Dean Spruill Fansler (N/A)
He went to Lucas's house, and offered the rope-maker a thousand pesos for the stone; but Lucas refused, for now he suspected that it was worth more than that. ❋ Dean Spruill Fansler (N/A)
Antony upbraidingly tells him that his great-grandfather was a freedman of the territory of Thurium [107], and a rope-maker, and his grandfather ❋ Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (N/A)
The two rich friends are Saadi and Saad, and the name of the rope-maker is Cojia Hasan. ❋ Dean Spruill Fansler (N/A)
This specimen was prepared by a rope-maker of the colony, and the result of the trial has fully justified the good opinion previously formed of its valuable qualities. ❋ Phillip Parker King (N/A)
And I am quite confident, that, if all the four hundred muscles of your present body were twisted together by a rope-maker, they would not furnish that patient young laborer with a needleful of thread. ❋ Various (N/A)
The spider spins and twists its slender threads just as a rope-maker twists his ropes, only using its feet for hands -- for each fine thread in the web, which you could break with one touch of your finger, is made up of many finer ones, and thus rendered strong. ❋ Caroline Pridham (N/A)
By occupation his father was a hemp-breaker, rope-maker, and farmer. ❋ George Washington Williams (N/A)
Francois-Marie had been an apprentice rope-maker, but he began to study the classics at sixteen, and was ordained 19 December, 1812. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Work away, then, excellent rope-maker, and make us more ropes to hold on against the devil and the parsons. ❋ Huxley, Leonard (1900)
I was a dyer's helper in Pyonhan, a gold - miner in the placers of Kang-wun, a rope-maker and twine-twister in ❋ Jack London (1896)
So the third man said to the others: "One of you is a rope-maker, and the other is a cooper; and let you make a rope and a bucket now." ❋ Lady Gregory (1892)
Now then, in that city of the affluent there will be no manufacturer, no builder, no carpenter, no shoe-maker, no baker, no husbandman, no brazier, no rope-maker, nor any other such trade. ❋ Editor (1889)
