Word: roped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...chimneys, crevasses and pinnacles. With only his valet, van Dyck, he jumped in a little car and drove over. At the foot of the cliffs he looked at his watch, recalled that he had an engagement at the Palais des Sports in Brussels that evening. Then he took a rope, a canvas knapsack and a climbing ax out of the rear of the car and started up the cliffs...
...morning, when the search seemed most hopeless, Baron de Dixmunde atop the cliff, tripped over a rope caught round the limb of a tree. The end was broken. Twenty feet below were the King's broken glasses and his cap. There were traces of blood on the rocks. At the foot of the cliff lay the body of Albert. He was quite dead. There was a great hole in the back of his skull...
...America took off on a Saturday morning, amid intense public excitement. She chugged out to sea, sent four wireless messages (the first from aircraft) including one reporting that the kitten had jumped overboard and was rescued by a rope. A shifting wind drove the ship off her northeast course. The equilibrator bounced from wave to wave, threatened to wreck the ship. Early Tuesday morning, after traveling 1,008 mi., the America sighted a steamer which came alongside, took Capt. Wellman, crew & kitten aboard. The America vanished into the skies...
Sponsor of these and many another innovation in men's clothes is dapper Ray mond Godfrey Twyeffort, chairman of the Fashion Committee. He was conspicuous at the convention in a large-checked rope-shouldered suit of grey and red, with flaming red handkerchief, white spats and chamois gloves. (He kept the left one on.) He has no sympathy for men who do not believe in color. Cried he: "Color will bring back prosperity...
Stepping out into the Square he stopped the first car that was available and borrowed a blanket and an old piece of rope. Enlisting the assistance of the driver, he once more approached the baby bovine. Only this time he planned his attack in advance, like a field marshal leading his troops into battle. Flanked on one side by a brick gatepost and on the other by the automobile driver the patrolman closed in. For a moment it looked as if the calf would make a brake stand, but realizing that he was outnumbered three to one, and overwhelmed...