Word: ladder
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...ladder trembles on the verge
...poor thing!" said Amy; "have you seen her? She is utterly out of her mind, and talks of nothing but Jacob's ladder. Do you think that Leicester will come to see me soon...
...money-making point of view, there is a pretty general feeling that the University instruction might be so enlarged as to include the rudiments of business. It is a common complaint among those who graduate from Harvard, that they are obliged to begin at the lowest round of the ladder, and do the work commonly assigned to boys of fifteen or sixteen. This is, for the most part, unquestionably true, and as a partial remedy, the writer would propose the following plan...
...main floor the system of ladders is in position at one end, and above the central hall is the iron framework which is to support all such apparatus as flying trapese, swinging rings, etc. All this is to be so arranged that at a moment's notice it can be swung up out of the way, leaving the centre of the hall entirely clear. There are to be parallel bars of all varieties, - of the ordinary sort, high parallels, ascending bars, bars up which one can walk like a step-ladder, and one pair which can be adjusted in whatever...
...band of men who come charging down the Yard, leaping over the heads of the crowd, and brandishing aloft curiously shaped sticks? "The Lacrosse Club!" shouts the assembled multitude. Before the words are out of their mouths the players have already stationed themselves, some at the foot of the ladder, others distributed along...