Word: roped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the first shock, the crew settled down very quickly. The envelope was dented along its whole length, the bow was hanging in shreds and there was danger in the fierce wind that it would rip still further. Men went aloft in sailor style, lowered a rope ladder over the bow, gather up the loose ends of the flapping cover and bunched them , together. They made untidy balls but prevented the fabric from ripping further. In the first burst of the gale, the ship traveled stern first for many miles, rolling constantly and threatening to head down into the water...
...Carolina mountains. This particular girl was careless enough to get herself kissed on the lips by a vagrant Northern millionaire. Thereupon, the simple village menfolk consider her disgraced and rally round to marry her and reinsure her honor. Shotguns and tar are meted out to the unhappy Northerner. A rope is around his neck when the lady, having kissed, decides to tell...
...soap, a long cart rope, a frying pan and kettle...
...false gods everywhere-an impious Mullet; a stertorous Turtle, like an island; a Siren, scaled in emerald, with a pearl loin-rope and breasts of mother-of-pearl. She told Sturly that Beauty was God, but vanished when he asked her to reconcile Life with Death. (The wreck of a Corsican mail packet heightened this central paradox; for the long pilgrim Sharks came and a Cuttlefish lifted a lady's dress, seeking his dinner...
...towel- soggy, bloodstained, ragged-sailed over the top rope of the fight ring in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. Sock! it landed on the canvas, right at the heels of a battered little man with a streaming gash over his right eye. The little man was rocking to and fro under showers of blows from a furious, compact human whirlwind that flew now at his head, now at his ribs, now at his jaw, now at his pounding heart...