Word: ropes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...between Holden Chapel and Hollis Hall, and will be open at 5. After the exercises at the Tree, and during the remainder of the evening, a ticket will be required of every gentleman, or of gentlemen accompanied by ladies, entering the portion of the Yard enclosed by the rope. These tickets are not to be given up on entering the Yard, but merely to be shown to the officer...
Police and rope...
...short, but strongly built, and dressed as men dressed long ago; his face was pallid and strangely contorted; a heavy rope was knotted around his neck and trailed upon the floor. I was about to offer the figure a chair when it occurred to me that it might be his custom to take rest by hanging himself up; and having no conveniences for performing that operation, I hesitated. At the same moment the apparition grasped the rope with both hands, and, by a mysteriously complicated movement, caused himself to perform a complete somersault...
...replied the ghost with a groan, - "he did; this is the rope and I am the bell...
Saying these words, the vision gave a violent pull upon the rope, and vanished in a somersault through the door...