ROPE in Classic Quotes

1  By experiment its one and fifty yarns will each suspend a weight of one hundred and twenty pounds; so that the whole rope will bear a strain nearly equal to three tons.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 60. The Line.

2  The perpendicular parts of this side ladder, as is usually the case with swinging ones, were of cloth-covered rope, only the rounds were of wood, so that at every step there was a joint.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8. The Pulpit.

3  Such was the state of his mouth, that he could hardly speak; but mumbling something about his being willing and able to do what the captain dared not attempt, he snatched the rope and advanced to his pinioned foe.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.

4  The end of the hawser-like rope winding through these intricacies, was then conducted to the windlass, and the huge lower block of the tackles was swung over the whale; to this block the great blubber hook, weighing some one hundred pounds, was attached.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 67. Cutting In.

5  The second Emir lounges about the rigging awhile, and then slightly shaking the main brace, to see whether it will be all right with that important rope, he likewise takes up the old burden, and with a rapid "Dinner, Mr. Flask," follows after his predecessors.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.

6  In the midst of this consternation, Queequeg dropped deftly to his knees, and crawling under the path of the boom, whipped hold of a rope, secured one end to the bulwarks, and then flinging the other like a lasso, caught it round the boom as it swept over his head, and at the next jerk, the spar was that way trapped, and all was safe.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.