rope's end

Her fingertips just caught the rope's end and she pulled it down.

I do hope he starts back quickly, before the rope's end has completely slipped within.

But there are some problems, the human ones for instance, that you can't always solve with a rope's end.

Use a rope's end to lower yourself into the water so as to avoid a splash - you know.

"Special Branch will see you kicking at a rope's end if it takes a hundred years."

You make me long for the days of bread-and-water and the rope's end.

With the rope's end tied about his middle, he faced the slope.

But a short distance farther on I came to the rope's end at a point where five corridors met.

He had paid little attention to anything save scrabbling fast to stay ahead of a rope's end.

They will attend now, with a good heart; no need for rattans and the rope's end.

One of the Talgaran fighters threw out a rope's end.

Liriel immediately swam for the surface, the rope's end in hand.

I then removed the rope's ends from the large, closed, high handles of the sacks.

Now not one landsman in a hundred seizes a rope's end.

The old sailor knew the ropes; even if he knew the rope's end.

Once there he hastened to make fast the rope's end to the most slender of those rocks.

"You would find it harder still to be cut off at a rope's end," Christian replied, grimly.

He stroked the rope's end and shook it gently.

The rope's end thudded solidly into the bird's right eye.

In a few seconds, his left wrist was free, but the rope's end still help his right firmly.

The rope's end across the back was a common punishment if tasks, physical and theoretical, were not carried out quickly or efficiently enough.

Ideally a rope's end should be both melted (if applicable) and whipped.

Matthias dangled on the rope's end for a moment, then he started to slip slowly down.

With three of the men belaying the rope's end, helowered himself into the crack.

A sailor always seizes a rope's end, but this is sliced short off with the cold steel.