Jacob's-ladder

Jacob's-ladder, and thoughtful, like a man that's lost a treasure.

Famous Modern Ghost Stories Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev 1895

He was in too much of a hurry to get at his Jacob's-ladder, and then he had to tell me for the tenth time what the Inspector'd said that day about getting him another light -- Kingdom Come, maybe, he said.

Famous Modern Ghost Stories Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev 1895

Well, sir, I saw them off next morning, down that new Jacob's-ladder into the dinghy-boat, her in a dress of blue velvet and him in his best cutaway and derby -- rowing away, smaller and smaller, the two of them.

Famous Modern Ghost Stories Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev 1895

Next thing I knew, sir, I was down in the living-room, warm and yellow-lit, with Fedderson cocking his head at me across the table, where he was at that eternal Jacob's-ladder of his.

Famous Modern Ghost Stories Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev 1895

"Up Jacob's-ladder," said she, and hers was like the syrup of flowers.

Famous Modern Ghost Stories Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev 1895

Jacob's-ladder a year, I guess, and every time the Inspector came off with the tender he was so astonished to see how good that ladder was that the old man would go to work and make it better.

Famous Modern Ghost Stories Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev 1895

The land was gone; the sky shut down heavy overhead; there was a piece of wreckage on the back of a swell, and the Jacob's-ladder was carried clean away.

Famous Modern Ghost Stories Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev 1895

Then up came the sun, as it were in jerks, just to seaward of the easternmost point of land, flinging out a Jacob's-ladder path of light from itself to Elfride and Knight, and coating them with rays in a few minutes.

A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1884

Another jerk to the right -- a trot up an incline, and we stopped at a steep flight of steps -- a regular Jacob's-ladder flight -- leading to

Forty Minutes Late 1909 Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876

They are not only imposing, but they contain six or seven stories, one above another, of eight-foot square rooms, deducting a Jacob's-ladder stairway at one side, whereon people climb to the topmost room for the sake of looking out in the wrong direction through a round dormer-window, scratching their heads in the mean time on the nails that come through the roof!

Homes and How to Make Them 1875