ropemaker

• “John Rice, one of the originals, had the build for it, but he was the ropemaker and therefore unavailable.”

  Simon & Schuster: Morgan’s Run

• “It grips it between its claws like a wrestler clutching his opponent, and with head and feet together rolls up its paste like a ropemaker twisting a hawser.”

  The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1

• “Shakespear, son of John of Shadwell, ropemaker, was apprenticed to John”

  Shakespeare's Family

• “Victor, the carpenter, ropemaker, and general roustabout had performed his part.”

  Voyage of the Liberdade

• “Henry Martyn had written that the only Christian in the city who understood his evangelical sermon was a ropemaker just arrived from”

  Life of William Carey

• “Two were sailors from ships lying in the harbour, and they, together with the remaining victim, a ropemaker, had been actively engaged in the affray.”

  The War of Independence

• “The wind can never have overturned this heavy mass of limestone," said a ropemaker: "And see how far it stands from the broken ground.”

  The Emperor — Volume 10

• “She, too, had seen the ropemaker, glancing at him twice ere sure she saw aright, and then, as if a corpse buried years ago had arisen to her view, the blood curdled about her heart which after one mighty throe lay heavy and still as lead.”

  Bad Hugh

• “George Wentworth, Ben Scarlett and an old ropemaker, incur the enmity of”

  Gascoyne, The Sandal-Wood Trader A Tale of the Pacific

• “Wentworth, Ben Scarlett and an old ropemaker, incur the enmity of a young”

  The Young Lieutenant or, The Adventures of an Army Officer

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