ropery

• “To bed with one like footrasp373 or the roughest ropery:”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “This was afterwards converted into a ropery and succeeded by Parr-street.”

  Recollections of Old Liverpool

• “There was a ropery which extended from the corner of the present Berry-street (called after Captain Berry, who built the first house in it), to the roperies which occupied the site of the present”

  Recollections of Old Liverpool

• “There was a field at one time to the north of the ropery skirted by hedges which went down the site of the present Hood-street, and round to where there is now”

  Recollections of Old Liverpool

• “I pray you, sir, what saucy merchant was this, that was so full of his ropery?”

  Act II. Scene IV. Romeo and Juliet

• “Nanscawne lands, and spent it on cards and ropery.”

  Shining Ferry

• “You were born of ropery, and you go at it straight, like a webfoot to water.”

  The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 8

• “Poor little James has come down to the ropery, to see the men make string.”

  Child-Land Picture-Pages for the Little Ones

• “With Allah take I refuge from whatever driveth me * To bed with one like footrasp [FN#373] or the roughest ropery:”

  Arabian nights. English

• “At the other end of the 80-acre site of the Historic Dockyard is the ropery, built in 1785 and still used by the commercial company Master Ropemakers.”

  Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph

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