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All round, the blue arms started out, catching him and handing him on from one to another ladderwise, down, and down, and down.
The Field of Clover Laurence Housman 1912
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As the lines lie ladderwise, I was obliged, when I had to go from one to another, to mount up to the end of the last: then, when no connexion was to be found, I had to go back, and seek for the right order again, retreating and following the furrow, [3265] like Theseus in the story following Ariadne's thread.
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