rope-trick

Performer Duane Laursen of the Western rope-trick group Broken Horn Ropers noted that although Christmas is nearly month away, the holiday spirit has come to Hollywood.

Celebrities Bring Early Christmas Cheer to Hollywood 2010

Performer Duane Laursen of the Western rope-trick group Broken Horn Ropers noted that although Christmas is nearly month away, the holiday spirit has come to Hollywood.

Celebrities Bring Early Christmas Cheer to Hollywood 2010

The gastric requirements of Germany's mighty Wermacht must take precedence over these anachronistic rope-trick artists and their quaint amusements in order that the outrageous British occupation of Gibralter shall be brought to swift and utter termination!!

Mayor Bloomberg, Buy Those Handguns 2007

In the same way Colonel Barnard had never met an eye-witness of the rope-trick, but his policemen had received orders to report to him the arrival in Calcutta of any juggler professing to do it.

Here, There and Everywhere Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892

We have all heard of the Indian "rope-trick," but none of us have met a person who actually saw it with his own eyes: the story never reaches us at first-hand, but always at second - or third-hand, exactly like the accounts one heard from credulous people in 1914 of the passage of the 75,000 Russian soldiers through England.

Here, There and Everywhere Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892

Then he had a rope-trick or two contrived by means of a long piece of knotted together clothes-line, doubled, and hung from the rafters to form a swing or trapeze.

Quicksilver The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel George Manville Fenn 1870

"rope-trick" of the Hindoo magician to perfection.

Legends of the Northwest Hanford Lennox Gordon 1878