scaling-ladder

It completely conveyed the idea of a man who had been born, not to say with a silver spoon, but with a scaling-ladder, and had gone on mounting all the heights of life one after another, until now he looked, from the top of the fortifications, with the eye of a philosopher and a patron, on the people down in the trenches.

XXV. Good and Bad Angels 1917

It completely conveyed the idea of a man who had been born, not to say with a silver spoon, but with a scaling-ladder, and had gone on mounting all the heights of life one after another, until now he looked, from the top of the fortifications, with the eye of a philosopher and a patron, on the people down in the trenches.

David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

For all this, Shakespeare had a share in the storming of Istabulat, as will be seen; as the ghost of Bishop Adhemar, who had died at Antioch, was said to have gone before Godfrey of Boulogne's scaling-ladder when the Crusaders took Jerusalem.

The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad Edward John Thompson 1916

As one by one the rest of the company ascended the scaling-ladder, they were ordered to throw themselves prone on the flat top of the wall, to await the final signal.

The Doomsman Van Tassel Sutphen 1903

Joan, who had been all these hours in the thick of the engagement, seeing her men were losing heart, redoubled her efforts; and, helping to raise a scaling-ladder, she placed it against the parapet of one of the towers.

Joan of Arc Gower, Ronald Sutherland, Lord, 1845-1916 1893

He was nearly killed on a scaling-ladder, too early put up, or too long left so.

The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Maurice Hewlett 1892

Every fireman nowadays must pass muster at life-saving drill, must climb to the top of any building on his scaling-ladder, slide down with a rescued comrade, or jump without hesitation from the third story into the life-net spread below.

Children of the Tenements 1881

Quirk ran up on the scaling-ladder to the fourth floor, hung it on the sill above, and got the boys and their sister down.

Children of the Tenements 1881

A significant shaking of the little curtain at the foot of the berth showed that it was being used as a scaling-ladder.

Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880

Joan, who had been all these hours in the thick of the engagement, seeing her men were losing heart, redoubled her efforts; and, helping to raise a scaling-ladder, she placed it against the parapet of one of the towers.

Joan of Arc Ronald Sutherland Gower 1880