Level in a hierarchy

Usage examples of rung.

And so we descended to a new rung of hell, the Maternal Ageist Society.

He drew in several deep breaths, then, clasping Alise firmly, placed his hands and feet on the rungs of the ladder.

Pewt he said that old Hobbs come down to his house today and told his father he rung his doorbell 2 times and Pewt said he dident and his father said he dident beleeve him and was going to lick time out of him if he had and he did it.

Downward bound, with the ancient rungs wobbling in their sockets as I put my weight on them, I began to receive clairvoyant images from the long abandoned mine.

And so, as the descension took place, so must the ascension, and man is climbing back on the ladder of evolvement rung by rung.

At the eightieth rung he reached for the free end of the ladder and reeled it in after hooking an arm about and through a rung, leaving both hands free.

But it had been a terrible shock to them when the superintendent at Friary Road had rung them up to inquire if Sergeant Chandler were ill.

Toorkild and Gobby smiled at each other and kept an indulgent silence as the brothers, between them, related how the Sterkarms had been ready for the Grannams, how the beacons had been fired and the bells rung.

I hooked the hoist on to a head-high rung of the ladder, pulled the lower block until it hung just above the twister, picked up the grommet, and moved round to the tail of the weapon.

I could let go the ladder while I slackened the rope without any fear of its falling over, as it had caught to the parapet by the third rung.

The heet dropped the last few rungs to touch down gracefully on the padded floor.

But this morning, in the cold light of day, he had had to face realityand herand so he had rung David and asked David to make sure that she came to see him.

He crouched, holding tightly to the Errin, and sprang to the top of the ladder, perhaps 12 feet, sailing over the top rung and landing lightly beside the woman.

The first kilted Highlanders were already scrambling up the rungs, but then a man was hit by a bullet from the flanking bastion and he stopped, clung to the ladder, then slowly toppled sideways.

Bill he said he wood leeve his door open jest a little and old printer Smith he said he wood leeve his open jest a little two so he cood gump out and lam time out of the feller whitch rung his bell.