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Usage examples of "rope down".
Already, in view of this possibility, I had planned to tear strips from the fabric covering our walls wherewith to make a rope down which we might lower ourselves to the ground beyond the city wall.
As soon as she had stepped out of the double bowline, Smith undid the knot, pulled the rope down from the top of the cliff and coiled it.
With a mad, silent dash and a mighty leap the mousemaid jumped clear over the snake's head, bringing the knotted rope down with a mighty crack on the reptile's flat head as she traveled through the air.
He tossed a loop up over a support pole's spike protruding above the canvas, guyed the rope down to the ground spike, secured it there with the simple but reliable round-turn-and-half-hitch, and went on to do the same at the next pole and stake.
It was just possible that they might be able to rope down from there, despite the beetling overhang.
The likelihood of the climbers chancing to rope down directly above the window was remote.
And when your body is found at the very foot of the rope down which you climbed, with every indication that your grip upon it failed so that you fell to your death?
I gripped the other end and descended the ladder, pulling the rope down with me.
I swallowed them, and watched him trying to pull the abseil rope down.
When I'm on a rope down there, I know you'll take very good care of me.