What is "ropewalker"

Usage examples of "ropewalker".

Whandall realized that these must be the Ropewalker family, who sold rope near the Black Pit.

But Willow Ropewalker ran to the wagon bed and began running her hands through the loot.

I started to wonder who of the Ropewalker family was in there, but the only thing to do about that was run in and look.

The Ropewalkers danced on their tightrope, this time the boy and a younger girl, who did a backward somersault while an older man stood under her as if to catch her if she fell.

Whandall waited until he was moving up the Deerpiss before he made the Ropewalkers and Millers get under the floorboards.

More than once Whandall was grateful that the Ropewalkers knew their craft.

Now they all gathered around Whandall and the Ropewalkers and the dead bird.

Belly and a dozen of his younger relatives-sons, daughters, nieces, nephews, and cousins-came to help Whandall and the Ropewalkers unhitch their animals and set up camp.

When the trained pony finished his counting tricks, and before the rope could be set up for the ropewalkers, Shei-Luin took Xahnu from Tsiaa and walked off with him.

Nor did eve~ admirer wear the face of a s~ger Dakar rec0g~xzed a ropewalker, a handel of canlkers, ~d ~o doxies ~ed through the arms of a suspiciously ia~xYxar s~x~and.

Dakar recog nized a ropewalker, a handful of caulkers, and two doxies twined through the arms of a suspiciously familiar sailhand.

Hickamore's daughters listened, and the Ropewalkers and Millers too, and Willow.

At least unless and until the great ropewalker Blondin or the even greater trapezist Léotard should finish their foreign tours and come home to Paris.