rope-pull

Updated: May 9, 2025

There was a little round shutter in the postern at the height of a man's head; for aforetime the main gateway had been of massive oak, bolt-studded and impervious to anything less than cannon shot. The wall of masonry that surrounded the chateau was both high and thick, built four hundred years or so before for defence. An old-fashioned rope-pull hung beside the postern.

Alice B. Emerson - Ruth Fielding at the War Front: or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier