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Through the aid of a rope, furnished with cross-pieces inserted in the strands at regular intervals and a grappling-hook at the free end, he could pass easily from roof to roof of contiguous buildings, and so gain points of observation that otherwise he would never have dared to approach.
Morton knelt by the parapet, holding the grappling-hook in its place, with convulsive grasp, and fixing his eyes, bloodshot with fear and suspense, on the huge bulk that clung for life to that slender cord! "Le voiles! Le voiles!" cried a voice from the opposite side.
Gawtrey flung the rope across the street to the opposite parapet; after two or three efforts, the grappling-hook caught firm hold the perilous path was made. "On! quick! loiter not!" whispered Gawtrey; "you are active it seems more dangerous than it is cling with both hands-shut your eyes.
My dear father, you must see him." Mr. Caxton. "I? Yes, assuredly, if I can be of any service. But will he listen to me?" Pisistratus. "I think so. A young man will often respect in his elder what he will resent as a presumption in his contemporary." Mr. Caxton. In what part of the mouldering timbers can I fix the grappling-hook?
Morton knelt by the parapet, holding the grappling-hook in its place, with convulsive grasp, and fixing his eyes, bloodshot with fear and suspense, on the huge bulk that clung for life to that slender cord! "Le voiles! Le voiles!" cried a voice from the opposite side.
Taking turns, they succeeded with a grappling-hook in getting out the cargo, losing only two sacks of provisions, but though they laboured till dark they were not able to move the boat. Giving her up for lost, they tried to secure a night's rest on the sharp rocks.
As he spoke thus, he did not advance a single step; he hurled at Jean Valjean a glance which he threw out like a grappling-hook, and with which he was accustomed to draw wretches violently to him. It was this glance which Fantine had felt penetrating to the very marrow of her bones two months previously. At Javert's exclamation, Fantine opened her eyes once more.
My dear father, you must see him." Mr. Caxton. "I? Yes, assuredly, if I can be of any service. But will he listen to me?" Pisistratus. "I think so. A young man will often respect in his elder what he will resent as a presumption in his contemporary." Mr. Caxton. In what part of the mouldering timbers can I fix the grappling-hook?
The man had climbed to the porch roof, with the rope ladder wound around his body. That was what had made him seem so bulky. Selecting this spot as a favorable one, he had flung the grappling-hook over the eaves. There must be some break in the slates which held the hook.
"First cousin to a musk-rat," the Swede declared. "We'll build a raft like a hollow square, use a tripod and bring up the chain blocks. What we can't raise with a grappling-hook, we'll go after. John, we're going to get it every piece!" "Bet yer life we'll get her!" John cried responsively, "if I has to git drunk to do it and stand to my neck in water for a week."
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