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Updated: June 28, 2025
When I had taken leave of the pretty, gentle, dark-eyed girl, and of the motherly woman who had not outlived her honest sympathy with a little affair of true love, I felt as if the Old Green Copper Ropewalk had grown quite a different place.
"That is because the trouble at your father's ropewalk was brought about by the soldiers, while Chris was murdered by one of our own people, if we are willing to acknowledge that Ebenezer Richardson was one of us." "Does he never visit at your house?" "He hasn't since the day Master John Hancock was arrested in regard to the seizure of his sloop.
The town will presently be as full of them as my pocket is of tobacco crumbs, every one of them with a Spanish grant as long as Clark's ropewalk and made up since the rumor of the Cession." "I hear that some of Honoré Grandissime's titles are likely to turn out bad, some of the old Brahmin properties and some of the Mandarin lands." "Fudge!" said Dr. Keene.
It was a fresh kind of place, all circumstances considered, where the wind from the river had room to turn itself round; and there were two or three trees in it, and there was the stump of a ruined windmill, and there was the Old Green Copper Ropewalk, whose long and narrow vista I could trace in the moonlight, along a series of wooden frames set in the ground, that looked like superannuated haymaking-rakes which had grown old and lost most of their teeth.
He ran off the old darky you now own, old Sam, I mean." "I'd like to see Mr. Sullivan," Alice said. "I saw old Sam when he was in Virginia." "We'll find him on the ropewalk. We put our hardest customers there.
On the second of March, 1770, insults having passed between a soldier and a ropemaker, the former came to the ropewalk, "and looking into one of the windows said, by God I'll have satisfaction! ... and at last said he was not afraid of any one in the ropewalks. I" thus deposes Nicholas Feriter, of lawful age, "stept out of the window and speedily knocked up his heels.
The captain was first cross and then abject when he went hungry, and in this latter stage was ready to abase himself enough to recall Widow Sparks, his sister's lieutenant, who lived close by in Ropewalk Lane, forgetting that he had driven her into calling him an old hog two days after the funeral.
"It seems that a negro hemp-stretcher, down in Gray's ropewalk , last Friday asked a soldier if he wanted to work, and the redcoat replied he did. What the ropemaker told him to do wasn't very nice, and they had a set-to. The soldier got the worst of it, and swore vengeance.
With the afternoon before him he strolled the streets, looking at articles in the shop windows, at the clock on the Old Brick Meetinghouse, the barracks of the soldiers, the king's Twenty-Ninth Regiment. Some of the redcoats were polishing their gun barrels and bayonets, others smoking their pipes. Beyond the barracks a little distance he saw Mr. Gray's ropewalk.
It is well worthy of your consideration whether Congress should not direct the establishment of a ropewalk in connection with the contemplated navy-yard, as a measure not only of economy, but as highly useful and necessary.
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