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Then Rahab let them down by a rope through the window, since the house where she lived was built into the wall of the city.
- Joshua 2:15
Instead of fragrance there will be a stench; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of styled hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; instead of beauty, shame.
- Isaiah 3:24
Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged.
- Harry S. Truman
But nobody else understands about the fire. If someone threw you a rope when you were drowning. If a doctor said take this because if you don't take you'll die - you would, wouldn't you?
- William Golding
I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time comes I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.
- Mark Twain
you were speaking just now with a good deal of feeling about Treble Bob—you are not, yourself, by any chance, a ringer?" "Well," said Wimsey, "I used at one time to pull quite a pretty rope. But whether, at this time of day——
- Dorothy Sayers