Sentences with phrase «thick as the rope»

She was fit - to - beloved, with her long, fair plaits as thick as the rope that the deckhands threw to tie the ferry to the wharf on the trip home from school.

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In this form a thick tire is a bind with a strong rope, the strings are strong as usual.
Some of the bundles are as thick as a man's chest, and the largest may hold up to 100 feet of rope.
I might as well have been walking over broken dinner plates or thick cords of frozen rope — ankle - breakers lying in wait.
If you use a thick rope tie knots in it every six inches to act as markers for your progression, if you use a belt simply draw a line with felt tip every six inches to achieve the same goal.
This can be seen in many varieties of Swings and Cleans using Grip - intensive equipment such as Thick Bar Dumbbells, and with Thick Rope Training, such as sled pulls.
As I approached the spot I closed my eyes and imagined Warhol strutting past me and the red velvet rope with no effort at all with «it - girl» Edie Sedwick in tow wearing belly button - reaching earrings, a fluffy fur coat and eyelashes so long and thick her eye color remained a mystery.
«Pavlova's Dawg» also functions as a fine pivot between Vincent Fecteau's shadow - box collage and Charles Ray's stack of bricks lashed with a thick rope to a well - used sawhorse.
I ordered the ones with the thick rope, but I'm not sure I'll like it as much as the (thinner) cords we have hanging there now, so we'll have to see which ones look better when they get here.
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