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ladder
1. He followed Herndon down the tiny ladder
2. As you start moving up the age ladder the tendency is to be at peace and you are looking at more comfortable life rather than risky venture
3. " He leaned over and let down the ladder for her
4. A while later, somewhat breathless from manoeuvring the heavy box down the ladder but gratified that I have managed it on my own, I sit on the bed and start going through my history
5. Under the bare, low-wattage bulb hanging from the ceiling in the outer corridor, I had glimpsed a narrow passage running away from me as I knelt at the foot of the ladder
6. At first, when the long hours of silence were rudely interrupted by activity out in the corridor, I did not believe in the sounds that came from the world outside of my cell: boots on ladder rungs, a scuff of rubber soles across rough concrete, and finally the sound of a key in a lock
7. She slammed into him hard and rode him into the bulkhead and pinned him against a ladder
8. Later that day, later that night, at some point in the expanse of black time, I heard the trap door swing open and then the familiar scrape of boots on the rungs of the ladder
9. I listened to the scrape of his boots on the rungs of the ladder
10. I told myself that I had neither the energy nor the will to worry any more I did still feel a slight chill and quickening of the pulse with every tread of a boot on the ladder outside of my cell, but it was different now
11. With that she was down the ladder and over to Luray, glad she hadn't brought any cloth with her
12. "Alan, come out and see this," she called to him, and he came down and wrapped around her on the ladder
13. "What maps we've got are up in Vyinga's nest, actually that box under the ladder
14. The family shut themselves away behind the barrier of polite poverty, pulling up the rope ladder of social interaction
15. poverty, pulling up the rope ladder of social interaction
16. Naturally, she fell off, crashed quite spectacularly … smashed the ladder into the bargain
17. It had suited Becky to make the move, her company had an office in Bristol and she was able to step up the career ladder by moving there
18. There was enough light for Ava to see that her knuckles were white when she got to the top of that ladder
19. She reaches for the high notes but they are kept in a box on top of the wardrobe and she has forgotten to bring her step ladder
20. ” She was already climbing the ladder
21. ladder first, then shouted for the first pair to ascend
22. Handkerchiefs at the ready and resolved against using them the twins steadied themselves on Harry's arms for a moment longer, then escorted him to the boarding ladder
23. That accomplished, he climbed the ladder and crept up on the roof where he had stacked corrugated metal panels, which so matched the existing roof as to have been perfectly camouflaged laying as they were
24. He climbed the ladder and asked Harry to begin handing one board at a time up to him
25. After they were up over George's head with the siding, he fetched the ladder and Harry began levering one end of each plank to within George's reach, and in that way they had soon dried in and insulated the new room
26. The other man shinned nimbly up the ladder
27. He dropped the flare pistol and sprinted for the ladder,
28. but he was quick enough to get to the ladder and the shots arced
29. swung his legs over to the ladder
30. He climbed the corporate ladder further and a promotion came following his award winning journalism on the East Timor spying scandal
31. 'If that is the ladder by which one mounts, I too will try my fortune,' said he, and the next day when it began to grow dark, he went to the tower and cried:
32. start at a ladder leading up to the scaffold
33. " She was coming down the ladder as she said that and reaching for her own wrapskirt
34. ladder than that of the servant life of Christ
35. The hierarchy of the prison system clicked in and the next rung on the ladder stepped up to lead
36. So next day my brothers decided a ladder toboggan might be the way so we hunted downstairs near the old kitchen that our father had turned into a work place, along by the passageway near the odds and sods room we called the Cave, in fact it was the place in the olden days they hung the meat
37. Well we picked a really steep part and placing the ladder on the snow we all clambered on
38. We never got to toboggan but we did get healthy exercise walking up hills and down dale, and I can vouch how heavy that ladder was, it was the one father used to lean against the tall pear tree to pick the fruit from, his Great Grandfather had planted all those years ago
39. Unfortunately, at a nearby ladder a line of soldiers had formed, waiting for its use
40. As if in response, the wall was racked by a massive blow, and to Alec's horror, the ladder, and the soldiers on it, toppled to the ground, screaming
41. A few of them broke free from the ladder, but those highest up held on while it slammed to the earth, pinning them beneath
42. "Hey, bring that ladder back up here," one of the younger looking soldiers in front of Alec called down to the troops below
43. Nowhere did Alec see a ladder nor any type of access to the rooftop
44. The firelight clearly picked out a group of men crawling along the ground, dragging a ladder behind them
45. Axel reloaded and walked to the top of the first ladder, kicking it sideways so that it slid off the wall, taking another one with it
46. Luray was already coming down the ladder that was drawing closer to the dock
47. People came boiling over the top of the next ladder and Axel shot them as they came, the Webley bucking in his hand like a live animal
48. “No, what I asked was how come you are here at this precise minute chasing my Harvest Festival poster around my window with a big hammer in your hand balancing on the top of an unstable ladder brandishing a political banner in the other hand, throwing tacks about
49. ” Fizzicist rolled up the banner and lifting the ladder onto to his shoulders, marched off up the road
50. A ladder ran up the side to the platform