Ladders
[lædəz]
Examples
- A full equipment of scaling ladders and fire-fighting apparatus is carried. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- As no ladders could reach the great heights, the men swung themselves down from balustrades and the capitals of pilasters by ropes, to do this work. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- These outlaws have indeed a daring captain; but without machines, scaling ladders, and experienced leaders, my castle may defy them. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The ladders are thrown down, replied Rebecca, shuddering; the soldiers lie grovelling under them like crushed reptiles--The besieged have the better. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I found they had already applied ladders to the walls of the apartment, and were well provided with buckets, but the water was at some distance. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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