The executioner knotted the
cord firmly round the unfortunate man's neck and was just about to swing him into the air, when the Sultan's purveyor dashed through the crowd, and cried, panting, to the hangman,
After straining against the
cord for a time, Jerry surrendered and slept.
Getting his right foot in the stirrup, he smoothed the double reins, as he always did, between his fingers, and
Cord let go.
She places them in a labyrinth where they are condemned to walk for ever, with a bracelet on their arms and a
cord round their necks, unless they meet another as miserable as themselves.
The ape lunged against the stout
cord that held him.
It is but the eye to the
cord, the
cord to the shaft, and the shaft to the mark.
He was more than astonished when presently he saw the missing kite struggling as usual against the controlling
cord. But it had gone to the further side of the tower, and now hung and strained AGAINST THE WIND to the north.
John Want rises with a groan, turns the chest up on one end, and begins to fasten the
cord round it.
He had gone down about three-quarters of the length of the wall when the
cord broke.
Upon examination I found that the
cord, though small, was amply able to sustain the weight of several men.
All you need do to let me know is to undo the
cord holding the curtain of the 'right' gallery window, nearest to the dark closet.
When the Jester, arrayed in the cowl and frock of the hermit, and having his knotted
cord twisted round his middle, stood before the portal of the castle of Front-de-B uf, the warder demanded of him his name and errand.