ladder

But why should I be thinking of my previous night's attempt with the ladder?--Because of the open window--left open, perhaps, by the negligence of a servant?

Like most old fashioned pulpits, it was a very lofty one, and since a regular stairs to such a height would, by its long angle with the floor, seriously contract the already small area of the chapel, the architect, it seemed, had acted upon the hint of Father Mapple, and finished the pulpit without a stairs, substituting a perpendicular side ladder, like those used in mounting a ship from a boat at sea.

At midnight, with a beating heart, trembling hands, and a livid countenance, he descended from the tree, took a ladder, leaned it against the wall, mounted it to the last step but one, and listened.

The short ladder, used for obtaining access to the trap-door

While the Woodman was making a ladder from wood which he found in the forest Dorothy lay down and slept, for she was tired by the long walk.

Nothing to do but hitch your rope ladder to the battlements, shin down it, break your leg in the moat -- because a rope ladder is nineteen foot too short, you know -- and there's your horses and your trusty vassles, and they scoop you up and fling you across a saddle, and away you go to your native Langudoc, or Navarre, or wherever it is.

When the spirit is on him he would escape by a ladder of dead men, and wade through that sea if it were made of blood."

Immediately the window was opened and a ladder of rope was let down from it.

In a little while Diksey came back with a tall ladder which he placed against the fence.

"Please come down," he insisted, holding the ladder and looking up at her.

"Alas!" said Jupiter, "a scholar has just seized the ladder."

Passing on my way aft along the other side of the ship, I observed that the rope side ladder, put over, no doubt, for the master of the tug when he came to fetch away our letters, had not been hauled in as it should have been.