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  • Or strap a pair of ladders to my feet and walk around on the runged stilts while my brothers climbed them.

    Freud’s Blind Spot Elisa Albert 2010

  • Being, consciousness, force, substance descend and ascend a many-runged ladder on each step of which being has a vaster self-extension, consciousness a wider sense of its own range and largeness and joy, force a greater intensity and a more rapid and blissful capacity, substance gives a more subtle, plastic, buoyant and flexible rendering of its primal reality.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2007

  • The man clambered out carefully, reaching for the steel-runged ladder attached to the side of the submarine.

    Arctic Fire Douglass, Keith 1997

  • Quickly Colonel Eagle Friend scrambled down the steel-runged ladder leading to the first deck.

    Tom Swift Jr And His Atomic Earth Blaster Lawrence, James Duncan 1954

  • He resolved the Acoustic Prism; he built the seven-runged ladder; he charmed the wandering Tones, and bound them in the holy laws of Rhythm.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • Therefore it is necessary to have sides somewhat deeper than would be required for a centrally-runged ladder; which is pierced where the wood is subjected to little tension or compression.

    Things To Make Archibald Williams

  • One by one, led by Sir William, they descended the steel-runged ladder into the electric-lit depths of the Submarine.

    The Long Trick 1886-1967 Bartimeus 1926

  • On the centre table was a lamp, a Bible and some theological volumes contemporary with the square-runged furniture.

    Kilmeny of the Orchard Lucy Maud 1910

  • On the centre table was a lamp, a Bible and some theological volumes contemporary with the square-runged furniture.

    Kilmeny of the Orchard 1908

  • But the most dulcet harmony aroused him less surely to vivacious expression than some “gruff hinge's invariable scold,” [100] or the quick sharp rattle of rings down the net-poles, [101] or the hoof-beat of a galloping horse, or the grotesque tumble of the old organist, in fancy, down the “rotten-runged, rat-riddled stairs” of his lightless loft.

    Robert Browning Herford, C H 1905

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