How To Use Ratlin In A Sentence
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With this in mind, will the Syrian "ratline" become largely exterminated?
Westhawk
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He managed to get underneath the crosstrees, and there he froze to the ratlines.
THAT DEAD MEN RISE UP NEVER
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Then, with my right, I could reach to the forrard shroud, over his right shoulder, and having got a grip, I shifted my left to a level with it; at the same moment, I was able to get my foot on to the splice of a ratline and so give myself a further lift.
The Ghost Pirates
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In the fresh wind the vibration of the shrouds as fifty men ran up the ratlines could be distinctly heard.
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They learned how to keep their feet on rolling decks, how to climb ratlines in a gale, how to furl and unfurl sail, how to hurl grapnels and board ships and fire blunderbusses.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny
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Then, reaching as high as I could into one of the middle shrouds, and grabbing a ratline, I began to climb.
STONE THE CROWS, IT'S A VACUUM-CLEANER
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Her foot caught in a ratline, jerking her to a nasty halt.
LEVIATHAN
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We are all -- wife, bratling, and self, remarkably well.
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
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A sailor, in the main rigging, carried away a ratline in both hands, fell head-downward, and was clutched by an ankle and saved head-downward by a comrade, as the schooner cracked and shuddered, uplifted on the port side, and was flung down on her starboard side till the ocean poured level over her rail.
CHAPTER XV
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If I were to rule in your favor, would Martha Fisher be the next bratling in a long and everlasting line of infant supermen applying to this and that and the other Court to have their legal majority ruled, each of them pointing to your case as having established precedence?
The Fourth R
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They've taken a lot of hits from the U.S. especially the U.S. military saying they're not doing enough to stop these so-called ratline.
CNN Transcript Jul 4, 2008
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Tom Jerrold, who now appeared on the poop, and whom I had fought shy of before, thinking he had behaved very unkindly to me in the morning, was one of the first to spring into the mizzen-shrouds and climb up the ratlines on the order being given to furl the sail, getting out on the manrope and to the weather earing at the end of the yard before either of the three hands who also went up.
Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea
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Liz Cheney is shooting her farging mouth yet again defending her daddy while being denied the right to marry the individual she loves and forced to bear her bratling out of wedlock.
Horses Mouth April 13, 2007 3:06 PM
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We are all ” wife, bratling, and self, remarkably well.
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey
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No, it is his daughter I seek to escape — the ten-year-old step-bratling who plagues every waking moment of my existence.
One Night Of Scandal
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Mr Bradley James as the bratling prince (yes, I know Mr T H White says that Arthur is supposed be brought up ignorant of his royal heritage; clearly the committee are just as ignorant of THEIR heritage) managed to make him a right royal pain without being totally unlikeable.
The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant
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Liz Cheney is shooting her farging mouth yet again defending her daddy while being denied the right to marry the individual she loves and forced to bear her bratling out of wedlock.
Horses Mouth April 13, 2007 3:06 PM
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And so, down the ratlines we came with no one the wiser, at least none who'd tell and, voila, we became new men, as they say, andfree.
Godot Finally Shows!
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Steering I picked up easily, but running aloft to the crosstrees and swinging my whole weight by my arms when I left the ratlines and climbed still higher, was more difficult.
Chapter 17
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The light from my lantern seemed no more than a sickly yellow glow against the gloom, and higher, some forty or fifty feet, and a few ratlines below the futtock rigging on the starboard side, there was another glow of yellowness in the night.
The Ghost Pirates
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He swore every oath imaginable at her, insolently ordering her to be off with her child, and find lodgings with the villain to whom she had prostituted herself, or else he would soon pitch her and her little bratling into the Thames.
The Black-Sealed Letter Or, The Misfortunes of a Canadian Cockney.
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“Pretty smug, for a bum-rag,” Deryn muttered, snapping her clip back onto a ratline.
LEVIATHAN
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He forced me back along the quarterdeck and up to the main mast, until I had to take refuge by climbing into the rigging and up the ratlines, thrusting and slashing with my cutlass all the while.
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Hear sentence forsooth, that is, the ratling of broken glasses, and the expounding of dreams?
The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter
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Hands quickly reached for taffrails, stanchions, ratlines or some sort of support, and, a moment later, Raven spun the wheel with all her strength to the right until the helm was hard over.
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The hands do not tell time; instead, they point to the location of each broodling, bratling and errant husband.
Geek.com
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Do you have any reason for thinking any kind of ratline is necessary for former commie criminals to get into the US?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Bringing Communist Human Rights Violators to Justice:
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We should have learned about ratlines long ago, from hard experience -- the Ho Chi Minh Trail was the biggest ratline of them all, a bustling ant trail through the jungles of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia swarming with men and women on foot, on bicycles, in battered Chinese-made trucks, delivering fresh troops and war supplies to the south.
Nick Mills: Mixed Messages
