Two heavy white ropes tied loosely around her waist.

"Do you have any rope to tie him?"

If someone opens the hatch I'll jump him while you use the ropes to tie him.

The girl floated after him, the board's rope tied once more to the belt at his waist.

In certain circumstances, he said, a chief might order the ropes tied that way.

And find some rope to tie his hands.

As the tide went down, he had noticed a rope tied to a pile under water and leading downward.

The rope around his waist tied him to the second man in line, still edging up the tree.

"Sweetheart, hold still," he said, working at the ropes tying her hands and feet.

No one could wrestle with a rope tied round them, could they?