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They heard a screeching sound in the distance and saw a man drawing water from a public well by means of a rope pulley.

Simple modern mechanisms would be rope pulleys or levers.

Should a Gladiators safety gloves get caught in the rope pulley system then they must stop and forfeit the event.

Steel structures mounting the level weight rope pulleys and rope separators.

The dining room of the Residency is equipped with a punkah suspended from the ceiling, which is operated by a rope pulley.

Han models of water wells sometimes feature tiny tiled roofs supported by beams that house the rope pulley used for lifting the bucket.

There was a creaking of rope pulleys as squirrels launched the rocks from 305 the high trees, riding down to earth on them, holding to the ropes.

They slackened, and with the creak of rope pulleys and the muted shouts of orders, they too began to draw up toward the yards.

And even harder to realise that these human beings had not fully mastered the use of, say, the simple rope pulley, let alone explosives, mechanical diggers, power drills, cranes and helicopters.

This time the victims, always a man and a boy with flimsy cardboard wings pinned to their tunics, were attached by hooks to a rope pulley running to the top of Caligula's obelisk.

Common setups include simple friction methods, using wraps of webbing between two carabiners, a ratchet, a comealong, a carabiner pulley system, a roped pulley system, or a commercial slackline kit.

Barely visible in the shadows, it was made of iron and had all sorts of iron arms and gears and rope pulleys and winches extending from the stone floor up to the ceiling.

It was spacious and full of agreeable smells of baking bread and fresh linen drying on the large airing rack across the ceiling, let up and down on a rope pulley fastened to the wall.

The seven-member troupe will be a-tumbling in the Shakespearean marketplace of Ephesus, doing aerial cartwheels on platforms, leaping from ramps, balancing on roofs and hanging from 35-foot rope pulleys in the play, which opens tonight.

His wife, Susanna, came out in a billowing white dress and delivered homemade brownies and juice to a ground-level bucket, and Oliver sprang up and used a rope pulley to hoist the treats to the top.

Also there were the two men who work the rope pulleys that maneuver Ms. McLaughlin in the air, a stage manager wearing a headset and a couple of wardrobe assistants, each with a flashlight in her mouth, who frantically strapped Ms. McLaughlin into her flight gear.

She wondered whether someone's diapers hung on a clothesline made of the motor's missing wires-whether its wheels had become a rope pulley over a communal well-whether its cylinder was now a pot containing geraniums on the window sill of the sweetheart of the man with the whiskey bottle.