As has been said, Lucas was very poor and was a rope-maker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference

Her father had a small business as a rope-maker for the shipyards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference

By occupation his father was a hemp-breaker, rope-maker, and farmer.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference

The two rich friends are Saadi and Saad, and the name of the rope-maker is Cojia Hasan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference

On their way they saw a rope-maker, Lucas by name, who by his condition showed his great suffering from poverty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference

I was a dyer's helper in Pyonhan, a gold-miner in the placers of Kang-wun, a rope-maker and twine-twister in Chiksan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 15] Reference

It grips it between its claws like a wrestler clutching his opponent, and with head and feet together rolls up its paste like a rope-maker twisting a hawser.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peace] Reference

He went to Lucas's house, and offered the rope-maker a thousand pesos for the stone; but Lucas refused, for now he suspected that it was worth more than that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference

Dr. of Eph. Heaven, and the rope-maker can bear me witness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comedy of Errors] Reference

He calls himself a rope-maker, and has a walk under the park wall by the gate of Blangy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sons of the Soil] Reference

And all this, the rope-maker and her rope, was contained in the egg, a particle of no size at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Spider] Reference

Work away, then, excellent rope-maker, and make us more ropes to hold on against the devil and the parsons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1] Reference

I was a dyer's helper in Pyonhan, a gold - miner in the placers of Kang-wun, a rope-maker and twine-twister in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jacket (Star-Rover)] Reference

The spinnerets abandon to the breeze a thread that floats, breaks and flies away, carrying the rope-maker with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Spider] Reference

At the same time he followed the trade of rope-maker with his apprentice Mouche, the natural son of one of his natural daughters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1] Reference

Francois-Marie had been an apprentice rope-maker, but he began to study the classics at sixteen, and was ordained 19 December, 1812.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference

So the third man said to the others: "One of you is a rope-maker, and the other is a cooper; and let you make a rope and a bucket now.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish] Reference

But it was not a policeman who arrested me -- it was only my friend, Herr Batz, the rope-maker, who, with a flushed face and starting eyes, gazed at me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Thor] Reference

"I must see this fortunate rope-maker," said the caliph, "therefore go and tell him to come to my palace at the same hour you have ordered the other two.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Complete] Reference

To obtain her slender cord, the Spider has to move about and haul, either by falling or by walking, even as the rope-maker steps backwards when working his hemp.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Spider] Reference

Artaxerxes, a rope-maker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2] Reference

Appropriate name for a rope-maker.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6: Literary Curiosities Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts] Reference

He was apprenticed to a rope-maker, in Boston.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)] Reference

A rope-maker twisting a hawser.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peace] Reference

A rope-maker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories] Reference

A rope-maker?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Duchess of Malfi] Reference

"Oh, he is a rope-maker.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Thor] Reference

Martin John, rope-maker, Temple.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3] Reference

Jacob, the rope-maker, is doing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grey Fairy Book] Reference

Mr. WILLIAM TARRING, rope-maker, 38.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6: Literary Curiosities Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts] Reference

A good mechanic -- a carpenter, rope-maker, sail-maker, and cooper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer] Reference

He was, besides, a good mechanic -- a carpenter, rope-maker, sail-maker, and cooper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank Mildmay The Naval Officer] Reference