1.   Animal control officers caught the dog, a pit bull mix still wearing a harness and frayed rope.

2.   All the time, Dial was making art, animal figures out of scrap metal, flowers with petals of frayed rope.

3.   Fiset is emotional, with frayed rope for nerve endings.

4.   That would mean clearing away the scar tissue around the tear, then surgically stitching together the opposing surfaces the same way you would with a frayed rope.

5.   His body, bound with frayed rope, was found in the harbor eight days later.