1.   Beneath the waves, pallets attached to thick ropes house maturing oysters.

2.   A thick rope is attached to an overhead fixture just outside the rear fuselage door and dropped toward the ground as the helicopter hovers.

3.   A thick rope and a cast iron hook were employed.

4.   All day long they sewed sails, swabbed decks, coiled miles of thick rope, and climbed the masts as nimbly as circus trapeze artists.

5.   First came rock climbing and then a Tarzanesque leap from a thick rope into a pit of foam-rubber cubes.

6.   He cleared out the rubbish from a cabinet underneath where he sits, slipped a thick gold rope around his neck to complement his all-black attire.

7.   His hands are tied, then his feet, with the kind of thick rope someone might use for a lynching.

8.   One noose, several black workers said, was made of thick rope attached to a pole and was placed next to some stairs to resemble a gallows.

9.   The muscle used to make the double-A breastlette was swollen, a thick rope laid across my chest.

10.   Others laid out long lines of thick rope for pulling up wreckage.