Portuguese
escada de jacó Spanish
escalera de jacob Pinnate-leaved European perennial having bright blue or white flowers.
(Nautical) a hanging ladder of ropes or chains supporting wooden or metal rungs or steps.
Device for producing a continuous train of large sparks that rise upwards.
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Jacob's ladder was fastened a little below the doorway of the beacon.
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Then they had her to a place, and showed her Jacob's ladder.
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It is a Jacob's ladder,-orwill be in one moment more.
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Her Jacob's ladder, her stepping-stone to her hopes, lay overturned in a corner.
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The omnibus took our traps, whilst we walked up Jacob's Ladder.
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At quarter of two Felicia finished a Jacob's ladder in a long purple stocking.
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Generation is the true Jacob's ladder, on which souls are ever ascending or descending.
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The shades of evening had fallen when we once more found ourselves descending Jacob's Ladder.
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One of them knew the whereabouts of Jacob's ladder.
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He waited for her behind a Jacob's ladder.
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Their way is the "highway of the gods," but no Jacob's ladder for wayward man.
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A merchant ship registered in Liverpool lay at anchor in the roads, a Jacob's ladder up her side.
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A reference to Jacob's ladder (Genesis xxviii, 12).
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By the assistance of Jacob's ladder.
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We got our tickets, took our seats, and around and around we went, up Jacob's Ladder to heaven.
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Then he opened his eyes to find he was hanging to a flimsy Jacob's ladder, suspended from the stern.