At the foot of the bed, guyed by wire ropes, a forty-rung ladder rose vertically.

The ladder rose through the stone ceiling to the roof above.

A few yards from the storeroom a ladder rose from the corridor through an aperture in the ceiling.

A ladder rose along the bare side of the biggest and oldest tree.

Blade ran to where three ladders were rising above the wall almost side by side.

The hole was about twenty meters in diameter, and ladders rose from beneath, resting against the edges.

At its far end a wooden ladder rose to a balcony resembling a narrow verandah.

Still the ladders rose until their upper ends, even with the top of the wall, came to rest.

But their ladders rose only to six floors back then, preventing them from effectively fighting what amounted to a high-rise fire.

At the end, the passage split and a ladder rose through a trunk.