hawser

He picked up the hawser and held it above his head.

At each end of it were two great, fat, steel hawsers.

Below he had found the hawsers and the fossil collection.

"And why would you strangle a person with a hawser?"

The ends of the hawser were made fast on deck.

Linked by hawser they could be pulled back and forth across the river.

Ten minutes later the hawsers were cast off and the ship put to sea.

Confederate fire was so intense that both hawsers were shot away.

"He could have slated us for a rap along with Hawser."

It made a sound like somebody hitting a ship's hawser with a heavy board.

She stood now with the loop of the hawser in both hands; and her eyes watched the Sea.

If we cut the hawser too, we might rise all right.

The hawser on the altar would be a stimulus of the fear they should feel for him.

The tow line had been made by twisting together three ordinary hawsers.

About fifty guys were pulling on hawsers, trying to haul her in.

Three and a half hours later the hawser parted.

Warren later passed a hawser to Mary and took her in tow.

What worried me was the thought of that hawser.

There were times when she parted the chains reinforced with hawsers.

He got a grip on the hawser and hauled himself cautiously up it.

The car plunged ten feet back on its hawsers.

He bent a hawser around it and went up hand over hand.

Men ran to grab it and a moment later a hawser was being paid out over our bows.

He took hold of one of their hawsers and pulled out a long knife.

At 1/2 past 8 coming on to blow suddenly was obliged to cut the hawser and make sail.