The two troopers named hit the release catches on their armor, designed to allow marines to shed their heavy harness quickly on a sinking ship.
His heart had lurched in his chest, even if he knew P'tero was equipped with the especially heavy and long harness as a fail-safe.
The chain-mesh had been left in the clearing, under a cloth, and Temeraire had slept in the heavy harness for this once.
Quintus felt the urge to rip at his tunic, to hurl his heavy harness from him, to gasp for breath.
The first of the giants came into sight, bending low, pulling hard, a heavy harness strapped across its torso.
They looked like arrows strung and ready to fly out from all the heavy and complicated harness of firing.
This time Blade could clearly see the heavy woven reins leading to a heavy harness around the creature's neck and head.
On the field, Seaton buckled on a heavy harness, which carried numerous handles, switches, boxes, and other pieces of apparatus.
A rope was anchored to a heavy harness around his body, the other end connected to a piton just above him.
The officer and crane operator waved back, and the heavy harness lifted.