So the Americans lurched on up the channel, the big steel hawser taking the strain as it had done for almost 150 miles now.

One contained steel hawsers, flares, drums of oil and emergency winter supplies.

He ran towards the helicopter but stopped when his foot hit one of the steel hawsers, frozen to the ground beneath the snow.

He busied himself releasing the steel hawsers, then climbed into the pilot's seat and slammed the door.

The story whipped along like a steel hawser.

The giant's remaining foot rose into the air, a steel hawser fixed to the large toe, evidently in preparation for the following day.

The gondola is supported by steel hawsers depending from the main gas-bag.

They were miniature spacecraft shaped like golf tees, three or four feet long, trailing steel hawsers.

The steel hawser parted somewhere down inside the bowl of mist with a noise like a shot.

Long arms wrapped around her like steel hawsers.