The safe jerks onward and upward, drawn by the taut cable, until it gets caught in something else.
The taut cable offered a means of rapid descent.
Correction: It's a taut cable, His sword won't cut it.
She needed to relax, to ease the tension that had suddenly made her neck as taut as steel cables.
Then it was that I sensed an ominous vibration moving down the taut cables of the web.
Reaching the taut cable, The Shadow gave a sibilant whisper.
The drums were winding slowly on a taut cable which stretched down into the darkness.
The tower really is flexible: rings of concrete strung on taut cables.
Kynan was already sawing at the taut cable where it vanished underwater.
He jumped to the ground and, drawing his sword, hacked at the taut cable.