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  • As he had done during countless drills, he quickly donned an EAB mask and snapped the quick-disconnect fitting of his air-hose pigtail into the torpedo-room manifold.

    Pressure Point Dick Couch 1992

  • As he had done during countless drills, he quickly donned an EAB mask and snapped the quick-disconnect fitting of his air-hose pigtail into the torpedo-room manifold.

    Pressure Point Dick Couch 1992

  • Quinn had cut his own air-hose, had slashed it cleanly in two.

    When Eight Bells Toll MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1966

  • A non-collapsible air-hose can, and often has to, stand up to some pretty savage treatment, but it can't stand up to the wickedly slicing power of a razor-sharp knife in the hands of the strongest man I'd ever known.

    When Eight Bells Toll MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1966

  • I thrust off backwards from the strongroom's outer wall with my left foot, saw the air-hose come looping down towards me as Quinn came through the jagged hole, caught it and jerked down with all my strength to pull him off-balance.

    When Eight Bells Toll MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1966

  • I must confess that I never thought the means would consist of the blade of a sharp knife against an air-hose.

    When Eight Bells Toll MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1966

  • To add immeasurably to the intricacy of this undertaking, there was the need of carrying his life-line and air-hose through all that entanglement and obscurity.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various

  • It took a couple of seconds for the shift-boss to break out and hook up his emergency battery-lamp; and three or four more seconds, and by dint of fists, feet, and a two-foot length of air-hose, to restore any degree of order.

    First Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950

  • She noticed the sign on the air-hose of the garage -- "Free Air."

    Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • All of which is done by the power of compressed air, working through a series of pipes and air-hose beneath the cars.

    American Men of Mind Burton Egbert Stevenson 1917

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