boathooks

Steamboats and shipping of all sorts lay there, tempted by the enormous sums of money offered by fugitives, and it is said that many who swam out to these vessels were thrust off with boathooks and drowned.

The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009

Thus alternately driving off the bottom, getting a breath of air and sinking again he managed to near the dock where ropes and boathooks were used to relieve him of his burden.

Archive 2007-04-01 James Killus 2007

Thus alternately driving off the bottom, getting a breath of air and sinking again he managed to near the dock where ropes and boathooks were used to relieve him of his burden.

Another Lifeguard Story James Killus 2007

Steamboats and shipping of all sorts lay there, tempted by the enormous sums of money offered by fugitives, and it is said that many who swam out to these vessels were thrust off with boathooks and drowned.

The War of the Worlds Herbert George 2006

It was from the sides, by means of long boathooks or props thrust against the bed of the stream, that the jangada was kept in the current, and had its direction altered when going astray.

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon 2003

To work the jangada along the windings of the river and between the hundreds of islands and islets which lay in its course required fully as many as were taken, for if the current furnished the motive power, it had nothing to do with the steering, and the hundred and sixty arms were no more than were necessary to work the long boathooks by which the giant raft was to be kept in mid-stream.

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon 2003

And then curious indeed was it to see how many people suddenly came into view on the river — to see how they appeared to issue from below the very ice itself, and, hurrying to and fro like jackdaws startled by the shot of a gun, to dart hither and thither, and to seize up planks and boathooks, and to throw them down again, and once more to seize them up.

Through Russia 2003

Fortunately the cork handle-intended for idiots who drop boathooks-had kept it afloat.

The Shadow Of The Lion Lackey, Mercedes 2002

Imagine being captured by a great alien being with eyes the size of Volkswagens and claws like boathooks; think how your tiny heart would pound, and you will understand how those small animals feel.

250 Things You Can Do to Make Your Cat Adore You INGRID NEWKIRK 1998

Imagine being captured by a great alien being with eyes the size of Volkswagens and claws like boathooks; think how your tiny heart would pound, and you will understand how those small animals feel.

250 Things You Can Do to Make Your Cat Adore You INGRID NEWKIRK 1998