rope-yarns

• “And ever and anon a hand or foot of Jan emerged from the tangle, to be gripped by Lawson and lashed fast with rope-yarns.”

  JAN, THE UNREPENTANT

• “And his hair was yellow, like the straw of a southern harvest or the manila rope-yarns which sailormen plait.”

  An Odyssey of the North

• “Every Sunday they performed on each other the operation of manipulating the pendulous ornaments, straightening them out like magnified marlinspikes, and binding them with ribbons or rope-yarns, tastily fastened at the extremity by a double bow knot.”

  Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale

• “He had a thick beard made of oakum; and a wig of rope-yarns, the curls hanging gracefully on his shoulders, was surmounted with a paper cap, fashioned and painted so as to bear a greater resemblance to the papal tiara than to the diadem of the ocean monarch.”

  Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale

• “The loss of my jib-boom and a few rope-yarns did not prevent me from cracking on my studding-sails, and leaving the lubber to digest his stupid”

  Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver

• “Musket balls were crammed in bags; bolts and nails were packed in cartridge paper; slave shackles were formed with rope-yarns into chain-shot; and, in an hour, we were once more tolerably prepared to pepper the foe.”

  Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver

• “His staple articles of food seemed to consist of tobacco, cigarettes, stray rope-yarns, bristles of brooms, and odds and ends of old canvas, while he was not averse to licking the galvanised compound off the newly painted quarter-deck stanchions whenever an opportunity of doing so presented itself.”

  Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories

• “The wire used was generally as thick as sailor's marline stuff, or two twisted rope-yarns.”

  The Old Front Line

• “Thursday, Oct. 22d, at San Pedro, in the old south-easter berth, a league from shore, with a slip-rope on the cable, reefs in the topsails, and rope-yarns for gaskets.”

  Chapter XXIV. San Diego Again-A Descent-Hurried Departure-A New Shipmate

• “Here too, we had our south-easter tacks aboard again, —slip-ropes, buoy-ropes, sails furled with reefs in them, and rope-yarns for gaskets.”

  Chapter XIV. Santa Barbara-Hide-Droghing-Harbor Duties-Discontent-San Pedro

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