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• “But now it is all better because various members of the staff have raided their Christmas supplies and now we have a fine selection of 16 and 18 gauge white, brown, and green 2-wire extension cords in place of the nice 14-gauge three-wire air-conditioner cords that disappeared.”

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• “I threw my pack over the three-wire barbed-wire fence and climbed over, being careful not to cut myself.”

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• “He said they were guided by instruction manuals showing that there should have been three-wire seals on the paper-ballot scanning machines instead of the two that actually were affixed.”

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• “Our work is done: the whole of the six-wire cable has been recovered; only a small part of the three-wire, but that wire was bad and, owing to its twisted state, the value small.”

  Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin

• “The long end, leading us seaward, was next put round the drum and a mile of it picked up; but then, fearing another tangle, the end was cut and buoyed, and we returned to grapple for the three-wire cable.”

  Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin

• “‘To-day about 1 o’clock we hooked the three-wire cable, buoyed the long sea end, and picked up the short [or shore] end.”

  Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin

• “This second length of three-wire cable soon got into the same condition as its fellow — i.e. came up twenty kinks an hour — and after seven miles were in, parted on the pulley over the bows at one of the said kinks; during my watch again, but this time no earthly power could have saved it.”

  Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin

• “The aircraft rolled backward slightly in response to the pull from the three-wire.”

  Hellfire

• “He flew with precision, muscles and mind detached from his intellect and emotions, automatically taking the Tomcat around the marshal stack, lining up on the stern of the carrier, calling the ball, making the adjustments required, and taking his Tomcat in for a perfect three-wire trap.”

  Hellfire

• “The pilot had bashed the Boeing 737 down like he was trying for the three-wire.”

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