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Examples
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Taking advantage of this, it was easy for Gus to lasso the eye-bolt.
DUTCH COURAGE 2010
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Some seventy feet above them projected the first eye-bolt.
DUTCH COURAGE 2010
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But when they pulled the doubled rope through the last eye-bolt and set foot on the
DUTCH COURAGE 2010
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By attaching this turnbuckle to an eye-bolt that was put through the sill beam and clamped down with a nut and a large washer on the outside, and attaching one end of a big cable to the other, with the cable stretching to another eyebolt running through the opposite sill beam, I could crank the thing around and shorten the cable, pulling the barn together, I figured.
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By attaching this turnbuckle to an eye-bolt that was put through the sill beam and clamped down with a nut and a large washer on the outside, and attaching one end of a big cable to the other, with the cable stretching to another eyebolt running through the opposite sill beam, I could crank the thing around and shorten the cable, pulling the barn together, I figured.
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It comes with a metal clamp that you can secure to an eye-bolt, if you want to drill, but I just made a loop and pulled it through.
The Rope Steve Perry 2007
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Your arms were still bound behind you - or bound behind you again, you realized, as it was now rope linking them, rope binding your ankles together as well, another length of rope leading from your throat to a small eye-bolt set into the floor of the crate.
jaxraven Diary Entry jaxraven 2006
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That moment was all it took for a hand to reach in, untie the rope from the eye-bolt, and quite literally drag you out by it, choking you, leaving you sprawled on a thick, soft carpet.
jaxraven Diary Entry jaxraven 2006
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The other end was fastened to a large steel eye-bolt with a combination padlock.
Corpse in the Abstract Crayne, J. D. 2003
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He lounged in a chair beside a leather-lined head vise and an immense block of stone with an eye-bolt worked into it.
Ship Of Magic Hobb, Robin 1998
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