grappling-irons

Wordsworth ceded this dead-success when he revised to "Sounding with grappling-irons" (1850 5.447; even as the double gerunds add a present intensity of recollection).

Notes on 'Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound' 2008

Wordsworth let go of this success when he revised to "Sounding with grappling-irons" (1850 5.447), though the double gerunds add a present intensity of recollection.

Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound 2008

Now as they were talking, behold, a strip hove in sight carrying forty Moslem merchants; so the Frank captain attacked the vessel and made fast to it with grappling-irons; then he boarded it with his men and took it and plundered it; after which he sailed on with his prize, till he reached the city of Genoa.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Here he hanged a rope-ladder with grappling-irons to the battlements and climbed up to the terrace-roof of the palace.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Finally, Good Fortune, by her allurements, draws men far from the true good; Ill Fortune ofttimes draws men back to true good with grappling-irons.

Consolation of Philosophy 2007

They had also notice of the grappling-irons, against which they specially provided by stretching hides over the prows and much of the upper part of their vessels, in order that the irons when thrown might slip off without taking hold.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

Mr. Mordacks talked of a diving-bell, and some great American inventions; but nothing of the kind can be used there, nor even grappling-irons.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

I am inclined to think that the married lady would have silenced her who was single, had the fight been allowed to rage — always presuming that no resort to grappling-irons took place.

The Small House at Allington 2004

The moment the sail is lowered three or four men jump overboard, with ropes fastened to grappling-irons, which they make fast to some coral rock or tree on shore.

Travels in Nubia 2004

On that account Engineer Murchison hastened to San Francisco, and had some enormous grappling-irons fixed on an automatic system, which would never let the projectile go if it once succeeded in seizing it in its powerful claws.

Round the Moon 2003