guy-ropes

He stumbled over taut hawsers and piles of dunnage, tripped on crazy guy-ropes and insanely planted pegs, and fell again and again upon frozen dumps and mounds of hoarded driftwood.

WHICH MAKE MEN REMEMBER 2010

At the point of intersection he attached two guy-ropes, making the end of one fast to a cake of beach-ice.

JAN, THE UNREPENTANT 2010

"Tumble out, you sleepers!" was Shorty's answer, couched in a roar, as he began casting off the guy-ropes of the tent.

THE MEAT 2010

Shorty jerked out a couple of guy-ropes, and the tent began to sag.

THE MEAT 2010

Pegs drew and guy-ropes parted, and the tent, collapsing, wrapped the battle in its greasy folds.

JAN, THE UNREPENTANT 2010

The tent was well secured with guy-ropes on all sides.

The South Pole~ At the Pole 2009

The pegs in the valance of the tent were driven in, and Wisting crept inside and planted the pole, while the rest of us stretched the guy-ropes.

The South Pole~ The Start for the Pole 2009

There was no possibility of finding a place large enough for both the tent and the guy-ropes; the tent was set up on a small, apparently solid spot, and the guys stretched across crevasses in all directions.

The South Pole~ The Start for the Pole 2009

But now we snapped our fingers at the weather; what difference did it make to us if the wind howled in the guy-ropes and the snow drifted?

The South Pole~ Through the Mountains 2009

During the night a gale sprang up from the south-east, and blew so that it howled in the guy-ropes of the tent; it was well that the tent-pegs had a good hold.

The South Pole~ Through the Mountains 2009