towing-rope

The towing-rope parts and by the time the Russians discover it, the Americans have disappeared.

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All day we had had a following breeze, and it had been necessary to lengthen the towing-rope, dropping the jolly-boat well behind us.

The After House Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

The man was wading in the water with a towing-rope over his shoulder, and the boys were in the punt plying their boat-hooks against the rocks and the bed of the river.

Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885

There cannot be found a _burlak_ so stupid that he will refuse to pull away at his towing-rope because he alone is not able to drag the bark against the current.

What to Do? Leo Tolstoy 1869

Now she was ready; ready to cast off St. Sebastian's towing-rope; ready to cut and run for port anywhere.

Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

Now she was ready; ready to cast off St. Sebastian's towing-rope; ready to cut and run for port anywhere.

Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers Thomas De Quincey 1822

A foreigner who lands in Calcutta at an hour which nobody can name, and endeavours to effect a sneaking entrance at the postern-gate [10] of the governor-general's palace, _may_ be a decent man; but this we know, that he has cut the towing-rope which bound his own boat to the great ark of his country.

The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

This toy, which they call _Hanmai_, they place between two palongs, each rowed by a crew of stout young men, with a piece of rattan, as a towing-rope, fixed to it.

Letters on the Nicobar islands, their natural productions, and the manners, customs, and superstitions of the natives with an account of an attempt made by the Church of the United Brethren, to convert them to Christianity Johann Gottfried Haensel 1797

a rapid twist; but as the towing-rope did not break, she was immediately rescued from danger by the swiftness of our course, and the affair afforded us more diversion than anxiety.

Journal of a Voyage from Okkak, on the Coast of Labrador, to Ungava Bay, Westward of Cape Chudleigh Undertaken to Explore the Coast, and Visit the Esquimaux in That Unknown Region George Kmoch