windlasses

I was acquiring more confidence in myself and more confidence in the possibilities of windlasses, shears, and hoisting tackles.

Chapter 36 2010

With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out.

Another Redirection 2007

The pier was musical with the wash of the sea, the creaking of capstans and windlasses, and the airy fluttering of little vanes and sails.

A Message from the Sea 2007

And then there is the river Charles, no longer clear and bright, as when trees and hills and flowers were mirrored on its surface, but foul, turbid, and polluted, with ship-yards and steam-engines and cranes and windlasses on its margin; and here Quebec ends.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

The pier was musical with the wash of the sea, the creaking of capstans and windlasses, and the airy fluttering of little vanes and sails.

A Message from the Sea 2007

Or if you choose, it may be done thus: instead of the naves, lay a moderate-sized beam under the couch, and then having fastened pieces of wood in this beam, both before and behind the head, make counter-extension by means of thongs, or place windlasses at this extremity and that, and make extension by means of them.

On Fractures 2007

Cables were attached to the land and wound tight on wooden windlasses.

The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

Cables were attached to the land and wound tight on wooden windlasses.

The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

Well, there they all were, tents and diggers, claims and windlasses, pumps and water-wheels.

Robbery Under Arms 2004

Here were all manner of Northern folk, tending tethered ponies and kneeling camels; loading and unloading bales and bundles; drawing water for the evening meal at the creaking well-windlasses; piling grass before the shrieking, wild-eyed stallions; cuffing the surly caravan dogs; paying off camel-drivers; taking on new grooms; swearing, shouting, arguing, and chaffering in the packed square.

Kim 2003