Even as he spoke, they heard the rumble of chain through hawse-pipe, and from the veranda saw a big black-painted schooner, swinging to her just-caught anchor. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Over their coffee, they heard the rumble of an anchor-chain through a hawse-pipe, tokening the arrival of a vessel. ❋ Unknown (2010)
As the chain roared and surged through the hawse-pipe he noticed a number of native women, lusciously large as only those of Polynesia are, in flowing ahu's, flower-crowned, stream out on the deck of the schooner on the beach. ❋ Unknown (2010)
As they drink their coffee an anchor-chain is heard rumbling through a hawse-pipe and Gee says, "It's David Grief," and Deacon calls the deduction "unadulterated poppycock." ❋ Unknown (2008)
I swung over the side on a rope, got my feet in the hawse-pipe, reached down and grabbed the chain. ❋ MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 (1966)
But now my first heave on the winch-lever started it slipping, and in an instant it was whizzing out of the hawse-pipe and overboard. ❋ Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 (1955)
The tug's cable had scarcely ceased to rattle through the hawse-pipe when the opening shots, delivered through a megaphone, rang out across the water. ❋ 1886-1967 Bartimeus (1926)
Already the steam capstan was clanking dolorously as fathom after fathom of chain crept with seeming reluctance through the hawse-pipe. ❋ Edward S. [Illustrator] Hodgson (1917)
The Snark's anchor rumbled the chain through the hawse-pipe, and we lay without movement on a "lineless, level floor." ❋ Unknown (1913)
The Snark's anchor rumbled the chain through the hawse-pipe, and we lay without movement on ❋ Unknown (1908)
As the great anchor dropped, and amid the deafening rattle of its chain in the hawse-pipe, the crew astern cast off and drew their boats alongside, eager to swarm aboard and hear news of the miracle. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
Through the open doorway, across the clear water, their ears caught the splash of a dropped anchor, and the music of its chain running through the hawse-pipe. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
One morning the scream of our whistle and the bang of our little signal-gun, followed by the prolonged rattle of the anchor-chain running through the hawse-pipe, showed that we had reached some point of call. ❋ Henry W. Nevinson (1900)
In the hawse-pipe The grinding links sent through the ship a sound like a low groan of a man sighing under a burden. ❋ Unknown (1897)
The ship that had been lying tide-rode swung to a heavier puff; and suddenly the slack of the chain cable between the windlass and the hawse-pipe clinked, slipped forward an inch, and rose gently off the deck with a startling suggestion as of unsuspected life that had been lurking stealthily in the iron. ❋ Unknown (1897)
As the chain roared and surged through the hawse-pipe he noticed a number of native women, lusciously large as only those of Polynesia are, in flowing _ahu's_, flower-crowned, stream out on the deck of the schooner on the beach. ❋ Jack London (1896)