Hawsers

At Waltham Abbey they have a curtain made of ship's hawsers, which is at the same time elastic and resistant. " ❋ Unknown (N/A)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The oyster pirates lay snugly together at short hawsers, the weather being fine, and they protested loudly at our ignorance in putting out such an unwarranted length of anchor-chain. ❋ Unknown (2010)

At three the whistle blasted, the thick hawsers were loosed from the dock, the big diesels churned and backed from the pier, and we headed out into a windy, slate-gray Sea of Cortez. ❋ Peter Heller (2010)

I thought of cutting the rope bridge, but the hawsers were far too thick and I didn't try. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Toward the end of the bridge, the position of the main hawsers forced the bridge to a more normal level, despite my body weight, and I gratefully pulled myself up onto the treads. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I wrestled with J.B. once myself, at his invitation, thinking I'd best go easy on the old fellow, but it was like being wrapped in wire hawsers with a scrubbing brush buried in your neck, and he grassed me before I knew it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Afternoons and evenings were spent eating, attending history lectures, and sitting in deck chairs, where the vibration from the engine created a Magic Fingers effect; inevitably, I would find myself in a row of dozing passengers, our heads secured to our chests with great hawsers of drool. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The muscles writhed and swelled over his back and shoulders, leapt up in knotted strands like leathery hawsers from his shoulders down to his raw and bleeding wrists; a convulsion of superhuman power swept over his torso like the shock of an earthquake. ❋ Blue Tyson (2007)

For a little more edge and youth, one goes to the Arsenale, where the ropes and hawsers for the Venetian fleets were once produced. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I remember watching it plunge past less than half a mile away, with the hawsers trailing in its smoky wake and the veils of snow swirling and eddying in the force of its passing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Black tarred huts sell fresh fish, oily hawsers lie on the shingle. ❋ Peter Ashley (2007)

If I were doing a political cartoon of the Thompson campaign I would picture a ship sitting at the dock about half sunk with the rat-protection cones on the hawsers tied to the dock turned backwards to keep the rats ON the ship. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And they loosed the hawsers from the sacred rock and rowed to the Thracian harbour; and the heroes climbed the mountain, leaving a few of their comrades in the ship. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He spake, and mounted the ship first of all; and so the rest of the chiefs followed, and, sitting in order, seized the oars; and Argus loosed for them the hawsers from under the sea-beaten rock. ❋ Unknown (2008)

my [hawser] [passes] through her [cat hole] ❋ Xxxceteraxxx (2010)