I was acquiring more confidence in myself and more confidence in the possibilities of windlasses, shears, and hoisting tackles. ❋ Unknown (2010)
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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2007)
With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Cables were attached to the land and wound tight on wooden windlasses. ❋ Barry Strauss (2004)
Well, there they all were, tents and diggers, claims and windlasses, pumps and water-wheels. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The drawbridge spanned the widest gap between any of the pontoons and it was built of heavy oak beams overlaid with oak planks and it was drawn upward by a pair of windlasses that hauled on ropes through pulleys mounted on a pair of thick timber posts stoutly buttressed with iron struts. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (2003)
The noise of coaling, the whistle of steam, the din of windlasses, the grinding of shovels mingled with the dust, the smell of oil and sweat, and finally the cries of paper sellers with special posters: “Into the Jaws of Death” … “The Last Departure” … “Disgrace or Death” … “The Perilous Leap to the Peak of Glory” … “All Day to Die” … “Shame or Defeat” … “Voyage to Death or Glory.” ❋ Massie, Robert K., 1929- (2003)
There was a great grinding noise and a scream of poorly greased windlasses. ❋ May, Julian (2003)
Perspiration came out on his face from the intensity of his desire, and suddenly pale from agitation, he tore himself away from the mast, and rushed toward the windlasses with big strides. ❋ Unknown (2003)
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. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Tools were dropped, cradles and tubs abandoned, windlasses left to kick their cranks backwards. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The men at the windlasses spat into their horny palms and bent to the crank: they paused only to pass the back of a hand over a sweaty forehead, or to drain a nose between two fingers. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Nowadays, except on an outlying muddy flat or in the hands of the retrograde Chinese, tubs, cradles, and windlasses were rarely to be met with. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Having thus done, they proceeded to stretch tight the ropes, straining them with wooden windlasses, not now appointing the two kinds of rope to be used apart from one another, but assigning to each bridge two ropes of white flax and four of the papyrus ropes. ❋ Herodotus (2003)
The pulleys squeaked and creaked, the chains clanked, strained under the heavy weight that suddenly fell upon them; and the labourers, bracing their chests against the handle of the windlasses, roared and tramped heavily. ❋ Unknown (2003)
By this time a whole village was up: and windlasses, ropes, poles, candles, lanterns, all things necessary, were fast collecting and being brought into one place, to be carried to the Old Hell Shaft. ❋ Unknown (2002)
