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...s bedded in the earth. Here people deal in ship’s gear of all kinds, such as cables and sails, and here, too, are the places where oars are made, for ... ...vily at harvest time, for the soil is deep. There is a good harbour where no cables are wanted, nor yet anchors, nor need a ship be moored, but all on... ... set and it came on dark, the men laid themselves down to sleep by the stern cables of the ship. Then Circe took me by the hand and bade me be seated ...

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...m to the bottom, and laid up another for three months’ repairs. One of her cables parted, and then, suddenly—you couldn’t tell why—she let herself be ... ...uld hold her. On the slightest provocation she would start snapping ropes, cables, wire hawsers, like carrots. She was heavy, clumsy, unhandy—but that...

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...s; got alongside, and were made fast, after some shouting and straining of cables; darted, a score of us along the gangway, al most as soon as it was... ...of the winds and tides; no driving ashore upon the rocks, or slipping your cables and running out to sea, there: Peace — Peace —Peace —all peace!’ — A...

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...ftless Scandinavian dirk. She was hatless as ever, and her heavy, fragrant cables of rye-hued hair fell over her shoulders and breast to far below her...

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... down to sleep. “And now the time of tide has come; the ship casts off her cables; and from the deserted wharf the uncheered ship for Tarshish, all ca... ...s the immovable strain upon the timber-heads to which the fluke-chains and cables were fastened, that it was impos- sible to cast them off. Meantime e... ...ew to desist from hoisting the cutting-tackles, and at once cast loose the cables and chains confining the whales to the ship. “What now?” said the Gu... ...e gigantic involutions of his intestines, where they lie in him like great cables and hawsers coiled away in the subterranean orlop-deck of a line-of-...

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...nd thence into a warren of hot underground passages in which run the power cables. There is not a cable in the place that is not immediately accessibl...

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... down to sleep. “And now the time of tide has come; the ship casts off her cables; and from the deserted wharf the uncheered ship for Tarshish, all ca... ...as the immovable strain upon the timber heads to which the fluke chains and cables were fastened, that it was impossible to cast them off. Meantime eve... ...ew to desist from hoisting the cutting tackles, and at once cast loose the cables and chains confining the whales to the ship. “What now?” said the Gue... ...e gigantic involutions of his intestines, where they lie in him like great cables and hausers coiled away in the subterranean orlop deck of a line of ...

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... to the house of Pelias, and on the third morn they bound the ship’s stern cables to the shores of the Paphlagonians, at the mouth of the river Halys....

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...passed to and fro; they remained at anchorage; they were bound together by cables. The carpenter yet was busy upon them with his hammer. Here the ship...

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...d joins in dock. And it seems that he did manage to monkey with one of the cables—keeping his mind on Port Elizabeth. The riggers had all the cable ra...

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... resolutions were always like cobwebs, and your evil habits like five-inch cables,” replied the traveller. “I am to understand, then, that you refuse ...

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...aun’; the writhen surface presented the ap- pearance of distorted, twisted cables, sometimes stretched in length, sometimes contorted together; an imm...

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...understand. It was as if all the water-pipes and con- cealed machinery and cables of the ways beneath, were beat- ing—as pulses beat. And about her bl...

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...un der the figureheads and round the sterns of many other ships, and their cables sometimes grated underneath our keel, and sometimes swung above us. ...

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...nings, we rowed away, under the sterns of great ships, under tow ropes and cables, against and among other boats, and very much too near the sides of ...

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...t this just raised its head a little. “I know nothing about Mrs. Newsome’s cables.” Their eyes met on it with some intensity—during the few seconds of... ...ed in consequence of that. Yes—Waymarsh just did know about Mrs. Newsome’s cables: to what other end than that had they dined together at Bignon’s? St... ...hink, pro- tected and consecrated it. He had a quick blurred view of daily cables, questions, answers, signals: clear enough was his vision of the exp...

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...ed, overpowered by L’Orient, 200 of her crew killed, and all her masts and cables shot away, so that she drifted away as night came on; but the Swifts...

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...itary home- steads, homesteads that will nevertheless be lit and warmed by cables from the central force station, that will share the common water sup...

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...hausted, on their sides, like faint fish of an antediluvian species. Rusty cables and chains, ropes and rings, undermost parts of posts and piles and ...

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...rom the cablegram sent via San Francisco and New York last night, when the cables were still open. You have read already there that the energetic acti... ...ssed his imagination. To begin with, Sulaco (because of the seizure of the cables and the disorganization of the steam service) remained for a whole f...