1
She tugged too heartily for the length and size of the hawser.
2
Leaping on to it, the boatswain and Lizard made fast the hawser.
3
Each moment it seemed as if the hawser would be carried away.
4
Oblige me with a pull of the starboard bow hawser, Mr Jones.
5
Among other things they had brought a kedge anchor and a hawser.
1
His gaze slid up the mooring line, then unexpectedly locked on hers.
2
Apparently he'd caught the mooring line and saved himself from falling.
3
At a word, two men rushed to unfasten the mooring line.
4
Grimy Huey tossed her a mooring line and she tied down her machine.
5
Our pilot steers each one to a different mooring line.
1
The mooring rope and the stake were dragging behind in the water.
2
Junior was beginning to work loose the knot on the mooring rope.
3
I hung about, ready to make myself useful catching their mooring rope.
4
She'd thrown her bag into the skiff and was untying the mooring rope.
5
At last the boat arrived in July, but without the anchor or the mooring rope.
6
Bunny took the mooring rope and made it fast to a tree stump on shore.
7
LaFarge twisted the mooring rope in his fingers.
8
He drew up the mooring rope.
9
He retrieved the mooring rope from under his seat, tossed it over the ladder, and pulled us toward the bank.
10
Clamping her towel under one arm, she scurried in a crouch to the bow and picked up the mooring rope.
11
She seems to be wedged in good and hard under our mooring rope; but shin over, Pat, an' make her fast.
12
He was in the act of casting a mooring rope off a fixed capstan when De Sylva shot him between the shoulder-blades.
13
I untied the mooring rope, hit the power lever to the right of the steering-wheel, and eased the nose gently out towards the sea.
14
The current relegated it to the slower water near the banks, and there - abreast of Battersea - it became snagged in a mooring rope.
15
They laughed and chaffed together as they cast off the mooring ropes.
16
She was fumbling at the mooring ropes as he landed in the bottom of the basket.