1
That vessel had gone about, and was standing to the southward, on a taut bowline.
2
It is no other than a half-rigged brigantine, on a taut bowline, though she bears no great show of canvas.
3
The Villingen was still under reefed upper topsails, walking into the seas on a taut bowline, with water coming aboard freely.
4
118° 01' W., having made twelve hundred miles in seven days, very nearly upon a taut bowline.
5
As a matter of course, the ships astern made sail in the same manner, and hauled up on taut bowlines, following the admiral.