"Bowline" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in cool masses over the wreck, and the gentle breeze freshened so that the topsail, which still drew fair from the yard, bellied out and strained away taut on a bowline, taking the wind from almost due north, or dead away from the Cape. The Sovereign shoved through it log-wise under the pull, the swell roaring and gurgling along her sunken channels and through her water ports. She was making not ...
— Mr. Trunnell • T. Jenkins Hains
... with the spare end of a bowline we rigged a substitute; and sounding the well, found nothing to excite our alarm. Under certain circumstances, however, this sounding a ship's well is a nervous sort of business enough. 'Tis like feeling your own pulse in the last stage ...
— Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) • Herman Melville
... to leave his watery prison; The bright cerulean waves with golden scales were crested, Forming the fairest scene on which my eyes had ever rested; The wind was S. S. W., and when they let go the main-top bowline To square the after yards, our good ship stopped her rolling. Madame lay on the quarter-deck sewed up in part of an old spanker, And for this glorious sight of the ocean we had solely to thank her, For to have kept her lying in the cabin would have caused ...
— The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 - Volume 23, Number 2 • Various
... capture it. And so, there being by now scarce any wind, he bade us get out a couple of the oars, and back the boat up to the weed. This we did, after which he made fast a piece of salt meat to a bit of spun yarn, and bent this on to the boat hook. Then he made a running bowline, and slipped the loop on to the shaft of the boat hook, after which he held out the boat hook, after the fashion of a fishing rod, over the place where I had seen the crab. Almost immediately, there swept up an enormous claw, and grasped the meat, and at that, the bo'sun cried ...
— The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" • William Hope Hodgson
... had built a cabin and stables, long before the surveyors came. 'They surveyed me in,' was his frequent statement. And there he lived and carried on until Father grew up, married, and built this home. Grandfather registered his cattle brand as the Bowline. It is a bent bow with a taut string. Father carried the same brand, but folks began calling it the B-line and both ranches go by that name. And it's really one to the outsider. The difference in methods and in management is best illustrated by the ...
— David Lannarck, Midget - An Adventure Story • George S. Harney
... Reef, Bowline, Clove-hitch and Sheep-shank knots according to instructions given in Handbook, and ...
— Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts • Girl Scouts
... rope—top-gallant-studding-sail halyards, or something of the kind—is taken up to the mast-head from which the stay leads, and rove through a block for a girt-line, or, as the sailors usually call it, a gant-line; with the end of this a bowline is taken round the stay, into which the man gets with his bucket of tar and a bunch of oakum, and the other end being fast on deck, with some one to tend it, he is lowered down gradually, and tars the stay carefully as he ...
— Two Years Before the Mast • Richard Henry Dana |
