Deftly the rescuer adjusted the bowline under von Loringhoven's shoulders, and with a stentorian "Heave away roundly!
And then one of these wreaths came up and floated alongside of him just as we were slipping a bowline round his feet.
Those who had not dropped to the deck, wounded or seeking shelter, surged to the starboard side of the boat, causing it to list to an alarming degree, the fastened bowline alone preventing it from capsizing.
With no pilot at the wheel the propeller churned madly backward for a moment, the bowline drew taut and snapped, and the Verona pulled away from the murderous crew of vigilantes.
He had hoisted the jib on his Bleking boat, shipped the rudder and loosened the bowline ready to be cast off, when Mademoiselle and her mother appeared on the beach.
A Bowline on the Bight+--Using both parts of the rope together, commence as in making an ordinary bowline (Fig.
Now bring end c over part y and with it form the bowline knot on part z just as in the previous case we formed it on its own part, when it will appear as in Fig.
Next to the bowline in importance is, perhaps, the bend called two half-hitches, or the clove hitch, by means of which one can secure with the end of a rope almost any thing.
Firstly, the anthropomorphic element; the sailor imagines hisbowline as if it had life.
Secondly, the humorous element, for the bowlineis all tail.
Soon, with the bugles sounding attention, Main Top Bowline and his orderly emerged through the superstructure with Mr. Eberle.
The captain told Main Top Bowline that he had been a member of Neptune's domain for thirty-eight years but had not met Main Top Bowline before.
Main Top Bowline had a pair of binoculars made from black beer bottles which were capped by the rubber pieces that fit the eyes on the sighting apparatus of the guns.
The helm was then put down, the yards braced up, and the frigate stood away on a bowline close-hauled to the westward.
There was a light breeze from the eastward, and the frigate, under all plain sail, was standing on a bowline to the southward.
Range yourselves fore and aft along the lee bulwarks, my lads, and let each one stand by to heave a rope's-end with a standing bowline in it as soon as we get near enough.
Connecting hawsers by bowlineknots is very objectionable, as the bend is large and the knots jam.
Running bowlines are formed by making a bowline round its own standing part above b.
Stand by to lower away," he shouted, as he made a loop known as a "bowline on a bight.
He might perhaps escape being dashed against the cliff and contrive to seize a bowline lowered from above; but the possibility of getting safely through that turmoil seemed wellnigh hopeless.
Oh yes; but the Tom Bowline has been given up; she has not even been plundered, and is now working into the bay.
The Tom Bowline from London has been becalmed in the offing the whole day; I saw her from the piazza some time ago.
There was a coil of extra cable here, and he grabbed the loose end and deftly made a running bowline knot.
He made a bowline slip-knot, opened a noose as large as he could handle, coiled the rest of the cable carefully, and poised himself on a thwart.
Gersey had sent Templin, who had proved himself one of the smartest seamen on the yacht, down the battens of the starboard gangway with a rope's end, in which a bowline had been cast.
The oak, that had long since been partially undermined by the water from the spring, and which Captain Bowline had determined to remove before it did any damage, gave way before the violent pull of Millinet.
They decided, however, before they parted, that it was altogether unnecessary to communicate to Captain Bowline what had taken place.
The words of these windlass and bowline "shanties" have, of course, little of the element of finished poetry about them.
The following are good specimens of the bowline chants.
So I made a bowline in the end of the gaff-topsail halliards, and went aloft in it, with the intention of remaining there, if need be, to con the craft in.
The use of the cringle is generally to hold the end of some rope, which is fastened thereto for the purpose of drawing up the sail to its yard, or extending the skirts or leech by means of bowline bridles, to stand upon a side-wind.
The mode of bending warps or hawsers together by taking a bowline in the end of one rope, and passing the end of the other through the bight, and making a bowline upon it.
A further involution makes what is termed a bowline on a bight.
The span attached to the cringles on the leech of a square sail to which the bowline is toggled or clinched.
Let go," alluding to the fore-bowline and lee head-braces.
Is made by taking the end round the standing part, and making a bowline upon its own part.
The bowlineknot is so firmly made, and fastened to the cringles of the sails, that they must break, or the sails split, before it will slip.
First make the loop as in the ordinary bowline but allow a good length of end (A).
I asked for an Alpine rope with a bowline for my foot: and taking up first the bowline and then my harness they got me out.
It seemed a long time before I saw the rope come down alongside me with a bowline in it for me to put my foot in and get dragged out.
For slip nooses, use thebowline to make the draw-loop.
A bowline is firmer, if doubled; that is, if the free end of the cord be made to wrap round a second time.
I took the line round a cleat and played him, or he would have carried it away; got him close enough to get a bowline over his tail, and hauled him on board.
We slung the rope in a bowline round his neck, and he would clew up the mainsail by walking on till he was told to stop.
For Crean, the last man up, we lowered the sledge over the cornice and used a bowline in the other end of the rope on top of it.
That's about what it was," said Percival, as he and Jack got into the boat, and Bucephalus and Ben Bowline started to row them to the yacht.
Smith, Bucephalus Johnson and Ben Bowline to be bought off, and the prices might go up.
Bucephalus and old Ben Bowline were in the boat, the old sailor hailing them when he neared the shore.
Instead of doing anything the boys only stood there and laughed, and when Bucephalus and Ben Bowline came up in great haste they did the same, all joining in a full-voiced laughing chorus.
Ben Bowline presently came up, looked at him, touched his grizzled forelock, and said: "Sir to you.
The boys, accordingly, set off toward the shore, and at length reached it, finding Ben Bowline waiting for them with the boat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bowline" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
