The two guttural grapnels serve for walking much rather than for feeding.
What they are is ambulatory organs, grapnels assisting locomotion, which give a purchase on the plane and enable the animal to advance by means of repeated contractions.
It is a curious gymnastic display, that of this soft, hanging spine turning and swaying, while thegrapnels feel in every direction for a thread.
Supported by the suspended belt, the caddis worm stretches itself and thrusts out its middle legs, which, being longer than the others, are the grapnels intended to seize things at a distance.
At a sign from Jack the men with the grapnels leaped up, and cast them in at the open ports of the brig.
Instantly half a dozen grapnels were out, and the two vessels were closely interlocked.
The grapnels were loosened, and tubs of wadding, and boxes of cartridge stood ready for use.
Her first attempts to make fast to the mole ahead of the Vindictive failed, as her grapnels were not large enough to span the parapet.
Commander Bradford and Lieutenant Hawkins, climbed ashore and sat astride the parapet trying to make the grapnels fast till each was killed and fell down between the ship and the wall.
In their surprise at what they beheld the pirates had not thrown their grapnels at the proper moment, and now the two vessels had drifted still farther apart.
The grapnels were loosened; the few men who were on duty shoved desperately; the foresail went up, and the two vessels began to separate.
The grapnels flew over the bulwarks of the pirate, and in a moment the two vessels were as one.
His capricious thoughts were so many grapnelswhich fastened his heart to the marquise.
Thus Aurelie began by showing a disinterestedness equal to her other charms, which allowed this weak corvette to attach its grapnels securely to the larger vessel.
As Wade said, old man Trull was throwing a line, with what turned out to be one of our small grapnels attached.
Sometimes three or four grapnels were used when the tendency to swing off was greater.
The grapnels uniting the two ships were cut, and at once the craft began to drift apart, Harry being left on board the Spanish vessel searching for Roger.
Jeeps and cars would dart in, throw grapnels on the end of lines, and then pull away all the wax they could and return to throw theirgrapnels again.
The derricks and manipulators and the cars and jeeps with grapnels went in on both sides, snatching and dragging wax away.
The boats were to pull to the bottom of the bay, not to go so near as to be discovered, and then drop their grapnels till daylight.
They dropped their grapnelsin about seven fathoms water and waited for daylight.
For a brief instant he stood upon the parapet, silhouetted against the glare of the star-shells and the flashes of the guns, striving to engage one of the large grapnels flung from the deck of the Iris.
In the midst of a truly deafening din men dashed from cover to hurl the grapnels across the parapet of the Mole.
A couple of grapnels were hove into the boat, which was nearly crushed between the two vessels, and a dozen or more pirates, armed to the teeth, looking more like demons than men, sprang into her.
Another quarter of an hour's row and we dropped our grapnels close to the foot of the cliffs, and the men were told to get a sleep as well as they could till morning.
Well, there's nothing to do, lads, but to row in and drop yourgrapnels again and wait till we see the ship's lights tonight.
It might have been about midnight when the men on watch made out a light to seaward, and we weren't long in getting up our grapnels and sitting our oars.
Stand by with the holding-down lines and have a couple of grapnels ready.
The grapnels had caught in a wire fence, and having uprooted half a dozen posts, were doing their level best to remove a five-mile sheep fence.
Both grapnels were carefully lowered, since there would be grave risks entailed by throwing them overboard.
When they neared them, they threw grapnels on board, and towed them towards land until they were stranded, and then left them to burn out undisturbed.
The grapnels were lifted, and the men, many of whom were wounded more or less severely in the fray, got out their oars and pulled to the lugger, amid a dropping fire of pistol shots from shore.
Grapnels had been dropped over their sterns, and, as the men in charge hauled out the moment the fight began, they were in water shoulder deep when the smugglers scrambled on board.
There came a clanging of grapnels on the rail over the crouching defenders.
Immediately followed a great shouting and a frantic pelting of grapnels from the sea below.
Suddenly, the Genoese threw off the grapnels that attached the two ships, and hoisting their sails, sheered off.
I was attacked by Fieschi and by another galley, and, in spite of the weather, they cast grapnels on to my ship and boarded me.
The two Genoese galleys had thrown their grapnelsand made fast, one on each side of Pisani's galley.
Grapnels were thrown, and the crew, seizing their weapons, sprang on to the deck of the pirate.
They were coming home with hardly any resistance, bringing with them thegrapnels of the picquet-boats till the latter had to hastily cast off in order to prevent themselves being dragged ashore.
A light-draught picquet boat, with two heavy grapnels made ready to lower, dashed over the submerged net.
Her first attempts to make fast to the mole ahead of the Vindictive failed, as her grapnels were not large enough to span the parapet.
Two officers, Lieutenant Commander Bradford and Lieutenant Hawkins, climbed ashore and sat astride the parapet trying to make the grapnels fast till each was killed and fell down between the ship and the wall.
By the captain's orders twenty of the crew, under his first mate, returned to the deck of the prize; a portion of the men ran to the guns, others threw off the grapnels fastening them to the prize.
The grapnels were thrown, and the sailors and Frenchmen leapt on to her deck headed by the three officers.
As she came alongside the sailors cast grapnels into her rigging, and fastened her to the "Rose;" and then aloud shout of "Hurrah for England!
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