They used as much care in throwing and tightening the lashings as though stowing the pack on a "bad" mule for a mountain-trail, rather than a cargo raft that was only to drift with the current.
I asked what would have happened had the vine lashings broke.
Five minutes later the lashingswere off the freight and a splashing line of Indians and Cholos were bringing the freight ashore.
Cuckolds' necks with lashings or "Clinches" are also used for the same purpose.
This will not withstand a very great strain but is secure from untying by accident and is very useful for taking up spare rope of lashings on bundles or baggage.
He's got the militia band, and there will be lashings of everything; and his girls are nice girls, whether their father sold pork or not.
Lashings to eat and drink, and a room fit for a king.
The crime of child-murder must haunt them, and even if they do not suffer from thelashings of conscience, the moral character suffers irreparable damage.
By Rayner's advice, each man got lashings ready to secure himself to the stanchions or stumps of the masts.
One of them, as they got up alongside, sprang on to the raft, and casting off the lashings which held Bill to it, the next instant was safe in the boat with him in his arms.
With forethought, they had fixed some lashings to the raft with which to secure both Jack and themselves.
The coffin is lifted into this cleft by the aid of a scaffolding which is built around the large pole, and which afterwards falls away when the lashings are cut.
The upper half of the triangle (which may or may not be marked by a shoulder) is buried in the lashings by which it is attached to the wooden haft.
I could clearly see by the light of his own lantern had a broad and beaming grin on it, as he proceeded to inspect the lashings now of my hammock, the foot-end of which was still attached to its hook in the deck beam.
We rolled so, that preventer stays were rigged to make sure of our masts and the guns were secured with double lashings round the breech; while lifelines were rove fore and aft to assist us in keeping our footing along the deck.
The lashings of the long-boat had just been cut, and the gale seized it and raised it in the air as if it had been made of paper.
Cut away," came the low quick order and before even the nearby besiegers could locate the sound Bob Russell, high above, had slashed the lashings of a bag of ballast.
The jury mainmast had snapped short off immediately above the lashings that bound it to the stump of the original spar, and had gone over the stern, some of its gear having evidently struck Leslie down as the spar fell.
By Jove," whispered Leslie to his companion, "they are determined to leave nothing to chance; they have actually brought along with them the lashings wherewith to bind me!
We had in our sledge available hickory wood of the best quality, than which no wood could be better; we had sinews and seal lashingsfor strings, but there was no metal for tips.
We had eaten other things--our very boots and leather lashings as a last resort.
Here we stored lashings and skins that had to be kept moist.
After much creaking, and the settling of straps and lashings into their places, it was found that everything stood, and the work went on.
Sliding down the trunk of the tree, they found one of the lashings dangling.
But stay, if you can manage to get your hands near my teeth, I will try and bite the bands off them, and then you can loosen the lashings round my limbs.
I also at length, with much more difficulty, so far slackened all his bands and the lashings which secured him to the litter, that he might with ease slip his limbs completely out of them.
It also had the effect of bumping Tumbler and Pussi against each other, and sometimes strained theirlashings almost to the breaking point.
His opinion was clearly shown by his starting up suddenly, jumping on the sledge again, flourishing his whip savagely, and setting off at a pace that obliged Rooney to seize the lashings with both hands and hold on tight.
Bonavia regards them as the lashings of luck-horns which have become modified into volutes.
I learn that Davis's hammock lashings had been cut during the night, or some time earlier.
Lashings were knitted about his limbs with almost miraculous rapidity.
When they got to the little amphitheatre, in which all crowded who could possibly enter, the lashings around Beekman's feet were drawn tight again.
Although the lashings had not been cast off by those who had lowered him to the strand, yet they had been loosened in the descent, and he realized that by patient application he could presently free himself from his bonds.
They loosened the lashings around Beekman's feet, lifted him up, and forced him, surrounded by the men, along the path that led to the little amphitheatre.
The San Antonio had fired the bombard which she carried, but as no more shots came they judged that the cannon had broke its lashings or burst.
Knowing what this dreadful silence meant, Peter cast down his sword and drew his dagger, wherewith to cut the lashings of Morella's gorget and give the coup de grâce.
He thought they were lying, and would not let them go till he had turned out all their pockets, and found that not one of them contained the missing lashings that had mysteriously disappeared.
The fire smoke and the rain would be forgotten by both men as they talked together, and George Fox's face would light up as he heard the story of the lashings that disappeared and the beatings that left no bruise.
The whole machine was fastened together by means of tough lashings of raw seal-hide, so that, to all appearance, it was a rickety affair, ready to fall to pieces.
