The Champion was coming, and he swam into her path, barely missing a clutch at the steel towline whizzing past him.
Filling his lungs with air and locking arms and legs around the rope, he let himself go; and he slid at the speed of the tug down the trolley and up again, traversing half of the length of the towline beneath the surface.
We had seven canines--three pairs and a leader--pulling upon a deerskintowline fastened to a thole-pin.
It was the duty of the man in the bow to regulate the towline according to circumstances.
Shielding himself as best he could, Jack returned the fire, making a special effort to keep the Germans away from the towline ashore.
Before making fast the towline from the lifeboat to the stern of the Dewey for the journey toward the coast McClure had Jean Cartier and his commissary assistant bring up pots of steaming hot coffee and dole it out to the forlorn Teutons.
The buoy, with a towline affixed to it, was lifted into the boat that was then paddled to the bow of the Ella, from the deck of which another hawser was cast to the captain, who made it fast to the towline of the buoy.
His plan was to swing out into the current, and, if the boat proved perfectly manageable, to cut loose from the towline and paddle across, sounding the whole breadth of the channel.
In a few seconds, impelled from the shore by the paddles, the boat was at the full length of the towline and in the middle of the boiling current.
A couple of fairish paddles were chipped out of bits of driftwood, and a towline a hundred feet long was made of lariats.
Shall I confess to you," he continued, "that I suspect him of having weakened that towline so as to send our friend down the San Juan?
When Thurstane perceived that the towlinehad parted and that the boat was gliding down the San Juan, he called sharply, "Paddle!
Far from guessing that thetowline had snapped, she was not aware that there was one.
Not twenty minutes after the snapping of the towline the boat had entered one of those stupendous cañons which form the distinguishing characteristic of the great American table-land, and make it a region unlike any other in the world.
Sounding the muddy water with their paddles, they slowly glided into the angle between the bowlder and the precipice, and jammed the fragment of the towline in a crevice.
His lively mind had hardly dismissed this subject before he remarked: "Dum cur'ous that towline breaking.
In passing this place the towline of one of the canoes broke just at the shoot of the rapids, swung on the rocks and had nearly upset.
In the Hsintan rapid the towline parted, and his junk was smashed to pieces by the rocks, and all that he possessed destroyed.
In an awkward rapid its towline had parted, and the huge structure tumbling uncontrolled in the water, was bearing down on us, broadside on.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "towline" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
