And now, when the meeting-house is crowded as it has never been before, when Jonah Winch has arranged his dinner booth in the corner, Deacon Lysander raps for order and the minister prays.
And beyond, through the foliage of the willows and the low apple trees which Jonah Winch had set out, Coniston Water gleamed and tumbled.
Billy Winch blinked a bleared and bloodshot eye at Jacquard and Mornay, and then a wide smile broke the sluggish surface of the skin into numberless wrinkles.
Although the death of Billy Winchhad caused much commotion aboard the vessel, the crew in the main were tractable and compliant.
Captain Billy Winchhad been none too particular in this matter of detail.
Winch was already striding forward, and his upraised pin seemed about to descend upon the luckless Mornay when Jacquard interposed a long, bony arm.
With Bras-de-Fer marooned with his lady and his imperious notions, they would be free to lead the life which Billy Winch had not scrupled to deny them.
The favor of Billy Winch was no small thing to win, and Monsieur Mornay had chosen the nearest road to his heart.
This ship is owned by a person high in authority, and Captain Billee Winch bears a warrant from the King.
St. Paul's clock takes three quarters of an hour's winding every day with something like a winch handle.
On reaching the deck-house aft which led to the Captain's quarters, the man stopped and the girl had barely time to sink behind a steam-winch before he turned round and gazed furtively about him.
Then, as the serang landed against a steam-winch with a terrible crash, Calamity snatched up a capstan bar and dashed into the crowd.
A single strand cord or twine may be twisted from loose fibre, by bending a winch handle in one end of a thick iron wire, and a hook in the other.
The winch was made from a large-sized cotton reel mounted on a frame of forage hoop iron, and the handle from a piece of a broken Russian ramrod.
A wooden winch handle must then be fitted to one of them.
In spite of the broiling sun, the work of winding the winch was begun, for the delighted lads would not be persuaded to delay the operation till the cool of the day.
The canoes were warped clear, and all that remained to be done was to man the winch and heave the cradle above high-water mark.
Two of the wagons were dismantled, and the axles and wheels attached to a cradle, while a winch was firmly bolted to a secure foundation on the shore at twenty yards above high-water mark.
Andy hoped to avail himself of a high spring tide to float the yawl right over the cradle, then, casting off the lashings that supported her, they could haul the wreck up by means of the winch and effect the repairs at their leisure.
She made a furious lunge at the men when her nose was free, but the winch rattled, and she was brought up on her hind legs, blaring at us all.
She was up and away like a cat, straight for the winchman, and tried to get the winch out of her path, bellowing as she worked.
Brothers Pierce and Winch put up a simultaneous and confident "Aye.
Then you arranged with Winch to make those bogus offers--just to lead others on?
At this sound, Winchdrew up his feet, and Gorringe untied a parcel of account-books and papers that he held on his knee.
Winch clasped the minister's hand in his own broad, hard palm, and squeezed it in an exuberant grip.
The personality of Winch seemed to have impressed her, and she brought the talk back to him more than once, and prompted Theron to the very threshold of indiscretion in his confidences on the subject.
Yes, I think Brother Winchought not to vote," decided Theron, with great calmness.
This gladiatorial combat might have been going on till now, the Sunday-school superintendent concluded, if Winch hadn't subsided.
With songs and jokes and impromptu exhortations and prayers she kept the thing whirling, until a sort of duel of generosity began between two of the most unlikely men--Erastus Winch and Levi Gorringe.
For a minute or two there was no sound but the swish of the line and the clank of the big winch as it ran out, while the animal sank to the bottom.
For an instant it slackened and the winch reeled in a little line.
The winch was run by a small donkey-engine, and for about ten minutes the line was hauled in, fathom after fathom being coiled on the deck.
Working like demons, the men made the winch handles fairly fly as the line came in, and within another minute the whale spouted, blowing strongly and sounding again.
Compared to the excitement of the chase in the open boat this seemed very tame to Colin, and he said so to the captain, when he went aft, while the steam-winch gradually drew up the finback whose end had come so suddenly.
A one hundred yards' race took place on the West Winch Road, Lynn, between Thomas Akers and a horse belonging to Mr. W.
Mr. Winch was an enthusiastic yachtsman, had filled the office of Commodore of the Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club, and was one of the principal founders of the Yare Sailing Club.
Winch was appointed Postmaster at Norwich, in place of Mr. S.
A locomotive was furnished to pull the rope, instead of the usual winch with a crank handle.
One man had some bones broken and was otherwise hurt by the slipping of the handle while he was at work at the winch this afternoon.
A heavy winch was set up on a small island in the river seventy-five yards below the bridge, and ropes run from this were hitched to heavy timbers in the raft, and then pulled out by workmen at the winch.
It was raining heavily, but he found it a relief to feel the deluge beat upon his beaded face and scorched skin, though he could scarcely see the mangroves to which the wire that ran from the winch drum led.
Then the winch stopped suddenly, and Jefferson came backwards down the ladder.
In the meanwhile the big pump hummed on, as it did for another day and night, until on the third morning Jefferson stopped it and turned steam on the winch again.
The windlass was rattling on the forecastle, Wall-eye stood by the winch astern, and the surfboat was sliding towards the mangroves, where a big wire hawser was made fast, in the rain.
The bags burst when they dragged them into piles and laid them upon the sling, while when the winch swung them up, a rain of kernels and slimy water came pattering and splashing down.
Jefferson felt the veins on his forehead swollen to the bursting point when he stopped the winch and looked about him while the Spaniards slipped a sling over a palm-oil puncheon in the hold below.
Well," he said, "you can drive a winch and sling a palm oil puncheon like a sailorman.
Austin, however, had very little time to notice them in, for the winch above him rattled, and the day of feverish toil began.
Still, they went up, opening as they swung out of the dusky hold, and the winch rattled on, while there could be no rest for any man while sling succeeded sling.
Then her pace grew faster, and the clanging of his winch seemed to deafen him, until at last a shrill-pitched voice fell through the din.
Austin gasped with astonishment as well as relief when the winch stopped at last.
The winch was also powerful, and it remained to be seen whether it would heave the Cumbria out of her miry bed, or pull that portion of the watery forest up bodily.
The rattle forward died away, and though the winch still whirred and hammered, none of the wire rope ran over the drum into the crouching Spaniard's hands.
To comprehend the other parts of the government of our ancestors, we must take notice of the orders into winch they were classed.
By the time Bill 'ad sent off six orders she was worn to skin and bone a'most a-worrying over the way Silas Winch was spending her money.
Him and a pal named Silas Winch went several v'y'ges together, and their talk used to be that creepy that some o' the chaps was a'most afraid to be left on deck alone of a night.
Silas Winch scratched his head and looked at 'er thoughtful-like.
Illustration: "She saw Silas Winchstanding at the foot of the bed.
Silas Winch groaned agin, and Bill, as the shock 'ad made a'most sober, trembled all over.
Because it was not a regular avenue of work but only of examination, it had not been equipped with steam hoist and electric light, but was furnished only with such old fashioned hand winch as the stage driver had described to Eleanor.
Let her go," ordered Brydges with a glance back over his shoulder towards the trail from Smelter City; and the winch creaked and groaned; and the bucket fell with a bump; then a steady drop to the first vein.
A racking grind sounded, and the iron teeth of the winch swallowed the rusty chain like a giant biting a meal.
They severed the strip, as the winch was started, the whale rolled over and exposed an open cut which banded its neck.
The winch wheezed and groaned as a Russian unskilfully turned on the two-way cock.
About the middle of the afternoon, Adam stood near the noisy winch while a case was hoisted.
There was no movement but the racking throb, until Mayne raised his hand and winch and windlass rattled.
A light winch that will hold from 25 to 35 yards of line is sufficient for Trout.
If a good fish is hooked, let your winch line go, because he will struggle furiously when he feels the hook, and the hold might give way, provided you were too hasty and anxious to land him.
A Salmon winch should be capable of holding from 50 to 80 yards of line.
The man picked up the big wooden winch upon which the line was wound and held it fast.
Let the winch go down on the deck, and haul the fish in hand over hand till you get him close in.
Morrow cranked the gravitor-sling down on the hand winch and Smitty shut it off; then they went over to where Foster was spreading newspapers on the drafting table, checking and circling columns of newsprint with a blue crayon pencil.
The test was conducted outside, with a sling suspended under the gravitor to support a pile of sandbags, with a rope hanging from its bottom to a small hand-winch on the ground.
He muttered, however, that the winch was on such and such a side, and, with his head in the stairway, indicated the direction with his hand.
That done, the winch would fly round, and the huge machine fall by its own weight.
He pointed with a shaking hand to the outer corner of the leads, in the neighbourhood of the place where the winch of the portcullis stood.
The torpedo is worked by means of a small winch and brake fixed on the after part of the engine room skylight; davits are provided for dropping the torpedo overboard.
While the diver is dressing, the pump should be prepared for use, the winchhandles should be taken out of the pump case, the nipples protecting the crank axles removed, the nuts being replaced on their screws.
A small winch was fixed on either side aft, to pay out the towing line, and to bring back the torpedo.
The nuts for the ends of the crank axles are taken off, the fly-wheel placed on the shaft, and the winch handles put on, and secured by the nuts, which are screwed home with the spanner.
Parsimony, by increasing the fund which is destined for the maintenance of productive hands, tends to increase the number of those hands whose labour adds to the value of the subject upon winch it is bestowed.
In order to satisfy ourselves upon this point, it will not be necessary to enter into any tedious or doubtful calculation of what may be the lowest sum upon winch it is possible to do this.
The burghers themselves frequently got credit enough to be admitted to farm the revenues of this sort winch arose out of their own town, they becoming jointly and severally answerable for the whole rent.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "winch" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
