After that the brothers manned the windlass and let Jim down in a bowline about twenty feet, while he detached and removed two lengths of the shaft ladder.

Then, quick as thought, I belayed the windlass and lowered a gaff.

The next thing Willie did was to construct a small windlass in the garden, with which to wind up or let out the string of the kite; and when the next fit morning arrived, Mona and he went out together.

Mr. Vanmater promised to erect a windlass over the pit and get him out before Mr. Bennet returned.

A little group of men with picks, shovels, and wheelbarrows were reducing the "dump" of winter pay, piled beside a windlass, conveying it to the sluices.

Accordingly, when they quitted the windlass, they both set about putting this project in execution.

He reached the windlass where the mule had worked, and leaned pantingly against the post holding the cord by pulling which the weight was released from the top of the timbers on the barge.

While I was considering how I should get down, a bull with two heads peered over the edge of the wall and said he would haul me up if I would first climb up and rig a windlass for him.

Which is his claim?" Salaman led the way over the heaps of gravel and round a windlass to No. 6, admitting: "Oh, yes, Dillon and I, and a few others, have come out of it all right, but Lord!

There was a minute, when I thought the old bark would get away from us; and when, by desperate efforts, we did succeed in checking the mass, it seemed as if she would shake the windlass out of her.

"If the cable holds, I can smash the windlass, but I can't heave her off.

The motor, by means of a belt, actuated a windlass provided with suitable checking gearings.

We camped out and dug holes around all summer, getting just about enough to pay our expensesnot a very encouraging venture, for we had lived in a tent and had picked and shoveled and blasted and twisted a windlass hard enough to have earned a good bit of money.