Into this fell the body of the warrior, and as a drowning man clutches at a straw so the fellow clutched at the tangled cordage that caught him and arrested his fall.
He was carried within reach of the cordage where the warrior still clung, though with rapidly diminishing strength.
Inextricably entangled in the mess to which he was clinging were numerous other landing hooks such as he had attached to the warrior's harness, and with one of these he sought to secure himself until the storm should abate sufficiently to permit him to climb to the deck, but even as he reached for one that swung near him the ship was caught in a renewed burst of the storm's fury, the thrashing cordage whipped and snapped to the lunging of the great craft and one of the heavy metal hooks, lashing through the air, struck the Jed of Gathol fair between the eyes.
Momentarily stunned, Gahan's fingers slipped from their hold upon the cordage and the man shot downward through the thin air of dying Mars toward the ground three thousand feet beneath, while upon the deck of the rolling Vanator his faithful warriors clung to their lashings all unconscious of the fate of their beloved leader; nor was it until more than an hour later, after the storm had materially subsided, that they realized he was lost, or knew the self-sacrificing heroism of the act that had sealed his doom.
An hour later the form of Janette Harford, invisible in the darkness and spray, was torn from my grasp by the cruel vortex of the sinking ship, and I fainted in the
cordage of the floating mast to which I had lashed myself.
"The supporting power being estimated at 2500 pounds, and the united weights of the party amounting only to about 1200, there was left a surplus of 1300, of which again 1200 was exhausted by ballast, arranged in bags of different sizes, with their respective weights marked upon them - by
cordage, barometers, telescopes, barrels containing provision for a fortnight, water-casks, cloaks, carpet-bags, and various other indispensable matters, including a coffee-warmer, contrived for warming coffee by means of slack-lime, so as to dispense altogether with fire, if it should be judged prudent to do so.
The sea was heaving under a thick white fog; and nothing else was moving but a few early ropemakers, who, with the yarn twisted round their bodies, looked as if, tired of their present state of existence, they were spinning themselves into
cordage.
Squat and lean at the same time, asymmetrically limbed, string-muscled as if with lengths of
cordage, dirt-caked from infancy save for casual showers, she was as unbeautiful a prototype of woman as he, with a scientist's eye, had ever gazed upon.
There were many things to be brought up from the beach and stored in the outhouse - as oars, nets, sails,
cordage, spars, lobster-pots, bags of ballast, and the like; and though there was abundance of assistance rendered, there being not a pair of working hands on all that shore but would have laboured hard for Mr.
The young countess, seated beside her husband, watched the progress of the work with regret that she could not help it; and yet she did assist in making knots to secure the
cordage.
Canvas and
cordage strain and masts and yards creak.
"We are looking forward to Christian joining the Samson team; we believe that his experience in leading technology companies will be instrumental to continuing Samson's leadership in performance
cordage and expanding their market position," said the president of Wind River Holdings, Robert Strouse, in a press release.
Costales said around 90 percent of the country's abaca output are shipped as pulp,
cordage, fibercraft and raw fiber.
Having failed to secure adequate protection for their products in the form of quotas and duties, the dairy associations, sugar growers,
cordage manufacturers and other farmers' organizations staunchly supported the move to grant independence to the Philippines, to disqualify the country from the American free-trade bloc.
Case Plow Works, Racine, Wis.; Milburn Wagon Co., Toledo, Ohio; Sechler & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio; Selby, Starr & Co., Peoria, III.; Miamisburg Twine &
Cordage Co., Miamisburg, Ohio; International Mfg.