Then they got to their ship and to their oars, and Tiphys bade them cast off the hawsers and go to sea. But as he spoke a whirlwind came, and spun the ARGO round, and twisted the hawsers together, so that no man could loose them. Then Tiphys dropped the rudder from his hand, and cried, 'This comes from the Gods above.' But Jason went forward, and asked counsel of the magic bough.英文原著 · 《The Heroes》
Go and ask 'em at Kenmuir! Ask yer--"
David swayed slightly, crushing the body in his arms till it seemed every rib must break; then hurled it from him with all the might of passion. The little man fell with a crash and a groan. The blaze in the corner flared, flickered, and died. There was hell-black darkness, and silence of the dead. David stood against the wall, panting, every nerve tightstrung as the hawser of a straining ship. In the corner lay the body of his father, limp and still; and in the room one other living thing was moving. He clung close to the wall, pressing it with wet hands.英文原著 · 《Bob Son of Battle》
Beresford clung to Vespasian: she held his bare black shoulder with one white and jewelled hand, and his wrist with the other, tight. "Oh, Mr. Black," said she, "how brave you are! It is incredible. Why, you came back! I must feel a brave man with both my hands or I shall die. Your skin is nice and soft, too. I shall never outlive this dreadful day."
And now that the water was too low to wash them off the hawser, several of the ship's company came back to the ship to help the women down.英文原著 · 《Hard Cash》
At five o'clock A.M. the officer of the watch jumped down into my cabin, and awoke me with the news--"That the Frenchman was a-saying summat on his black board!" Feeling by the motion that a very heavy sea must have been knocked up during the night, I began to be afraid that something must have gone wrong with the towing-gear, or that a hawser might have become entangled in the corvette's screw--which was the catastrophe of which I had always been most apprehensive; so slipping on a pair of fur boots, which I carefully kept by the bedside in case of an emergency, and throwing a cloak over--英文原著 · 《Letters From High Latitudes》
up its paste like a rope-maker twisting a hawser. What an indecent,英文原著 · 《Peace》
"'As to that,' said Kearny, abandoning his light mood at once, 'I have already done what I could. I have had some experience in hoisting stone in quarries. Torres and I have already spliced three hawsers and stretched them from the steamer's stern to a tree on shore. We will rig a tackle and have the gun on terra firma before noon to-morrow.'英文原著 · 《Roads of Destiny》