Your anchor must drop from the bow of your ship with no turn of cable on any of its limbs, else you would be riding to a foul anchor.
A vessel in the Channel has her anchors always ready, her cables shackled on, and the land almost always in sight.
They had seen me cut the
cables, and thought my design was only to let the ships run adrift or fall foul on each other: but when they perceived the whole fleet moving in order, and saw me pulling at the end, they set up such a scream of grief and despair as it is almost impossible to describe or conceive.
Next, having made the cable tight, Barrett set out to produce it more cheaply and by accident stumbled upon a way to make it immensely more efficient.
Not the paper, but the air in the paper, had improved the cable. More air was added by the omission of the oil.
But Porthos was not a man to abandon an old servant, and when Musqueton rose above the water, blind as a new-born puppy, he found he was supported by the large hand of Porthos and that he was thus enabled, without having occasion even to move, to advance toward the
cable with the dignity of a very triton.
My
cables have been published and our letters will be in print by now, and the photographs you took of the work.
I was as positive that the other end of that little
cable protruded through the surface of the inner world as I am that I sit here today in my study--when about midnight of the fourth day I was awakened by the sound of the instrument.
They rode on their chain for the rest of the night, a short, snappy, uneasy motion, as Harvey found, and wasted half the forenoon recovering the
cable. But the boys agreed the trouble was cheap at the price of triumph and glory, and they thought with grief over all the beautiful things that they might have said to the discomfited Carrie.
In truth, he saw nothing-unless he were wizard enough to detect a poignant wish, a powerful longing that the
cable car would never stop anywhere, but go on and on with her forever.
When old Smallways died, Tom could think of nothing more striking to say of him than that, "When he was a boy, there wasn't nothing higher than your chimbleys--there wasn't a wire nor a cable in the sky!"
The mono-rail cable standard became a striking fact in urban landscape, for the most part stout iron erections rather like tapering trestles, and painted a bright bluish green.
The next day I made another voyage, and now, having plundered the ship of what was portable and fit to hand out, I began with the
cables. Cutting the great
cable into pieces, such as I could move, I got two
cables and a hawser on shore, with all the ironwork I could get; and having cut down the spritsail-yard, and the mizzen- yard, and everything I could, to make a large raft, I loaded it with all these heavy goods, and came away.
Will I, nill I, the ineffable thing has tied me to him; tows me with a
cable I have no knife to cut.
They saw nothing but a strong eddy about three
cables' length distant, as if the surface had been violently agitated.
