For every thumb was a marlinespike and every finger a fid. From Wordnik.com. [Old Fid] Reference
Ronica nodded at Rache, but did not put down the marlinespike. From Wordnik.com. [The Mad Ship]
She kept hold of the marlinespike, but her wrists quivered, and she lowered it. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
It had been Captain Vestrit's conceit to keep a marlinespike on the corner of his desk. From Wordnik.com. [The Mad Ship]
"As easily as you can distinguish a marlinespike from a capstan-bar," answered Captain Miles. From Wordnik.com. [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference
She took two long steps and seized the marlinespike, yanking it off the desk in a shower of rubbish and clanging oddments. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
He settled one of our men with his fist, and another with a marlinespike that he caught, -- and, in fact, they had to shoot him down. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859] Reference
He did so, and had it not been that a writ of Habeas Corpus was immediately sworn out, the Deptford tailor would most certainly have exchanged his needle for a marlinespike. From Wordnik.com. [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference
He slashed away the rope yarn which lashed the marlinespike. From Wordnik.com. [Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916] Reference
Otie recovered his marlinespike and began to pound the eye-bolt. From Wordnik.com. [Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916] Reference
Jule hove a marlinespike at the mate's head and jumped overboard. From Wordnik.com. [Cape Cod Stories] Reference
"That is not the kind of a marlinespike I am," replied the Captain quaintly. From Wordnik.com. [Dulcibel A Tale of Old Salem] Reference
Afterwards we found a marlinespike hanging over the ship's side by a lanyard. From Wordnik.com. [The After House] Reference
Oliver had also armed himself with a marlinespike in default of a better weapon. From Wordnik.com. [The Crew of the Water Wagtail] Reference
"Now make it good and fast to that marlinespike, and stand by to toss it ashore.". From Wordnik.com. [Charley's "Coup"] Reference
Although we had found no absolute explanation of the marlinespike, an obvious one suggested itself. From Wordnik.com. [The After House] Reference
It was entirely possible, we agreed, that the marlinespike had been so disposed, as some seaman's resort in time of need. From Wordnik.com. [The After House] Reference
Nature, however, at last gave way, and if we stopped for a moment we went fast asleep with a rope or marlinespike in our hands. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Trawl The Adventures of a Whaler] Reference
Then he set to work to jam down sail cloth and oakum between this barrier and the plank that had started, driving it down with a marlinespike and mallet. From Wordnik.com. [A Final Reckoning A Tale of Bush Life in Australia] Reference
A splintered board showed where it had struck, and a smaller indentation where it had rebounded; but the marlinespike was gone, and Burns had not seen it. From Wordnik.com. [The After House] Reference
"There, we are all right now," said Lawry, after he had tried the marlinespike several times to satisfy himself that it could be easily drawn from its place. From Wordnik.com. [Haste and Waste; Or, the Young Pilot of Lake Champlain. a Story for Young People] Reference
He released his daughter, yanked the marlinespike away from Otie, who had been holding himself in the background as a reserve force, and stamped to the rail. From Wordnik.com. [Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916] Reference
West Tisbury's Myles Thurlow, boat-builder and experienced sailor, will demonstrate techniques in working rope and wire in the art of marlinespike seamanship. From Wordnik.com. [The Martha's Vineyard Times News Headlines] Reference
That shover man let out a hair-raisin 'yell, hauled the nickel marlinespike over in its rack, and squeezed a rubber bag that was spliced to the steerin' wheel. From Wordnik.com. [The Depot Master] Reference
Now and then the mates ordered me to do some little job or other, to fetch a swab or a marlinespike, or to hold a paint-pot, but they in no other way noticed me. From Wordnik.com. [Old Jack] Reference
"He threw down a marlinespike at something moving in the bow. From Wordnik.com. [The After House] Reference
"'It has eaten,' said I, 'these weeks ago, just as far as ever it will get; and that's as far as a rat can gnaw into a marlinespike. From Wordnik.com. [Foe-Farrell] Reference
The marlinespike he threw had had no lanyard. From Wordnik.com. [The After House] Reference
A marlinespike. From Wordnik.com. [Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916] Reference
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