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More "Grapnel" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... do they drop from the top of the wall? Not they! Slowly creeping, they make their way down the side of the jar; they use their fore-part, ever in quest of information, as a crutch and grapnel in one. They reach the meat and at once ...
— The Wonders of Instinct • J. H. Fabre
... over the velvet grass till our hind-wheels struck well-rolled gravel, leading us to sanity, main roads, and, half an hour later, the "Grapnel Inn" at Horsham. ...
— Traffics and Discoveries • Rudyard Kipling
... through it we spoke Iligan, finding the cable satisfactory in that direction. So we buoyed the shore end and continued our fishing with the heavy tackle. For hours we unsuccessfully lowered the massive grapnel iron, where our charts indicated the cable should be, but without success until late in the afternoon, when the strain on the dynamometer ...
— A Woman's Journey through the Philippines - On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route • Florence Kimball Russel
... of his own in a sulky tone of voice, lowering his sails; and then there was a splash as a grapnel was dropped ...
— Hunting the Skipper - The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop • George Manville Fenn
... get off with a shaking," Monsieur Teclier said. "The car is made of wicker work, and is as elastic as a ball. Drop the grapnel, now; in another minute, we shall be within ...
— The Young Franc Tireurs - And Their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War • G. A. Henty
... been busy in the stern of the craft and had succeeded in getting the grapnel loose from the beam into which its sharp points had dug. It was not till that moment that the ...
— The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone • Richard Bonner
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