"Bowline" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... jump off with a bowline," he directed Scotty. "We'll let the stern swing around with the current. That will leave us facing the way we came, so we won't have to turn ...
— The Flying Stingaree • Harold Leland Goodwin
... elementary knots which every one should know are here represented—viz., the Timber-hitch, the Bowline, and the Clove-hitch. (See also "Knots," p. 49; "Malay ...
— The Art of Travel - Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries • Francis Galton
... to those of the hemp. For intricacy, such a knot he had never seen in an American ship, nor indeed any other. The old man looked like an Egyptian priest, making Gordian knots for the temple of Ammon. The knot seemed a combination of double-bowline-knot, treble-crown-knot, back-handed-well-knot, ...
— The Piazza Tales • Herman Melville |
