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1. So, with his one good arm, Onidas gathered up a bolt and loaded it, frantically cranking the winch to add tension to the drawstring
2. She was sitting on the rail next to the winch listening for Vyinga
3. "Oh no, it's not that, cranking this winch isn't even that hard for me
4. Alan sat beside her at the winch
5. There was another change, just a small adjustment to the winch they were at
6. They were much busier than average at the winch thru that whole shift
7. "Even Nuran is good crew, she's only been late to a winch twice and I've had no other problems with her til now
8. " Luray said, and began walking toward her winch
9. A winch, emergency oars, and the blue and white striped flag of Greece
10. “We’ve come over to the rail next to the winch, I’ve made eye contact with the deck marshal and he knows that this winch, and therefore mast, is manned
11. “I’ll just sit here by the main winch til I hear Lorthax say otherwise
12. “This pedal coming out here is the bobbin release on this winch
13. She soon had the whole sail in her hand on the winch crank, thru the four to one reduction it was set at
14. In order to satisfy ourselves upon this point, it will not be necessary to enter into any tedious or doubtful calculation of what may be the lowest sum upon winch it is possible to do this
15. At a height of forty standard feet the winch began groaning under the pressure, the massive brentwood timbers that composed the frame bending as it inched its way upward
16. Parsimony, by increasing the fund which is destined for the maintenance of productive hands, tends to increase the number of those hands whose labour adds to the value of the subject upon winch it is bestowed
17. The burghers themselves frequently got credit enough to be admitted to farm the revenues of this sort winch arose out of their own town, they becoming jointly and severally answerable for the whole rent
18. The auto winch dropped down towards the ground and in a few seconds Martin was gliding onto the soft, needle covered turf
19. Then walking back to the workshop, he hauled the empty cradle back up the ramp with an electric winch
20. Took the fire brigade an hour to winch his body up whilst we nodded in appreciation of their mountaineering skills
21. Pulling out the sock, I succeeded in slipping it over the ostrich's head but my shout of triumph was short lived because the sparks raised by my tin hat had set fire to the winch rope
22. “LP, run and attach the winch to the jail bars
23. He stood back from the stone wall as Bear started the winch
24. Winch: hoisting engine secured to the deck which haul lines by turns around a drum
25. Jitter turned to Cheet who’d brought the wagon down and was about to winch poor Jasper up to the tailgate
26. By directing all the energy left into his right hand, he reached for the small winch; turning it as his flesh trembled in lack of energy; panting as his shaky hand felt a splash with the bucket finally rising up to the brim of the well
27. The winch came loose and the bucket dropped out of sight like a stone, the rope uncoiling too fast for the children to grab with their bare hands
28. He reached the gate and looked at the mechanism which was basically a motorised winch that pulled the structure sideways
29. On the other hand, the thought of not seeing the slim beauty caused him to winch and close his eyes
30. With help from the powerful winch on Greg’s tug to drag a couple of the containers out of the hold, they were finally able to remove the containers and transport them to the lakeside
31. As he waved the capsule in his nose, Johnny started to winch and move
32. “You either have the cargo drive itself or you have it pull itself in with a winch on the cargo
33. The pain made him winch
34. electric winch, which was controlled by the person hanging
35. himself inched the winch down until he felt the resistance of
36. A wooden slipway sloped into the water and in the old days they used to winch small boats up the slipway into the boathouse
37. Murray stripped down to his boxers and swam out to the boat, after checking the tinny for fuel he hoisted Tony on board the fishing boat with the small derrick, starting the engine he winched up the anchor and headed out to sea towing the tinny, watching the depth gauge he found a deep trench on the ocean bed and cut the engine, collecting all the papers he could find he put them in a plastic bag, he then dragged Tony and Ricky into the wheelhouse and secured the two bodies with wire rope from the winch, closing and locking the door, Murray then picked up Ricky’s rifle and using the butt broke the glass in one of the small portholes, looking around he saw he was all alone on the ocean and the light was fading as the sun slowly dipped beneath the horizon, lifting the engine cover he fired the rifle into the bottom skin of the boat, for a moment nothing happened then he noticed water beginning to slop around the engine, he climbed into the small tinny, started the outboard and circled the fishing boat watching it slowly sink as it filled with water, when it sank beneath the surface Murray headed back to Dream Bay
38. It was completed before a truck showed up and dropped two long ropes besides each helicopter, with the helicopter crews then fixing the ropes to the rescue winch assemblies above the forward side doors of the CH-47Js
39. Before you ask me a ton of questions, know this: the XC-10 is able to take off and land vertically and is fully equipped to conduct combat, long distance search and rescue missions, including this rescue basket hooked to a winch
40. Marilyn smiled from ear to ear when the basket entered the belly of the XC-10 and she saw Ingrid at the controls of the winch
41. The fact that it was equipped with a large rescue basket hooked to a winch and able to pick up to eight persons at a time tells us that its primary mission as designed is probably combat search and rescue
42. Jessica Dew was in the process of positioning the overhead winch provided to move subject matter, namely cadavers, above Clegg’s casket
43. He looked at the rescue basket suspended to its winch mechanism forward of the main cabin, then at the multi-mission pods fixed to the wings before looking back at the copilot
44. As she was about to shout an order to the winch operator to pull back their rescue basket as fast as possible, a big gray form broke through the surface of the sea 500 meters away and slightly to her right
45. He lowered the helium bed to the floor with the electronic winch, threw off
46. Chains and winch lifted the Buddha up, and then it began to rain
47. The power of the winch above her propelled them exactly to the cliff ledge twenty-five feet above them with perfect precision
48. She heard the distant mutterings from the winch crew above them, in hushed whispers they were exclaiming expletives as if they were going out of fashion, but she could not hear clearly why
49. The trace was a steel cable of the sort used to winch boats onto trailers
50. The big boy had drawn water from the stream using the winch, and a bucket stood at his feet, but Fenton was now leaning against the stone wall and staring out over the stream, apparently lost in thought