windlassed

Figures of men crawled out of the holes, or disappeared into them, or, on raised platforms of hand-hewn timber, windlassed the thawed gravel to the surface, where it immediately froze.

Chapter XIII 2010

Each day thousands of dollars 'worth of gold were scraped from bedrock and windlassed to the surface, and it all belonged to

THE FAITH OF MEN 2010

And then he drops into the depths of the moral subconsciousness from which the clear, clean waters of Walden Pond could not wash him: “If the roadsteads of the spiritual ocean could be thus dragged, what rusty flukes of hope deceived and parted chain-cables of faith might again be windlassed aboard! enough to sink the finder’s craft, or stock new navies to the end of time.

Theocritus on Cape Cod 1914

Figures of men crawled out of the holes, or disappeared into them, or, on raised platforms of hand-hewn timber, windlassed the thawed gravel to the surface, where it immediately froze.

Chapter XIII 1910

Each day thousands of dollars 'worth of gold were scraped from bedrock and windlassed to the surface, and it all belonged to Pentfield and Hutchinson, who took their rank among the richest kings of Bonanza.

The Faith of Men 1904

"I wuz -- I am mistook in my jedgments -- worse'n the men o 'Marblehead," said Disko, as though the words were being windlassed out of him.

Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling 1900

If the roadsteads of the spiritual ocean could be thus dragged, what rusty flukes of hope deceived and parted chain-cables of faith might again be windlassed aboard! enough to sink the finder's craft, or stock new navies to the end of time.

Cape Cod 1865