| 单词 | bight |
| 例句 | As she left Camp Four at the front of Fischer’s group, Lopsang abruptly pulled her aside and girth-hitched a bight of rope to the front of her climbing harness. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z I could just drift, he thought, and sleep and put a bight of line around my toe to wake me. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Bosun’s mate, take a bight of the flying-jib sheet, and start this villain if he doesn’t confess his sins double quick,’ said the British captain. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The map was full of promises of the undiscovered, coves and lookout points, brooks and bights each harboring a secret second chance. I Lost My Job and My Husband. Then I Found Newfoundland. 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z The shallow bight, more than a mile wide in places, runs east to west and cuts Andros roughly in half. Wildlife galore in the Bahamas, where the whole world’s a park 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z For his barque was much worse than his bight. Style Invitational Week 1094: TAXI’s the fare in Tour de Fours XI; plus ‘rude word’ poems The boardwalk weaves along the bight from the ferry terminal on Grinnell to the end of Front Street. 36 Hours in Key West, Fla. 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z The Australia Institute said its polling suggested an overwhelming majority of South Australians wanted the bight to be given world heritage protection and most Australians opposed allowing companies to drill for oil there. Great Australian Bight: Norwegian energy company given environmental approval to drill for oil 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Even with a young team, the Anteaters advanced to the Big West Tournament final, so the future should be bight. Cal State Fullerton beats UC Irvine to win Big West Tourney 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z Karoon, which just announced its plans to explore for oil last week, said the bight held “the world’s last underexplored Cretaceous basins”. BP ditches plans to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z When you turn the wheel, it bights into corners aggressively. 2014 Mini Cooper S Hardtop Test Drive & Review 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z The bight report envisions nonprofit groups and community organizations footing much of the bill and taking on most of the upkeep. Can Detroit Keep Empty Lots From Becoming Eyesores Again? 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Nopsema said it had imposed stringent conditions on its approval to ensure a high level of protection to the environment in recognition of the bight’s unique values and sensitivities. Great Australian Bight: Norwegian energy company given environmental approval to drill for oil 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z But if you’re a complete novice, you may get a bit lost among all the options and knotty jargon, with phrases like “a loop on the bight” and “fair the knot.” App Smart: Smartphone Tools for the Connected Camper 2013-06-19T19:45:01Z “If BP with all its experience cannot produce an acceptable drilling plan for Nopsema, the remaining companies exploring in the bight will be wasting their shareholders’ money trying to pursue this folly,” he said. BP ditches plans to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z If you believe Apple’s only role is to create bight shiny objects then nothing, of course. Solving Apple's Innovation Problem 2013-02-08T10:55:05Z His optimism was justified when forty-five minutes later the grapnel sullenly bobbed above the surface, holding in its tightly-closed jaws the bight of a large submarine electric cable. With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight 2012-04-21T02:00:25.260Z He said tens of thousands of people had joined a “fight for the bight” campaign against the development. Great Australian Bight: Norwegian energy company given environmental approval to drill for oil 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z "That's the 'Marigold' that we came out of Hull to look for; and on board of her there's the greatest villain that ever tied a reef-knot or a bowline in a bight." Submarine U93 2012-04-07T02:00:34.693Z Fitzpatrick said the venture in the bight either wasn’t competitive or didn’t align with the company’s “strategic goals”. BP ditches plans to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z His ship was lying in the bight, and—I had business on board with him. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z Mosquitoes will breed also in the small still bights along the edges of running streams; in old tomato cans that contain rain water; in any still water, fresh or salt. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z The only break in this remarkable run of rocky coast is at Rackwick in the bight below the head of Rora. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z I was, however, deceived, the gulf ended in two bights, or inlets, unconnected with other waters: so we returned to Still-hope Point and hauled up the boat. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z I heard one woman ask for the "bight" of a clothes-line. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Midnight lay very black on the bight where the Olive Branch was riding easily to a single anchor; as the dark hours sped they seemed to grow always darker. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z We progressed but gradually, having to stop frequently to jerk the bight of the rope over the rocks in which it caught. The Cruise of the 'Alerte' The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad 2012-02-17T03:00:29.247Z Well, you want another knot or two out of her until you have the big bight to lee of you? Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z This was in a wild-looking, open bight, full of rocks and breakers, and much exposed. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z Far up in the bight of the bay Great Hill headland, Hart's and Gooch's beaches—the latter mere ribbons of white sand—gleamed in the sunlight. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z As we didn't seem to be wanted anywhere just now, we moored ship snugly in the bight behind the island, and decided to get a little painting done. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z To the west was a large bay or bight, called by the Dutch Limmen’s Bight; and the whole coastal line seemed to be thickly inhabited by natives. Early Days in North Queensland 2012-01-24T03:00:29.987Z “Pass the end up through the bight,” directed Scout Warren when the bight or loop had been formed upon the standing part of the rope. A Scout of To-day 2012-01-11T03:00:22.820Z In crossing Breaker Bay, even with a moderate wind, there was a very cross and awkward sea, owing, doubtless, to the ocean swell rolling into this deep bight. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z Had the sheet not had a simple cast about a peg beside her, Agnes would surely have lost the bight of it. The Corner House Girls Snowbound 2011-12-30T03:00:22.827Z The next day there came a heavy gale; the Portuguese schooner had anchored on the preceding night, in the bight of Possession Bay, further down. The Captive in Patagonia 2011-12-27T03:00:10.803Z He laughs as he puts his limbs through the bight. The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z Our course lay across a wide bight of the marisma, which projects into the land. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z After we had passed some of them, a large bight opened out to the north-eastward, and tempted me to haul up for it. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z “Looks like he understands,” said the old man, reaching for the leash and taking the bight of it from Mr. Howbridge’s hand. The Corner House Girls Snowbound 2011-12-30T03:00:22.827Z She came into the bight of the bay, and anchored about fifteen miles below us. The Captive in Patagonia 2011-12-27T03:00:10.803Z But who now will swing him the empty bight of rope? The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z We were well sheltered by a fringe of sedges, and presently the strangers entered a small reed-margined bight, swimming very deep, only their turtle-shaped backs and heavy heads in sight. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z She anchored in a small bight, formed by Chance Islands, about seven miles from Guard Bay. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z "One o' you fetch me a bight o' cord," he roared quietly. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z "A couple of rope spans round the plank and their bights slipped over the hook of the lower block, and the trick's done." The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes 2011-10-08T02:00:20.880Z It is slipping through his grasp, struggle as he may; but now, oh! joy, his foot gets in the bight, and he is saved! The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z Its bight was placed under the heel of the 12-pounder, and by the united efforts of the seamen the heavy weapon was up-ended and toppled over the slope. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z At the bottom of this bight the land was low, and I tried to get on some eminence, that I might command a view to the S.E., but was always impeded by an impervious wood. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z The men sat each one in the bight of a rope, and were lowered up or down when they gave the signal. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z Securing themselves by the rope, Andy and Ellerton—the latter having passed a bight round the now conscious and groaning seaman—hung on with desperation. The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes 2011-10-08T02:00:20.880Z The vessels rolled lazily and the swell broke with a languid splash upon the beach, for the bight was sheltered by the reefs. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z The bight of the wire getting caught across the bows of a ship would result in the mines swinging inwards and exploding upon contact with the vessel's sides. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z We returned by the west side of Jerdan Island, where there are bights which might afford shelter to a small vessel. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z The bight must be in the thought, in the sympathy. Walt Whitman An Address 2011-09-26T02:00:30.337Z The Conservancy dredged the bed of the river, and also filled up a bight on the Surrey shore. Boating 2011-09-21T02:00:35.453Z The Northers hardly reach so far, but they unsettle the weather, and when the wind's from seaward a strong eddy stream runs through the bight. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z This time more successfully, the bight fell over his shoulder. Jack Buntline 2011-08-31T02:01:34.270Z The depth of water in mid-channel was generally forty fathoms; in the bights, or coves, it varied from sixteen to twenty-five fathoms, with always a sandy bottom. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z Leonard’s legs were through the bight, and next minute he had disappeared over the cliff, and was gradually lowered down, and though half drowned with the driving spray speedily reached the deck. Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures 2011-08-31T02:01:32.837Z The Doctor put a bight of the lime round his wrist, sat down, and slept. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z There she was, a half-wiped pie-tin still in the bight of her apron, standing over me and looking down with tears a lot nearer to brimming than when we entered. Down the Yellowstone 2011-08-29T02:01:06.730Z Soon we catch sight of Hamsun's white, two-story house at the end of a quiet bight of the sea, not far from the main road. Knut Hamsun 2011-07-18T02:00:21.927Z In the large bight of the sea at Christiansand it had been seen every year, only in the warmest weather, and when the sea was perfectly calm, and the surface of the water unruffled. Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained 2011-07-11T02:00:07.857Z After a while, however, his numbed legs gathered fresh strength, and, helped by the boy, he settled himself in the bight of the rope, and was drawn to bank safe and sound. Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures 2011-08-31T02:01:32.837Z I saw one fish go a distance of about fifty yards in a semi-circle, making a bight in the direction of the wind. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z There and then, with a bight of the gaff-topsail halliards, he gave me such a dressing down as I have never forgotten, You Sing standing by with a face like a door-knocker for expressionless calm. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z Avoiding the kicking hoofs, he wrenched a bight of the rope into its mouth, jerked the trembling and terrified steed to its feet, and was on its back like a circus-rider. Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West 2011-07-05T02:00:27.453Z They won’t bight at a hook, and are a lazy set ov vagrants, emigrating in the spring ov the year, out ov muddy mill ponds, up sluggish streams, into the country. The Complete Works of Josh Billings 2011-07-01T02:00:13.387Z Retaining the ends he threw the bight across one of the black objects, at the same time lying at full length on the bottom of the boat. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z Sometimes we see a bight in the bank where such a collapse has only recently occurred, the wreckage of trees being still fresh. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z He drew the curtain cautiously aside and peered out into the bight. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z But one man had made a spring of it and had caught the bight of one of the downhauls that was hanging free. Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 2011-05-19T02:00:07.643Z They will bight a hook az cheerfully az a snapping turtle, and hang on like a puppy tew an old kowhide boot. The Complete Works of Josh Billings 2011-07-01T02:00:13.387Z Leaving Capri, the Gulf of Salerno opens; Pæstum, with its temples, lying on the southern bight of the gulf. Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z It is of an irregular shape, and in the bight, or “ham,” at the north-east end of it, the yachts are thickly clustered. The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk 2011-04-27T02:00:21.617Z Getting under way, they headed for the bight, and presently saw a white gig following them. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z But there he lay in the bight made by the folds of the royal, softly resting against the bosom of the sail below, unhurt, but slightly dizzy. Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 2011-05-19T02:00:07.643Z The great bight of sea beyond Point Barrow and off the mouth of the Mackenzie River was being crossed. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z Also a particular kind of turn in the bight of a rope made to hook tackle on. Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured 2011-03-03T03:00:48.597Z Some large sea yachts also use this bight as a laying-up place for the winter. The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk 2011-04-27T02:00:21.617Z These grew larger and angrier as they ran the mainsail up; and, getting the anchor, they bore away for the bight with the swell crisping and frothing astern. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z Then as McGovern watched him, he appeared to give up hope, and, twisting his hand into the bight of a rope, he lay there without moving. Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 2011-05-19T02:00:07.643Z Into a tiny bight of open water, sheltered on three sides by ancient ice, Stirling drove the Pole Star. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z Then, pulling off his woollen scarf, he leant over the edge and passed it round Barcroft's waist, slackening the "bight" until it sank low enough to go round his companion's knees. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z Two shapely plastic stems rise out of a wheeled base and meet in a bight of tubing inlaid with microphones and rounded like a head. I'll Have My Robots Talk to Your Robots 2011-02-17T22:00:00Z Since they could not reach the bight, she would be safer in open water. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z In other instances loads are eased down hill sides by the use of "tackle and fall," or by a strong "warp," taking a "bight" round a tree, and hitching-to one yoke of the oxen. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z The ship swung with gentle tugging in the bight of a whale line that had been lashed to a small anchor. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z It was open, and he leant upon the sill, looking away over the calm water towards the distant bight and the church. Arne; A Sketch of Norwegian Country Life 2011-02-14T03:00:32.700Z The bights of the reins rest on the neck near the pommel of the saddle. Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Cavalry of the Army of the United States 1917 to be also used by Engineer Companies (Mounted) for Cavalry Instruction and Training 2011-02-03T03:00:09.473Z This was why they had held on to the wreck, instead of entering the bight before the falling tide rendered its approach dangerous. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z “All done at the same time—bight took ’em and wound ’em round the snub-post.” King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z Cushner's body, looped in a bight of the whale line, dangled before their eyes, all life throttled out by the whale's mad strength. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z Haman, can You tell me, now, what bay or bight in all The salted seas once held this shrimp? The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems 2011-01-14T03:00:46.933Z The waters in this great bight of the ocean are intensely heated by the fervor of an Indian and African sun, and flow off in quest of cooler regions through the Mozambique Channel. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z When you get your anchor down in the bight you’re pretty safe; but two cables wouldn’t hold her outside when the sea gets up—and I don’t know a place where it blows oftener.” The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z Men are caught by those bights and ground to horrible death against the snubbing-post. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z The stout iron, of Swedish construction, was bent and twisted, and to it was fastened a bight of inch hemp which had held throughout the struggle. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z Welcome voices were now heard passing the word aft from the tank that the bights were cleared, and to pay out. The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph 2010-12-29T03:00:29.577Z The Boy looked fixedly again at a large black bow which, as he told me afterwards, "held the bight of it up." H.M.S. —— “Can’t we sweep for the wreck from the dory with the bight of a line?” The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z In the tumult of his passion and fear Wade cursed the caitiff, his own legs in the swirl of the bights, his cant-dog nipping the rope to the post and checking it short. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z Finally the run of salmon struck the river, and I took Jack down to the bight of the sandbars to fly him at bigger game than the trout. Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. From the end of the talus the coast trended off four or five miles to the south-southwest in a shallow bight, whose southern extremity was bounded by a second limestone headland. Into the Primitive As the boom swung in, the sheet, of course, slackened up, and the bights, going over the quarter-deck, had caught everything in the way. The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document Pretty good shelter in the bight in about two fathoms. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z You lays the end, so, and flemish down, ring by ring until the bight's coiled, smooth, ready to flake off as it runs. A Man in the Open It was in one pleasant summer-time That the Constitution lay A cable's length from an English ship In the bight of Lisbon Bay. Harper's Round Table, October 8, 1895 "Take a couple of bights of that line, and make it fast on the third rung, you three-fingered blacksmith!" yelled our mate. Harper's Round Table, May 28, 1895 Make fast end a at c, and end d at e, cinching up strongly on the bights that come through the cinch rings. Camp and Trail If she washed up nearer the bight she would be dangerous. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z At the back towards the ocean is Jacmel, on the other side is the bight of Leogane, over which and along the land our course lay after leaving President Salomon's city. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses The Captains laughed as the bet was made, And the ships soon sailed away From their peaceful, pleasant anchorage In the bight of Lisbon Bay. Harper's Round Table, October 8, 1895 When we had dined I stood with Grace at the window of the sitting-room that overlooked the noble bight of Mount's Bay. A Marriage at Sea And we hated the Flowering Isle, as we hated the isle that was mute, And we tore up the flowers by the million and flung them in bight and bay. The Irish Fairy Book “I imagine we’ll be pretty safe in the bight unless some of that thin, cutting stuff is drifting about.” The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z Davits, swung outboard as when the last of her crew left her, stand up in unfamiliar dejection, the frayed ends and bights of the boat-falls dangling overside and thrumming on the rusty hull. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war Upon the prostrate cowpuncher they precipitated themselves with a yell, the boy deftly throwing a bight of the rope about Ken's feet and drawing up the slack. The Song of the Wolf With scents of heat, dew-chilled and sweet, The new-cut hay smells by the bight; The ghost of some dead pansy bloom, The butterfly dreams in the gloom, Its pied wings folded tight. Undertones The very day after that, in the southern bight of Tahiti, we had a near 325 squeak, the wind suddenly coming calm; the reefs were close in with, my eye! what a surf! The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) That end of the island was free of ice, and after consulting together they decided to enter the bight. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z It lies in the bight of a bay, where rarely steamers closed the land. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war The shallow bay of pale-green water between the head and the tail on the concave side of the comma is known as "the bight." Campaigning in Cuba Of the whole of the low shores of the island only this bight remained to be revealed. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston Having formed the clove hitch, pass b over c and tuck a under and up through the bight formed by c as in Fig. Knots, Bends, Splices With tables of strengths of ropes, etc. and wire rigging In the meanwhile the ice was driving nearer, propelled by wind and tide, and its low height suggested that it had formed in some shallow bight. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z Along the whole seaboard of California there are but two unexceptionable anchorages,—the bight of the Bay of Monterey, and the inland sea that takes its name from San Francisco. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) The sailor took a turn about his body with the bight of the rope, and leaned back, holding a steady strain upon the tackle. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story If admitted, this claim would give American fishermen the right of entrance to huge British bights and bays full of valuable fish. The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 The bight a is placed under the cask, and the overhand knot b is slipped over the head, and the two ends are brought up and knotted as in Fig. Knots, Bends, Splices With tables of strengths of ropes, etc. and wire rigging She’d lie safe where the stream is pretty dead, but there’s no place except this bight where we’d get shelter from wind and sea.” The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z “The bight slipped,” the other called in a muffled, angry voice. Wild Oranges And that even infinite such worlds there be, That inexhausted Good that God is bight A full sufficient reason is to me, Who simple Goodnesse make the highest Deity. Democritus Platonissans Sometimes the mine bobs up within a few feet of the ship; at other times it is in the middle or bight of the wire, far astern, and half-way between the two sweeping vessels. Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace was Met and Vanquished, With Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships Then with parts a and b form a half hitch round the two parts of the bight as in Fig. Knots, Bends, Splices With tables of strengths of ropes, etc. and wire rigging It doesn’t look as if we could get to work just yet, and if any big floes drove across the banks at high-water, we’d be awkwardly placed in the bight. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z The shore at this point receded, forming a bight in the land, with masses of green and clusters of white cottages alternating along the coast. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore Pass the end up through the bight around the standing part and down through the bight again. Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 Finding that the boat and provisions had been taken and seeing smoke in the bight, he surmised what had happened and came paddling across to the tent. Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail Now bring each of the three strands down alongside the standing part of the rope, thus forming three bights, and hold them thus with the left hand. Knots, Bends, Splices With tables of strengths of ropes, etc. and wire rigging As they entered the channel into the bight, they met the launch coming out more slowly with the boat in tow, and somebody on board her waved his hand. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z That town was now hidden from them by a bend of the coast, and they found themselves in a curious bight of land, extending far into the ocean in front of them. Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main Back the end around the standing part and up through the bight and draw tight. Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 We ran up the Carquinez Straits and edged into the bight at Turner's Shipyard for smoother water. Tales of the Fish Patrol This is done by leaving the first end out when you commence to pass the turns on the bight over the last end. Knots, Bends, Splices With tables of strengths of ropes, etc. and wire rigging Moran followed and lowered a bight of the rope while Jimmy rowed. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z When they discovered that their only means of safety lay in making that perilous passage through the waters which overwhelmed the bight of rope in which hung the boatswain's chair, they counted themselves as dead. Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main A bight is first formed and an overhand knot made with the end around the standing part. Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 He towed his ark around the Solano Wharf and into the big bight at Turner's Shipyard. Tales of the Fish Patrol The last strand is brought through over the first and up through the bight of the second. Knots, Bends, Splices With tables of strengths of ropes, etc. and wire rigging Then they set the small storm-jib, and the Cetacea drove away before the sea for the sheltered bight. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z She clutched for it, with plenty of slack, snubbed it about the saddle horn, clung to the end, made a bight of it about her body. Rimrock Trail Then lead the end around back of the standing part and down through the bight. Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 The bight we knew to be good ground for sturgeon, and there we felt sure the King of the Greeks intended to begin operations. Tales of the Fish Patrol First throw back a bight as in Fig. Knots, Bends, Splices With tables of strengths of ropes, etc. and wire rigging A "knot board," showing the various knots tied perfectly and names attached, ends of rope whipped, bights, loops and coils, is an interesting bit of work for a Troop of Girl Scouts to do. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts But towards the east, in what a seaman would term the bight of the hill, the boulders have accumulated in vast numbers. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Make a bight with one rope A, B, then pass end C, of other rope up through and around the entire bight and bend it under its own standing part. Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 On the fourth day I was lying in the sun behind the stringer-piece of the wharf, when I saw a skiff leave the distant shore and pull out into the bight. Tales of the Fish Patrol Arrange the rope in such a manner that the amount to be taken up forms a bight as in Fig. Knots, Bends, Splices With tables of strengths of ropes, etc. and wire rigging If it is necessary to shorten a rope when neither end is held fast, make the Sheep-shank and pass each end through the bight nearest to it. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Now slip the bight over your—ah! here come the dogs, by all that’s unfortunate. The Voyage of the Aurora Now I double the rope and throw it over the top of the pack to Rob, and he hooks the bight of the doubled rope over the cinch-hook. The Young Alaskans in the Rockies As the bight at Turner's Shipyard opened out, Charley edged into it to get the smoother water. Tales of the Fish Patrol The last strand passes through two double bights. Knots, Bends, Splices With tables of strengths of ropes, etc. and wire rigging To make a Half-hitch: Take the end in the right hand; Pass the end under and around the pole; Around the standing part: Under itself, forming a bight out of which the standing part comes. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Now slip the bight of the lanyard over your neck, and follow me. The Voyage of the Aurora Now, you see I pass the left-hand leg under the right-hand in another long loop, or bight—this way, see. The Young Alaskans in the Rockies When I tell you I found that yellow thing snooping around the davits, and three bights off the boat-fall loosened out, plain on deck—you grin behind your collar. Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories To finish off, open out bight c, and taking it in the direction indicated by the dotted line, pass the whole knot through it and haul taut, when it will appear as in Fig. Knots, Bends, Splices With tables of strengths of ropes, etc. and wire rigging I got a bight around Ormond’s shoulders, and after some difficulty fastened it. Lorimer of the Northwest They faced the winds, the waves, the fogs, For they were a gallant band, And they ventured forth, the bold sea dogs, From the bight of Heligoland. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 16, 1914 The vessel is moored in the bight at Greenhithe, and by means of warps to certain Government buoys she is placed with her head towards the various points of the compass. The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" But eventually they were on the backs of their mounts, and, looping a bight of the rope around the heads of Blaze and Blackie, made a sort of bridle. The Boy Ranchers or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X To form it proceed as though you are going to make an ordinary overhand knot, but instead of working with both ends use the end and a bight as in Fig. Knots, Bends, Splices With tables of strengths of ropes, etc. and wire rigging The length of bight depends upon the purpose for which the knot is required. Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition Two slow but powerfully engined trawlers approached at a cable's length abreast, towing the bight of a massive steel hawser between. The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War Indeed, notwithstanding the recent tightening and readjustment of the cables, the bight was pressed in so much as to force the Fury against the berg astern of her twice in the course of the day. Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage In a small bight of the inner edge of the reef was a sheltered nook, where every coral was in full life and luxuriance. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. I just had time to slip into the bight of a rope, and save myself; but I had to give up the ax; it slipped from my hands and slid down to the port scuppers. The Grain Ship It makes a more comfortable sling for a man than a single bight. Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition The bight of the Exe, where we crossed it by steam launch, was only a make-believe for the sea. A Poor Man's House The loop of a rope when it is folded, in contradistinction to the end; as, her anchor hooked the bight of our cable, i.e. caught any part of it between the ends. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. When they crossed the Adexe bight no steamer was anchored near, but a cluster of lights on the dusky beach marked the coaling wharf. Brandon of the Engineers Well, I lay in that bight thar, an' the sun come out. Isle o' Dreams On deck he found Mackinder 237 caught in a bight of the hawser by which the other vessel had been towed. Boy Scouts in the North Sea The Mystery of a Sub It came out of the woods and struck the shore by a little bight where boats could land. The Fire People The bight of his cable has swept our anchor, i.e. the bight of the cable of another ship as she ranged about has entangled itself about the flukes of our anchor. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The bight of the rope whistled through the air and struck smartly at his guest's feet. The Rapids A handy seaman tossed a bight of line over his shoulders as he bobbed past the forefoot of the brig and he was yanked bodily over the bulwark like a strange species of fish. Blackbeard: Buccaneer Harry had already made a bowline in a bight at the end of a line. Boy Scouts in the North Sea The Mystery of a Sub The town lies in a deep bight, inclosed by precipitous cliffs, on the south-western side of the island, whence the sun, by this time long past his midsummer altitude, was not visible at midnight. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland Any part of the chord or curvature of a rope between the ends may be called a bight. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. He now singled out a rein, and threw the bight with unerring aim over the antlers of the victim. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 An anchorage was found in the bight where the Revenge had tarried, close by the beach and the greensward of the pirates' old camp. Blackbeard: Buccaneer It was ascertained that during easterly gales a portion of the water, crowded up into the bight of the coast, escapes seaward by a sub-current. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy One of the stations on this coast, named Makur, consisted of a few fishermen's huts, at the bottom of a dismal rocky bight. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland A billet of wood used for twisting the bight of a swifter round, in order to bind a raft firmly together. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Selecting a long thong or cord, a Lap took a turn of both ends round his left hand, and then gathered what sailors call the bight in loose folds held in his right. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 There were trees and clumps of bushes among the hillocks of sand and a tiny bight for a landing place. Blackbeard: Buccaneer I am bent on to a bight of the whip falls,” I answered, with a chuckle. Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant Mr. Gravill had lately ranged along the Pack edge as far south as Disco, and found not a single opening except the bight, up which we had been steering last night. Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51 It consists in making two long bights in a rope, which shall overlay one another; then taking a half hitch over the end of each bight, with the standing part, which is next to it. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. "Only a physical and practical demonstration that I am the two ends and the bight of a fool." The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility With the energy of despair his hands went up and caught something, probably a bight in the now slackened painter. Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers Put your feet in the bight and hold on to the slack of the rope above your head and we’ll hoist you up in regular man-of-war fashion. Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant “Can any of you heave the bight of a rope over one of them?” The Three Midshipmen The term is also used for putting the bights of the sheets in the beckets. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. It both could be used, so much the better, especially as they were some distance apart on the warp, the bight of which formed a considerable drag in the water. All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways It was not difficult to get a bight round the boat, and soon he had the children firmly lashed on and the boat was again making fair progress before the wind to the opposite shore. Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers This bight is a swatchway of deep water, and the Mandalay then struck the Sands on the eastern jaw of another channel into the Goodwins. Heroes of the Goodwin Sands Now I think of it, I heard him yesterday say that he had discovered a deep bight at that end of the island, into which the boats could be hauled and remain perfectly concealed. The Three Commanders The old well-known term to draw the bight of a hempen cable towards the opposite side, in order to make room for the bight being twined to coil it in the tier. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. We took the Merrimac to the bight of Craney Island, and about midnight the work of disembarking the crew began. The Monitor and the Merrimac Both sides of the story Round with her, lad, and head her up the bight while the wind lasts. Two Gallant Sons of Devon A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess On the morning of the 16th we sighted the fort and lighthouse of Marsa el Kibir, and beyond them the white walls of Oran lying in the bight of a bay, sheltered by dominant hills. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 "If he comes by the bight he'll never get here at all." Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. A rope with both ends made fast, so that a purchase may be hooked to its bight. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Reaching the rope over his head, he went up, hand over hand, till he had slack enough to make a bight for one of his feet. Down the Rhine Young America in Germany To the north, also, this plain, still backed by mountains, extended till it joined the sands of the bight. The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance He then slipped off his trousers—the only garment he had on—and took a few loose coils in his hand, his messmates undertaking to attend to the running out of the bight after him. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 457 Volume 18, New Series, October 2, 1852 A bight of rope was thrown around the cask, and the letting down commenced. Ran Away to Sea Blocks seized into each bight of a strap, long enough to go across a cap, and allow the blocks to hang clear on each side, as main-lifts, top-mast studding-sail, halliards, blocks, &c. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Peaks, on the main topmast-stay, caught Howe in the very act of passing the gasket through the bight of the buntline. Down the Rhine Young America in Germany This began to worry me and finally I lashed the tiller—fastening it in the bights of two 77ropes prepared for that purpose, and crept back into the cabin again. Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers Above bight and bay and island tower the mountains. Flamsted quarries Oh, I'm the two ends and the bight of a d—d fool! "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea The single is rove with three single blocks, or two single blocks and a hook in the bight of one of the running parts. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Follow the bight until you reach the lagoon, when anchor anywhere not closer than within a dozen fathoms of the island. The Castaways Godfrey was strolling in the morning along that part of the shore which formed the beach of the large bight to which he had given the name of Dream Bay. Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery I'm sure she is; a girl who sticks to her father in that way will make the two ends and bight of a good wife. Edward Barry South Sea Pearler Forward the watch sat about in coils of rope and sheltered nooks or walked the deck unsteadily, and a glance aloft showed the captain his rigging hanging in bights and yards pointed every way. "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea A rope secured at each end of the heads of the fore and main masts, with thimbles spliced in its bight to hook the stay-tackles to. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Then haul up to south a quarter west for the mouth of the bight’—and that’s enough: there’s no call to read the rest to ye,” he concluded abruptly. The Castaways She rose like a cork, keel uppermost, and would have righted at once, but a bight of the mainsail, with some of the wreck, held her down. Saved by the Lifeboat Passing near the Isle of Pines, two schooners and a brig were discovered far up a bight, protected by a battery. Tales of the Sea And of our Jack Tars They found the loose rope, tautened it, hooked the bight into an open sheave in the stanchion, and listlessly walked forward with it. "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Pass the end of a rope round a spar or rope; take it round a second time, riding the standing part; then carry it across, and up through the bight. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Then haul up to South by a quarter West for the mouth of the bight at the bottom of the bay. The Castaways The lake makes a little bight in the land, a hut stands at a short distance from the bank, the fisher-boy is rowing himself about in his boat. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works “Here, hand the bight of the rope to me,” shouted Eban, starting up; “I am the best swimmer among you—if any one can save them I can.” Michael Penguyne Fisher Life on the Cornish Coast Then the gunboat headed north and dropped anchor in the bight of a small, crescent-shaped sand-key of the Florida Reef. "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Cat's-paw is also a name given to a particular twisting hitch, made in the bight of a rope, so as to induce two small bights, in order to hook a tackle on them both. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Stand boldly in until abreast of the big rock at the mouth of the bight, when clew up and furl everything. The Castaways There is a little bight just at the junction of the old and the new channels, and it is there that they lie in ambush with their junks. A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas He took a half turn with the line around his waist, was rolling himself over into the bight of the line and it looked as if he would be saved. And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses Dave lost no time in tying a bowline in a bight at the two ends of the length of line. Boy Scouts Mysterious Signal or Perils of the Black Bear Patrol The old bitt-stopper, by its running loop on a standing end, bound the cable down in a bight abaft the bitts—the tail twisted round the fore part helped to draw it still closer. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Then haul up to south a quarter west, for the mouth of the bight at the bottom of the bay. The Castaways The river Lundu disembogues itself into the bay just beyond the point of the same name; and the land on its far bank forms a bight of considerable depth. The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy The poor fellow's hands and fingers must have been numb, for he suddenly rolled out of the half-formed bight, losing his grip upon the line. And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses One day, passing a group of islands, we anchored in a bight known as Rogues' Roost. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell The mode of bending warps or hawsers together by taking a bowline in the end of one rope, and passing the end of the other through the bight, and making a bowline upon it. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Stand boldly in until ye come abreast of the big rock at the mouth of the bight, when clew up and furl everything. The Castaways The low coast runs into another bight; and the first opening after the termination of the high land is the mouth of the river Seboo. The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy On the northern coast of the rocky island a bold promontory or rugged tongue of land, Mount Sceberras, separates two deep bights or inlets. The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Mousing together the two mastheads with a bight of rope, we put on it a large whoop traveller, and to that fastened our stoutest and longest line. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell That by which the bowline-bridles were fastened to the cringles: the bowline-knot is made by an involution of the end and a bight upon the standing part of a rope. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. "And the little bight just around the point on this side, it's a rotten anchorage, isn't it?" A Son Of The Sun It is situated in the bight of the bay, eastward of Bonthian. The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Can we make the auld place within the bight of the Mays Water? Patsy Presently the rope began to jerk, then it tightened, soon the bight of it rose out of the sea and remained there—rigid. The Crew of the Water Wagtail A further involution makes what is termed a bowline on a bight. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The Wonder's just around in the bight at Gooma, waiting for wind. A Son Of The Sun The small Dutch fort, or intrenchment, stands rather on the eastern bight of the bay, and is composed of a few huts, surrounded by a ditch and green bank. The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy On one side the south wall of the church, on the other the arcades of the Parliament House, inclose this irregular bight of causeway and describe their shadows on it in the sun. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) As the weight was nearly half that of a man, Regnar merely placed the bight of the rope around the object on which it had caught. Adrift in the Ice-Fields A kind of knot, formed on a bight by putting the end of a rope over its standing part, and then passing it. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. And run in close to the little bight this side. A Son Of The Sun However, as I perceived that he had worked himself into a perfect fury, up I went, and to the topgallant-mast-head, embracing the royal pole with one arm, and standing on the bights of the rigging. Rattlin the Reefer I crept out of the port into the chains and passed it round the lugger’s main-mast, as he told me, handing in the bight to him, which he belayed slack to the main-sheet kevel. Poor Jack I seized the bight of the rope, twisted it round my arm, and plunged in after, recollecting it was ebb tide: fortunate for Mr Turnbull it was that he had accidentally put the question. Jacob Faithful A wooden roller, or heaver, having a rope wound about it, through the bight of which an iron bolt is inserted as a lever for heaving it round. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. An hour before sunset the Wonder tore by the little bight. A Son Of The Sun Calling Jack Stretcher to my aid, I got him to heave a rope with a bight at the end which I had made. Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman He did the same several times, and then towing it up by the tail to the ship, made signs for the bight of a rope to be hove to him. Peter Trawl The Adventures of a Whaler We pulled on for about half-an-hour, and then a sort of bay or bight appearing on one side, we brought the vessel into it, and moored her stem and stern fast to the trees. Peter the Whaler A sort of double hitch, made by passing the end of one rope through the bight of another, round both parts of the other, and under its own part. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. “There is a little bay, or bight, nearly at the south-east of the rock—if the ship by chance drove in there we should not see her from hence.” Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War Throwing the bight of the rope under his arms, he sang out to us to haul away on it. Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman We hove the bight of a rope over her head. Peter Trawl The Adventures of a Whaler The guns, also, planted by the pirates at the two points of land on either side of the bight, were spiked and thrown into the water, and all arms found about were carried off. Peter the Whaler The act of dragging the bight or loose part of a small rope along the ground, in a harbour or roadstead, in order to recover a sunk anchor or wreck. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Merlin saw how it would be, I have a notion, from the first; and when I found I must give in or go to the bottom, I just threw him the bight of the rope. In the Eastern Seas “For us to draw in here and make fast, then you can stand in the bight like a stirrup.” Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea This feat was performed again, and as final security the boatswain formed a bight, which he thrust down and passed over the fan whose edge was almost level with the surface. Fitz the Filibuster It appeared that the pirates had at once gone on board the schooner, which they had placed, just as I supposed they would, directly across the entrance of the bight. Peter the Whaler To pull at the bight of a rope by jerks, having its lower end fast; or to gain on a rope by jumping a man's weight down, instead of hauling regularly. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. He gave the boat a sheer in for the beach, to a little bight that made up in the land,—across the mouth of which we had to pull, in going off. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Then we hauled in slowly, till after a little management we had the bight so exactly adjusted that Bob Hampton’s feet rested upon it while we held the rope tight. Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea Take a half-turn round one of the thwarts with the bight of the halliards, so that it shall not slip.” Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes After some trouble we got the bight of a rope over his head, and another round his tail, and hoisted him on deck. Peter the Whaler Is made by passing the end of a rope over its standing part, and through the bight. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. That's a cow whale, and this bight is her nursery, and she is up on the beach for her calf's convenience. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 “He’s a rough customer to deal with—as tough as they make ’em,” said he, confidentially, removing the last bight round Tom’s body and setting him free; “but, he’s all there!” On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story “Look out there!” would shout one, nearly strangling me with the bight of a line circling in the air round my unfortunate head. Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea “We are still too far for me to heave the bight over his shoulders,” cried Terence. Peter the Whaler A stout chain with a hook at each end for attaching a tow-rope to; also, a large towing-hook in the bight of the chain. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Now, then,'—as we opened the bight and got a fair sight of it,—'give way, strong as you please,—and we'll head her off, before she knows it.' The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 I think we can manage it, though, if you will make fast the bight of the topsail sheet and heave the end to us. The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea We can go in here through the Boca de Sagua la Grande, haul up to the south-east, and come to anchor in this little bight in two and a quarter fathoms of water. The Cruise of the Thetis A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection Now then, Bill, you stand by to haul Mr Lascelles out of the thick of these bights and turns whilst I holds ’em up. The Rover's Secret A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba To pay back some of the bight of a cable, in order to have sufficient to form the bend. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Here a fine frigate was found snugly anchored in the south-east corner of the bay, in a sheltered bight, and under the protection of a battery mounting ten heavy guns. Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War “The line has fallen just over his shoulders, and he has got the bight of it.” The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea Accordingly, acting under his directions I placed myself within the bight, and tucking it well up under my arm-pits, slid the grummet up the trunk as high as it would go. The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron Mildmay hove the line with all a seaman’s skill, and a couple of bights settled down round the neck and shoulders of the expectant tar. The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure Pass the end of a rope round its standing part, and bring it up through the bight. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Letting out more slack on the rope attached to the harpoon a bight of it was passed through a sheave-block at the masthead, thus giving a greater purchase for the lifting of the heavy body. The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries The town itself lies in a bight of this kind, just west of the railroad, which crosses the river by a bridge, at that time destroyed. Story of the War in South Africa 1899-1900 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 indicated another “bight.” A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route As we crept around the wall I stood up with the bight of the line in one hand, while Jack pulled in till we began to drift down stern foremost alongshore. A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 A peculiar hitch in marling, made by laying the marline-spike upon the seizing stuff, and then bringing the end of that seizing over the standing part, so as to form a jamming bight. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Doubling the halyards twice, he threw the bight over Wychecombe's shoulders, and aided by Mildred, endeavoured to draw the body of the young man upwards and towards the cliff. The Two Admirals When I tell you I found that yellow thing snooping around the davits, and three bights of the boat-fall loosened out, plain on deck—you grin behind your collar. The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story Speed they did, by paths and shorter ways unknown to Dentatsu as frequent traveller of this road, and which spared the Hamana bight and rest at the tea sheds of the Tōkaidō. Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 We were in a big bight of the coast, heading for a river which flows past a well known town, whither we were bound. The Honour of the Flag An eye in the end or bight of a shroud or stay, to go over the mast-head. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. We wrapped ’em all in a mains’l tight, With twice ten turns of a hawser’s bight, And we heaved ’em over and out of sight— With a yo-heave-ho! The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison A round turn; the cord, a, is passed through the bight of the cord, b, over the button, c, where it is secured by an ordinary knot. Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. The grommet will be made large enough just to slip over the swell of the muzzle when the bight is over the housing hook-bolt, and the gun is in position for housing. Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. Another team had just escaped being buried under a pressure ridge, the movement of the ice having providentially stopped after burying the bight which held their traces to the ice. The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club Also, a rope formed into a wreath, with a heart or dead-eye seized in the bight, to which the stay is confined at the lower part. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. I quote two such lines: “‘We wrapped ’em all in a mains’l tight With twice ten turns of the hawser’s bight! The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison "Look out, down there!" he shouted to the old men, "my hand is caught in the bight!" The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow Then toggle or hook the gun-purchase to the outer bight of the slings, and sway away. Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. Musing thus, the other day, In a bight within a bay, I'd a sudden thought that yet some Purpose for this piece of jetsom Might be found; and straight supplied it. Wandering Heath A bight or corner, as Herne Bay, so called from lying in an angle. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. You will note that the bight is used—two parts, or loop. The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison "Draw up the bight, and lace it tighter," exclaimed the second lieutenant, intermixing an expletive at each end of the sentence. On The Blockade If the rope is to be permanently shortened pass the ends through the first and second bights at the bend as in E, and the knot will hold for any length of time. On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls It may seem, at first, a painful bight. Westminster Sermons with a Preface A knot made by passing the end of a rope over and round the standing part, up over its own part, and down through the bight. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. This took until ten o'clock at night, and we found a great bight existed in Ross Island which quite changed its shape on the map. South with Scott There were shallow waters hereabout, and although the steamer demanded little depth, there were bights between the reefs that were dangerous. Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns Sinking the German U-Boats Roll one log along the ropes until it rests across the middle of each rope, then turn each rope over the log, forming a bight as in Fig. On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls He had only stopped long enough to buy rum at the little store near the landing, and had been off again through the bight, sailing west. Pieces of Eight A sort of tackle-hook guy, made by putting the bight of a rope over the back of the hook, and there jamming it by the standing part. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Noon off the Foreland—the first ebb making Lumpy and strong in the bight. Sea Warfare He never once glanced into the passage; he seemed to be trying to undo the cord knotted to the end of the thick rope, which hung in a long bight before him. Romance Notice in the drawing that the ends of rope X are both over the right-hand bight, and the ends of rope O are both under the left-hand bight. On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls By noon we had made the trip through the bight and, passing out of a narrow creek known as Loggerhead Creek, were on the southwest side of the island. Pieces of Eight The tackle is then hooked to the middle of the bight. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Whenever the cruisers used to approach that bight the smugglers would sail out, fire upon them, and drive them along the coast. King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 But at the last moment he managed to clutch the bight of the hanging rope. Romance Begin by bending the rope to form two bights as in A, Fig. On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls They also came upon a deep bay or bight named Vliegenbaay, in which the trees on shore were hardly visible from the top-mast. The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765 The shroud-knot with three strands single walled round the bights of the other three and the standing part. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The comparative seclusion of that big bight which extends from the Bill of Portland to the promontory well known to many readers as Hope's or Pope's Nose, was much favoured by the smuggling fraternity. King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 The month of March in the great, southward-reaching bight of the Tennessee River is the pattern and form of fickleness climatic. The Quickening You must learn these in order to understand the directions for knot-tying; they are: the bight, the loop, and the round turn. On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls A current rushed into this narrow bight, and brought on shore numerous spars, boxes, and boats—all things welcome to these lawless men. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 429 Volume 17, New Series, March 20, 1852 He put a stone in the bight of the rope, and let it sink down in the water. Anglo-Saxon Literature Not far from the house, but quite hid under a thickly-wooded cliff, overhanging a quiet bight or cove, about ten or fifteen yards across, lay a perfectly secluded pool, with a bottom of snow-white sand. The Lieutenant and Commander Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from Fragments of Voyages and Travels She looked down the bight out towards the broader waters of the bay, for that was the way she was to go. Ungava Bob A Winter's Tale He shrugged his shoulders, and feeling his way to a coiled hawser sat down in the bight of it to contend with the first, faint touch of seasickness. Burned Bridges Point Old stood at an angle to the smashing seas, making a sheltered bight behind it, and into this bight the flooding tide set in a slow eddy. Poor Man's Rock On the fourth day Mills decided to carry the boats and whaling gear overland to a bight in the bay to the west. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned At the same time he slipped the bight of short rope round Zorzi's body under his arms and got a turn round the rail with both parts, so as to lower him easily. Marietta A Maid of Venice Suddenly as she looked a boat turned the point into the bight. Ungava Bob A Winter's Tale A skiff had just entered the narrow channel which connected The Jug, as the bight where the Anguses lived was called, with the wider waters of Eskimo Bay. Troop One of the Labrador How long it seems since that mild April night, When, leaning from the window, you and I Heard, clearly ringing from the shadowy bight, The loon's unearthly cry! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 They then returned for the other boat, and in this way brought everything to the bight close to the spot where the bathing house at Warrnambool has since been erected. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned The floating bights of canvas hove us round broadside to the run of the waves, and needs must that we cleared away the wreck as soon as might be. A Sea Queen's Sailing A long loop was made in the end of the rope, and the woman sat down in the bight of it, holding on to the line with her hands. Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat A flock of wild geese, honking in flight, turned into a bight and alighted where a brook coursed down through a marsh to join the sea. Troop One of the Labrador The loop between the two holes, or the bight, as sailors would call it, was now slipped over the stake, and the rope hauled tight by drawing up the tie block, as shown in Fig. The Scientific American Boy Or, The Camp at Willow Clump Island The skipper lies in the scupper, The barque is lost in the bight; The bosun calls for a basin— This is a terrible night. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned For, after all, these expressions are not irreconcilable with the opinion we have adopted, if we suppose Deshneff to have taken these bearings from the small bight which lies to the westward of the cape. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time We then bore away westward, in order to trace the land round the head of the deep bight. A Source Book of Australian History Now when the swords stood thick and white As the mace reeds stand in the streamless bight, There rose a man on the mound alone And over his head was the grey mail done. Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough Indeed, notwithstanding the recent tightening and re-adjustment of the cables, the bight was pressed in so much, as to force the Fury against the berg astern of her, twice in the course of the day. Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849 Some mates disdained pampering youths with a luxury of this kind, so disallowed it, and caused them to sit in a bowlin' bight instead. Windjammers and Sea Tramps We managed to get hold of a bit of chain fastened to his collar, bent a line on to it, gave him reasonable scope, belayed the bight, and knocked off one end of his box. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Standing on one peg it was child's play to throw the bight of the rope over the next and to draw themselves up to it. Dutch Courage and Other Stories As we proceeded westward from this place, we found, at the distance of two or three miles, a small bight, forming a kind of bay, in which a river empties itself. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Slowly the chain swept over the bed of the lough, and tightened, fast in something heavy that gave and came shoreward in the bight of the chain. Stories of the Border Marches Indeed, notwithstanding the recent tightening and readjustment of the cables, the bight was pressed in so much as to force the Fury against the berg astern of her twice in the course of the day. Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2 I crept out of the port into the chains and passed it round the lugger's mainmast, as he told me, handing in the bight to him, which he belayed slack to the mainsheet kevel. Poor Jack A few weeks after this episode the Hoboken was slowly wending her way along the bights of the Bahamas. Willis the Pilot There was a "lubber's loop" in the bight of the sheet and as the young man loosed it his arm was caught in this trap. Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper "Make a bowline in a bight in that line," directed Harry. Boy Scouts in Southern Waters He was there, back to, bending the thick stubborn bight about the towing bitts with slow, heavy motions. Wide Courses One is hastily procured, and the first captain—a great, brawny, good-natured fellow, who has spent years at sea—deftly fastens the bight of the rope to the handle of the breechblock. A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" "There she is, up in the bight," he said. Shandygaff She hesitated, glanced out across the bight, and then resolutely faced him. Kindred of the Dust As the Fortuna approached the little bight indicated by Tom, they discovered that there would be plenty of water to enable the Fortuna to run close inshore and permit of their landing easily. Boy Scouts in Southern Waters Turn the upper bight again through the lower one and pass the end over what is now the upper bight and between it and the lower, C, Fig. Knots, Splices and Rope Work A Practical Treatise Yet I bid thee look on the land 'twixt the wood and the silver sea In the bight of the swirling river, and the house that cherished me! The Story of Sigurd the Volsung Wallowing in an ice-glazed motor boat, in the lumpy water of a "bight"—surrounded by ships and the men who sail them—I might almost have been a hardy newspaper man! Shandygaff Young Donald paused on the terrace before entering the house, and, stirred by some half-forgotten memory, he glanced across the bight to the little white house far below on the Sawdust Pile. Kindred of the Dust "Well, here comes some more!" announced Jack who had shut off the power, permitting the Fortuna to ride the smooth waters of the little bight without headway. Boy Scouts in Southern Waters The Turk's Head may be drawn as tight as desired around the rope, or rod, by working up the slack and drawing all bights taut. Knots, Splices and Rope Work A Practical Treatise With that a girl ran up; "Mother," she said, "Come out of this brown bight, I pray you now, It smells of fairies." Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. As we were in the bight of Samana, I felt a little uneasy about drifting too near the shore. The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter He glanced at the embryo shack under construction and, comparing it with his own beautiful home on Tyee Head, he turned toward the bight. Kindred of the Dust All were thoroughly winded when at last the skiff floated in the waters of the bight where lay the yacht. Boy Scouts in Southern Waters The true "Reef Knot" is merely the square knot with the bight of the left or right end used instead of the end itself. Knots, Splices and Rope Work A Practical Treatise I saw when I looked up, on either hand, A pale high chalk-cliff, reared aloft in white; A narrowing rent soon closed toward the land,— Toward the sea, an open yawning bight. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. The country round the entrance of the bight, had the appearance of being sandy and sterile. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 "Then she can see our flag, and we can see theirs across the bight." Kindred of the Dust It lies off a rocky projection of the mainland, at which terminates a ridge of mountain extending three leagues along the shore from the bight behind Mount Gardner. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 To make this knot, form a bight by laying the end of a rope on top of and across the standing part. Knots, Splices and Rope Work A Practical Treatise The polished tide, with scarce a hint of blue, Washed in the bight; above with angry moan A raven, that was robbed, sat up in view, Croaking and crying on a ledge alone. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. From thence to the point the water was shallow, and the open space proved to be a shoal bight, with very low land at the back. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 An outlet through the bight for your product when you commence manufacturing. Kindred of the Dust The shore betwixt Cape Pasley and Cape Arid is low and sandy, and falls back in a large bight, nearly similar to what is formed on the west side of Cape Arid. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 Now pull all ends tight and work the bights up smooth and snug; cut off ends and the knot is complete. Knots, Splices and Rope Work A Practical Treatise Now it is to be told of Grettir that he set a stone in a bight of the rope and let it sink down into the water. The Story of Grettir the Strong A sandy point with two hillocks on it, which had been the extreme of the preceding evening, was passed at ten o'clock; and seeing a large bight round it, we tacked to work up. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Elizabeth and Jane aided and abetted her in clamoring for a Seattle home, although both were quick to note the advantages of a picturesque country home on the cliffs above the bight. Kindred of the Dust Behind that cape was a high bank of sand, which stretched from one bight nearly to the other, and had the appearance of having been the sea shore not very long since. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 In making this knot bring C downward and across the standing part; then bring A over C and around standing part and finally bring B over A and up through bight of C, Fig. Knots, Splices and Rope Work A Practical Treatise The 25. we were in the bight of the Bay that is to the Westward of Capo de Tres puntas: the currant did set East Northeast. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 On the sea breeze setting in at two o'clock, we steered into the bight until past five; when having no more than 2� fathoms, we tacked and stretched out. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 The northwest trade-wind blowing across the bight had whipped her gingham dress round her, revealing the soft curves of a body, the beauty of which motherhood had intensified rather than diminished. Kindred of the Dust North of it there was a deep bight; and further eastward, two or three places in the Long Beach which had the appearance of inlets. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 It formed like two hummocks, and in steering for it they were compelled to leave a large bight unexamined. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 2 Tightening up on the parts AA will bind the loop bight B, and an adjustable friction-held loop, C, will be had for adjusting the bob accurately either up or down. The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do Shoals extended a great way out from the bight; and were almost dry to a considerable distance. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 We had the main-top-gallant-sail set, without studding-sails, for we began to think of the deep bight in which Genoa is stowed, and the sun had dipped more than an hour. The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas Between these extremes a large bight in the south coast was formed; but it is entirely exposed to southern winds, and the shores are mostly cliffy. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 A deep bight lay at the back of these islands, with points and openings visible in its most distant part. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 2 Tacking inshore we found a small bight, with shoal water, on a bank of mud extending right across, beyond which the entrance of a creek fringed with mangroves was discovered. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 In the opposite shore, between Mount Saunders and Dundas, is a sandy bight where ships would be sheltered from all winds except those at north-east, if the water be deep enough for them. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 The rite of circumcision, for instance, is only performed at King's Sound, on the west side of the Gulf of Carpentaria, and near the head of the Australian bight on the south. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea After taking bearings of Maatsuyker's Isles and the different headlands, we bore away eastward, and passed another deep, sandy bight, probably the same in which Mr. Cox anchored in 1789. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 The greater part of the southern shore lies in a bight, whose western extreme is Hunter's Isles, and the NW Cape of Van Diemen's land. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 2 Beyond this the coast curved away to the eastward, forming a bight about eleven miles in length. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. This bight was named, at Mr. Montgomery's request, in compliment to the late Captain Sir George Collier, Bart., Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 Next morning we moved the ship three miles further up into a bight on the east side from which Endeavour Hill bore West 13 South two miles and a half. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea The coast-line round the upper part of this bight was not distinguishable; but the hills at the back showed more of bare sand than of vegetable covering. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 The bights or bays lying between them are backed by sandy beaches. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 2 In the bight formed between this bay and Cape Baskerville we passed two high-water inlets; the mouths of both were fronted with rocky ledges. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. The bottom of the gulf is very low, and forms two bights, separated by a point that projects for seven or eight miles. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 The shore between fell back, forming a bight three miles deep, in latitude 17 degrees 44 minutes South, the most southern shore of the Gulf. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea At ten o'clock a low, black projection, forming the eastern point of the bight, bore east three miles; and the depth was 15 fathoms upon a coarse sandy bottom. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 As they proceeded, the shore no longer preserved any regular line of direction, but fell back into sandy bights. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 2 From thence to Circular Head, bearing East 1/2 South 26 miles, the shore is low and sinuous, forming three shallow bights. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. Thirty miles South-West by South from Cape Preston is a mangrove bight, with several openings communicating with a large lagoon, or body of water, at the base of a small range of hills. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 The tide too now served, and after a pull of some hours, carefully examining every creek and bight, we spied at length two canoes hauled up among a patch of mangroves. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea The main coast beyond the point forms some bights, and is divided betwixt sand and rock, as before described: its general trending is nearly east. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 Thence they were well assured there was at least one island in that bight, if not more than one, as they had imagined. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 2 He sprang for it, whipped it up, and in a trice had put a loop in it, and made a double bight around Othman's body. On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles The bight is shoal and thickly studded with sandy islets. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 The coast between fell back slightly, forming two shallow bights with the usual low monotonous mangrove shores, and extensive frontage of mud. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea There is a bight in the coast on its north side where the land was not distinctly seen all round, owing probably to its being a low beach. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 Of this total of 195 ships 43 traded in Senegambia, 29 on the Gold Coast, 56 on the Slave Coast, 63 in the bights of Benin and Biafra, and 4 in Angola. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Over I went in the bight of the rope. Jimgrim and Allah's Peace At last, with my jacket torn nearly off my back and blood dripping from my wrists, I was hauled backwards in the bight of a rope and cords passed round my ankles and my arms. The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard In due course the Chickamin bore in under Halfway Point, opened out a sheltered bight where the watery commotion outside raised but a faint ripple, and drew in alongside a float. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest From hence we steered for the easternmost isle, lying off a wide open bight in the coast, and afterwards hauled up for the South Cape. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 The following day was spent in examining a bight, but we were prevented from penetrating to the bottom by the shoalness of the water. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 This point forms the bight of the straits, some twenty miles off, at their entrance into Lake Michigan. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers On Saturday, the 26th, the middle splice was effected and the bight dropped into the deep. Heroes of the Telegraph And breasting the foam of the bay, and facing the fangs of the bight, With a great cruel cry on his way, he dashed through the darkness of night. The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens The large bight within received the appellation of Louth Bay; and two low islands in it, of which the largest is more than a mile in length, were called Louth Isles. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 Water was seen over the low land at the bottom of the bight in the South-West side of the bay, and is probably a lagoon. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 The place where they embarked was a little bight or circular bay, and the boat cut across a much larger bay toward a distant headland where the caves were located, right at the water's edge. The Scarecrow of Oz The bight we knew to be good ground for sturgeon, and there we felt sure the King of the Greeks intended to begin operations. Tales of the Fish Patrol The hoisting rope winds upon one part as it unwinds from the other, and a pulley sustaining the weight to be lifted hangs in the bight of the rope. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section D and E On the south side, the coast trends west, three or four miles, into a sandy bight, and then southward to Cape Howe. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 The land from Channel Point trends to the South-South-East, and forms a tolerably deep bight of low, sandy land, terminated by Cliff Head, a high rocky projection well furnished with trees. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 The very day after that, in the southern bight of Tahiti, we had a near squeak, the wind suddenly coming calm; the reefs were close in with, my eye! what a surf! Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 2 The tide circled like a mill-race in and out of this bight, and made it possible to raise, lower, or set a Chinese line only at slack water. Tales of the Fish Patrol There from the land one could see into the bights of the sails; and the sails stood so close beside each other, that they seemed to form one enclosure. Heimskringla, or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway The bottom is either rocky or sandy: rocky in the deep and narrow parts, where the tides run three or four miles in an hour; and sandy in the bights and shoaler places. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 When we were within the Cape we found an ebb-tide setting out of a bight, which trended deeply in to the southward and appeared to be studded with rocky islands. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 Then in a tiny bight of road, beside a heap of stones, I found the roadman. The Thirty-Nine Steps On the fourth day I was lying in the sun behind the stringer-piece of the wharf, when I saw a skiff leave the distant shore and pull out into the bight. Tales of the Fish Patrol Hakon with his fleet turned northwards a little to the land, where there was a turn in the bight of the river, and where there was no current. Heimskringla, or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway Close in with the shore, more especially in the bights which fall within the general line of the coast, an eddy had been found setting to the northward. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 The bight is fronted by a crowded range of sandy islets, from which we did not extricate ourselves until the next day. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 On one side the south wall of the church, on the other the arcades of the Parliament House, enclose this irregular bight of causeway and describe their shadows on it in the sun. Edinburgh Picturesque Notes He towed his ark around the Solano Wharf and into the big bight at Turner’s Shipyard. Tales of the Fish Patrol In the inmost bight, there is but a narrow neck of land dividing the fjord from the West sea. Heimskringla, or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway On the east side of Cape Chatham the shore falls back to the northward, and makes a bight in which is a small reef of rocks. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 A remarkable echo was heard in the evening: whilst the cook was chopping his wood every blow was echoed round the bight, although we were eight miles from the shore. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 There were fifteen hundred skins abeach, cool pelt and proper fur, When the Northern Light drove into the bight and the sea-mist drove with her. Verses 1889-1896 As the bight at Turner’s Shipyard opened out, Charley edged into it to get the smoother water. Tales of the Fish Patrol Kitchell watched his chance, and as the bark rolled down caught the mainyard-brace hanging in a bight over the rail and swung himself to the deck. Moran of the Lady Letty On the 5th, in latitude 34� 38', he was obliged to stop in a small bight of the coast, a little south of Alowrie. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 It wouldn't be nice, and I might lose an hour in the bight on my way out with the tide. John Barleycorn So there they stood in an awful bight of the mountain, made by that ness, and the main wall from which it thrust out. The Well at the World's End: a tale We ran up the Carquinez Straits and edged into the bight at Turner’s Shipyard for smoother water. Tales of the Fish Patrol They bite readily at "Salt horse," and, when hooked with a rattan in throat, may be yanked on board with the bight of a hawser. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 17, July 23, 1870 At three o'clock, we passed the southern point of the bight, at the distance of four miles; and the coast then again trended S. S. E., waving in rocky bights and projections. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 The bight was hove-in, and the ship secured astern, so as to prevent a shift of wind, off the land, from forcing her on the reef. Homeward Bound or, the Chase The gale increased, blowing directly into the bight, and we had to haul up under close-reefed topsails and reefed foresail, to claw off the land. Ned Myers or, a Life Before the Mast During the next day or two, they looked into several bights, and seeing no valleys opening out of them, went on again. Vane of the Timberlands Then we bent ropes to each end of three thwarts, and thrust an oar through the bights of each pair of ropes. The Mutineers After clearing Nuyts' Reefs we steered east-north-east, past the cape, to look for anchorage in two bights, but there were rocks in both, and they were open to the southward. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 He then hooked a block that he had carried out with him, and in which the bight of a rope had been rove through the thimble, and ran in as fast as possible. Homeward Bound or, the Chase A little later he lowered a rope to Madden with a double bight in it. The Cruise of the Dry Dock The ship now rode by the kedge and by a line that had been bent to a bight in the stream cable, and she was raked badly by the accurate fire of the Linnet. The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans The northern face of the Sá Leone peninsula is fretted with little creeks and inlets, bights and lagoons, which were charming in a state of nature. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I On the north side of Point Malcolm it stretches north, and then eastward, forming a bight five miles within the land; after which the general trending is north-north-east, with very little sinuosity. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 To these kedges lighter chains were secured; and when all the bights were hove-in, to as equal a strain as possible. Homeward Bound or, the Chase Noon off the Foreland—the first ebb making Lumpy and strong in the bight. A Treasury of War Poetry British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917 And her bare feet fell to telling her clad sides of the sweet coolness of the water, and waited for no naysay, but lightly bore her toward the willowy bight. The Water of the Wondrous Isles Beyond this point, at a bend of the bight, we anchor a few hundred feet from the shore, and we command a front view of roadstead and 'city.' To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I The bight between Wilson's Promontory and Cape Liptrap, in case of necessity; but I would not recommend this place, it being very dangerous should the wind shift to south-west. 5th. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 |
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