The main-sheet slacked and dipped, then shot over our heads after the boom and tautened with a crash on the traveller. [Please select]
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The tow-line had now tautened, at right angles to the two boats and the predicament was laughable. [Please select]
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The whistle shrieked again, the warp tautened, and tug and lifeboat made for the mouth of the harbour. [Please select]
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It caught fairly and squarely on the rail of the skiff, which was jerked backward out of safety as the rope tautened and the salmon boat ploughed on. [Please select]
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45, while to his tautened senses it seemed that the very hills leaned forth in breathless pause, that the rain had ceased, and the whole night hushed its thousand voices. [Please select]
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