He picked up the mooring rope and examined the end.

Each had a heavy knife and was waiting by a mooring rope.

I started hacking at the first of the mooring ropes.

But then they had to go untie the mooring ropes.

He took his hands off the oars and pulled in the mooring rope.

The boat hung upward at the end of its mooring ropes.

So this, thought Biggles, was the man who had cut the mooring rope.

"Listen, all of you; each fellow is to stand by the mooring ropes.

One of the ferry crew pushed past her to throw the mooring rope.

Purple began directing men to secure it with new mooring ropes.

She jerked upright, her mouth going taut as a mooring rope.

Don't cut any mooring ropes, just get the sail drawing!"

He waved, then hurried to help the boatman with the mooring ropes.

This time there was more than enough ballast in the boat, and extra mooring ropes to hold it down.

Lil-el went to the boat and untied the mooring rope.

Holding on to a mooring rope, Juan jumped into the choppy waters.

The mooring rope was handy; Lois worked at it.

"X" took a knife from his pocket and quickly sawed through the mooring rope.

Steele gripped a line trailing from the forward mooring rope and listened.

Trailing mooring ropes had been dropped from the hull.

The barges, at the end of their mooring ropes, lay some fifteen feet from the shore.

After the girls had stepped onto firm sand, the four boys tied their mooring ropes to trees at the edge of the beach.

Chislon took a long pole from the quay, cast away the mooring rope, and pushed off.

He tied the mooring rope to a sapling, and stepped ashore.