On the wharf she saw men hurrying back and forth to the ship, fastened by stout hawsers to the posts, bearing bundles of bear and fox skins, such as she had seen them purchase from her people, and boxes and trunks up to the deck.
"The Princess Pocahontas"
Virginia Watson
The iron gates were closed; the windlasses were clicking rapidly as the mooring hawsers were being wound around, and the great paddle wheels had begun to stir the waters of the slip to seething foam.
"With Edge Tools"
Hobart Chatfield-Taylor
By 9.30, however, decks were cleared of all but passengers, and at 10 precisely hawsers were cast off, and we steamed out of harbour.
"On the Equator"
Harry de Windt