cleatings

Updated: May 9, 2025

In another moment the trap-door was closed, the howitzer rumbled back to its cleatings, and the prison breathed again. In the meantime, a scene almost as exciting had taken place on the upper deck. Gabbett, with the blind fury which the consciousness of failure brings to such brute-like natures, had seized Frere by the throat, determined to put an end to at least one of his enemies.

Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke - For the Term of His Natural Life