Some, though they must have known it would be of no use, were lashing themselves to gratings and small rafts, which they had formed of spars.
"Paddy Finn"
W. H. G. Kingston
The whole sea was literally covered with pieces of wreck and human beings clinging to them, among whom we observed several women lashed to spars or gratings, probably by brave fellows who themselves had perished after in vain attempting to preserve those they loved.
"Paddy Finn"
W. H. G. Kingston
Half a hundred women rushed to the opera house and fell upon their hands and knees, scratching at the iron cellar gratings, and calling loudly through the little windows whose thick panes of glass were grimed with age.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker