Yet, a little after five bells, it seemed to me that I saw a shadowy face peer over the rail, a little abaft the fore lanyards.
"The Ghost Pirates"
William Hope Hodgson
The dance instantly stopped and he stood stock-still for an instant gazing at them while they promptly made for the trees and clambered up them by means of the lanyards of creepers that swung down from the tops.
"The Boy Aviators in Africa"
Captain Wilbur Lawton
He looked at his hands and asked himself whether they indeed had pulled the lanyards of cannon, lifted loaded projectiles, had held the spokes of the leaping wheel.
"Love, The Fiddler"
Lloyd Osbourne