Crossword-Solution: CORDAGE 7 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The passage is more valuable as revealing that sympathy, from the fact that it’s one of his additions to Euripides:-- “there stood the strength, Happy as always; something grave, perhaps; The great vein-cordage on the fret-worked brow, Black-swollen, beaded yet with battle-drops The yellow hair o’ the hero!--his big frame A-quiver with each muscle sinking back Into the sleepy smooth it leaped from late.

Before Dawn Life! Austere arbiter of each man's fate, By whom he learns that Nature's steadfast laws Are as decrees immutable; O pause Your even forward march! Not yet too late Teach me the needed lesson, when to wait Inactive as a ship when no wind draws To stretch the loosened cordage.

The vessel goes so steadily that you would hardly know that she was moving were it not for the creaking of the cordage, the bellying of the sails, and the long white furrow in our wake.

Within fifty yards of the Presidio came the command again: “Stand by for stays.” Once more, her bows dancing, her cordage rattling, her sails flapping noisily, the schooner came about.

The low moaning sound that had followed the first appearance of the storm, gave place to a sullen roar, and then, of a sudden, the thing struck the Halfmoon, ripping her remaining canvas from her as if it had been wrought from tissue paper, and with the flying canvas, spars, and cordage went the mainmast, snapping ten feet above the deck, and crashing over the starboard bow with a noise and jar that rose above the bellowing of the typhoon.