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Usage examples of clips.

A duffel-coated figure, cursing fluently, fought to shut the heavy door against the pitching of the Ulysses, finally succeeded in heaving the clips home.

He worked like a Trojan that night, opening and shutting dozens of watertight doors, lifting and lowering countless heavy hatches, knocking off and securing the thousand clips that held these doors and hatches in place, and before ten minutes had passed, lending a protesting Vallery the support of his powerful arm.

Even Petersen's great strength was flagging, not so much from half-carrying Vallery as from the ceaseless hammering of clips frozen solid on doors and hatches.

The clips were jammed, immovable, whether from cold or metal distortion he did not know.

In the smoke and gloom and their desperate haste, they could hardly see each other, much less the clips: as often as not they missed their strokes and the hammers went spinning out of numbed hands into the waiting darkness.

The mess deck echoed as his sledge swung down on the clips, again and again and again.

He belted on his trench-coat, pulled his trilby well down, screwed the special silencer on to his Belgian automatic, and stuck the gun in his right-hand pocket, a rubberised torch in the other and two spare clips for the gun in an inside jacket pocket.

I looked more closely at the nickel-cadmium cells and saw that they were joined to one another and to the radio set by wire-cored rubber leads with very powerful spring-loaded sawtooth clips on the terminals: those last ensured perfect electrical contact, as well as being very convenient to use.

I undid two of the clips, held my flashlight high, and peered closely at the terminals.

In the clips were held two automatic pistols, two silencers and two spare ammunition magazines.

He wondered if Van Effen had noticed the two tiny spring clips in the base.

They could have been the retaining clips for any number of esoteric attachments.

He merely removed the crocodile clips from the terminals, lifted the Nife cells free, broke the connection between them and stuffed one in each jacket pocket Had he disconnected or severed anything Branson could have carried out some sort of jury rig: but Revson would have wagered heavily that Branson carried no spare Nife cells.

He had a bandolier of clips thrown over one shoulder and a quick-release rig.

Blancanales stood waiting for them, an Ingram and a bandolier of clips for Babette in hand.