cutting-out

When shady nations or corporate charlatans use fraudulent claims to attach a vessel and try to auction it to the highest bidder, the ship owners call on Hardberger for the modern-day equivalent of the cutting-out expeditions beloved by Patrick O'Brian's intrepid hero, Jack Aubrey.

Three new books about surviving treacherous seas Ken Ringle 2010

If it is solely to suppress piracy, it can be done with air strikes, battalion sized Marine raids and naval cutting-out operations.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Market Has Spoken 2009

If I had it to do over again, I would, and with a glad heart, but this time I'd unpick the curtain hems BEFORE washing them; the sizing made the fabric stiff and in my haste I ripped one of the hems along the seamline, which made cutting-out a bit awkward.

April 2008 2008

If I had it to do over again, I would, and with a glad heart, but this time I'd unpick the curtain hems BEFORE washing them; the sizing made the fabric stiff and in my haste I ripped one of the hems along the seamline, which made cutting-out a bit awkward.

By the Numbers - A Dress A Day 2008

The only thing I don't like about this pattern is how deep the vee is in the back, but I'm pretty sure I can fix that in the cutting-out.

Mollie Parnis pattern - A Dress A Day 2007

The only thing I don't like about this pattern is how deep the vee is in the back, but I'm pretty sure I can fix that in the cutting-out.

March 2007 2007

Roping, the final act of the cutting-out process, also required close cooperation between pony and rider.

THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

We saw Jim suddenly reach over as the horses were going stride and stride; saw him lift Miss Falkland from her saddle as if she had been a child and place her before him; saw the brown horse prop, and swing round on his haunches in a way that showed he had not been called the crack ‘cutting-out’ horse on a big cattle run for nothing.

Robbery Under Arms 2004

She did all her cutting-out at once, because she might not get another chance, took the scraps and put them in the rag-bag to hide them, then laid the pieces away under her bed-all but the makings for one new skirt and shirtwaist.

Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004

At home it had been so clear that for six dressing jackets there would be needed twenty-four yards of nainsook at sixteen pence the yard, which was a matter of thirty shillings besides the cutting-out and making, and these thirty shillings had been saved.

Anna Karenina 2003