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Taking one man with me, we went upon the fore-top-sail-yard, loosed the sail and turned out the reefs, while two others were loosing the main-top-sail and main sail.

From A Narrative of the Mutiny, on Board the Ship Globe, of Nantucket, in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 1824 And the journal of a residence of two years on the Mulgrave Islands; with observations on the manners and customs of the inhabitants by Lay, William

Along the hitching-poles excited and jocular cowboys were loosing their ponies and leaping to their saddles.

From The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop by Garland, Hamlin

Three or four men were loosing the lashings that secured the little dinghy, others were bringing up provisions from the cook's galley.

From The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas by Strang, Mrs. Herbert

Whatever their lives may have been at other moments, when they were loosing and binding they were acting for St. Peter, who stood behind them, and behind St. Peter stood Jesus Christ.

From Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality by Begbie, Harold

The thistles were loosing their down and it floated on the wind like ethereal snow.

From In a Mysterious Way by Warner, Anne