She flipped a few strands of her blond hair back in place.
Each cable has 19 strands of 278 parallel steel wires, 7 B.W.G.
Using these buoys to guide the direction of tow, a grapnel, a species of fivepronged anchor, attached to a strong compound rope formed of strands of steel and manila, is lowered to the bottom and dragged at a slow speed, as it were ploughing a furrow in the sea bottom, in a line at right angles to the cable route, until the behaviour of the dynamometer shows that the cable is hooked.
She extracted the few filament-like strands and held them in her fingertips.
He'd never seen art of this kind, only the statues of his father's court and the multi-hued strands used to decorate homes.