13.As the shuttles dashed through the warp they lifted up the heavy battens, and when the shuttles stopped they let the battens fall and pressed the threads together.
14.He excited his employees' passions, pitted one against the other, allowed the stronger to swallow up the weaker ones, and for his own part battened on this struggle of conflicting interests.
15.The elder Koshak, a gruff, warm-hearted expert machinist of 67, agreed. " We can batten down and ride it out, " he said. " If we see signs of danger, we can get out before dark."
16.The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination, made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain, danced like some foul puppet on a stand and grinned through moving masks.