`` you must hold her back and off her beam-ends , else this cross-ocean will pound her apart on the shoals , '' and as soon as temeraire had managed to break free he had done it : he and maximus and kulingile all working mightily together , straining against the anchor-chains and every rope that nitidus and dulcia could bring up to them , to keep the ship upright while the wind shrieked and tried to batter her and them against the rocks .