binnacle-light

He got it unshipped and braced up with a pair of oars and a hencoop, without waking the man at the helm, -- how, I couldn't tell, -- but he was just like a cat; and then he blew the binnacle-light out; and then he started forrard, with his trumpet in his hand.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various

Emerson commanded, sharply, and in the glow from the binnacle-light they saw he had drawn his revolver, while on the instant up from the void beneath heaved the massive figure of Big George Balt, a behemoth, more colossal and threatening than ever in the dim light.

The Silver Horde Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

There are the side-lights, the binnacle-light, and the anchor-light.

The Voyage of the "Snark" 1906

As I held the bottle against a sort of binnacle-light by which Macnaughten sat steering, I caught his eyes staring down on me, quiet and solemn.

Foe-Farrell Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

They'll take it for our binnacle-light, and'll keep straight on till they run over it.

The Pirate Island A Story of the South Pacific Harry Collingwood 1886

And try hard as I would, I could not help making a little noise, which I felt sure Bob Hampton must hear, for there he was below me leaning over the wheel, and his head visible in the binnacle-light.

Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea George Manville Fenn 1870

Then, as I stood quite still in the darkness, with the glow coming from the cabin-windows and from the binnacle-light, there was a faint rushing up above, and a little off to my left, and directly after I knew what it was, -- somebody's feet on the ratlines coming down from the main-top.

Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea George Manville Fenn 1870

"Hadn't he got the binnacle-light on his phiz all the time, captain?"

Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea George Manville Fenn 1870

He went smartly towards the binnacle-light, as he spoke, and, holding an arm close to it, found that his sleeve was sprinkled with a thin coating of fine dust.

Blown to Bits or, The Lonely Man of Rakata 1859

Only the humble flicker of the binnacle-light, like a trusty sentinel on duty, continued to shed its feeble rays on a few feet of the deck, and showed that the compass at least was still faithful to the pole!

Blown to Bits The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago 1859