companionway

• “Captain Glass met the first man springing up the companionway from the cabin, with a kick full in the face, but was overborne and trampled on by the rush.”

  THE DEVILS OF FUATINO

• “My word, some whale," Daughtry said to Ah Moy, as they emerged from the cabin companionway and gazed at this latest wreckage.”

  Chapter 15

• “He sniffed down the forecastle hatch, sniffed into the galley where two Chinese cooks jabbered unintelligibly to him, sniffed down the cabin companionway, sniffed down the engine-room skylight and for the first time knew gasoline and engine oil; but sniff as he would, wherever he ran, no scent did he catch of Skipper.”

  Chapter 20

• “Once, polishing the brasswork on the hand-rails of the cabin companionway, Daughtry overheard the ancient one explaining his terrible scar and missing fingers to Grimshaw and the Armenian”

  Chapter 10

• “I leave the wheel and run forward to the cabin companionway, where”

  Chapter 9

• “The terrier fell down the cabin companionway and lamed its nigh hind leg, then repeated the manoeuvre and lamed its off fore leg.”

  Chapter 17

• “We battened down the engine room hatch, and the sea rose to it and over it and climbed perilously near to the cabin companionway and skylight.”

  The Joy Of Small-Boat Sailing

• “Between two gusts I leave the wheel and run forward to the cabin companionway, where I light matches and consult the barometer. "29-90" it reads.”

  Chapter 9

• “I had been swept against the galley and around the steerage companionway from the weather side into the lee scuppers.”

  Chapter 4

• “It was a difficult cast to make on a rolling ship, but the sharp point of the spike, whistling seventy-five feet through the air, barely missed Wolf Larsen's head as he emerged from the cabin companionway and drove its length two inches and over into the solid deck-planking.”

  Chapter 16

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