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  • I blundered into the steward's pantry, and out of it, missed the cross-hall, stumbled through the next starboard opening in the long hall, and found myself bent double by violent collision with the dining-room table.

    CHAPTER XLIX 2010

  • The steward's pantry, separated by crosshalls and by the stairway leading into the chart-room above on the poop, was placed strategically in the centre of all its operations.

    CHAPTER III 2010

  • What the steward's regard for Michael was coming to be was best evidenced by his conversation with

    CHAPTER VII 2010

  • We heard them under the dining-table, under the steward's pantry, under Margaret's stateroom.

    CHAPTER XLIX 2010

  • "Thank you, sir," was the steward's acknowledgment, ere he ran aft, disrupted the binnacle, and carried the steering compass back to the boat.

    CHAPTER XV 2010

  • Half an hour later, just as the steward's alarm went off, instantly checked by that light-sleeping Asiatic, the Elsinore began to heel over on my side.

    CHAPTER XI 2010

  • He was dressed, like the agents carrying him, in an El Al steward's uniform; the passport in his pocket presented him as one Zeev Zichroni.

    How Israeli Spies Pulled It Off Amotz Asa-El 2012

  • Romantic railbirds are encouraged to supply details about their family backgrounds and their hobbies and interests to a steward's committee which will then match them up using roughly the same principles used in breeding thoroughbred horses.

    Bluff The Listener 2010

  • Peter-Allen and Mildred are still at it when I am woken by the steward's voice announcing that the captain will shortly be turning on the seat belt sign.

    FEAR OF LANDING Eamon Somers 2011

  • Almost in a trice he was back, both slippers in his mouth, which he deposited at the steward's feet.

    CHAPTER VIII 2010

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