paddle-box

The deck seeming to smoke with the wet, I went below; but so many passengers were there, smoking too, that I came up again, and buttoning my pea-coat, and standing in the shadow of the paddle-box, stood as upright as I could, and made the best of it.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

The captain appears on the paddle-box with his speaking trumpet; the officers take their stations; all hands are on the alert; the flagging hopes of the passengers revive; the cooks pause in their savoury work, and look out with faces full of interest.

American Notes for General Circulation 2007

We entered by the paddle-box (which was within the outer casing of the ship), in company with a great crowd, into a large square uncarpeted apartment, called the

The Englishwoman in America 2007

The captain took his place on the paddle-box, and our speed was slackened.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

We sent up some fireworks in return, and soon lost sight of the friendly light on her paddle-box.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

Your wife smiles for the first time these ten days; you pass by plantations of ship-masts, and forests of steam-chimneys; the sailors are singing on board the ships, the bargees salute you with oaths, grins, and phrases facetious and familiar; the man on the paddle-box roars, “Ease her, stop her!” which mysterious words a shrill voice from below repeats, and pipes out,

The Paris Sketch Book 2006

I pity the poor Captain that, for twenty-four hours at a time, is on a paddle-box, roaring out,

Cox's Diary 2006

I pity the poor Captain that, for twenty-four hours at a time, is on a paddle-box, roaring out,

Burlesques 2006

We went gliding swift along, dead silent, past the tip of the paddle-box, and past the stern; then in

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2003

After some time the captain came to a sudden stand over the port paddle-box, and curved his left hand round his ear.

Adventures in Many Lands Various