As he stood with squared shoulders against the rough, battened door, that was built of stout slabs, he shook from head to foot with mingled emotions.
Half mad with excitement and terror, he backed to the end of the passage, took a running leap, and dashed with his mightiest momentum against the frail battened door.
Oh, this is the place where the fishermen gather, With oilskins and boots and Cape Anns battened down; All sizes and figures with squid lines and jiggers, They congregate here on the squid-jigging ground.
The other pearl buyers and myself, between seas, managed to get about fifteen women and children into the cabin, and battened down.
As I was saying, when we firstbattened down, I was surprised.
You see, when we discovered the fire, we battened down immediately to suffocate the fire.
I was surprised when the fire first broke out and we battened down.
We had both davit-tackles "two blocks" by the time that the ship was fairly clear of the Heads and in the lagoon, after which we put the hatches on and battened them down.
The victorious Americans battened down the hatches, ordered the four transports to surrender, on pain of being fired into, and triumphantly carried all five prizes to the piers of Fort Penn.
For a time the frigate abandoned her warlike character, battened down her ports, housed her guns, hid her large crew between decks, and sailed into the little harbor looking like a large but peaceable British merchantman.
With furled sails and battened hatches, the little craft made a desperate fight for life.
All the boats except one were got in, the hatches were battened down, and everything was done to make the ship light aloft.
The other hatches had been battened down, for at any moment a sea might break on board, and if they had not been secured, might fill the vessel.
On swept the roaring torrent, deluging the deck; and had not the hatches been battened down, would have half filled her.
Crossing the Bay of Biscay we were battened down for three days, and, save on one occasion, I did not go on deck the whole time the storm raged.
I ordered additional preventers to be rove, had the hatches battened down, and took every possible precaution to ensure the safety of my vessel.
As time wore on, news of sanguinary naval engagements reached us, while occasionally a Dutch vessel would be brought into the harbour, her ensign hoisted beneath the cross of St. George, and her crew battened down in the hold.
On June 16th was entered this: "Kept hatches battened down and stopped all air-holes, but the deck is too hot to stand on, and getting hotter.
Hatches are all battened down, but I doubt if this tarpaulin holds water.
The chains were up, and the shutters battened down, and the place looked closed and gloomy and rain-soaked.
You remember what a shark she was in economics; she simply battened on tables and charts and surveys.
The hatches were battened down and every thing well secured on deck; and well it was so, for sea after sea came leaping over the side, now on the quarter, then over the bows, and now again amidships.
I was glad to go on deck, also; for the skylights being battened down made the cabin somewhat close.
Every effort was made to save the ship by the officers and crew; the poor coolies, battened down beneath the decks, being allowed no chance to aid in saving the ship or themselves.
My friend assures me that he knows these poor creatures were completely imprisoned all the night these terrible occurences were going on, the hatches being "battened down," and made as secure as a jail door under lock and bars.
The blacks fell sick by dozens, until at last the Skipper--doubtless already in the first throes of the disease himself--ordered every living man except the surviving members of the crew driven below and battened under hatch.
And at the last minute, when we're ready to shove off, you and the lidy are to be set upon and battened down below, and then we all jumps into the boat and makes sail.
This done, and our more pressing needs in the matter of clothing met, I returned the despoiled bale to its place in the hatchway, replaced the hatches, and battened everything securely down once more.
They had suffered dreadfully during the chase, with the fright and heat, and from having the hatchesbattened down.
The hatches had been battened down, or the vessel would have filled.
The work-table is made out of several boards battened together, and should be set across the edges of the tub.
This platform should be fastened to the first, with the end which has not been battened secured to the two-by-four at C.
The hatches werebattened down in time to prevent the seas, which now began to break on board, from washing below.
Although the place below where they sat with the men was close and dark in consequence of beingbattened down, they spent much of their time there.
Everything was battened down, the scuppers were awash, and the hawse-holes spouted like fountains after every plunge.
Taking it out he carried it to a chair near the companionway, for a better reading light: the skylight being still battened down.
The latter, with tarpaulin battened snugly down over the cockpit and the seas dashing over her wash-board until she seemed under water half the time, was forging stodgily Londonwards, her bargee at the tiller smoking a placid pipe.
Night and day, then, night and day following one another fast, with the hatches battened down, and the ship labouring so that it seemed as if every minute must be her last.
I was not long in doubt; for the moment they got on the deck, the barbarians cast him headlong down the main hatchway, which was immediately battened down, and then hoisted in the boat.
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