And even now such a mood was working in him, as he lounged darkly conning the life of the hall from his eyrie.
The captain had retired early in the evening, and the quartermasterconning the wheel was steering for the light, the Chateaugay making not more than six knots an hour.
Quartermaster, strike four bells," continued the captain to the man who was conning the wheel.
When they reached the surface and an observation was taken from the conning tower, it was seen that a terrific storm was raging.
If it has--" At that moment the lookout who had maintained his position in the conning tower called for Tom on the telephone.
Ned and Mr. Damon followed Tom to the conning tower.
Almost the instant Tom signaled that he would take charge back came flashing the electrical signal from the conning tower that his orders were understood.
An observation was taken through the conning tower, however, before the M.
Her path was illuminated to a considerable degree by a broad, diffused beam of light from a powerful searchlight that was fixed just back of the conning tower, giving the helmsman a certain degree of vision.
A conning tower, rising just above the deck of the craft, gave the pilot the necessary view.
This meant that the navigator in the conning tower was to keep his hands off the various levers and wheel-valves.
A heavy fog was clearing from the sea, when from out of the mist rose the black hull and conning tower of the Cochrane.
The wind changed suddenly to the west, and, as it changed, it rolled up patches of the fog and revealed the black hull and conning tower of the Enlado.
This morning, as it happened, I went into the public graveyard, and spent an hour conning over the rude inscriptions to the memory of the departed.
Scarce a hundred yards away was the conningtower of a submarine above the waves.
As I gazed with open mouth, the head disappeared, the top closed, and the conning tower sunk beneath the waves.
He followed the fat little commander into the conning tower.
Orsino leaned against the conning tower and tried to comb his thoughts out clean and straight.
Grinnel drew Orsino to the lee of the conning tower.
In the Palaestra Tanno cheerfully presented Murmex to some of his favorite prize-fighters and he stood talking with them, they appraisingly conning the son of Murmex Frugi.
And he bought no more gems, though he talked gems as much as previously, or even more, and took great pride in showing visitors over his collection or in conning his treasures in company with me or even entirely alone by himself.
Much of his time he spent among his jewels, conning them, handling them, taking curios from their cases and, as it were, caressing them.
It's only the professor trying the steering apparatus," said Jack, looking forward toward the conning tower.
Next he went to the conning tower, where Jack was steering.
Jack still held his place in the conning tower, but he could do nothing to guide the craft, and it would have been folly to attempt it, so fearful was the force of the wind.
Then the professor pointed out where the propeller shaft ran from the engine room out through the stern, and showed how the rudder was worked by wire ropes extending from it to the conning tower.
Jack and Mark, go into the conningtower and steer!
In the front part of this was a passage leading to the conning tower, or the place for the steersman.
I wonder--" Then he hurried forward to the conning tower.
The air, as it came in the opened window of the conning tower, rushed past with great force.
The boys remained in the conning tower, gazing ahead.
The boy in the conning tower kept his eye on the two compasses, the one telling the direction, the other the nearness to the north pole.
He showed them how the entire control of the ship could be accomplished from the conning or steering tower by the turning of one wheel or another.
The professor went to the conning tower and began steering the ship to the south.
The boy, who was in charge of the conning tower, set the necessary machinery, while the professor went to the window in the bottom of the ship to watch.
Presently tiring of dingy print, I moved up to the bench where sat the children, Peter and Esk, a-conning their horn-books.
Doubtless grief for Cade and my privations and my conning this same book while starving make me light-headed yet.
But his third struck the base of the conning tower; on which the submarine sank, nothing but bubbles and oil remaining to mark the spot where she went down.
Well, it's all going just as we expected," said Sir Charles Madden to Lord Jellicoe in the conning tower of the Iron Duke in the middle of the Jutland battle.
Then they slammed-to the hatch of the conning tower and sank very slowly, washing the fishermen off.
When the boats rowed off the poor woman went mad, rushing about wildly, with piercing shrieks, and finally, just as the German was coming on board, throwing her baby straight into his conning tower.
But he slipped into herconning tower safely, and no one on the British side was hurt.
When theconning tower rose clear the German commander opened the hatch and smiled at his work.
Rising from the car behind the locomotive, is a conning tower from which an officer takes observations and directs the fire of the rapid-fire guns.
Only a small surface, including the bridge or conning tower, is exposed, thus making it almost impossible to hit them with the clumsy guns aboard ship.
This shot struck at the base of the conning tower, ripping the whole of the upper structure clean and the U-15 sank like a stone.
It is a train of armored cars with rapid-fire guns, conningtowers and fighting tops.
The sighter in the conning tower moves swiftly, up within range of the vessel he is attacking and gives the signal for the discharge of the torpedo.
Powerful searchlights have very little chance of picking up the periscope or conning tower of a submarine.
It might also be mentioned here that we had no light except the glow that came through the conning tower.
I then observed that the Protector had gone back to her normal condition, and saw at the same time that the senior Russian officer, a very tall man who had to stand in a stooping position in the conning tower, was shaking with laughter.
Blowing the centre tank relieved us very quickly of sufficient water to bring the conning tower above the surface.
The green blur on the ports in the conning tower grew lighter as I gazed through them until suddenly the light of full day burst through, almost dazzling me.
There were several young men aboard her, and when they first saw us standing on our conning tower they thought we also had been wrecked and were on top of a buoy.
For night observation it has been proposed to use transparent conning towers built of clear glass, in which the commander takes his station and just sticks his head above the crest of the waves in order to direct his vessel against the enemy.
I blew the centre tank, which brought our conning tower up out of the water, opened the hatch, and hailed the skipper of the bugeye to ask our location and the nearest harbor.
This forces the submarine to become vulnerable in making an attack at night, as it is necessary for the conning tower to be brought a sufficient distance above the surface of the water to permit the commanding officer to secure natural vision.
A telescopic conning tower arranged to cut its way up through ice twelve or fourteen feet thick is also provided to enable the boat to remain under the ice and still permit the crew to reach the surface.
At the eastern end of Long Island the captain and crew, six men in all, one by one entered the Fulton through the round hatch in the conning tower that projected about two feet above the back of the fish-like vessel.
With a clang the lid-like hatch to the conning tower was closed and clamped fast in its rubber setting, the gasoline engine began its rapid phut-phut, and the submarine boat began its long journey down Long Island Sound.
With his head in the little conning tower he was able to get a glimpse of the ship he was bent on destroying, as from time to time he raised his little craft to get his bearings.
We were pitching tremendously, our bows burying themselves up to the conning tower.
Captain Helston was giving him an order from theconning tower.
I told you, Roy, and there was a leetle crowbar wedged under what we have been calling the lid of the conning tower.
Now, if a submarine cannot rise to the surface, it is possible for a man to climb into this conning tower.
Now, Roy, you know what the conning tower of a submarine is like inside?
There is also another lid at the bottom of the conning tower, which you can close as well.
When the men wake, you will be able to follow by the same road,' says the captain, and he climbs up into the conning tower.
You can climb up into this conning tower and steer the ship from it if you wish.
Van Emmon kept a close watch upon the conning tower on the other machine.
But the vessel remained on an even keel and directly the conning tower opened and Captain Jack emerged.
At command of their captors, they leaped to the deck of the submarine and then passed through the conning tower and descended below.
This shell caught the U-boat along side the conning tower.
Impallesco chartis; I grow pallid withconning upon the written word.
The steering gear is arranged so that the vessel may be steered from the deck, or from the conning tower, and the usual telegraph gear is fitted to communicate from the deck, or from the conning tower, to the engine room.
The top of the conning tower is supported on three screws, so arranged that it may be raised or lowered, and the space for sight adjusted according to the range of vision required, or the risk to be run from the enemy's missiles.
Alex was sitting by the fire with his shoulders hitched up to his ears; he was conning a Latin treatise, muttering the words aloud.
Dave groaned, and watched the trickle of smoke come up out of the conning tower hatch.
And what was even more convincing was the black cross edged in white that was painted on the sides of the conning tower.
And a split second later he saw a thin column of smoke come up out of the conning tower hatch.
Right after he had shouted the last in English to Freddy Farmer up on the conning tower bridge, Dave turned to the two members of the Lockheed's crew who had remained below decks with him, and gave them a happy grin and a nod.
With their hearts and hopes down in their boots, but with their heads high and their jaws squared, the little group from the doomed Lockheed permitted themselves to be herded to the conningtower and down into the bowels of the U-boat.
With Squadron Leader Hixon, and a couple of the Lockheed's crew, he went scrambling up the companion ladder, and out onto the conning tower bridge.
And get set to crank open thatconning tower hatch just as soon as we hit surface.
And so he did just as he was ordered, and presently the conning tower hatch was opened, and clean, fresh ocean air was pouring down inside to cut the thick, heavy U-boat stench.
A couple of square-headed Nazis caught hold of it with boat hooks, and held on hard while the voice on the conning tower bridge snarled out the next order.
His gaze was fixed on the submarine awash on the surface, and he saw the red distress flare arc up into the air from the conning tower bridge.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "conning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
