The launch puffed and chugged its way up the river, running alongside the pretty Severndale dock sharp to the minute of four bells.
Olympia came boiling "four bells" toward Navy Bungalow's dock, the white clad Jackies looking particularly festive and Captain Boynton of the Olympia with Commander Star of the Chicago sitting aft.
As the night closed down upon us, however, the breeze acquired a little more life, and we increased our pace until, at four bells in the first watch, we were reeling off our eight knots by the log.
By four bells in the afternoon watch the wind and sea had so far moderated that the mate, whose watch it then was, gave orders to take a small pull upon the topsail halliards, to set the jib, and to haul out the mizzen.
I gave orders for the drill at four bells, and three bells were struck only a few minutes ago.
I set down the four Figures, representing the four Bells, thus.
My next condition is that no man shall have more than two gills of rum per day--half to be served out at midday, and the remainder at four bells of the first dog-watch.
The ladies had retired early, for a thunderstorm that had been threatening about sunset broke over us with tropical fury about ten by the clock, or four bells--the first watch.
The hours sped quickly by, as they always do in a ballroom, and by the time James and I got on board the Sea Flower four bells in the middle-watch were ringing out through the still, dark night.
When I awoke, perhaps it would be four bells or even six, and there would be James, with his specs athwart his great jibboom of a nose, poring earnestly over his mother's Bible.
At four bells in the morning watch two sails were reported to him, one dead ahead, and the other on the port beam.
Four bells, sir," repeated McSpindle, who was at the wheel.
At four bells, when we came on deck again, I found that the light breeze, which had kept us going during the day, had dropped, and we were only just moving.
It's my wheel, and it only wants a couple of minutes to four bells.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "four bells" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
