A week later Mawkum, carrying a tin case addressed to his sun-dried Excellency, passed up the gangplank of the Tampico; this he placed in that gentleman's hands.
The scenes on the gangplank were now repeated on the steamer.
Well, so long"--and the closely-knit young man swung himself down the gangplank and disappeared into the cabin of the tender.
When the steamer entered her New York slip and the gangplank was hoisted aboard, another thick-set, closely-knit man pushed his way through the crowd at the rail, walked straight to the Purser and whispered something in his ear.
As the gangplank was lashed in place, a delegation of British military and civilian officials boarded the ship and were presented to the General.
As the gangplank was lowered, French military dignitaries in dress uniforms resplendent with gold braid, buttons and medals, advanced to that part of the deck amidships where the General stood.
He had dressed himself with much care, and was wearing his Yale hat-band, but when a very smart-looking youth came up the gangplank wearing a Harvard ribbon, Kinney hastily retired to our cabin and returned with one like it.
Instead, his eyes were fastened on the gangplank below, and when a young man of his own age, accompanied by a girl in a dress of rough tweed, appeared upon it, he leaped from his seat.
I wasn't waiting, I was just looking," said Nan in a soft voice, as they started up the gangplankthat led to the deck of the Dorian.
Terrified passengers jammed thegangplank as they tried to crowd ashore.
Captain Barker, annoyed because the passengers were pushing, bellowed impatient orders to his men: "All right, start that gangplank forward!
There she looped a great coil of rope expertly over the post and helped get the gangplank down.
When we boarded the ship in the morning, the big boy stepped lively up the gangplank with a smirking laugh, all prepared for Lieutenant Blaines, in case he happened to be around.
Indeed, he was all wrapped up in the idea of getting Esky through the gangplank inspection and on board our transport.
She doesn't gag me and put me in irons and lead me up the gangplank by brute force, but she dominates me.
If they don't take off the gangplank in a minute or two I shan't have pluck enough to stick to the ship.
The gangplank was removed and the great liner pushed off and slowly wended her way down-river, some of the more faithful ones in the crowd waving handkerchiefs until she was a blur in the distance.
They were going to draw in the gangplank which had served as a bridge.
The mate aided three of the hands who had just come up to retire the gangplank hastily.
His salvation was now but a matter of seconds provided that the crew had not drawn in the gangplank between the steamer and the shore.
When the gangplank was thrown ashore, and I saw him making his way toward it, evidently intending to board the steamer, I thought how surprised he would be when I told him I would have no more of his game.
As soon as thegangplank was down, I slipped aboard and met the steward.
Passengers were swarming down the gangplank of the big steamer, crowds of friends were waiting to greet them, porters and waiters were landing the baggage on the dock and stevedores were preparing to discharge the cargo.
By the time the cab reached the dock, however, the steamship's mooring lines had been cast off, the gangplank was down and the vessel was being pulled out into the stream.
She did not house at the deck rail but disappeared as the gangplankcame up and cut off pursuit.
Then as I went down to the quay a day later to say farewell to some friends, just as the gangplank of an outgoing steamer was about to be drawn up, I saw her hurrying across it.
The gangplank was being pulled in, ropes were loosened, and a general scene of excitement prevailed.
When the ship had entered the dock and was moored by several men who stood by waiting, the gangplank was lowered, and the captain walked down, followed by others of the crew.
It was of record that when Stumpy arrived at Brownsville with his dog Peter, bringing their entire earthly possessions wrapped in a large red handkerchief, Peter came across the gangplank first, being in hot pursuit of a rat.
The flight had taken him across the gangplankof the Pride of the River, just as the deck-hands were hauling it aboard, and he had gone down the river on the boat, a fact not yet known to his employer.
Even as they paid no attention to him, he paid none to them, but approached the gangplank somewhat unsteadily, with the evident intention of going ashore.
She was the Brilliant, from Ludington, Michigan, and a line of men were toiling up a gangplank with heavy bags which they were stacking on the pier.
Then, furiously, soundlessly, he turned on his heel and strode up the gangplank to the pier.
The guy-rope they had on the gangplank might have held it up.
There was a shout of warning as the bows, caught by the current, began to swing out into the stream, and the end of the gangplank slipped along the edge of the wharf.
They showed the necessary papers to the guard at the gangplank and went aboard.
March and Stan walked across the gangplank and looked up at the officer on the bridge of the conning tower.
The gangplank was taken away by men on the dock, the electric motors began to turn in the ship far below them, and lines were cast off.
March saw that some of the crew were busy about the deck of one of the subs, to which a narrow gangplank led from the dock.
He ran down the gangplank and strode over to them.
Eventually it arrived, however, and they all scrambled aboard, passing along a narrow gangplank from which four of them slipped and were drowned in the sea.
One leg was gone, shot away above the knee, and he hobbled painfully down the gangplank and on to the tender, using his crutches very awkwardly.
Here all hands crowded over the gangplank and into the stores.
As soon as they were in port, the gangplank was lowered.
Everyone probably wishes he were going with us," said Bob, as the crowd grudgingly stepped back for the gangplank to be pulled in.
For a second time the gangplank was lowered, and as the explorers had a half-hour to spare, they started on a short walking trip of the city.
Edging away from Tillie who would have detained them indefinitely, the girls crossed the gangplank to shore.
Before the captain could be notified, the gangplank was lowered, and the passengers began to disembark from the steamer.
Turning, she retraced her steps to the gangplank of the Goodtime.
As he lowered himself through the hatch he saw the Prussian stumble down the gangplank and reel shoreward.
He could not quite make out what was said; but after a few brusque words of command two pair of boots rang on the gangplank and thumped away down the stage.
The captain had promised to stop at Hope and let the two hunters off, and their bags and blankets were all piled near the gangplank to be rushed off at a moment's notice.
The gangplank was drawn in, the boat whistled and started up, soon disappearing around a bend.
As soon as the gangplankwas run out, Mr. James boarded the vessel, and coming up to them introduced himself.
On the deck below people were bustling about and making for the place where the gangplank was to be thrust out presently, and link boat and shore together.
There's a chap down there standing by the gangplank and he seems interested in us from the way he's watching.
Jumped up like a shot and came down the gangplank the instant he heard us coming.
Follow me, my daughters," bade Old Noah, motioning for them to cross the gangplankinto the ark.
An old man with a long white beard which fell to his chest, drove the creatures toward the gangplank of the ark.
Using a long, hooked pole, Old Noah retrieved the driftinggangplank and refastened it to the ark.
With surprising strength and agility, Old Noah jerked the gangplank loose from the ark and hurled it into the water.
The gangplank had been raised, but the distance was not great.
The ark was dark and the gangplank which usually connected it with shore, was nowhere in evidence.
The girls heard him lower the gangplank into place, and then his footsteps died away.
Nor were the girls able to board the boat, for the gangplank had been removed.
