He answered me, but as I didn't see him coming, I went down the gangway myself to help her alight.
She didn't look at anything; and she seemed to be in such a hurry to get ashore that she made for the gangway and started down the ladder without waiting for the captain.
He was turning to leave the bridge with the Brazilians when a cheery voice came from a gangway beneath.
While off duty he kept strict watch and ward over the gangway in which Iris's cabin was situated.
At the side gangway the chums stepped quickly past, to make way for half a dozen men who were coming up over the side, while Mr. Costigan stood respectfully by to receive them.
A boarding gangway was lowered at the side, and down this the crew of the life-boat scrambled.
The soldiers on board the galleys kept up a ceaseless fire, which they on the walls and forts of the city returned, and the heavy cannon rent the air with the tremendous noise they made, to which the gangway guns of the galleys replied.
The boatswain gave the signal to weigh anchor, and leaping upon the middle of the gangway began to lay on to the shoulders of the crew with his courbash or whip, and to haul out gradually to sea.
On hearing this the general sprang upon the gangway crying, "Now then, my sons, don't let her give us the slip!
All then proceeded to the poop, which was very handsomely decorated, and seated themselves on the bulwark benches; the boatswain passed along the gangway and piped all hands to strip, which they did in an instant.
In the second book the name struck me; it was that of Mrs Trotter, and I walked to the gangway out of curiosity, to ascertain whether it was the same personage who, when I was a youngster, had taken such care of my shirts.
She careened over so that her lee channels were under the water, and when pressed by a sea, the lee-side of the quarter-deck and gangway were afloat.
I put on my full uniform, and was ready at the gangway a quarter of an hour before the men were piped away.
At last the morning broke, and the look-out man upon the gangway called out, "Land on the lee beam.
Nelson walked the quarter-deck backwards and forwards, rubbing his hands, and laughing to himself, and then he called for his glass, and went to the gangway with Captain Miller.
She walked to the gangway of the vessel, and looked down upon the placid wave, pierced by the moonbeams far below the surface.
The sun had set before Philip had quitted the gangway and gone down below.
He leant over the gangway and watched the heaving of the sea.
We were alongside--the gangway was clearing away-- for though no boat could have boarded, our shell was safe.
I was just rising to mount on board, for they had handed to me the man-ropes, when there was a loud yell, and a man jumped from the gangway into the shell.
Philip, when he went on deck to keep the middle watch, found the old priest at the gangway waiting for him.
Two men who loitered in thegangway in front of Stonehouse exchanged laconic comments.
What mattered was that he wore his travelling clothes, and that he stood stockily in the gangway like a man who does not know what is expected of him.
He and Wansley had later lashed them to the gangway and had given them the cat to exhaustion.
Emily and Grace stood at the gangwayas we pulled off.
All hands able to appear on deck were collected at the gangway to gaze at us as we approached.
No one on board had watched these proceedings with more apparent eagerness than Merlin; and as the boat came alongside the ship, he ran to the gangway to receive those whom she brought.
I don't remember ever to have seen a man more angry than the tutor was, and no wonder, for they only just got out to the boat again as the gangway was being hauled aboard.
Then in the darkness we crept down the gangway and took our places.
Lobo, hastily leaving his boat and coming half-way up the gangway ladder again.
The first lieutenant, looking exceedingly worried and distressed, was at the gangway to meet us.
Even here there were things to be seen at the last moment, but I confess that I turned my back when the saloon gangway was about to be removed; some things are sacred even from the man whose business it is to describe what he sees.
Just before the last gangway was run ashore a little woman came up, crying and almost breathless, and begging to be allowed to say good-bye to her husband, who was at the other end of the gangway, not allowed to come down.
One gangway was left open, and stragglers and men who at the last moment had stayed away for an hour with their wives and children were hunted out and hurried up it.
At last the gangway was removed, and a kind of quietness fell upon the crowd, waiting for the next harrowing sensation.
At intervals of about half an hour detachments were marched in and formed up at one end of the shed, where they left their bundles and heavy kit, and whence they were marched in single file up the gangway of the ship.
The forward gangway was for about an hour occupied by men who did nothing but pass rifles from the quay to the ship; it was a formidable sight, this stream of deadly weapons that flowed on board.
Up another gangway enough cordite to blow up the whole of Liverpool was being gingerly carried in small cases.
Near the gangway was a middle-aged man holding in his arms a girl mortally wounded in the conflict.
Then the five sailors stood near the main gangway with arms folded, heads erect, and resigned like brave men to their fate.
Captain Lane had a ladder put over the gangway and threw a rope to the boat as it came alongside; and the next moment the stranger sprang upon the deck of the Ocean Star.
Mr. Lowington walked to the vicinity of Gangway B, and paused there.
Herman, as they seated themselves at the opening of Gangway B.
In another minute he was abreast of the gangway and caught the rope thrown down, though he kept the launch off at a few yards' distance.
Soon afterward Jimmy shipped as deck-hand on a Sound steamboat and was lucky in attracting the attention of one of the directors who was on board by the cool promptness with which he prevented an accident when a passenger gangway broke.
The vessel lurched over them, rolling wildly, burying her bows in the foam, which swept in across her low bulwarks and poured out through the waist gangway in streaky cataracts.
I, jokingly, as I stood on the gangway preparatory to going over the side.
Both Errington and Burroughs were very "fit" through much exercise, and three or four of the crowd at each gangway had gone down under their vigorous blows before those in front became aware of their danger.
My go inside yamen," the boy continued, while the comprador sidled away, gained the gangway unobserved, and presently slipped ashore.
Burroughs, stepping towards the gangway and taking the merchant by the sleeve.
We had nothing to do there but walk the horses straight from the wharf over the planks, and down through the gangway on to the deck; but you see it's different here.
The larger steamers lay two and three moored abreast alongside the quays, and astern of each a dozen flats or barges in two lots of six, each lashed together with a planked gangway leading to the outer ones.
A trim programme-seller was tripping down the gangway with mincing daintiness--down and down to the very front row of the stalls.
There were whispered apologies, as they squeezed in front of their neighbours; whispered thanks as one man stood up, crushing himself back, and another stepped into the gangwayto let them pass.
Hastily saluting, the two officers who had been addressed sprang towards the steepgangway which led below, and swarmed down it with an agility which was commendable.
If he desire to proceed rapidly from one end of the building to the other, and finds the great central gangway at all blocked up, he will, no doubt, be able to get on by either the north or south corridors, fifteen feet wide.
Seats are provided in the middle of the great central gangway for those who may desire to rest.
A gangway should be in the front of the stalls as well as in the rear, and the horse should be fed through an opening about sixteen inches wide in the front of the stall.
In London I saw Corradini training a manege horse in the gangway of a stable, behind a row of stalls; he had a space of about 8 feet by 30.
Then the horse is led to the gangway and the saddle put on; if the saddling has not been done some half-hour previously, as is to be recommended.
The professional gentleman, from the city, followed his sinister host up the gangway and into his cabin, while the boat pushed away from the side of the yacht, bowed softly to the gentle swell of the sea.
The boat glided gently by the perforated platform of the gangway and was held firmly by the oarsmen, while the stranger stepped with a quick, precise step from the small boat.
The Commander standing at the gangway shrugged his shoulders and turned with a grim smile to the Captain.
The first to board the ship was a lady, pale and sweetly dignified, whom the doctor met at the gangway and piloted to the Periwinkle's cabin.
A thin drizzle swept in from the sea, as a recovered deserter, slightly intoxicated, was brought down between an escort and vanished over the gangwayamid sympathetic murmurs from the onlookers.
