He shambled and skulked his way down, a hatless and ragged and uncouth figure, wandering on along gloomygangways and corridors until he found himself on the threshold of the engine-room itself.
Then the survivors swarmed back with all the wounded they could find, climbed over the few broken gangways still holding together, and turned to the work of getting clear.
The ground swell made the Vindictive roll and racked her breaking gangways terribly.
Meanwhile the old Vindictive ran alongside the mole and dropped her eighteen special gangways bang against it.
Several gangways were smashed to pieces, the men on them falling between the Vindictive and the mole.
After they had sung awhile there was an interval, and lama boys passed along the gangways between the rows of benches and poured tea, with wonderful adroitness and without spilling a drop, into the wooden cups held out to them.
Meanwhile pilgrims pass along thegangways to the altar and place small heaps of tsamba or meal in the bowls standing before the images, from the bags and bundles they bring with them.
We must hold the gangways to the shore until the flames get well alight, and then take to the boats and return.
There--the last man is off the ship, and the gangways are clear; nothing to keep all you homesick people now.
Last of all the almost muffled noises of gangways being drawn down on to the piers.
Line after line of uniformed men passed up the gangways and vanished.
On the further side towered the bulwarks of a great ship, with gangways reaching down to the pier.
The king stood on the gangways of the Long Serpent, and shot the greater part of the day; sometimes with the bow, sometimes with the spear, and always throwing two spears at once.
The Swedes say the stone-heaps are still to be seen which Olaf had laid under the ends of the gangways from the shore to the ships.
George Bell, boarding through the main-deck ports, and fought their way along the gangways to the quarter-deck.
Already between the gangways and the bulwarks lay a great heap of dead and dying.
Up and down the gangways that divided us walked stalwart Spaniards, armed with heavy whips, which they scarcely ever ceased from laying about our bare shoulders.
Encumbered by their heavy packs, they line out to the gangways and march purposely on board.
Three sombre closed wagons are waiting by the dockside, and towards them down the long gangways from the ship, the bodies of an engineer and some of the stokehold crew are being carried.
With the men lined out to the gangways and filing down the dock steps, chain linking in trial over the crane sheaves, and the bustle of preparation on ship and shore, everything seems set for an instant beginning--but no hammer falls as yet.
The workmen pause on the ship and gangways and look respectfully, if curiously, at the limp burdens as they are carried by.
Ever and on, a block occurs on the gangways where the inevitable 'forgetters' are struggling back through the press of landing men, to search for the trifles of their kit.
Hurrying from the mess-decks as enjoined, the quick movement gathers way and intensity: the decks become jammed by the pressure, the gangways and passages are blocked in the struggle.
At the shore end of the gangways there is riot among the workers.
But on this occasion the supply of Bluebottles had, for the moment, run short, and our party took a turn at going up the gangways and evacuating the van-wards.
In one of these gangways behind the stage the clear impression of human features looks down from the rough wet ceiling; it is the impression of a player's mask.
Such barriers present themselves on every side; they leave the theatre formless; they create gangways where none existed, walls where the spectators had clear line of vision, darkness where the sun shone freely eighteen centuries ago.
Have not all railings and gangways fallen into the water?
All the things they have seen in the cabins and gangways of submerged steamers; inextricably knotted masses of human beings, passengers or sailors coming toward them with outstretched arms, upright, as if alive and as if awaiting them.
In the gangways below, even though the ship was pitching, the atmosphere was fairly pleasant and lively.
This kept them busy until dark, when the first call for dinner was trumpeted across the deck and through the gangways of the first-class section.
On each side four gangwaysgave access to the interior, and long, sloping approaches offered means of entry from the ground.
The gangways leading out from the shaft were reasonably dry now.
Then don't you go climbing down the ladders and wandering around in the gangways tonight," the caretaker warned.
The water rose higher and higher in the passage, and it seemed to the boys that by this time most of the lower gangways were entirely impassible.
I guess all the gangways are taking a washing, and the water seems to be rising, too!
Leaning against the walls, I dragged myself down the gangways to the lounge, whose ceiling lights were on.
I followed Captain Nemo down gangways located for easy transit, and I arrived amidships.
So I went down the hatch and back through the gangways to my stateroom.
I went down the gangways and arrived at the museum where I had spent so many pleasant and productive hours.
Beyond it were a series of iron gangways and ladders forming part of the fire emergency arrangements of the neighboring institution.
Beyond the tank opened a frowning gully--the Arcade connecting Albemarle Street with old Bond Street; on the other hand, the scheme of fire gangways was continued.
By means of short portable gangways or landings, the moderate-sized packages are readily 278 transferred to or from the trucks, either by hand or by small two-wheeled trolleys, the heavier pieces being lifted by cranes.
When sinking in water the working top of the cylinder is always kept at a suitable height above the water for convenience in removal of the earth or clay from the interior to barges or gangways alongside.
This was due, it was reported afterward unofficially, to getting Amphitrite, Neptune's wife, up the gangways with all her toggery in good condition.
Hardly had the great anchors touched the water when long booms swung out from the ships' sides, gangways were lowered, and from their cradles swift launches with steam already up were dropped into the water by huge electric cranes.
The long tiers of benches and the gangways filled with rowers peered up at him.
They heard the roaring water round her prow, the cracking of the whips as the petty officers ran up and down the gangways urging on the panting cattle at the oars.
By this time a swarm of brave Frenchmen was gathered in the mizzen-chains and gangways of their ship, waiting for a lift of the sea to launch them into the English outworks.
At last the trunks were all on the tender, and the bareheaded stewards began to run down the gangwayswith the hand-baggage.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gangways" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
