It is the gun," said Maru to the captain, and in an agony of terror he lifted up the hatch of the lazarette under the cabin table and jumped below.
If I go down there," said Olsen, pointing to the lazarette hatch, "the cat may get out.
Haven't I spent a half hour in the lazarettelooking and listening for just such sounds as you describe?
In fact, he has been getting out of the lazarette lately.
Run and get Toby, and put him down there, I will attend to the lazarette hatch myself from now on.
The lazarette was simply a cistern full of sea water; what else it might contain, not being a diver, he could not say.
And, indeed, if he had searched he would have found only half a sack of potatoes in the caboose, for the lazarette was awash, and the water in the scuttle-butt was stinking.
I was to shut my bloody face; and ordering the mate and the Chinaman into the lazarette to get out the arms.
As they deliberately descended, Gregory changed his place, taking the corner by the lazarette door, where, at any rate, he could only be attacked in front.
As I emerged from the lazarette I heard sounds in Wolf Larsen's state-room.
Again I went below; but before I dropped into thelazarette I took the precaution of casting down the door in advance.
The lazarette was directly beneath the cabin, and, opening the trap-door in the floor and carrying a candle with me, I dropped down and began overhauling the ship's stores.
I lifted the trap in the floor, but for some moments gazed dubiously into the darkness of the lazarette beneath.
I thought of the ship's stores and the lazarette beneath the cabin, and the idea came to me of surprising Maud with something nice for breakfast.
With some bailing, and with others bending to the oars, the boat rowed frantically away, while Daughtry took Ah Moy with him down into the lazarette beneath the cabin floor and broke out and passed up more provisions.
He counted the cases, doubted the verdict of his senses, lighted more matches, counted again, then vainly searched the entire lazarette in the hope of finding more cases of beer stored elsewhere.
What did effectually withstrain him was the knowledge of the act which in the lazarette he had already determined to perform that afternoon down in the main hold where the water-casks were stored.
I heartily wished them overboard; and yet, after all, they were not very much more dangerous than the wine and spirits in the lazarette and fore-hold.
In addition to this were the stores in the lazarette (besides a quantity of several kinds of wine in jars, &c.
This was a most comforting reflection, and I recollect springing out through the lazarettehatch with as spirited a caper as ever I had cut at any time in my life.
I had a mind for a lighter drink than brandy, and went to the lazarette and cut out a block of the wine in the cask I had opened; I also knocked out the head of a tierce of beef, designing a hearty regale for supper.
On clearing away the clothes I perceived a ring similar to that in the lazarette hatch, and it rose to my first drag and left me the hold yawning black below.
I ran to the cabin, but the lazarette was full of water, and none of the provisions in it to be come at.
The lazarette deck came so low that we had to squat when still or move upon our knees.
I took down the lamp, trimmed it, and went to the lazarette hatch at the after end of the cabin.
The forecastle, and 'tween-decks, and steerage, and lazarette had been minutely overhauled.
The fellow was too stupidly drunk even to raise an alarm, and in another five minutes the whole lazarette would have been in a blaze.
This arrangement also enabled the steward to enter the lazarette at his own sweet will and without any one being the wiser--which constituted my sole objection to it.
But at the doorless entrance to the lazarette aft, he threw caution to the winds and darted in in pursuit of the new scent that came to his nostrils.
The cabin was a long room, extending for the full width of the Arangi from a lazarette aft to a tiny room for'ard.
And the lean, fear-stricken girl, like a frightened rabbit in the mouth of its burrow, on hands and knees peered forth upon the scene from the lazarette and knew that the cooking-pot and the end of time had come for her.
Between records, Van Horn recollected the girl, and had her haled out of her dark hole in the lazarette to listen to the music.
Oh, is he the man who reported a ghost outside the lazarettelast night?
As the steward was certain he had fastened the lazarette himself early on Tuesday morning, there was nothing for it but to force the lock.
But the door of the lazarette was locked, and the key missing, though it ought to be hanging with others, all duly labeled, on a hook in the steward's cabin.
We got at the lazarette from a hatch under the table of the cabin.
As the captain had predicted, most of the contents of the lazarette had been cast up, and they found that they had an ample supply of food to last them for some months.
The bulk of my stores is stowed in the after hold," answered the French skipper, "but there is about enough in the lazarette to carry us to Cape Town.
I therefore looked about for the lazarette hatch, which I discovered underneath a mat at the foot of the companion ladder, and was soon overhauling the contents of the storehouse.
Meanwhile, during the progress of this renovating process, the steward had made it his business to give the lazarette a thorough stock-taking overhaul, of the result of which I was kept ignorant.
So up for Polperro they bore, half a dozen men from the lugger working the Van der Werf, and old Captain Jacka asleep in her lazarette till roused out of his dreams by the rattle as they cast anchor half a cable's length outside the haven.
Down in the lazarette Jacka had scarcely finished prising the cork out of his bottle of Hollands when he heard the bang of a gun.
Can I make my escape out of the lazarette should I feel very ill, or as if I was going to suffocate?
It is certain that but for the fortunate circumstance of young Peploe lying hidden in the lazarette the ship's stern or side would have been blown out, and she must have gone down like a stone, carrying all hands with her.
I'll drop below into the lazarette on some excuse and tell you," he answered.
The vessel, I might suppose, was in the Channel; her pitching grew heavier, the lazarette was right aft, and in no part of the vessel saving the bows could her motion be more sensibly felt.
I had slept very ill on the preceding night, and after I had been for some hours in the lazarette I felt weary, and stretched myself along the deck between the casks and the ship's wall, and pillowed my head on my coat.
He may have taken twenty turns with the key; the lazarette was so quiet that I could distinctly hear the harsh grit of the mechanism as it was revolved.
The general smell was, indeed, a complicated thing; in fact, the lazarette was a storeroom.
While this was going on, all in flashing fractions of seconds, Bert Rhine was cautiously inspecting the lazarette through the open booby- hatch.
I know that this morning he spent hours in the lazarette with the steward and the cook, overhauling and checking off from the lists of the Baltimore agents.
This is a steel shaft that leads up from the coal-carrying bowels of the ship beneath the lazarette and that wins to the outside-world via the after-wall of the chart-house.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lazarette" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
