Clearly outlined in the open portholethere suddenly arose that same grotesque silhouette which I had seen once before.
Under thisporthole was a narrow bunk, and in it a bolster, and, as I might suppose, blankets, over which was spread a very handsome rug.
It was a mere hole indeed, yet it somehow took the civilized look of an ordinary ship's berth from the round scuttle or thickly-glazed porthole which lay in an embrasure deep enough to comfortably warrant the thickness of the vessel's side.
It was the sort of flash that would be seen through an imperfectly curtained porthole of a stateroom if the door from the lighted saloon were quickly opened and shut.
At length, after an age of watching that made his eyes hot and weary, he caught a swift, almost fanciful, yet undoubted flash of light at a porthole in the quarter.
Say, Barry, isn't that a tiny streak o' light about where the forward stateroom porthole should be?
From the porthole in the submarine's bow he could be seen slowly making his way, following the luminous path made by the searchlight.
Fishes, large and small and of every conceivable shape and coloring, swam close up to the porthole and seemed to be trying to look in.
The gauge indicated less and less depth, and suddenly a burst of sunshine entering the porthole told Bert that they were at the surface.
The porthole faced the poop, and more immediately, the ship's squat funnel.
Kennedy in the meantime had been coolly craning his neck out of our porthole under the rays of the arc light overhead.
One of them was peering through the dim, thick, glass porthole in the door.
And what chance had poor Landover with that highwayman, or whatever he is, pointing a revolver at him through the porthole and threatening to blow his brains out if he did not throw up his hands and let Percival alone?
Through the lightless portholehe listened for the terrifying shout, "Man overboard!
There goes the Weathercock," cooed the Dove, flying over to the porthole and looking out over the bright blue ocean.
Marjorie, looking out of the porthole at the excited Weathercock and then down to the deck, where at that moment Capt.
The porthole glass was covered with a network of frosty lace, and the little Dove, who slept in Marjorie's cabin, pulled her head out from under her wing and shivered.
Quickly pulling on her slippers she ran to the porthole to ask her good friend the Weathercock the reason for this sudden drop in the temperature.
It woke up Marjorie with a start, and running to the portholeshe saw that they were once more upon the ocean blue.
The light disappeared, and the porthole was shut, while a second colloquy began.
He stared at the figure which loomed above him in the fading light which came through the porthole of the stateroom.
He looked out of the porthole at the shimmering sea.
The sample which he had had through theporthole had not prepared him for the magic of it.
For a long aquarium occupied the entire space between the porthole and the genuine window placed in the outer wall.
The other was visible, placed directly opposite the porthole built in the wainscoting, but it was blocked up.
On board there was also a woman of middle age who could not be persuaded to keep her cabin porthole closed at night.
I looked out theporthole and asked an ambulance man: "Did we get her then?
I came below and found everything flooded, the water pouring in every time she rolled, and the whole port swinging from the top bolts--not the porthole in the middle.
But the porthole remained closed, and I did not believe it would now open again without the application of a considerable force.
However, when I looked about, I found that the porthole was wide open.
The portholewas again wide open and fastened back!
The porthole was wide open and fastened back--a thing so unaccountable that I remember very well feeling astonishment rather than fear when I discovered it.
Then he made certain signs to Yva, who in obedience to them approached the portholeor search-light to which she did something that I could not distinguish.
By this window or porthole lay a pile of cloaks, also four objects which looked like Zulu battle shields cut in some unknown metal or material.
In short, except for its shape it resembled a ship's porthole rather than a window.
From the open porthole came the sound of washing water.
Standing in the conning tower beside Mercer, I watched the sea rise at an angle to meet us, and I dodged instinctively as the first green wave pelted against the thick porthole through which I was looking.
The view from this porthole of the groves of Eton, and of the lovely plains on the north-west, watered by the river, is enchanting beyond description.
At that time, pieces of ordnance were mounted in all the embrasures, but there is now only one gun, placed in a porthole commanding Thames Street, and the long thoroughfare leading to Eton.
Hopalong gazed at him in astonishment and sudden pity took possession of him as his pallid companion left the porthole and faced him.
It was so warm here the night of the storm that I opened the porthole when I came down to leave my heavy coat.
At night, I'd lock that porthole and bar the door, and I'd never stay alone for a second.
A thorough ransacking of their cabin had failed to reveal any incriminating documents, although the valise which Radwig had hurled out of the porthole undoubtedly had contained such papers.
The cabin was an inside one, so that there was no portholethrough which he could project his head and call for aid.
A thin tongue of flame from an afterporthole burned through the night.
Winding the chain about his wrist, he moved toward the porthole and peered out.
Marr came in with cautious eyes, glanced about the cabin, stared at the porthole thoughtfully, then lifted his chin to Stirling.
Morning dawned at an Arctic hour, and the white light crept through the open porthole of Stirling's cabin.
Stirling moved toward the curtain as the girl turned away from the open porthole and stepped to the table where the rifle lay.
Then footfalls sounded, and the porthole was darkened.
The sound of running feet came to Stirling who sprang to the porthole and glanced out.
He stepped toward the porthole and pressed his forehead against the cold metal rim, his eyes slowly making out the details of the harbour and the shore.
Stirling closed his porthole and rolled over to sleep.
He glanced about the cabin, saw that the porthole was fastened securely, then hurried back to the girl.
Helen Marr clapped her hands, ran to the porthole nearest the after bulkhead, and peered out, then turned with eyes of flame.
Eagan came in at one bell before midnight, closed the door, pocketed the keys, then moved over to the porthole and glanced keenly out.
