Them portholes ain't big enough to jump out, so I ain't worried.
Soon the entire patch of sky visible from the portholes was black as ink, and had it not been for the switching on of the lights by a Chinese attendant sent down by Matt Murphy it would have been similarly black in the cabin.
Several of her portholes were knocked into one, and one of her eighteen-pounder guns had been thrown right back onto her breech, and pointed straight up to the sky.
Her crew were tricing up the boarding netting, dragging round the starboard guns, knocking new portholes for them, and making every preparation for a desperate resistance.
There were rows of portholes that shone twinkling against the black sky--portholes in multiple rows on the side.
In the bastions Dupre and Garcon and Gifford watched the scene with the grim quiet of men born in the wilderness, while at the portholes trapper and voyageur and the venturers from Grand Portage handled their guns and waited.
It seemed almost that the bastioned wall was sensate, as if the small portholes here and there were living eyes, cold and hard with indifference, nay, even a-glitter with selfishness.
I shall miss the sun coming through the portholes in the morning and all my exercise in the gym.
These galleries are like spacious railway tunnels, and at short intervals in them great guns frown out upon sea and town through portholesfive or six hundred feet above the ocean.
Some of its portholes still remain as reminders of the times of the war whoop and scalp dance.
It so happened that just before my visit its stucco covering had been removed, disclosing to view the portholes for musketry intended to discourage the too enthusiastic approaches of its Indian neighbors.
Our little cubbyhole opened off of Troop Compartment D-13, and we were extreme aft and on the water line, which made it necessary to keep the portholes closed all the time.
Around its equator, girding the widest section was a ring of portholes, and there were scattered rings of similar portholes below this.
At various points the polished steel was broken by indentations or inset round dots that were thick portholes or indications of entry ports.
Along this creature's sides, likeportholes in an ocean liner, are the breathing pores, nine in number.
The portholes along the side lead deep into the body and are probably as necessary to the growing butterfly inside as they are to it when it once emerges.
Forty deadly rifles suddenly blazed from portholes and drove them back to the woods.
As soon as it was daylight the backwoodsmen fired through the portholes and drove the gunners from the cannon.
There were bastions, with portholes for defense, at two of the corners, and portholes were in the walls all around.
There were sixty-six in the two frigates, whose portholes were opened upon the city; and there were two other frigates just at hand, prepared to bring twenty-eight guns more into the fray.
When an English fleet opened the portholes of its broadsides upon their little village, they could do nothing but surrender.
There were ventilators and portholes for the admission of light and air when operating on the surface, but once the cap was screwed down the operator was in darkness.
Throughout the voyage our decks had remained dark at night and all cabin portholes were clamped down and all windows covered with opaque paint.
From the portholes they could see the white bones of the Mavis's crew lying on the reddish sand of the valley bottom.
The lights streaming from the portholes of the Lord Nelson gave a small degree of illumination to the valley.
Captain Wayne and Sherri James stood by one of the portholes and watched the six medics as they bent over the corpses outside.
Before the girls had got into their bunks, the rain Mr. Wing had foreseen was beating in through the open portholes and down the hatch.
Jack and Charlie went rushing about closing portholes and shutting the hatch.
Did he often volunteer for the duty of closing portholes at night?
Michail had come to him at about two in the morning, and had asked whether he should close the passengers' windows, as the wind seemed to be rising and the portholes might ship a sea or two presently.
Presently Hekki looked up, and as though moved by some intuitive realization that he was being watched, turned awkwardly in his cumbersome attire, and glanced along the row of portholes in the side of the vessel.
Here there were portholes through which he could see the curving metal expanse of the ship's huge form, gleaming dimly under the stars of space.
The hammering," replied Chauvelin curtly, "when the portholes were knocked open to let in the flood of water.
Ordered Baudet the shipbuilder to construct half a dozen portholesin her bottom.
Portholes below the water-line and made to open at a given moment.
Tom thought that some one must be trying to reach the descending boat from one of the portholes below.
For this reason the ships were not equipped with any portholes except in the pilot room and at the observation posts.
The entire stern of the huge vessel had been torn off, and evidently the ship was unable to rise, but there were lights glowing through the portholes on the side, indicating that power had not failed completely.
In some cases there were only fourteen inches from the lower sill of the portholes to the water-line.
The portholes above referred to are in fact merely open intervals between the closed-in spaces.
The portholes were circular, and so small in diameter that no traverse could have been given to the guns.
The step from this to carrying the structure of the sides up bodily, till they met the upper deck, and of cutting portholesfor the lower tier of oars, would not be a long one, and would produce the type of bireme illustrated on p.
Portholes were made, and in these were placed other logs to represent cannon.
At the top of the gangplank we were directed to our quarters, draft RDGFA went aft to the lowest deck; although there were portholes on that level the actual deck was just below the water-line and the portholes were sealed shut.
Night fell early over a wild and desolate waste of tossing waters, and even the three carefree boys were sobered somewhat as they gazed through tightly bolted portholes at the scene without.
Some day, when you get over calling portholes windows, you’ll be a real sailor.
In some of the portholes they fastened little native drums, and upon the decks they placed logs of wood dressed as men, wearing hats and coats and carrying swords and muskets.
We will put more of these logs at the portholes where they can be made to counterfeit cannon.
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