He crawled around the stanchions on the starboard side and crept along to the bow, the others, huddled together on the sloping bridge, watching anxiously.
The side curtains were ripped from the stanchions and fluttered wildly about them.
Her side curtains were waving in ribands, the forward flag-pole held nothing but one tiny rag of blue bunting and the tender, torn from the chocks, was jammed between the stanchions ahead.
With all my strength I dragged and jerked at the rope, whereby I meant to climb, lest the stanchions should be rusted through, and unable to bear my weight, but they stood the strain bravely.
But it was heavily barred with stanchions of iron, as the manner is, and thereby he might not flee.
So I drew and drew, till it stopped, and I could see a stout bar across the stanchions of the casement.
Two of the great iron stanchions were then set in their respective holes on each side of the beam, when a rope was passed round them and the beam, to prevent it from slipping till it could be more permanently fixed.
Each log or upright beam of the beacon was to be fixed to the rock by two strong and massive bats or stanchions of iron.
During the short period of one tide all that could further be done for their security was to put a single screw-bolt through the great kneed bats or stanchions on each side of the beams, and screw the nut home.
Mark made his gate out of the fife-rail, at the foot of the mainmast, sawing off the stanchions for that purpose.
With a view to this arrangement, Bob had been directed to fence in the garden and stack, by means of ropes and stanchions let into the ground.
It is probable that the fore and after ends of the frame were supported by stanchions stepped on the lower deck at the fore end and in the hold at the after end.
The low, 28-inch bulwarks were insufficient to give proper protection there, so they were increased by employing a 16-inch rail made of a cap supported by iron stanchions above the main rail.
But suppose he should be greeted, before ever he can introduce the topic himself, with the genial inquiry, "And how are your stanchions lasting?
The ship occasionally shows like a pale ghost, the black shadows of the funnel guys and stanchions oscillating on the white paint-work as she rolls.
His colleague was sleeping in one of the hammocks slung between the stanchions of the poop awning.
I saw the Chief outside his cabin in his shirt sleeves, gazing overseas between the stanchions of the boat deck, smoking in the evident luxury of full comfort and release.
For fear of being carried away, we made ourselves fast to some stanchions near the pumps, so that we could reach the brakes, and worked away till we were both ready to drop.
The canvas dodgers round the bridge were taken down and put away, and the quarter-deck and forecastle awnings were removed, and the stanchions taken out of their sockets and placed below.
In addition, there are under the beams three rows of vertical stanchions between decks, and one row in the lower hold from the keelson.
Two strong steel stanchions were also placed on each side of the engine, carried down to the frame-timbers.
Wooden cow stanchions may be made as comfortable for the cows as the iron ones.
Do you want to carry something away,” yelled the second officer, as he saw the gangplank under the impetus of the ship being crushed against the stanchions of the wharf.
The appearance of confusion on deck is completed by our thirty-three dogs1 chained to stanchions and bolts on the ice-house and on the main hatch, between the motor sledges.
One of the ponies (the grey which I led last year and salved from the floe) either fell or tried to lie down in his stall, his head being lashed up to the stanchions on either side.
We noticed stanchions of teakwood, liberally carved, that must have came from ships of the older type; iron-bound timbers with the iron almost rusted through; battered barrels and all the usual debris of the ocean.
The decks shuddered and jumped, beams arched, and stanchionsbuckled and shook.
Its lower range of windows was guarded by strong stanchions or bars of iron, extending longitudinally up and down, and built fast into the solid masonry.
The midshipmen snored, and coats and smallclothes hanging from the bunk stanchions wearily swung sprawling out and in, like bodies dangling from gallows in a gale of wind.
Awning stanchions of the same size were fitted to both ships; and when the awning was rigged in the larger vessel, the stanchions came home.
Every inch of the bulwarks, from poop to topgallant forecastle on both sides, had disappeared, leaving only the bent and broken steel stanchions standing here and there.
There are no very heavy chains, huge blocks, or iron stanchions in our prisons, as there are in the receptacles of the poor in England.
This month (February) Captain Shortland stopped the market for six days, in consequence of some unruly fellows taking away certain wooden stanchions from Prison No.
Sheltering themselves from the patter of slugs behindstanchions and bulwarks, the Legionaries waited.
Supports, first story 4 x 4s placed between stanchions in each row, making two rows of supports between the outside wall and the silo; 4 x 4s cut to a circle placed on top of these supports.
A sufficient portion of the foundations having been removed, the stanchions were set on fire, one of the angles sank deep into the ground, and a wide rent laid open the interior of the keep.
The posts being smeared with pitch and surrounded with combustibles, fire was then brought, and the stanchions being consumed, the walls fell in.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stanchions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
