He advanced into the hold and the cowering stowaways assumed that he had come to search them out.
These pitiable stowaways had no means of telling one hour from another until, at length, they heard over their heads the faint, musical strokes of the ship's bell on the forecastle head.
Then these frightened stowaways found respite to confer in tremulous whispers.
The two stowaways watched this demented exploit in sheer wonderment.
Incidentally, he unknowingly fed White and myself, besides the other stowaways and the escaped Russian soldiers.
The private concerns were mostly women from among thestowaways and poorer passengers.
Then, at about ten o'clock, we heard from above a succession of three thuds, the signal to all stowaways in the region of the engine-room that the police were on board.
They transgressed only to the innocuous extent of smuggling moneyed stowaways and contraband goods.
Mudros or crossed the Black Sea as stowaways on the Batoum.
Feodor soon left us, for he had to bring other stowaways into the light of day.
The other stowaways were mingling with legitimate passengers, whose bedding was spread over the hatches.
All the stowaways then scurried to their various hiding-places.
At the time when we lived on board the Batoum as stowaways her officers and crew were rogues almost to a man.
The full complement ofstowaways was taken aboard, the last cases of contraband shipped.
And Betty had no sooner detected the presence on the Gem of stowaways than she had pulled shut the sliding door leading into the trunk cabin, and had slid the hatch cover forward, fastening both with the hasps.
Two other stowaways had already been found and sent ashore; but by this time darkness had fallen, they were out in the middle of the estuary, and the last steamer had left them till the morning.
Four stowaways had been found aboard our ship before she left the Clyde, but these two had alone escaped the ignominy of being put ashore.
Provost Marshal General Bell, in an effort to clear the islands of boys who were vags and mascots of regiments, gave me and several other rovers and stowaways free transportation back to America.
Captain Austin Bearse, who was active in the rescue of stowaways from vessels arriving in Boston harbor from the South, cites two instances in which fugitives came by sea from Wilmington, North Carolina, and another from Jacksonville, Florida.
Slaves sometimes reached Portland, Maine, travelling as stowaways on vessels from Southern ports.
That's the same as all stowaways figger, an' the consequence is that they have to show themselves mighty soon after the ship sails.
You know I never encourage stowaways on board my ship, sir; and when I say a thing I mean a thing.
The day waned, and still the two little stowaways heard nothing from above--not even the snuffing of the old hound about the hatch-cover.
Sammy had read stories of stowaways who had wonderful adventures in the holds of ships.
Four stowaways had been found aboard our ship before she left the Clyde; but these two had alone escaped the ignominy of being put ashore.
These land stowaways play a great part over here in America, and I should have liked dearly to become acquainted with them.
Stowaways as a rule do not carry much luggage to sea with them.
I did not then know that it is not customary for commanders of ships to pay stowaways for their services.
Sugden and myself, for it seems that he held us responsible for the stowaways getting aboard the ship.
These two devils did everything from start a menagerie on one case of bay rum to instigate a mutiny when we had some fighting stowaways on board.
They tumbled on board and announced to the stowaways that they were under arrest.
It seems it was the duty of the commanding officer of the ship to return thesestowaways to the port where they slipped on board, and the rules made him responsible for their cost until he did so.
Within a few hours of leaving Fremantle no less than seven stowaways were found.
In addition to stowawaysfour men had been taken on board who belonged to the 27th Battalion and had failed to re-embark on the departure of the "Geelong" from Fremantle.
The balance of the stowaways were men from Blackboy Camp.
There's scores of stowaways taken every day, and I'll work as few could.
Sit down, Mother; stowaways are lads that hide on board ship, and get taken to sea for nothing, aren't they?
Stowaways is chaps that hides aboard vessels going out of port, to get their passage free gratis for nothing.
But when she gets to sea the captain gets his eyesight back, and he takes it out of the stowaways for their wittles then.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stowaways" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
