I returned at a more leisurely moment, hours later, and in the wardroom had my first respectable whisky.
We were taken down to the wardroom to wait a few moments, as Admiral Calthorpe had just got into wireless communication with London on some urgent matters.
The ladies are waiting in the wardroomto thank Dalzell and yourself.
Just as Dave was seeking a mattress on the floor of the wardroom Surgeon Oliver hurried in.
Unless I can find out something definite about the Englishman, I hardly care to be the one to introduce him to our little wardroom crowd.
One can't be too careful about his introductions, nor can one very well receive callers on board ship without making them known to the other wardroom fellows.
As they are hauled on deck they are taken below into thewardroom ante-room, or the Admiral's spare cabin.
One of them tells us that, sallying out with his gun, he shot two geese and six hares for the wardroom larder--as ignorant as everybody else of the larger game that was even then heading for the islands.
Coburn sat in a wardroom in a cold fury which was in part despair.
Then a messenger led him to thewardroom of the previous conference.
Do you know how the officers in the wardroom amuse themselves all the evening?
As we have no news from the war, the wardroom officers of the Suvaroff have asked the admiral permission to send a prepaid telegram to the Novoe Vremya, asking for news.
There is a great talk in the wardroom now about the Suvaroff being forbidden communication with the shore, because a sailor was absent and they made no attempt to find him.
There are three dogs who are always to be found in the wardroom of the Suvaroff.
They have just read aloud in the wardroom the answer from Admiral Birilieff.
I called on the Borodino and went into the wardroom and captain's cabin.
In the wardroom of the Suvaroff there is a piano on which they play with the help of a pianola.
Everywhere there is dirt and nastiness; they are heaping up coal in the wardroom and in the officers' cabins.
The wardroom are collecting creeping plants and green branches in preparation for Easter.
There was also a bottle on the cask containing the cards of the commander of the vessel, Captain Kennedy, and hiswardroom officers.
Our visitors proved to be the captain, the surgeon, and two of the wardroom officers of H.
All our shore-going clothes were on board the yacht, and we were clad in our rough working clothes, with only one coat between us; so I fancy our appearance at mess was a source of great amusement to the wardroom servants.
Half an hour later he entered the Wardroom clad in comfortable grey flannels and an old shooting-coat.
In the nearly deserted Wardroom a rubber of bridge was still in lingering progress; a sea raced frothing past the thick glass of a scuttle, and one of the players raised his eyes from his hand.
In the Wardroom the married officers awoke from their afternoon siesta and began to harass the Officer of the Watch with inquiries.
As he left his cabin some one in the Wardroom began softly playing the piano, and the Paymaster's clear baritone joined in, singing a song about somebody's grey eyes watching for somebody else.
In the Wardroom the fire was smoking fitfully, each outpour being regarded with philosophic resignation by the Marine duty-servant.
It was tea-time, and the Mess had gathered round the Wardroom table; a signalman came down from the upper deck and pinned a signal on the baize-covered notice-board.
It was August when the Flag-Lieutenant sought out the Fleet Surgeon in the Wardroom after dinner, and broached the subject of the Periwinkle.
In Wardroom and Gunroom a rustling silence prevailed.
They linked arms and entered theWardroom as the President tapped the table for grace.
In the Flagship's Wardroom dinner was over, and a haze of tobacco smoke spread among the shaded lights and glinting plate.
The night wore on, and one by one the inmates of the Wardroom drifted to their respective cabins.
The Junior Watch-keeper entered the Wardroom and rang the bell with an air of gloomy mystery.
In the Wardroom later on he met the Engineer Lieutenant.
By Jove, there he is now coming out of the wardroom right up to us!
You can go down now to the wardroom steward and tell him to get me a cup of coffee as quickly as he can.
Ah, you must settle that as best as you can with the wardroom steward, sir!
It was a beautiful afternoon; and, from its being Sunday, several of the wardroomofficers came on deck after luncheon, having nothing especial to do below.
He didn't come into the wardroom till after dinner, and I had to go on deck for the first watch, and so didn't see him.
Why, the redcoats belonging to the garrison at Cape Town are going to give a grand ball in our honour, and of course all the gunroom officers as well as the wardroom fellows will be invited," he replied.
In the wardroom and steerage, the bulkheads were all knocked down by the shells, and by the axemen making way for the hose, forming a scene of perfect ruin and desolation.
When the reconnoissance was completed, the admiral called a council of his captains in the wardroom of the "Hartford," and announced that the attack would be made early the following morning.
Captain Sigsbee was at work in his cabin, and the officers in the wardroom were chatting over their games or dozing over their books.
The officers of the 'Hartford' gathered around the capacious wardroom table, writing what they knew might be their last letters to loved ones far away, or giving to friends messages and instructions in case of death.
By this time the boat-crew were clambering into the lee whaleboat, led by Midshipman Starr, who had cleared the wardroom ladder in a flying leap at the first order from the bridge.
Midshipman Robert Starr in the wardroom of the Osprey.
He put me into a big soft arm-chair in the wardroom of the mother-ship, placed a potent cocktail in my fist, provided me with a cigarette, and then we communed sweetly together.
This information is acquired from time spent in the sheds and not from time spent reclining on wardroom settees.
The officers and he had kindly agreed to this, a concession we much appreciated, and the little wardroom was crowded indeed on that occasion.
Later on, he told me we might, with the permission of the officers, have their wardroom for half an hour.
Let us walk into the cabins which surround the small wardroom aft.
Every bucket was on duty, and the ship's company stripped naked and ran about the decks or sat in the stream between the laboratories and wardroom skylight and washed their very dirty clothes.
Their own comforts were not so very obvious, since they had tried to get the stove in the wardroom going for the first time.
The tin cups and plates and crockery in the pantry forrard of the wardroom come together with a sickening crash.
The wardroom was a swamp and so were our bunks with all our nice clothing, books, etc.
A fortnight out to-day, and from the general appearance of the wardroom we might have been out a year.
Greenwood stepped over the threshold of the wardroom door.
He wanted to warm himself by the wardroom fire; he was also aware that a destroyer had a few hours previously sent on board a batch of mails--the first for nearly a fortnight.
A few seconds later the two were ushered into the wardroom of the Rattlesnake, and Dick found himself bowing before the Commodore, J.
This is a serious business, Mr Stapleton," said the Commodore, motioning Dick to a seat at the wardroom table.
The ship heeled violently, and the stunning sound of the explosion died away amid the uproar of men's voices along the mess-deck and the tinkle and clatter of broken crockery in the wardroom pantry.
In the meanwhile the picket-boat was driving her way shoreward with the emancipated members of Wardroom and Gunroom clustered on top of the cabin and in the stern sheets.
The commodore is entitled to dine alone, so is the captain and the commander, while the other officers have what they call the wardroom mess.
Got ten of them, sir," said the wardroom officer, in charge of the small boat.
Even the wardroom tables were cleared off and covered with the sick-bay cloths, and the surgeons saw to it in a quiet way that their bandages, knives, and saws were ready to hand.
Every wardroom had its Christmas tree and around it were grouped gifts for all.
He must serve, and he sits at the foot of the table, while in the wardroom mess the executive officer sits at the head.
The luckless one is howled out of the wardroom and invited to set 'em up when he comes back.
Probably no more skilful skating on thin ice takes place around any board than in the wardroom of a warship.
His mates on Christmas Day had nominated him for president and so informed the Louisiana's wardroom when they reached this ship.
The organization of the other messes is similar to that of the wardroom mess.
The messages contained roasts that set the wardroom in an uproar.
The New Years greeting from the Louisiana to the Vermont was something like this: "The Louisiana's wardroom sends happy New Year greetings to the Vermont's wardroom and pledges the solid W.
An orderly brought it to him with an unusually stiff salute while the wardroom was at mess.
Zest was added to the day's sendoff and work when the officers were gathered in the wardroom at dinner and a wireless telegram of good wishes from the Mayflower, received a short time before, was read.
He almost never has time to sit down at ease except at the head of the wardroom table at meal time, where he is a sort of social arbiter, as well as general manager.
That man didn't have to wait long, for soon there was sent into the wardroom of every ship a message signalled from the flagship which said that after a brief stay on the Pacific Coast the fleet would come home by way of Suez.
And yet, despite the longing, the haunting sense of a sword of Fate hanging over her, Patrine found the Wardroomlunch a jolly banquet.
Frank, who thought he had accomplished sufficient to satisfy him to remain on board, sat in the wardroom reading, when the orderly entered and informed him that the captain desired his presence in the cabin.
Gentlemen, hereafter talking politics in this wardroom is strictly prohibited.
This letter had been written by the captain to whom Frank had delivered his dispatches, he having learned the full particulars from the coxswain, whom he had summoned into his presence while Frank was in the wardroom eating his dinner.
He reported his safe return to his captain, and then went into the wardroom and sat down to report to the admiral by letter, according to his instructions.
After giving orders to have the gun reloaded and secured, he ran into the wardroom to look after his mail, at the same time inquiring of every one he met, "Who was that making fun of my shooting?
Going below, Dave and his friends from the "Rigsdak" were conducted into a tiny wardroom behind the mess table at which sat a frowning, leering German ober-lieutenant.
Going to the wardroom door the ober-lieutenant called: "Lieutenant von Schellen!
Frowning, the ober-lieutenant whispered to a petty officer, who had placed on the table the same album that von Schellen had brought to the wardroom door.
Down in the wardroom such officers as were off duty were stowing away food in record time.
For Sampson smiled and Forsythe scowled, as they led Denman into the wardroom to his own berth, and locked him in with the assurance that the cooks would feed him and attend to the wants of himself and the woman.
Soon he came back with three others--the steadiest men of the crew--and they made a systematic search for weapons in the wardroom and all staterooms opening from it.
He supported her aft through the wardroom to her stateroom door in the after cabin.
Together they crept aft, and peered down the wardroom skylight.
He went on deck by the wardroom stairs, while Denman passed through to the woman.
Away they trooped, and crowded down the wardroom companion, Sampson lifting his cap politely to the girl in the chair.
He entered the lighted wardroom and looked at the telltale above; it told him that the boat was heading due north.
Daniels got through the wardroomdoor before answering: "I'll not do that, sir.
Four and a half is a whole lot, sir," remarked Sampson as they descended the wardroom hatch.
As a contrast, however, to the whitening deck and snow-clad men, the reflection of a warm yellow light came up through the wardroom hatchway, and more than one longing glance was cast down into the snug interior.
The combined wardroom and gunroom has some twenty occupants, reading the newspapers and magazines, warming themselves before the two big fires, or talking in little groups.
In the wardroom on the little stone pier a silent toast was given that night to those who had gone aloft in the greatest sea fight since Trafalgar.
The officer who had just come up from the warmth of the wardroom to relieve his "opposite number" on the bridge pulled the thick wool muffler closer round his neck and dug mittened hands deep into the pockets of his duffel coat.
The officers were grouped round a commander in the wardroom having typed orders, which had evidently been prepared long beforehand, carefully explained to them.
The sentries and the officer of the guard knew nothing "officially," but in the wardroom at the end of the stone quay the news of the action was being discussed in imaginative detail.
In the wardroom on the quay about sixty officers of all ranks were discussing the possibilities of the fight while waiting impatiently for the last command before the relief of action--"Carry on as ordered.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wardroom" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
