Vern came up out of the wheelhouse and cleared his throat.
What it came down to was that one man in the bridge or wheelhouse could pretty well make any part of the ship go or not go.
Hope raised her eyes and looked up at him in silence, and had the man in the wheelhouse been watching the stars, as he should have been, no one but the two foolish young people on the bow of the boat would have known her answer.
Even the secuni in the wheelhouse so far forgot his duty as to allow the Missie Sahib to take the wheel.
Fortunately the secuni in the wheelhouse had acted promptly, putting the helm over to port in order to swing the ship's stern clear of the men in the ditch, and thus avoid the danger of their being cut to pieces by the propeller.
There was another flash and the OD popped out of the hatch of the wheelhouse like a cork out of a bottle.
Davis opened the hatch to the wheelhouse and the Captain slipped in, closing it tight behind him.
The wheelhouse broke into a flurry of activity and a moment later he could hear the sounds of the jets taking off the flight deck.
The Stoughton's skipper followed to the wheelhouseand spoke to Burr.
There was a third man in the wheelhouse when these things were spoken," Father Perron said, "the mate of the ship which had been laid up at Manistee.
I put my head out at the wheelhousedoor and looked back at the lights at the new, great steamer, following safe and straight at the end of its towline.
There are thirty-eight electric clocks on the ship, and as the time has to be changed continually as we go east or west, by moving the hands of a clock in the wheelhouse the hands of the thirty-eight move in unison.
After tea we donned our new garb, and about twenty of us collected on the wheelhouse deck.
He ran down there to see what could be done, and this must have saved his life, for while he was away another shell burst in the wheelhouse and put about twenty holes in his greatcoat which was lying on the settee.
He told us that he had been in the wheelhouse of his trawler when the show started.
The zigzag clock in thewheelhouse goes on ringing the angles of time and course as though we were yet under helm and speed.
The bridge, with chart and wheelhouseopen to the wind and spray, and sea-gear adrift and disordered, strikes the most desolating note in the abandon of it all.
She scurried past us, pitching to our bow wash in an easy sidling motion that set her wheelhouse glasses flashing a cheery message.
Her funnel andwheelhouse were riddled and shot to pieces.
The moment that the man saw the two who were in the wheelhouse and the work that they were doing he sprang quickly toward them.
Leaping from thewheelhouse to the deck he ran backward and forward shrieking at the top of his lungs begging and entreating someone to save him, and offering fabulous rewards to the man who carried him safely to the shore.
The first thing we have to do, Jonathan, is to try and raise the bow of the craft on top of these timbers here--or rather, sink down the end of the wheelhouse roof so that it may get under the boat.
On the bridge a knot of men, indistinct and toiling, were making great efforts in the light of the wheelhouse windows that shone mistily on their heads and backs.
Captain MacWhirr looked up at the wheelhouse clock.
The second mate had found his way into thewheelhouse some time before.
He was horribly afraid, also, of thewheelhouse going.
Wheelhouse on the navigating bridge and the engine room.
Loud speaking telephones of navy pattern were fitted for communication between the following: Wheelhouse on the navigating bridge and the forecastle.
Wheelhouse on the navigating bridge and the lookout station on the crow's nest.
With his hand on his pistol, Dick left the wheelhouse and walked slowly and cautiously toward the waist of the steam yacht.
Leaving Dick on the couch in the cabin, Sam returned to the wheelhouse and Tom to the engine room.
Baxter, you can go down and tell one of them his brother in the wheelhouse wants to see him.
It was with a peculiar thrill that Dick took his place in the wheelhouse and rang the bell for the engine to start.
All right," panted poor Sam, and made his way back to the wheelhouse step by step, and holding on to whatever was handy, to keep from being swept overboard.
The very fact that no effort was made to stop was sufficient proof that Thockmorton in the wheelhouse remained unconscious of what had occurred on the deck below.
I immediately put my head in through the window of the wheelhouse and demanded of the helmsman how we were at that moment heading.
It appeared that the whole ship's crew and all the passengers had perished; but one of the sailors searching about found a man in the wheelhouse on deck, who on being lifted up showed some slight trace of life.
He happened to be on deck in the wheelhouse at the time, and saw half a dozen sailors and three of the passengers brought up, but remembered no more, for the sickly smell invaded the deck.
When morning dawned thickly behind the leaden sky, the three men in the wheelhouse made out a top-gallant sail against the horizon.
Don Anastasio was shaking at such a rate that his two companions in the darkwheelhouse were conscious of it.
Outwardly he had been friends with Vane, but in his soul he had hated him consistently as boy and man ever since that scene behind the wheelhouse of the Orient.
The sweetheart he had won in that Homeric little battle behind the wheelhouse had been faithful to him ever since.
But as the two lads closed, the blue-eyed, golden-haired little beauty only shrank back a little nearer to the after-wheelhouse of the homeward bound P.
As the two moved away Maxwell's memory went back to a scene which had occurred behind the wheelhouse of a P.
And Old Betsy here, she'll throw a slug clean through that wheelhouse wall, captain, in case you should get impatient and try to run by.
Hadn't you better join us and give up the wheelhousefor the present?
Now they fought as desperately to get out of the wheelhouse as they had a minute earlier to get in.
Our aim must be to hold the wheelhouse and the cabins.
From the wheelhouse Blythe shouted a warning to be careful.
I looked up hastily to see Bothwell's malevolent face in the wheelhouse window.
Inside the wheelhouse Kate crouched beside the bunk on which Henshaw was stretched, staring straight above his head.
His attention was drawn then by a gathering crowd and bustle in the waist of the ship between the wheelhouse and the forecastle.
That night he secured a rag and retreated to the stretch of deck between the wheelhouse and the after-cabin, where he squatted beside a bucket of water and washed his hands carefully.
There stood McTee leaning against the wheelhouse and staring straight ahead across the bows.
There's one chance," shouted Black McTee, and he pointed to the litter of the wrecked wheelhouse which tossed on the waves.
The little, quick-footed Jap brought him back of the wheelhouse and then disappeared.
A giant wave towered above the side and licked the wheelhouse away.
The wheelhouse had collapsed like a card house; it had simply been blown away, and one of the helmsmen with it.
The man went to the wheelhouseand brought out three long black oilskin coats--two for the captain and Luke, the other for himself.
On the afternoon of the very day that these instructions were sent out, Skipper Chard stood in the wheelhouse of the O47 and swept the horizon with his glasses.
Chard leaned out of the wheelhouse with his binoculars glued to the missing prize, calling down maledictions upon himself and all his kin if he failed to lay her by the heels.
On this particular boat there was a wheelhouse aft unused, and generally filled up with old steamer chairs.
Chains or something went from this wheelhouse to the sides of the ship, and, being covered up by boxes of plank, made this part of the deck hard to travel on in the dark.
I thought he wanted to get past me, for the room was rather restricted in the passage between the aft wheelhouse and the stern, and I moved aside.
Captain Schultz went all the way into the wheelhouse and disappeared into the hold.
Suiting his actions to his words, Captain Schultz seized a fire axe that was hanging near and pounded the wheelhouse door from its hinges.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wheelhouse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
