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...ne of the bullets whistled past Daniel’s ear and smacked solidly against the bulkhead. A blood-freezing scream from the cabin pierced Daniel’s heart...

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...in place, and this pressure made the padded sail an excellent substitute for a bulkhead. The leak was now so materially checked that it could be kept ...

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...s, all detached forms of packaging, all detached containers, container ships, bulkheads, compartments, all buildings with detached segments of areas...

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... and their property, all was gone; but two posts, holding a portion of the bulkhead to which Abraham’s bunk was attached, re- 11 Joseph Conrad mained... ...e kept coming out through imperceptible crevices; it forced itself through bulkheads and covers; it oozed here and there and everywhere in slender thr...

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...didn’t. What’s the good? I might just as well fling my resignation at this bulkhead. I don’t believe you can make a man like that understand anything.... ...ag hung on a long lanyard, swung wide off, and came back cling- ing to the bulkheads. The gratings underfoot were nearly afloat; with every sweeping b... ...sort of game. To steady himself, he pressed his shoulder against the white bulkhead, one knee bent, and a sweat-rag tucked in his belt hanging on his ... ...tch your chance when she pitches. Forward with ‘em. Drive them against the bulkhead. Jam ‘em up.” The rush of the sailors into the seething ‘tween-dec... ... discovered the white face of the other instrument looking at him from the bulkhead, meaningly, not to be gainsaid, as though the wisdom of men were m...

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...at-legged babies—his grandchildren—set in black frames into the maple-wood bulkheads of the cuddy. After breakfast he dusted the glass over these port... ...d barely recall their faces. The inebriated voice on the other side of the bulkhead commented upon them all with an extraordinary and ingenious venom ... ...e artless tributes to his greatness, would begin to shout, thumping at the bulkhead with both fists— “Shut up, you lunatic! Won’t you let me go to sle... ... a sleepy uneasy groaning sigh was exhaled slowly on the other side of the bulkhead. “I hope to goodness he’s too drunk to wake up now,” muttered Mr. ... ...t… . But it was even so. The imaginative drunkard on the other side of the bulkhead shook off the death- like stillness that after his last words had ... ...t, waiting to recognize the voice, with an appalling strain of prudence. A bulkhead lamp blazed on the white paint, the crimson plush, the brown varni... ... a great bizarre shuffling noise, as if the boilers had broken through the bulkheads, and with a faint muffled detonation, where the ship had been the...

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...h each had left a little of himself between the four walls of these ornate bulkheads; as if a sort of composite soul, the soul of command, had whisper... ...a pair of moustaches from a shop exhibited there in the harsh light of the bulkhead-lamp without a shade. While I stared with a sort of wonder he asse... ...n the locker in front of the stove, with his head leaning back against the bulkhead. His eyes were closed; his capable hands held open the front of hi...

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...ild night on the sea, there was a continual chorus of the creaking timbers and bulkheads and of abysmal noises beneath the flooring. The sleepers did n... ...Wolf Larsen’s voice, which easily penetrated the cabin through the intervening bulkhead. He spoke at length, and his conclusion was greeted with a wil... ...poke at length, and his conclusion was greeted with a wild roar of cheers. The bulkhead was too thick for us to hear what he said; but whatever it was... ...le I sat in a half daze, the drunken riot of the steerage breaking through the bulkhead, the man I feared and the woman I loved talking on and on. The... ...ly: — “Oh, Humphrey, I am lost.” I found her fumbling at the wall of the after bulkhead, and, half leading her, half carrying her, I took her up the c...

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...n his weakness could stand. At last as I banged pretty heavily against the bulkheads he warned me in his faint breathless wheeze to be more careful. “... ...ate-room and everywhere, he stared anxiously as if expecting to see on the bulkheads, on the deck, in the air, something unusual—sign, mark, emanation... ...inary. “He’s talking to himself,” he thought. “He seems to be thumping the bulkhead with his fists—or his head.” Anthony’s eyes grew big with wonder w... ...ered, “Depends on what the wife is up to.” The steward leaning against the bulkhead near the door glow- ered at Powell, that newcomer, that ignoramus,... ...part up to the cottage piano, dark against the satin-wood panelling of the bulkhead. And I remained look- ing. I did. And I don’t know that I was asha... ...nd the captain’s voice “All right. Coming.” He leaned his back against the bulkhead as you see a drunken man some- times propped up against a wall, ha...

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...tage of this particular shape. Entering my room, lighted strongly by a big bulkhead lamp swung on gimbals above my writing desk, I did not see him any...

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...nto the fore-hatch while a man looked—sunk till the brown tim- bers of the bulkheads showed bare, and men leaped down through clouds of golden dust an...

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...think maybe my guess was wrong, but at last I struck it. It laid over by the bulkhead, and was nearly the color of the car pet. It was a little round...

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...bin was charming. However, on the floor by the sliding door in the forward bulkhead lay a body, face upward. The body was that of a middle-aged, fine-... ...unk, the stateroom was fitted up with a lounge of red plush screwed to the bulkhead. A roll of charts leaned in one corner, an alarm clock, stopped at...

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...string of guttural words at her, and instantly putting out one hand to the bulkhead as if to save herself from falling, she clutched the loose bosom o...

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...he puts it on.” Carter laughed a little and leaned his shoulders against a bulkhead. Lingard gazed at the woman who expected so much from him and in t... ...e of feet from Lingard, leaned his back against the satinwood panel of the bulkhead, then raising his old eyes with a watchful and benevolent expres- ... ...t, and that was why the silence in the stateroom had lasted for hours. The bulkhead lamp had a green silk shade. It was un- necessary to admit for a m...

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... round the little cabin, at the painted beams, at the tarnished varnish of bulkheads; he looked round as if appealing to all its shabby strange- ness,...

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...e went crazy … screamed and threw himself about, beat his head against the bulkheads … you can guess all that—eh? … till he was exhausted. Gave up. Th...

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...now that one had come by night, as a common thief perhaps, to Mahbub Ali’s bulkhead in the serai, and there had slain him, either before or after that... ...s. Here, too, Mahbub Ali rented a room, much more securely locked than his bulkhead at Lahore, in the house of a Mohammedan cattle dealer. It was a pl...

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...for instance. Each of our cabins had its own looking- glass screwed to the bulkhead, and what he wanted with more of them we never could fathom. He as...

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.... The curtain of my bed-place swung to and fro as if it were a punkah, the bulkhead lamp circled in its gimbals, and now and then the cabin door rattl...

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...uch. The curtain of my bed-place swung to and fro as it were a punkah, the bulkhead lamp circled in its gimbals, and now and then the cabin door rattl...

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...like bunk, the washstand, inge- niously constructed so as to shut into the bulkhead when not in use, the alarm-clock screwed to the wall, and the arra...

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...down to drink or consult after wading in the marshes round their camp. The bulkheads, all painted in clear white and 116 Treasure Island beaded round...

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...skin shuts off fifty feet of the bow and as much of the stern, but the bow-bulkhead is recessed for the lift-shunting apparatus as the stern is pierce...

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...our close quar- ters, for perhaps they had not materials to break open our bulkheads, or get in upon us. The gunner had in the meantime orders to brin...

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...st, the several accessories and apparatus append- ages, the partitions and bulkheads, weigh 961.62 tons. Do you follow all this?” “I do.” “Then, when ...

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...rs, which occupy a space immediately beneath, and are partitioned off by a bulkhead. Planted right in the bows, or, as sailors say, in the very eyes o...

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...lace it was feared the insurgents might emerge, after breaking through the bulkhead below. But the hours of darkness passed in peace; the men who stil... ...he rack were shiningly revealed, as they stood upright against the forward bulkhead. Starbuck was an honest, upright man; but out of Starbuck’s heart,...

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...lace it was feared the insurgents might emerge, after breaking through the bulkhead below. But the hours of darkness passed in peace; the men who stil... ...he rack were shiningly revealed, as they stood upright against the forward bulkhead. Starbuck was an honest, upright man; but out of Starbuck’s heart,...

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...wder. Disposed about these muskets, like the cutlasses that deco- rate the bulkhead of a man-of-war’s cabin, were a great vari- ety of rude spears and...

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...rroundings, my experiences of Chambers. I began, as was natural, with the Chambers I had just left. They were an upper set on a rotten staircase, with...

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...man of money making turn was sufficiently testified by the fact of a small bulkhead beneath the tap room window, in size and shape not unlike a sedan ...

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...et, with a jangling of bells and a moaning plaint of gearing. On the stone bulkheads of the grass plat around the new City Hall, the usual loafers sat...

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...specially invented and made for that purpose; had mysterious shelvings and bulkheads, and indi- cations of staircases in the ceiling; and was elaborat...

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...NY ship, could be made practically indestructible by means of water- tight bulkheads? It seems incredible to anybody who had ever reflected upon the p... ...of a floe—and sank. Leisurely enough, God knows— and here the advantage of bulkheads comes in—for time is a great friend, a good helper—though in this... ...time is a great friend, a good helper—though in this lamentable case these bulkheads served only to pro- long the agony of the passengers who could no... ...very unmistak- able iceberg, and managed to get into port on her collision bulkhead. But the Arizona was not, if I re- member rightly, 5,000 tons regi... ...s truer than steel, that wonderful thin steel from which the sides and the bulkheads of our modern sea-leviathans are made. 194 Notes on Life and Let... ...its sitting: the fact 195 Joseph Conrad that the water-tight doors in the bulkheads of that wonder of naval architecture could be opened down below b... ...ng, an hotel, for in- stance, saying, “Oh, we have it divided by fireproof bulkheads which would localise any outbreak,” and if you were to discover o... ...any outbreak,” and if you were to discover on closer inspection that these bulkheads closed no more than two-thirds of the openings they were meant to... ...ppermost deck: that is, into the open. Noth- ing less will do. Division by bulkheads that really divide, and free access to the deck from every wa- te...

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...before, was wide and convenient. In that portion of the closet nearest the bulkheads there was a space of four feet square, containing a table, a chai... ...en into the steerage, and thrown into a lower berth next to the forecastle bulkheads, with the assurance that he should never put his foot on deck aga... ... justed in the event of any person’s coming down, proceeded to examine the bulkhead where it joined the berth. The parti- tion here was of soft pine b... ...phosphorus matches. When it was quite dark, he got through the hole in the bulkhead, having taken the precaution to arrange the bedclothes in the bert... ...other large spaces were left in the stowage. Near the hole cut through the bulkhead by Augustus there was room enough for an entire cask, and in this ... ...t a discovery. The bottom of the jacket had been carefully fastened to the bulkhead, so that the hole might not be seen by its swinging to one side. A...

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...n torrents of streaming thunder. “Ease off!” shouted the forward collision-bulkhead. “I want to crumple up, but I’m stiffened in every direction. Ease... ...la fairly stiffened with pride, and the foremast and the forward collision-bulkhead, who are pushing creatures, begged the Steam to warn the Port of N... ... work done and time consumed which Mr. Wardrop wrote up on the engine-room bulkhead. Fif- teen days had gone—fifteen days of killing labour—and there ... ...s, by what I heard. So she filled from the after stuffin’-box to the after bulkhead, an’ lay star-gazing, with seventy-nine squealin’ passengers in th...

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...waddled on, coal and fo’c’sle short; Met a blow that laid us down, heard a bulkhead fly; Left the Wolf behind us with a two-foot list to port. Tr... ...rk — Full to her lower hatches and risin’ steady. Hark! That was the after-bulkhead …. She’s flooded from stem to stern …. Never seen death yet, Dicki...

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...rts for the farmers near his clear ing, and now perchance stands over his bulkhead and thinks of the last arrivals on the coast, how they may affect ...

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...level, and we began with raising a pile in the after part, hard against the bulkhead of the run, and filling it up to the beams, crowding in as many...