She raised herself slightly; sat a long time motionless, an arm thrown over a seat, her eyes alternating in direction, from the seas near the downward gunwale, to the almost indistinguishable figure of him in the stern, the while her fingers played with a scarfthe one that had been wound around her head.

This glossy gunwale, polished by bare feet, was after all the sole reality, a shining line between life and death.

Through the mud they labored heavily toward a little, smoky lighta lantern gleaming faintly on a polished gunwale, the shoulders of a man, and the thin, slant line that was his pole.

The most ordinary thing in the world; Professor Frowenfeld lost his footing on a slippery gunwale, fell, cut his head upon a protruding spike, and went into the house of Palmyre to bathe his wound; but finding it worse than he had at first supposed it, immediately hurried out again and came to his store.

Form is given them by two stiff wooden gunwales which are held in position by struts that can be easily put in and taken out.

By this time the Speedwell was fairly before the wind, the sails were hauled taut, the boys seated themselves on the windward gunwale, and the race began in earnest.

Form is given them by two stiff wooden gunwales which are held in position by struts that can be easily put in and taken out.