"Shiver my starboard binnacle amidships," said he, "why don't you choose me?" She squeezed his hand and winked at him.

His eyes lifted an instant from the binnacle card to glance at me curiously.

Had the binnacle compass, then, gone out of its head altogether, on finding itself bereft of its accustomed court of counter-attractions?)

It is recorded of him that he was an expert in polishing a certain brass binnacle lantern.