"A charming sea-boat, Mr Wilder," he continued, "and one that never throws a drop of spray abaft her mainmast.

I dragged these out, and spread them on the deck abaft the cabin, thus forming a very comfortable bed, and at last induced the girl to lie down, wrapping her in a blanket.

Foremost end of ditto, about 8 feet abaft the foremost end of straight keel.

The wing walls of both terminate in splendid pedestals, and on each are two colossal lions, of Egyptian design; each being 25 feet long, 12 feet high though crouched, 9 feet abaft the body, and each paw 2 feet 1 inches.

I could see a pair of shoes sticking out past the donkey-engine, just abaft the foremast; but the machinery hid the man from me.

A gilded barge I'll surely have, the same as Egypt's Queen, And it will be the finest barge that ever you have seen; With polished mast of stout pitch pine, tipped with a ball of gold, And two green trees in two white tubs placed just abaft the hold.

I could hear the sharp clang of the bell; but the next instant there was a terrific roar, and the superstructure began to vomit steam through the engine-room skylight just abaft the little wheel-house.

I'll fix him;' and with that, and a heavy expletive in regard to the old fellow's eyes, the bow oarsman slammed his boarding-pike right into the ghost, just abaft his left leg, and as the sharp steel touched the body, a whizzing sound, like the escape of steam, was heard, and without a word old Sadler vanished from sight for ever.

They were standing at the end of the promenade deck, which extended twenty feet abaft the smoking-room, and took the whole beam; above the latter, as in most modern ships, there was the boat deck, to the after-part of which passengers had access.

She stopped, with jammed-on brakes, and came to rest not forty feet abaft the Eagle's beak.

We were talking together abaft the wheel when Estada appeared in the companion-way.

As the wind was about NW. by W., the ships were close-hauled, and the leader of the 'lee-line,' i.e. Collingwood's flag-ship, was when in station two points abaft the Victory's beam as soon as the 'order of sailing' in two columnswhich was to be the order of battlehad been formed.

And presently I was sauntering towards the drawing-room with me good old j. nestling snugly abaft the shoulder blades.