Ships. Broadside.

They must never be allowed to come broadside to the stream, for being flat-bottomed they would at once be capsized and everything in them lost."

[In the original broadside, there are Deaths with darts, winged hour-glasses, crossed marrow-bones, &c.]

[Original broadside in the British Museum, C. 39.

Look at her now, doggone her!" Spot had turned broadside to them and waited for the boy to catch up before she would take another forward step.

Not until the danger was past did he open his batteries on the unlucky helmsman, and then the explosion of Arabic oaths was equal to a broadside of twenty-four pounders.

"No doubt it was, because, to effect this, the vessel was hove on one side, and while in that situation, a sudden squall threw her broadside into the water, and the lower deck ports not having been lashed down, she filled, and sunk in about three minutes.

These he would watch attentively, and the moment one turned his broadside to him, he darted down like a fish-hawk, and seldom came up without the fish in his mouth.

By hook or by crook Mr. HOUSTON, "the Pirate King," must be induced or compelled to surrender his coign of vantage to the new generalissimo, who will then be able alternately to pour a broadside into the Government or to enfilade the ex-Ministers who aid and abet them.

" The slatternly woman ran her guns out and returned the broadside with promptitude.

And as he shot by, a hush fell upon the noisy group,Helen pausing and erecting herself from her ablutions, Mary's frantic efforts sending them as a broadside upon the Arrow and nearly capsizing it, and Mrs. McLean, ceasing merriment, staring from both her eyes, and saying nothing.

We lay broadside to the shore, in the centre of a small crescent or cove, and, consequently, unable to use our engines without forcing either bow or stern higher up on the sloping bottom.

The foreman of the Jordan ranch pitched his rifle to his shoulder just as the leader, sweeping back to round up the rearmost of his company, presented a broadside target.

The cowpunchers could have shot him as he veered back; they could have salted him with lead as he flashed broadside, but the orders of their chief restrained them.

[From a broadside in the archives of the Department of State.]

[From a broadside in the archives of the Department of State.] BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

[From a broadside in the archives of the Department of State.]

Instantly the pirate yawed and delivered a broadside; but in the confusion on deck the guns were badly aimed, and none took effect.

This tune Gadabout showed a willingness to go just where we wished her to go, but insisted upon doing it stern-foremost or broadside.

Almost instinctively we turned our craft crosswise to the river to face the coming waves; for to take them broadside meant a weary picking up of fragments from the cabin floors, and a premature commingling of the contents of the refrigerator.

Alice Dalgliesh (A) & Charles Scribner's Sons (PWH); 7Aug67; R415580. DALY, ROBERT W. Broadside's.

Broadside from a blonde.

In order to do this effectually, it became necessary to spring the lugger's broadside round more obliquely toward the felucca; which accomplished, Raoul deemed his arrangements complete.

All four of her guns were brought over on one side, in readiness to use in battery in the same direction, By this arrangement the French essentially increased their means of defence, bringing all their artillery into use at the same timean expedient that could not have been adopted had they been fought in broadside.

" "Come up and dine, and we'll fire away personal histories, broadside for broadside!