Some of it looks as though crammed with secret drawers, and I stand before it wondering whether Queen Wilhelmina will be as anxious to discover and overhaul them as I should be.

And several men began to rummage and overhaul the chaos of the go-down.

I will overhaul the lad, and if I find him staunch he may turn in with Bell and welcome.

There was no man-of-war nearer than Jamestown, and she was a clumsy old fly-boat, which could neither overhaul the pirate on the seas, nor reach her in a shallow inlet.

The pace was too terrific at which Victor's car was thundering through the night-bound countryside, it seemed idle to dream that another could overhaul it, even though driven with as much skill and maniacal recklessness.

We have to overhaul accounts.

His beauty, however, had no effect upon them, in all probability they were regardless of him altogether, for with almost simultaneous sighs of relief they threw themselves down upon the flagstones of the courtyard, and set to work, with feverish earnestness, to overhaul the booty they had procured.

look for, look about for, look out for; scan, reconnoiter, explore, sound, rummage, ransack, pry, peer, look round; look over, go over, look through, go through; spy, overhaul.

Whilst at Deptford, the rig of the Grenville was altered from schooner to brig, as Cook thought that her sailing qualities would be improved by the change, and she also received a thorough overhaul.

In Admiralty Bay, which he entered to refit for the homeward voyage, the sails were found to require a thorough overhaul, for, as Banks says, they: "were ill-provided from the first, and were now worn and damaged by the rough work they had gone through, particularly on the New Zealand coast, and they gave no little trouble to get into order again.

"Wal'r, overhaul the book, my lad!" "And although Mr. Dombey hasn't a daughter" Sol began.

would you sell your soul in this manner to Beelzebub; and that, too, without a price?" "I say, friend, it may be as well to overhaul your ideas, before you let them slip, in this no-man's fashion, from your tongue.

" "What wills' the God?" "He has heard that certain strangers have come into his dominions, and he wishes leave to come aboard the saucy 'Dolphin,' to inquire into their errands, and to overhaul the log-book of their characters.

I hope you haven't brought out many fresh hands with you, for I smell the stock-fish aboard a Baltic-man, who is coming down with the trades, and who can't be more than a hundred leagues from this; I shall therefore have but little time to overhaul your people, in order to give them their papers.

It was a solemn sight when we got on her decks, and one that bears hard on my manhood," continued Fid, with an air that grew more serious as he proceeded, "whenever I have occasion to overhaul the log-book of memory.

" "Ay, ay, I begin to overhaul his character.

He was in the habit of quoting, and desiring those to whom he spoke "to overhaul the catechism till they found it;" but, he added, "when found, make a note on."

Maybe, if the wind holds stiddy, we may overhaul them before it's quite dark.

Let's overhaul the outfit.

"I want to overhaul the raiders before night.

He had the conversations and incidents for that party ready long before the day arrived; he altered them and polished them as other young gentlemen in the same circumstances overhaul their boating costumes; but when he joined the party there was among them the children's governess, and seeing her slighted, his blood boiled, and he was her attendant for the afternoon.

"Overhaul ship from bilge ter royals, and if not found, then take a cruise in search uv.

Noting this we decided to overhaul our loads and reject a lot of things not strictly necessary to preserve life.

"Yes, I must begin to overhaul my manners at once.

On the 28th, seeing land, they came to an anchor to overhaul their sails and tackle, but could not tell whereabout they were.