Discipline was forgotten as they scrambled up through the break of the poop to hear the news.

"No luck, then!" cried Joshua Hird, the mate, looking down with a pale face from the poop.

But if you play me false, then I will come aboard of you and gut you upon your own poop.

The captain's cabin of the Ruffling Harry was in a deck-house upon the poop, and a stern-chaser gun was mounted at the back of it.

My second mate was standing beside me upon the poop, with his short, thick legs astretch, for the gale had left a considerable swell behind it, and our two quarter-boats nearly touched the water with every roll.

The only thing I regret is, that having no poop, the high bulwarks close us in and shut out both the air and prospect.

[Milton]; what's up?; what's the latest?; what's new?; what's the latest poop?.

When day appeared, the admiral again ordered Stephen de la Gama to set the ship on fire, which he did accordingly, after forcing the Moors to retreat into the poop.

And as I followed her across the poop, a tremendous surge of joy rose up and filled my heart.

Just while we were doing that, a tremendous wave swept the poop, with a battering-ram of logs that had returned.

When the watch was set for the night, however, and the ship lay in the customary silence of the hour, the form of the Rover was again seen walking swiftly to and fro across the poop, of which he was now the solitary occupant.

"Mr Wilder," he at length said, "the air is fresher on this poop, and more free from the impurities of the vessel:

The Rover was compelled to lend his attention to a summons so often repeated; and Fid profited by the circumstance to quit the poop, with the hurry of one who was not sorry for the interruption.

Wilder was about to retire with the rest, but a significant sign drew him to the side of his chief, who continued on the poop alone with his new confederate.

In another minute, the unruly canvas was secured, and Richard himself was on his way to the poop.

When the Rover heard the sounds of the parted waters, and saw the little jets of spray that the bows of his own gallant ship cast before her, he signed to his lieutenant to ascend to the place which he still occupied on the poop.

Leaning over the slight rail that separated the break of the poop from the quarter-deck, he said, in that familiar manner which the Commander is most wont to use to his inferiors when their services are becoming of the greatest importance, "I hope, master Fid, they have put you at a gun that knows how to speak.

At the same time, an ensign of a similar ominous colour, rose from her poop, and, fluttering darkly and fiercely for a moment, it became fixed at the end of the gaff.

A thin, knock-kneed officer shambled across the poop to him.

They had gone to school together, joined the navy together, fought again and again together, and married into each other's families, but so long as their feet were on the poop the iron discipline of the service struck all that was human out of them and left only the superior and the subordinate.

"She has eighteen-pounders on the main and twelves on the poop, sir," said the captain.

On the poop and the forecastle the marines, in two little red lines, were pouring in their volleys, but neither they nor the seamen-gunners could see what effect their fire was having.

It is the Governor of Uri's ship; By its red poop I know it, and the flag. FISHER.

The Saxons, we are told, kept a formidable fleet of vessels with curved bottoms and the prow and poop adorned with representations of the head and tail of some grotesque and fabulous creature.

In almost all, the bulwarks, boats, and everything on deck had been swept away; some, that were towed in, had lost all their masts, others more or less of their spars; one had her poop and all its cabins swept away; many had four or five feet water in the hold, and the clank of the pumps was still kept up by the weary crew.