But in that great hulk of the older bull there was one other thingage.

But to watch the seas and keep the hulk in line was the captain's business, and Lister was occupied by his.

When the throb of her engines slackened two or three white men leaned over her bulwarks and looked down at the hulk with languid curiosity.

Then Moran's lightning right shot out again, smartly, and seemed just to tap the great hulk on the side of the chin.

When the negroes Montgomery sent arrived all the cargo worth salving was re-stowed, and he bought the hulk for a floating store.

GREAT EASTERN, the name of the largest ship ever built; was designed by Brunel and Scott Russell; laid down at Milwall in 1854, and launched in 1858, having cost £732,000; it did not prove a successful venture; was latterly used for laying the Atlantic cables; subsequently became a coal-hulk at Gibraltar, and in the end was sold in 1888 for old iron.

Then a thought came to me (waked perchance by the mention of shooting the rope over to the hulk by means of a mortar) how that I had read once in a book, of a fair maid whose lover effected her escape from a castle by a similar artifice, only that in his case he made use of a bow in place of a mortar, and a cord instead of a rope, his sweetheart hauling up the rope by means of the cord.

Now when the morning came we were all of us very eager to come to the flying of the kite; for it seemed possible to us that we might effect the rescue of the people in the hulk before the evening.

She had no practised gunners, nothing but a huddle of dismantled vessels in her navy-yard, most of them half-rotten hulks without masts.

[Sidenote: Death and Life-in-Death have diced for the ship's crew, and she (the latter) winneth the ancient Mariner.] The naked hulk alongside came, 195 And the twain were casting dice; 'The game is done!

A curse, then, "Why don't you throw the big hulk over?"

About twenty years ago a brig was wrecked near by, and three or four fishermen were put to watch the deserted hulk through the darkness.

He stepped cautiously forward, with hands outstretched, swaying to the sudden roll of the sinking hulk underneath his feet.

Here, whilst some stretched the canvas, nailing its lower edges to the gunnels, others were employed in lashing together the oars and the mast, and to this bundle they secured a considerable length of new three-and-a-half-inch hemp rope, which we had brought away from the hulk along with the canvas.