cable-covered

Updated: July 1, 2025

Mark had deferred taking any action while his right-hand man was absent; but the uproar became at last so obstreperous that he walked to the cable-covered hatchway and struck heavily upon the deck. "Now," he said, sharply, "what is it?" "Look here, squaire," came in the skipper's muffled tones, "guess yew don't want to kill us?" "Then have off that there hatch. We're being smothered: that's so."

George Manville Fenn - The Black Bar