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The hatches were opened and the ventilating fans started, blowing out the gases and letting in the cold, damp air. All on board drew a breath of this invigorating air, and then Captain Nicholson turned his attention to escaping from beneath the big guns of the fort. From his place in the conning tower he cold plainly see the activity of the fort when the lookout made out the submarine.
Then, too impatient to sit in the conning tower, the submarine boy took his place by the deck wheel. “Will your seamen cast loose from the moorings?” Somers asked. “Yes, sir,” replied the midshipman. “If there’s anything wrong, good luck to you,” sounded the cool voice of Lieutenant Commander Mayhew, from the gunboat’s rail. “Thank you, sir.”
"I'll manage it, Simple, or my name's not Thompson," replied the master, jumping into the quarter-boat, conning the vessel in that exposed situation, as we received the enemy's fire. "Look out, my lads, and pour it into her now, just as you please," said I to the men.
While I wandered amid the undergrowth, conning my part, my attention was arrested by a female voice on the summer breeze, most pitiably entreating for help. I closed my book and bent my steps in the direction of the outcries.
The masters of watches are also called "scunners" they go up night and day in the forebarrel to "scun" the ship that is, to find the way or leads through the ice. This word comes from "con" of the conning tower on a man-of-war. When the morning of the 10th arrives, all is excitement. Fortunately this year a southwest wind had blown the ice a mile or so offshore. Now all the men are on board.
When he had parted from his uncle he had taken only such articles as pertained to his maturer years. The pictures on the walls the few shabby books that had drifted into his lonely and misunderstood childhood remained. There was the locked box containing, Conning knew full well, the pitiful but sacred attempts at self-expression.
Where the wooden gate now stands, there was a small work called the Conning Gate. It marked the boundaries of Middlesex and the Tower Precinct. Here prisoners were handed over to the Sheriff. was originally built by Henry III, but has been entirely refaced. Through its archway we reach the stone bridge, which had formerly in the centre a drawbridge of wood. We next reach
In their absence the poet spent solitary hours conning over as many lines of the great poem as his memory could store, until one of his friends arrived, and relieved him by taking the staazas down. Frequently his nephew, Edward Philips, performed this task for him.
Captain Colenso paced the quarter-deck once more with his customary shuffle, his hands beneath his coat-tails, his eyes conning the ship with their usual air of mild abstraction. Now and again he paused to instruct one of his incapables in the trimming of a brace, or to correct the tie of a knot. He never scolded; seldom lifted his voice.
The latter had been standing near the conning-tower hatch, and unfortunately I knocked him off his balance, and he fell with a thud into the upper conning tower. He had the good fortune to escape with a couple of ribs broken, but when I recovered myself and got to my feet, far worse consequences met my eyes.
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