How To Use Binnacle In A Sentence
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So I lay, and wondered why light Came not, and watched the twilight And the glimmer of the skylight, That shot across the deck; And the binnacle pale and steady, And the dull glimpse of the dead-eye, And the sparks in fiery eddy, That whirled from the chimney neck: In our jovial floating prison There was sleep from fore to mizen, And never a star had risen The hazy sky to speck.
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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The boats, booms, the wheel, capstern, binnacle, and indeed all the upper portions of the ship, were cut to pieces; the bulwarks were destroyed and the starboard side almost beaten in, while the decks, slippery with gore, were literally strewn with the dead and badly wounded.
The Two Shipmates
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Three corpses were stretched on the afterpart of the deck near the wheelhouse -- which had been wrenched away, along with the binnacle and bulwarks, and the cabin skylight, while the hull was full of water and kept afloat only by the buoyant nature of the cargo, although they could not discover what that was, as it was completely submerged.
Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek
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The centre console is a work of technological art, and so is the instrument binnacle, with the tachometer taking center stage, and the digital speedometer resting inside the tach.
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Twin anti-aircraft gun barrels are coated with red sponge, a compass binnacle lies broken and beheaded and another has rolled away among other debris.
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The dashboard is clean and simple in design, with all the instruments in a single binnacle directly in front of the driver.
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Carlo was standing at the wheel, his head disembodied in the light from the binnacle.
THE KEYS OF HELL
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But in either case, the needle never again, of itself, recovers the original virtue thus marred or lost; and if the binnacle compasses be affected, the same fate reaches all the others that may be in the ship; even were the lowermost one inserted into the kelson.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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You'll get your bally head shot off some fine day," Captain Ward growled in answer, as he stepped to the binnacle and took the bearing of a peak which had just thrust its head through the clouds that covered Guadalcanar.
A SON OF THE SUN
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The bridge still had the ship's wheel in place, and the compass binnacle was intact.
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But name the last luxury hotel you stayed in that had spiral iron staircases, whitewashed walls, vaulted cellars and display cases full of antique scrimshaw, brass binnacles and needlepoint portraits of old clippers?
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Honda The split-level instrument design now includes an even wider horizontal display under a larger binnacle on the cowl, at the base of the windshield, this to accommodate the new i-MID Intelligent Multi-Informational Display.
A Giant Stumbles
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Some divers are still keen ‘brass’ hunters - and many a living room in East Yorkshire features lovingly-polished binnacles and portholes, taken off in an underwater expedition.
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The Mk II version has a permanently installed drop-leaf table forward of the binnacle.
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The helmsman drowsed against the binnacle with the wheel clamped in the friction brake as the galleass drifted under the limp billows of her staysails.
Stormwarden
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The instrument binnacle gets new style dials and colours and there is also a 20 cm wide information screen on the centre console that displays air conditioning, audio information and a trim computer.
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He looked at the binnacle to check the compass, walked over to the rail and looked at the sails set.
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Those that are averse - in a figurative sense - to inspecting hulls and flicking compass binnacles can steam straight into the action via the Patrols option.
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The split-level instrument design now includes an even wider horizontal display under a larger binnacle on the cowl, at the base of the windshield, this to accommodate the new i-MID Intelligent Multi-Informational Display.
Honda's Sporty New Civic, Heavy on the 'Ick'
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He darted a look into the binnacle and took a hurried compass bearing of the sounds Jerry was making.
CHAPTER VI
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It was alleged that there had been non-disclosure of reports in Jersey that French frigates were off the coast and that a capture had been made the day after the insured vessel sailed and that a ship's binnacle had been afloat at sea.
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The wheel placement, the relationship between pedals and seat, and the sighting of the instruments in the main binnacle were excellent.
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Not only do telegraphs remain bolted to the interior decks. but so does the binnacle and steering gear.
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On the brass binnacle containing the compass were engraved the words, ‘I am the Way, the Truth and the Life’.
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The restaurant decor is decidedly nautical, with decking, bollards and rope along the front, portholes here and there and even the binnacle from the M / S Vestkysten, an old Danish rescue ship.
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We cut through open remains of stern cabins, the galley and engine room, working up to the wheelhouse, where a large grouper lurks behind the remains of the steering binnacle.
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We cut through open remains of stern cabins, the galley and engine room, working up to the wheelhouse, where a large grouper lurks behind the remains of the steering binnacle.
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The magnetic needle in the binnacle was the point on which the Mary Turner ever pivoted.
CHAPTER XII
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You'll get your bally head shot off some fine day," Captain Ward growled in answer, as he stepped to the binnacle and took the bearing of a peak which had just thrust its head through the clouds that covered Guadalcanar.
A SON OF THE SUN
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A cabin enclosing the ship's wheel, compass binnacle and a telegraph to the engine room.
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What he must have said was binnacle, the receptacle for the compass, and your landlubberly reporter misheard.
Times, Sunday Times
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The gauges are housed in Mini-style binnacles - turbo pressure and engine temp perched centrally, speedo and rev counter behind the wheel.
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In the light of the binnacle his small blue eyes looked more malevolent than ever.
CHAPTER VIII
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Patrick scrambled aft and snapped his safety harness around the binnacle support.
CORMORANT
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We cut through open remains of stern cabins, the galley and engine room, working up to the wheelhouse, where a large grouper lurks behind the remains of the steering binnacle.
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Still remaining are the steering binnacle, though without compass or wheel, and the chart table against the rear bulkhead.
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Stepping to the binnacle, Hornblower noted the compass heading.
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It was a time or rather—since ordinary time was gone by the board—a series of instant shifts and expedients, of surviving from one stunning thunderclap and invasion of water to the next and between them making fast such things as the jollyboat, the binnacle itself and the booms that had carried away.
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But Louis took and gave a spoke and gazed imperturbably into the binnacle.
Chapter 12
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Not only do telegraphs remain bolted to the interior decks. but so does the binnacle and steering gear.
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We ought to be moving along a line that'll cross somewhere northard of New Zealand," Daughtry guessed to himself, after a hundred stolen glances into the binnacle.
CHAPTER X
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I revert to being a metal wreck-diver, and the woodwork is overshadowed by the steering binnacle, telegraphs and lamp-locker.
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Back and peering into the binnacle, he listened vainly for another wail from Jerry in the hope of verifying his first hasty bearing.
CHAPTER VI
