How To Use Porthole In A Sentence
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The bow is equally imposing, with two extremely large anchors still in their hawsers and a great deal of machinery and portholes to see.
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Like a log of wood I crossed the Cabin, fetching up at last against Traveller, whose strong hand propelled me to the porthole frame.
ANTI-ICE
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Behind the forward capstan, the wreck becomes an unidentifiable mess but it can be seen that the superstructure had rounded windows rather than portholes.
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There she has remained since as a show, and moreover as a sort of dining-hall for jovial parties from the city; one of which would seem to be on board this afternoon, to judge from the flags which bedizen the masts, the sounds of revelry and savory steams which issue from those windows which once were portholes, and the rushing to and fro along the river brink, and across that lucky bridge, of white-aproned waiters from the neighboring Pelican Inn. A great feast is evidently toward, for with those white-aproned waiters are gay serving men, wearing on their shoulders the city-badge.
Westward Ho!
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I got a fitful two hours of sleep, tried to read and write, and at the first breath of light outside the portholes, went up on deck to watch the sun rise.
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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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It has portholes, pine panelling and boarded floors, and there is an oil-fired boiler.
Times, Sunday Times
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The angry water rushed by outside the portholes, surging up on deck.
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She could see the moonlit water outside her porthole and hear the footsteps and orders called on the deck as the ship was preparing to set sail.
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Everything feels dinky and a certain pre-war atmosphere prevails as we huddle inside, watching the rain lash at the portholes.
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Like a log of wood I crossed the Cabin, fetching up at last against Traveller, whose strong hand propelled me to the porthole frame.
ANTI-ICE
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Porthole bearings are inserted into the holes in the soldiers to create a positive connection using a tie rod.
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As we dropped off the tip of the bow to seabed level and swam along the wreck, we could see numerous portholes, all with heavy-duty deadlights securely fixed shut.
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In imagination I can see your great ship, with all its portholes aglare, ploughing across the darkness to America.
Carry On Letters in War-Time
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Many portholes had long been taken by souvenir-hunters, although several rows securely fixed indicated that the wreck was not quite ready to give everything away.
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There were ventilators but the portholes had to remain closed.
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Peering through the porthole stationed on the port (left) side of the sub, it appears to Sinton that the 350-foot-high seamount is covered in pillow lavas with very little sediment cover.
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On the walls were mirrors which reflected what little natural light came through the portholes around the room.
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During close-up shots, the frame begins to shift, tilting ever so slightly up and down, just like the image one might see out of a porthole on a cruise ship.
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There are porthole windows with small medieval panes and a curious west-facing oriel window which seems out of place until you realise that inside on the window seat Jane Morris could catch the last of the evening light to do her embroidery.
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From the early 1770s emigration brokers also began to respond to concerns about ventilation by including more and larger portholes in the designs of their newer vessels.
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Though it has no porthole and is cramped and airless, it is comfortable, with clean white bedlinen, table reading lamps and the inevitable Chinese thermos flasks.
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Several small structures up top were also tiled and without windows or portholes.
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Keeping in mind the timekeeping needs of the ski-buff, Aspen has made a special high quality skiing glove with a "porthole" for a watch.
Luxurylaunches.com
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The remains of seven infants within intramural burial pits showed disturbances due to intrusive portholes that caused varying degrees of disarticulation and loss of elements.
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Neither the cast iron bollard, nor the porthole that he unbolted were really much use in his whare on the farm, but both souvenirs went with him when he left, and on his later moves.
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A cellular "porthole" known best for its role in the digestive system apparently has a major role in ...
THE MEDICAL NEWS
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On the far wall, between two circular portholes, was a red and gold fireplace, flanked by two armchairs.
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A design by an award-winning architect from the early 1950s, it was originally on concrete stilts and featured glass-brick features and portholes typical of the style.
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A strong shutter or plate fastened over a ship's porthole cabin window in stormy weather.
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The certificate of authenticity features a "porthole;" running across it is a metallic thread that reads "OUR PASSION" and "MICROSOFT" in red.
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An 80-year-old man on a flight from the Philippine capital of Manila to the island of Cebu attempted to break a porthole window during the flight with his cane and leave the aircraft,
RIA Novosti
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Further aft, the deck reforms and you can see the engine room, with companionways on either side, and doors and spaces where brass portholes used to be.
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No piddly portholes here, but large panoramic windows.
The Sun
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The porthole is the only thing that didn't get messed up.
Softpedia - Windows - All
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A violent equinoctial gale had come up, which had first staved in a grating and a porthole on the larboard side, and damaged the foretop-gallant-shrouds; in consequence of these injuries, the Orion had run back to Toulon.
Les Miserables
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As he stood there, up to his knees in sawdust, and surrounded by portholes and brass ship fittings, we asked about good wreck dives in the area.
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Tiny vessels fussed in her wake like pilot fish around a whale and aircraft roared past her portholes.
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Only the front half of the restaurant jutted out like the bow of a ship, the rest was of a normal shape, though planked with wood and having portholes instead of windows.
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As the vessel dives to the bottom of the ocean, look through the periscope and portholes to see the surrounding seascapes.
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Behind the forward capstan, the wreck becomes an unidentifiable mess but it can be seen that the superstructure had rounded windows rather than portholes.
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Porthole windows and blond stone cladding are just two of the distinguishing exterior features of the houses, which form two courtyards.
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On a recent visit, yellow damselfish peered through a porthole and a mean-mouthed barracuda lurked nearby.
Under the Sea
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The captain barred both her door and porthole.
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You can stay dry if you like, and watch the fish through subaquatic portholes.
Times, Sunday Times
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With empty lifeboat davits, rows of portholes, and a great deal of superstructure to photograph, our short decompression dive didn't really do this wreck justice.
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I also discovered the Cinema Impero with its clean, geometric lines and porthole windows.
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The supervisor was often located above the workshop floor, sometimes with a small porthole window to allow his eyes to range over his charges.
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The methods of designing and repairing porthole die on large thickness profile are introduced.
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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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The portholes bubble up elsewhere: In the stair tower, one frames the patio's water sculpture; another one on the landing orients visitors to the street.
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Other obstacles included a hanging tire described as a porthole on the Titanic where teams must get all their members through the hole without touching the sides.
Undefined
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From my porthole window, I gazed in awe at the stunning contrast of the shining snowcapped Chugach Mountains against the blueness of the Gulf of Alaska.
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The pagoda has probably been scattered to the four winds of heaven, and the ship on which I journeyed from Ireland to Cathay is lying on the corals, with mermaids sleeping in its berths and swimming in and out the portholes.
The Blue Cat of Castle Town
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Regret and love and pain flooded into her, as if she had accidentally tripped a porthole below the waterline.
THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON
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Hope to go out from the porthole, have alert:dy seen the sea water of last deep blue in the ground, and Japanese archipelago of probably outline.
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And in the unlikely event that you get bored with counting portholes, you can always go scalloping - the seabed is alive with them!
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Indeed, outside the starboard porthole I saw a large fish, apparently captive, violently trying to disengage itself and in the process tearing some of the skin and flesh of its back.
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Before going ashore, secure hatches and lock all portholes and doors.
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It was tiny, there was only a bed and a porthole to look outside the ship.
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The round thing behind the porthole is a carry point for a life preserver.
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After airplane landing, saw from the porthole the first picture is, a combat transport stops in there, downward unloads a bunch of bunch of tent and the military stretcher.
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There was a chair and a desk bolted down on the wood planked floor, a few paintings on the walls and a porthole, which was covered by her cloak.
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Alex limped to the porthole, apparently surveying the scene of unloading beneath him.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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Light clusters, clear, deep, on the face of the radio gear ... fans up softly off the dial of the pelorus ... spills out portholes onto the white river.
Gravity's Rainbow
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The style is of a luxury cruiser, with round windows looking like portholes and the gleaming white exterior the hull of a ship.
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By varying the angle of reflected light, an illusion is created that the ocellar scales are intermittently emitting light, thus providing an explanation of Sandersons original account of the lizard 'switch [ing] on its portholes.'
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Derryn looked out the porthole of the ship's cabin: dark, except for the starlight that reflected off of the sea's gentle waves.
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The small round porthole was coated in a thin layer of fog, and he saw nothing but the smooth ocean basking in the moon glow.
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But the biggest clue was that this ship had square portholes in one section, instead of round.
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Plenty of light enters through empty portholes on both sides of the engine room and ventilator hatches in the roof.
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Outside cabins will either have a porthole or picture window depending on ship and/or position on ship.
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Sitting on the hill overlooking the marina, you can enjoy your favourite pint surrounded by model ships and old nautical prints, and watch the boats through a porthole window.
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From those obscured depths, the bubbled exhalations from unseen divers stream up from portholes, heading past us for the sun.
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Here for instance is a high quality skiing glove with a "porthole" for your watch.
Luxist
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They are made of a 100 denier micromesh body, poly porthole mesh yoke and side panels.
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We worked along the steel wall passing large circular holes where the heavy brass portholes had once been.
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There are certainly people who dive in the hope of retrieving some kind of treasure - a porthole, a telegraph, a manky old tap-fitting hacked off a bit of pipework.
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There were lots of details I'd never noticed before, like the red squirrelfish lurking in the shadows, the green fronds and algae growing in the little patches of light around the portholes, and even a single rubber boot, apparently in excellent condition, lying where someone must have kicked it off.
The Wind from The Sun
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We like this design a lot, and have been working on more conical tower designs with lots of portholes or other fenestrate openings ala mico sea creatures, see site.
NEW GREEN TOWER IN MIAMI – The COR Building | Inhabitat
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Methodically daubing the treacly floor paint all over the architect's white and grey glaze walls, the waffle-textured bamboo wallpaper, the skylights, the portholes, the glass, bricks and the panora-fenestrals.
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Even Faith opened her eyes wide to stare upward, for there was something sliding through one of the portholes above their heads, and dropping softly downwards -- a small package done up in crinkly pink paper, and tied neatly about with blue lutestring.
All Aboard A Story for Girls
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Like the stern accommodation, the ceilings have gone but the walls are partially intact, with circular openings left where portholes have been removed.
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A window cut into a hedge is like a porthole in the hull of a ship, a delightful surprise that relieves the cabin's potential for claustrophobia.
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The wind was fierce as it howled out side of the porthole window.
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He himself has a personal memory, one which, he says, will always haunt him -- the face at the porthole.
THE LONELY SEA
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The material reported ranges from the obligatory porthole to cannon and shot, several pieces of eight and a Charles I gold coin.
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The cabin has two portholes with windows made of six-inch thick plexi-glass.
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It has portholes so you can spy on the biaxial tourbillon (a little spinning thing), and they're only making 11.
Times, Sunday Times
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Players can also build custom pirate-themed houses with the new objects that are included in Barnacle Bay, such as porthole doors and windows, wharf and stone fences, and more!
IGN PC
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Crossing the deck and looking over the side, you'll see a line of portholes just below deck level.
