Two seats were built against the after bulkhead, chart boxes flanked the forward hatchway and the binnacle was above the steering column.
Suddenly all the lights on deck save that in the binnacle went out, leaving the boat in darkness.
Lighting the pipe at the binnacle lamp and planting the stool on the weather side of the deck, he sat and smoked.
But, spite of all this, I could see no compass before me to steer by; though it seemed but a minute since I had been watching the card, by the steady binnacle lamp illuminating it.
Mr. Starbuck, look at the binnacle watch, and in three minutes from this present instant warn off all strangers: then brace forward again, and let the ship sail as before.
She’s got it all,” responded Alan, his eyes on the compass binnacle and his hands gripping the rudder wheel.
We ain’t goin’ to get to London before half past one,” resumed Alan taking a position in front of Ned and laying a pocket map of London and its suburbs on the binnacle where the light fell on it.
The steering-gear leaked steam, and in the confined space the glass of the binnacle made a shiny oval of light in a thin white fog.
The hurricane boomed, shaking the little place, which seemed air-tight; and the light of the binnacle flickered all the time.
The steam gear clattered, stopped, clattered again; and the helmsman's eyeballs seemed to project out of a hungry face as if the compass card behind the binnacle glass had been meat.
Above the binnacle is the chart; that is to say, a rectangular piece cut out from the larger sheet, and containing all that will be sailed in a day.
It was warm, and, on examination at thebinnacle lamp, turned out to be mud.
Only the humble flicker of the binnacle light, like a trusty sentinel on duty, continued to shed its feeble rays on a few feet of the deck, and showed that the compass at least was still faithful to the pole!
The captain had taken the wheel, and he glared at his binnacle like a wild man.
I could see the beautiful, white Snowbird at anchor, looking very small, and the sunlight played on the brass binnacle which shone like a burning light.
Stirling set the can on the top of the brass binnacle hood and munched a biscuit, eying Helen Marr with concern.
He looked at the binnacle and then swept the sea, his eyes widening in calculation.
Stirling unclasped one hand from the spokes of the wheel and touched the frosted glass over the binnacle compass.
Marr had consulted the binnacle before giving the order.
I'll soon tell you," answered Mr Meldrum stretching out on the binnacle a chart of Kerguelen Land which he had brought up from the cabin, and marking on it the position of the ship with a pencil.
All compasses are fitted with a gimbal ring to keep the bowl and card level under every circumstance of a ship's motion in a seaway, the ring being connected with the binnacle or pedestal by means of journals or knife edges.
The light from the binnacle illuminated a countenance of rugged yet symmetrical features, stamped with prison pallor, but also stamped with a stronger imprint of refinement.
Denman watched her swing to a starboard wheel; and, when the rolling gave way to a pitching motion as she met the head sea, he glanced at the after binnacle compass.
The pitch in the seams was soft as putty, the atmosphere was full of the smell of blistered paint, and it was like putting your hand on a red-hot stove to touch the binnacle hood or grasp for an an instant an iron belaying-pin.
The lamp at the binnacle being relighted, they perceived that the ship lay closer to the wind than she had hitherto done, and the spirits of the passengers were somewhat revived.
He glanced at the binnacle card and then went below.
The Prince after a glance into the binnacle was preparing to go down the bridge steps when a cry from the Look-out made him wheel round.
On stooping down, accordingly, I could see the judge's face with the binnaclelight shining on it, as he swayed to and fro in the doorway, seemingly in a passion at something or other.
Every night she lighted her binnacle sooner, till deuce the bit of twilight there was, and the dark sky came down on us like the extinguisher over a candle.
The chief officer came aft towards the binnacle again, with a strut in his gait, and more full of importance than ever, of course.
Good solid iron it is, though painted and polished like marble, and the circumcised rascal unluckily considered the whole binnacle as a sort of second Mecca for security.
All was pitch-dark again after that, and a whisper went about our decks and round the binnaclelamp of 'The ripples!
Well, what do you suppose was the reason of it, but that sly devil of a kitmagar shoving in his block for grinding curry under the feet of the binnacle every time he was done using it!
As we turned to go below, I heard somebody walk down the poop-ladder, and then the mate's voice sung out from the binnacle to 'strike eight bells!
Hastening to the house I opened my knapsack and held up the two binnacle lamps for the inspection of my companions, much to their amazement.
Each one either made his way to the binnacle to see for himself what course we were upon, or learned the important intelligence from some obliging individual who held the fact at the general service.
Behind, the light from the binnacle alone gleams upon the deck; dim, shifting lights and shadows mark out the full sails against the sky, and stars look down between.
I stepped at once to the binnacle without noticing who had the watch and found the ship's head south-east by south.
But, no doubt, his eyes were on the needle, and had I dared approach, I might have beheld a fire in his eyes keener than the flame of the mesh with which the binnaclewas illuminated.
Captain Rannie shivered and stood suddenly stock still by the binnacle as he thought of what was to transpire in those thirty-six hours.
Captain Rannie had fallen back against the binnacle and the sleeve of his coat covered the round hole through which the compass could be seen.
With the gimcrack little sheet copper binnacle in his hand, Mr. Spokesly made his way to the chief engineer's room.
The binnacle interrupted his headlong march from side to side, his head down, his hands in his trouser pockets.
He was far back, behind the steering wheel, and the faint glow of the binnaclelamp was screened by a canvas hood.
A voice from behind a slammed door said that the mate could take his binnacle and chase himself round the deck with it, and the chief cackled.
And he thought, going away to the binnacle again: "She is right.
When Mr. Spokesly presented his broken binnaclethe chief glanced at it with a scarcely perceptible flicker of his bushy eyebrows and continued to fill his pipe from a canister on the desk.
Mr. Spokesly struck a match and lit the binnacle lamp, a tiny affair which shone inward upon the vibrating surface of the card.
At the binnacle he had to turn a little and edge past it before he could take three more strides and bring up against the end.
It was while he was busy carrying out their instructions for accurate observation, that Captain Meredith asked him, calmly enough, if he had noticed that the binnacle of Number Two lifeboat was smashed and useless.
Just now, with the sweat cooling on his back and a battered binnacle offered to him for repair, he took refuge in dry malice.
Mr. Spokesly pitched the hapless binnacleon the settee and turned to the wash-stand.
Now there's just as much engineerin' about that binnacle as there is in a kettle or a rabbit hutch.
Shiver my binnacle if it ain't Master Don and Master Jack made port again!
Belay that, ye lubberly swab, an' light the binnacle lamp till we takes our bearin's.
The brave officer at the binnacle fell to the deck, his mangled body a quivering mass.
Another officer coolly took his place at the binnacle and directed a change in the course of the boat.
Stowing them away in the binnacle in their own snug box, I left them there without food till I got to sea--a few days.
Howard sat near the binnacle and watched the compass while the sloop held her course so steadily that one would have declared that the card was nailed fast.
Its one door swung on copper hinges, which one of the yard apprentices, with laudable pride, polished till the whole thing blushed like the brassbinnacle of a P.
So he had, sir," answered the lieutenant, hastily putting down his empty cup under the binnacle out of sight of the commander, who he knew disliked anything out of order on deck.
But, we can go a couple of points more free, sir," observed Mr Quadrant, who had busied himself shaping a course on a chart by the binnacle as soon as he heard the latitude and longitude given.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "binnacle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
