"Midships" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... later a small boat, rowed smartly by six sailors in white canvas, came alongside the 'midships ladder of the Nettie B. At a word from the officer the six oars rose as one vertically into the air, and the bowman staved off the cutter so that she ...
— The Harbor of Doubt • Frank Williams
... to fifty feet long, were neatly made, and turned a little up at the extremities; there was a stage which lay across the midships of the boat, and projected out some distance on one side; it was bent upwards a little at the outer end, to prevent its dipping in the water, by the motion of the boat; this stage seemed intended for the warriors to use their weapons upon: on the opposite side, was fitted in a different manner, ...
— An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island • John Hunter
... a swagger of pure bravado Mulready turned and obeyed. Unnoticed of any, save perhaps Calendar himself, the boat had drawn in at the stage a moment earlier. Mulready dropped into it and threw himself sullenly upon the midships thwart. ...
— The Black Bag • Louis Joseph Vance |
