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"Bulkhead" Quotes from Famous Books

... alleyways were closets and lockers. The saloon was quite large and had a table fastened to the floor in the centre, where we now sat and awaited the appearance of the agents. Aft of this saloon, and separated from it by a bulkhead, was the captain's cabin and the staterooms for whatever ...

— Mr. Trunnell • T. Jenkins Hains

... to the central operating compartment and scouted through the hold from bow bulkhead to stern, making certain he enjoyed undisputed privacy. And it was so; every man-jack of the U-boat's personnel—jaded to the marrow with its cramped accommodations, unremitting toil and care, unsanitary smells and forbidding ...

— The False Faces • Vance, Louis Joseph

... us both giggling, which brought the companion boot to our corner, where it thumped against the bulkhead, grazing little Tom's ...

— Crown and Anchor - Under the Pen'ant • John Conroy Hutcheson

... out of our lashings we were as exposed as if on a raft. But we went. The house was shattered as if a shell had exploded inside. Most of it had gone overboard—stove, men's quarters, and their property, all was gone; but two posts, holding a portion of the bulkhead to which Abraham's bunk was attached, remained as if by a miracle. We groped in the ruins and came upon this, and there he was, sitting in his bunk, surrounded by foam and wreckage, jabbering cheerfully to himself. He was out of his mind; completely and for ...

— Youth • Joseph Conrad

Words linked to "Bulkhead" : ship, partition, divider