after hold

Originally, I suppose, it had been part of the after hold space.

The after hold had already been half filled.

The weight of the pistol made him think of Grace, safe now in the deep after hold.

The men chained with Arren in the after hold were all silent.

"Rats ambushed us on our way to the after hold," the mate gasped.

He moved quickly now, hurrying down the hatchway to the after hold, conscious of the fine line between speed and silence.

"Probably stored in the after hold," said Dover.

The mate's party bars the after hold.

Aye, and that's what he went into the after hold for, so often, as Dough-Boy long suspected.

Modesty said, "Put her in the after hold with the other women, and send a man to carry Bora to the launch."

This was the after hold.

With a long-handled amputation blade in one hand, and a cluster of scalpels in the other, I led the way through the ship to the after hold.

In this manner he raised the mouth of the trap (to which the carpet was still fastened by tacks), and I found that it led into the after hold.

On the mats, Blade and Sparrow tussled vigorously, rolling over and over, back and forth, each applying hold after hold in vain.

Originally a nephew of Lord Faroguy of High Reaches, he carefully conquered hold after hold by means of trickery, marriage, murder, and force.

We were standing on the upper deck, watching as the slaves trundled barrowloads of the reeking stuff down the gangplank and over to the open hatchway of the after hold.

He's full of riddles; I wonder what he goes into the after hold for, every night, as Dough-Boy tells me he suspects; what's that for, I should like to know?

Hold after hold in SDF-1 that had been reserved for future missions and future purposes that would never come to be were now filled with wreckage, and there were material stores that could be used as well.

All these things I took to very well, for we served our poor schoolmaster in this manner in the after hold when it was clear of casks, which trick had like to kill him, so that he was bad for a month or more.

One late-night foray into the after hold had ended abruptly when a large rat had leapt from a stack of hides onto Jamie's bare shoulder, sending me into hysterics and depriving Jamie abruptly of any desire to continue what he was doing.

She anchored that afternoon, but waves breaking over the after deck foiled attempts to rig the heavy-duty wrecking pumps into the after hold (into which the water was coming, through the rudder stock) since it was impossible to remove the hatch without allowing more water to get below in the process.

The keys of the spirit, bread and fish rooms and the after hold are to be kept in the care of the Master, one of whose mates is to be the last man out of the hold or room to guard lights and lock the doors and generally take care there is no risk of fire.'