As the first waves began to break over the deck, the prefect and the captain lashed their passengers to the wineskins.

The lifeline the vessel's captain had lashed about him when the hideous gale burst upon them yesterday morning had ringed his chest in bruises, salt sores stung his lips, and rain and spray had soaked into his very marrow.

Crowding sail, the captain lashed his ship into the swells and for the remaining two hours of that gray day the Thetis chewed awkwardly into the heavy seas and apparently made some progress.

With an oath, the captain lashed his own horse forward and tried to intercept Rix, only to have one of his legs half-severed above the knee by a terrible downward stroke of the Arvemian's blade.

The Demeter runs aground carrying only Dracula and the dead captain lashed to the wheel.

However, no amount of historic circumstance can top Stoker's evocative description of the Russian schooner Demeter blown across Whitby's harbour with its dead captain lashed to the helm, crashing beneath the East Cliff before disgorging the vampire in the guise of a huge dog.

When the first gales had slapped at the ship, the captain had lashed the steering oars down to a few degrees of arc and taken his post, occasionally shouting orders to the crew as they moved invisibly around the deck.

When a whale breaks a ship's rudder, the captain lashes the beast to the bottom of the ship and uses its flukes to steer by.

Alobar bribed a Greek captain to hide them among the stacks of ivory tusks lashed to his deck, and it was from that vantage that they witnessed their home of nearly thirty years burning to the ground.

Shifting his weight forward onto his hands, the captain lashed back at Hronsky with his free foot.