Two were fired — one, aimed at Bob Harvey, did not wound him, or at any rate only slightly, and Ayrton, profiting by the momentary retreat of his adversaries, rushed towards the companion-ladder to gain the deck. ❋ Unknown (2005)
I wonder what the weather's doing '; he rose, glanced at the aneroid, the clock, and the half-closed skylight with a curious circular movement, and went a step or two up the companion-ladder, where he remained for several minutes with head and shoulders in the open air. ❋ Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 (1955)
They shook off their normal and habitual torpidity, and cheerfully elbowed their neighbours, nearly tumbling down the companion-ladder in their eagerness to be first in the field. ❋ Harriet Julia Campbell Jephson (N/A)
Daily ascending the companion-ladder to the main-deck aft, she gradually faded from cognisance forward. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)
Nor did he now, long after midnight, make any sign when, without touching the rails, she came swiftly up the companion-ladder, bending her bronze head to miss the edge of the awning; and he made no movement as she sped past him, crossed the deck to the starboard rail, and putting both hands upon it, swung her body back as you do when you are going to vault clear. ❋ Joan Conquest (N/A)
Darting lightly back to the companion-ladder, I slipped down it and was on the point of escaping forward when I heard slow steps. ❋ Charles Boardman Hawes (N/A)
The next minute she was rolling head over heels down the companion-ladder, down which it had evidently been her intention to go right side up, for a joke. ❋ Eleanor Luisa Haverfield (N/A)
Whereupon both sniggered at the skipper's apt mimicry of Master Conky's pet phrase, which Captain Applegarth pronounced in the little beggar's exact tone of voice, so like indeed being the imitation that I nearly choked myself while swallowing the balance of my cocoa, as I hastily drained my cup and rose to follow the skipper up the companion-ladder to the deck. ❋ Henry [Illustrator] Austin (N/A)
So soon as the mate's back was turned, John Anderson took a revolver from a locker and charged it; then, ascending the companion-ladder, he walked to the break of the poop, with his hands buried in the pockets of a pea-jacket. ❋ Various (N/A)
Still in growing wonderment, and feeling on the whole that I should have been much better satisfied if I had had with me the brace of revolvers I had bought that morning, I followed the man down the companion-ladder. ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)
Having agreed with one of these to go from the vessel to the city at the rate of fifty cents apiece in gold, our party passed down the companion-ladder and entered a well-built bumboat, painted in green, blue and yellow, adorned with carpets, cushions, one sail and a gorgeous awning. ❋ Various (N/A)
We felt the 'Ercolano' give a wild sheer, and then a long, sickening roll, as if she were going down bodily, -- and we sprang for the companion-ladder. ❋ Various (N/A)
So saying, he fairly pushed us out of the cabin; and, the colonel limping by my side and using my shoulder as a crutch, as he had previously done, we both went up the companion-ladder, and gained the poop. ❋ Henry [Illustrator] Austin (N/A)
Mr. Murphy yelled to the skipper, as the bedraggled second mate was propelled forcibly up the ship's companion-ladder to the waiting arms of the first mate. ❋ Unknown (1918)
Sub-lieutenant Fox as he disappeared down the companion-ladder to resume his interrupted "watch below". ❋ Edward S. [Illustrator] Hodgson (1917)
He hailed a couple of men, instructing them to strike the midshipmen's luggage down the companion-ladder. ❋ Edward S. [Illustrator] Hodgson (1917)
As she hurried down the short companion-ladder into the main cabin, on either side of which were the smaller rooms occupied by the officers, she failed to note the quick closing of one of the doors before her. ❋ Unknown (1914)
"All right; come aboard," and after a minute's scurrying of figures on the deck a flimsy companion-ladder rattled down over the side of the freighter. ❋ Lawrence Perry (1914)
As the Briton nodded and was about to speak, the American leaped from his side, made the companion-ladder, and fairly tumbled below, ❋ Lawrence Perry (1914)
