Inside, the ship was a series of interlocking cells, most of them made of wooden lattices through which you could see men working or the tanned sides of tarpaulined and lashed crates. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The long dining-room table was little more than a floor-length cloth punctuated by the regular bumps of its chairs, its long tarpaulined surface set with three blackened candle-sticks. ❋ King, Laurie R. (2005)
Tau Ceti crawled towards the western mountains, a tiny glare-point momentarily eclipsed by the tarpaulined shape swinging from the belly of the gyro. ❋ Niven, Larry (1987)
The mechanics took over as they came up on the half-tarpaulined planes. ❋ Lustbader, Eric (1984)
Blair nodded pleasantly toward the tarpaulined bulk on the table. ❋ Various, (1973)
So we tarpaulined it according to his instructions, and there it lies. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1968)
Pepper, who always threw a good deal of enthusiasm into anything he attempted to do, was barely saved from going overboard several times, and when once left alone with the side oar, succeeded in dipping the blade under a piece of hidden rock and was thrown by the swift motion of the boat high in the air, alighting somewhat breathless on the mass of tarpaulined freight in front of him, luckily without serious injury. ❋ Ralph Victor (N/A)
Presently he heard one of the men say to another as they stamped down the tarpaulined hatch, "There -- there's as good a prize ring as a man'd want." ❋ Unknown (1912)
And suddenly he loosed his grip, and the inert body of the bosun rolled down the tarpaulined hatch and onto the steel deck. ❋ Unknown (1912)
Lavis passed on to where from a tarpaulined hatch a Catholic priest was saying a litany, while around him a body of kneeling men and women were responding. ❋ Unknown (1912)
Dover when, on a long reach of straight lines, I made out before me a tarpaulined mass opposite a signal-point: and at once callousness changed to terror within me. ❋ Unknown (1906)
It was really not a deck at all -- only a space between engine-room grating and tarpaulined lifeboats on what was properly the cabin roof. ❋ Charles Neville Buck (1904)
Peggy Blackton was pointing to a brilliantly lighted, black-tarpaulined shop. ❋ James Oliver Curwood (1903)
Beauvayse, thrown back upon the pillow, and looking upwards to where the deluging rain makes thunder on the tarpaulined roof. ❋ Richard Dehan (1897)
He went on to the end of the platform where the planks sloped gently down to a wilderness of sheds, coaling stages and sidings; he could just make out the bulky forms of some tarpaulined cattle-vans and open coal-trucks standing on the lines of metals which gleamed in the scanty gaslights. ❋ F. Anstey (1895)
The mooring-ring lay fair in the mock noonday of electric light, and there was no cover near it save a tarpaulined pyramid of sugar barrels. ❋ Francis Lynde (1893)
Three men, in the dark, woollen smock and tarpaulined hat of coast fishermen, approached him and, in answer to his inquiry for the master, told him, in an unintelligible mixture of Dutch and German, that he had gone ashore. ❋ August Niemann (1879)
Of course the hatchways was battened down and tarpaulined, for the seas that came aboard was fearful. ❋ Unknown (1859)
