Wheel Box

Captain Dettmar, white-faced, smiling only when his employer chanced to glance at him, leaned against the wheel-box, looking on. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Directly afterwards, Tammy came running up to the lee side of the wheel-box. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Then, all at once, with a quick little gasp, he sprang across the wheel-box, and stood beside me, trembling. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Once he came right aft, and, stooping down, peered under the wheel-box; but never addressed a word to me. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And just then the Second Mate came back on to the poop, and Tammy cleared away from the wheel-box, leaving me with a worrying feeling that I ought to do something. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Then he leant across the wheel-box, and lowered his voice. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I went and sat on the wheel-box and she came and sat on the edge of the house, facing me. ❋ Various (1915)

Dan's voice rose shrill and high, as he stood on the wheel-box. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

Singleton dug his knees under the wheel-box, and carefully eased the helm to the headlong pitch of the ship, but without taking his eyes off the coming wave. ❋ Unknown (1897)

Wilbur ran up, peered over the little space between the wheel and the wheel-box, and looked straight into a pair of eyes -- eyes that were alive. ❋ Frank Norris (1886)

From behind the wheel-box in the stern protruded a hand and forearm in an oilskin sleeve. ❋ Frank Norris (1886)

Cramped into the narrow space of the wheel-box like a terrified hare in ❋ Frank Norris (1886)

Kitchell must be made aware of the situation -- must be told that Moran, the daughter, the Captain's heir, was on board the schooner; that the "kid" found in the wheel-box was a girl. ❋ Frank Norris (1886)