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"Porthole" Quotes from Famous Books

... Arthur Marcel. And this iron ring which I press against your left ear is the muzzle of my revolver. Speak, move, breathe above your natural breath and your brains go through that porthole. Now, loose your hold of my ...

— The Crack of Doom • Robert Cromie

... was framed in the frame of the open porthole. It was a pale, dim world outside that dark and tangible rim. All night he had clutched at that rim, jumped and quivered at explosions, and watched phantom events. Now he had been high and now low; now almost beyond hearing, ...

— The War in the Air • Herbert George Wells

... effects of the first broadside. Others, however, dashed alongside, with the expectation of carrying the privateer by boarding; but here, again, they were disappointed. Pistols and muskets flashed from every porthole, and boarding-pikes and cutlasses, wielded by strong hands, presented a CHEVAUX-DE-FRISE which the enemy could not overleap. The carnage was terrible; the contest lasted over half an hour, and resulted in the total defeat of the British, ...

— Jack in the Forecastle • John Sherburne Sleeper

... alone in a starlit corner of the secluded deck. A porthole, with the black heavens and the blazing stars was before her. There was an empty ...

— Brigands of the Moon • Ray Cummings

... hurried feet fly about the decks; loud orders are shouted under our window, and with a mighty trembling and throbbing, the ship's engine seems to stop suddenly. Mrs. Steele is scrambling into her robe de chambre, and has her head out of the porthole, while I, hardly awake even yet, lean in a bewildered way over the side of ...

— Under the Southern Cross • Elizabeth Robins

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