mess-room

Below, to star-board, on the bridge deck, the pilot saw the crushed mess-room door, roughly bulkheaded against the pounding seas.

THE SEA FARMER 2010

Life lines were stretched fore and aft; and on our weather side, attached to smokestack guys and rigging, were huge rope-nettings, hung there for the purpose of breaking the force of the seas and so saving our mess-room doors.

SMALL-BOAT SAILING 2010

Under his eyelids burned the brazen glories of the tropic seas, or ached the bitter gales of the North Atlantic or far South Pacific; but his memory of them was of mess-room doors stove in, of decks awash and hatches threatened, of undue coal consumption, of long passages, and of fresh paint-work spoiled by unexpected squalls of rain.

THE SEA FARMER 2010

No laughter and clatter and wordy argument of the mess-room had been his.

THE SEA FARMER 2010

Sheet-covered sea trunks and officers 'mess-room chairs had been set along the white canvas walls here, and the almost forgotten mechanical music player from Terror's Great Cabin was being cranked by a costumed fantastic at the far end of the chamber, the machine pouring out music hall favorites from its large rotating metal disks.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

The men crept together in the mess-room in the darkling, wrapped in what they could find and drank cocoa from the fireless heaters and listened to his cries.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

He waxed his mustachios into a state of brilliant polish and put on a tight cravat and a trim buff waistcoat, so that all the young officers in the mess-room, whither

Vanity Fair 2006

Lieutenant said, with a self-satisfied air; and went off to finish the evening with some jolly fellows in the mess-room.

Vanity Fair 2006

“Dammee, sir, when I lugged out my barkers, and talked of fighting across the mess-room table, Grig turned as pale as a sheet, or as —”

The Paris Sketch Book 2006

For some minutes the mess-room was Bedlam, and then, as if it were a confirmation of the news, came the shrill ringing of the bells that called the men to their posts.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006