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The fixed light on the cabin side might leave the lowermost three feet in darkness, but it was enough for him and he wouldn't want to take even the remote chance of anyone spotting a flickering torchlight and wondering what any crazy person should be doing up on the monkey-board in that hurricane wind and with all the work stopped.

Fear is the Key MacLean, Alistair 1961

The gallery of the monkey-board seemed to run all the way round the outside of the derrick and it would have suited Larry just fine to have me out on the northern edge where, wind or no wind, a good shove -- or a .45 slug -- might have sent me tumbling direct into the sea a hundred and fifty feet below.

Fear is the Key MacLean, Alistair 1961

"He'd Mary on her hands and knees on the monkey-board of the derrick, a hundred feet above the deck, and he was proposing that she go down again without benefit of the ladder."

Fear is the Key MacLean, Alistair 1961

I moved farther along the monkey-board, slowly, backwards, with my face to Larry.

Fear is the Key MacLean, Alistair 1961

Two similarly bedizened footmen always stood on the monkey-board at the rear, who descended and walked behind His Eminence and his chaplain when the cardinal left his carriage to get his constitutional.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various

Badlihoff, who, a few days ago, made his appearance on the monkey-board of an omnibus, whence he was suddenly escorted by policeman B. 1001, to the presence of a magistrate, who unsympathisingly transferred him to Clerkenwell Jail, for certain paltry threepenny defalcations, due to a lapse of memory which our shameful code persists in regarding as worthy of incarceration and hard labour.

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 460 Volume 18, New Series, October 23, 1852 Various 1841