Wordie: Coaming: Comments

Comment by yarb, 5 months ago

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:51:43 +0000

The cargo chains groaned in the gins, clinked on coamings, rattled over the side; and the whole ship quivered, with her long gray flanks smoking in wreaths of steam.

- Conrad, Typhoon

Comment by chained_bear, 5 months ago

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:22:37 +0000

"'...I am quite dry; and was you to put your nose above the coaming and look at the dog-vane, you would see why.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Truelove, 209