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.
"'...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
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
"'...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