"midships," while those with the narrower bend were set towards the narrower ends of the plank. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North] Reference
Rojer said when they were midships and descending. From Wordnik.com. [Damia's Children]
At midships Lefty slouched in a brace of bachelors. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
'Have McKenzie put down a marker buoy, about midships. From Wordnik.com. [Santorini]
The two men walked silently back midships to the gangway. From Wordnik.com. [The Order War]
"In Number Four hold, just aft of midships," Tom replied. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift Jr And His Jetmarine]
The giant disk came down on its cables, directly midships. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift Jr And His Jetmarine]
Lieutenant Cermo was waiting for him at the midships gridpoint. From Wordnik.com. [Tides Of Light]
Ham watched his father disappear down the compan-ionway midships. From Wordnik.com. [Black Blade]
Though exhausted, they scurried about, tugging the mainsail free from midships. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragons of Chaos]
The mast, and then all the wood from midships forward, began to sizzle and fume. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
A young sailor working at midships called for a man to replace him, scrambled aft. From Wordnik.com. [beneath an opal moon]
Kof stood at the rail at midships, watching as the cleft mysteriously sealed itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragons of Chaos]
A pink-faced youth is peering down at Slothrop from midships, rocking in, rearing back. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
Across the bow and the stern are stays of cane, with generally a stronger thwart midships. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference
Kharl could even feel some of the spray from where he stood midships on the starboard side. From Wordnik.com. [Wellspring of Chaos]
Other crews with take the main port and starboard rudders; you get the main midships rudder. From Wordnik.com. [Sunlight Through The Shadows Magazine Volume 1 Issue 6 (ANSI Edition)] Reference
He moved back around the midships paddle wheel and toward the quarterdeck area where Herana stood. From Wordnik.com. [Wellspring of Chaos]
Der Aal's pale tunnel of wake is set to intersect the Badass's desperate sea-squirm about midships. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
On this occasion, the sharp edge of the rock struck the vessel about midships aft of the paddle-boxes. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
If Brent made the passage, he'd seek the midships entry lock, which happened to be some eighty degrees off. From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
The midships tent, which shielded the rowers from the glare of the strong light, was striped with red and blue. From Wordnik.com. [Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age] Reference
Killeen bit his lip in fretted concentration as he loped around the Argo's stern and rounded back toward midships. From Wordnik.com. [Tides Of Light]
About midships on each lighter was a store-room, one of which was occupied by the clerk who accompanied the launch. From Wordnik.com. [In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians] Reference
John ran midships as he watched the progress of the Azteca ship long enough to make sure they would intersect La Revanche. From Wordnik.com. [Crystal Rain] Reference
Here we struck on a sandbar with such force of steam and current as to land us almost out of the water from stem to midships. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Justen sat on the midships seat, watching the light play over her face as she kept the craft in the center of the unseen currents. From Wordnik.com. [The Order War]
One of the main beams in the midships was bowed and cracked. From Wordnik.com. [The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete] Reference
She was crouching midships of the canoe and, seemingly, was not bound. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness and Dawn] Reference
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