I stuck my head up over the coaming and fired again. From Wordnik.com. [Marazan]
He stepped over the coaming and managed to slam the door. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower In The West Indies]
He reached in vain for the hatch coaming five feet above him. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Luck] Reference
Mah frend haz kitteh dhat askz fur habin brushing and coaming. From Wordnik.com. [Do not get wet…. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
Sitting, she edged nearer, grasping the coaming of the turret hatch. From Wordnik.com. [Calde of the Long Sun]
He tore open the door and stumbled in over the coaming, the lines in his hands. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower In The West Indies]
He slid off the coaming and dropped, still holding Hyadnth, onto the men below. From Wordnik.com. [Calde of the Long Sun]
It cleared the coaming and landed soundlessly on the roof about twenty feet away. From Wordnik.com. [Puppet on a Chain]
"And don't forget that the coaming is glass-slippery with its smooth coating of ice.". From Wordnik.com. [Ice Station Zebra]
I still don't know for sure, but it looked like the boom snagged in the hatch coaming. From Wordnik.com. [Sunlight Through The Shadows Magazine Volume 1 Issue 6 (ANSI Edition)] Reference
Also, it would shear your head off, flush with the coaming, as fast as you stuck it out. From Wordnik.com. [First Lensman]
Above that again -- perhaps thirty inches above -- ran the concrete coaming of the roof. From Wordnik.com. [Puppet on a Chain]
The cutter shot away, heeling sharply, and Yuiko shrieked, holding on to the coaming with both hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Japanese Corpse]
A final effort, and he was up, lying on the safe side of the coaming and almost afraid to look at it. From Wordnik.com. [Exodus From The Long Sun]
He pushed the soles of his worn topsiders against the aft coaming and hauled back mightily on the rod. From Wordnik.com. [The Miko]
I took off my shoes and began to raise myself very slowly above the coaming by the upstanding hatchway. From Wordnik.com. [Marazan]
She grasped the floating hat and handed it to Bob, then seized the coaming and drew herself back aboard. From Wordnik.com. [Through The Eye Of A Needle]
He was standing there quite motionless, a little bent over the tiller, gripping the coaming of the cockpit with one hand. From Wordnik.com. [Marazan]
There was a glow of enthusiasm on Gordon's face as he followed Little over the hatch coaming, and Barry thrilled to see it. From Wordnik.com. [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference
Barry, hanging over the hatch coaming, peered anxiously into the dark hold, hoping against hope that the pumps were gaining. From Wordnik.com. [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference
The kayak rocked, but not nearly as much as Bob expected; his reflexive grasp of the coaming around the cockpit was superfluous. From Wordnik.com. [Through The Eye Of A Needle]
Standing inside, his head just under the coach roof, he had been able to see everything through one of the portholes in the coaming. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret in Holland]
The Wildcat made another futile leap at the hatch coaming, just in time to catch the impact of the wheat sack and its jingling contents. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Luck] Reference
Don climbed over the coaming at the entrance and found himself in the local office of Interplanetary Telephone and Televideo Corporation. From Wordnik.com. [Between Planets]
But I leaned far over to my left and stuck my head over the coaming and banked the Pitts a little to port and then I saw what was going on. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
A clerk passes the way-bill over the hatch coaming. From Wordnik.com. [Actions and Reactions] Reference
Kenneth Gregory pulled himself weakly over the coaming. From Wordnik.com. [El Diablo] Reference
Then he climbed over the coaming and joined the men in the dory. From Wordnik.com. [El Diablo] Reference
Then Mascola felt the oak coaming pressing hard against his knees. From Wordnik.com. [El Diablo] Reference
Resting the rifle on the coaming she covered the approaching boat and waited in silence. From Wordnik.com. [El Diablo] Reference
Without waiting for orders from Ned, the lad leaned over the coaming of the little hatch. From Wordnik.com. [Boy Scouts in the North Sea The Mystery of a Sub] Reference
Miss Blake crept out and stood in the well, gazing forward while she clutched the coaming. From Wordnik.com. [Vane of the Timberlands] Reference
The Dutchman was sent for, and soon his questioning blue eyes appeared over the hatch coaming. From Wordnik.com. [From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life] Reference
Just at this instant, the head of Captain Lantanas shows above the coaming of the companion stair. From Wordnik.com. [The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea] Reference
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