Joe, who was interested in this order, climbed up on the circle which kept together the cordage of the network, and from that place easily managed to detach the heavy curtains of the awning and throw them
overboard.
All he knew was that it was Lerumie who had broken the taboo of his sacred person by laying hands on him, and that it was Lerumie who had thrown him
overboard.
"I can't say we think special of any man, or boy even, that falls
overboard from that kind o' packet in a flat ca'am.
"I would throw him
overboard tonight," he cried, "were I sure that those papers were not on his person.
"By this time five minutes he'll be
overboard," the captain answered.
I dropped upon the thwart again, none too soon, for I was near
overboard. I could see nothing for the moment but these two furious, encrimsoned faces swaying together under the smoky lamp, and I shut my eyes to let them grow once more familiar with the darkness.
The boy went
overboard, sir; that's what the story is; and I would give five pounds out of my pocket it was true!" He turned to the table.
If I see a rat, you won't stop; and if I go to sleep, you get fooling about with the boat, and slop me
overboard. If you ask me, I call the whole thing bally foolishness."
Peter gave the signal, and the carrion was cast
overboard. There was a splash, and then silence.
And so the sailors fled into the stern and crowded bemused about the right-minded helmsman, until suddenly the lion sprang upon the master and seized him; and when the sailors saw it they leapt out
overboard one and all into the bright sea, escaping from a miserable fate, and were changed into dolphins.
Unless he dived
overboard.' The informer wiped his brow ruefully as he said it, sitting in his boat and always staring disconsolate.
I declare I thought somebody had fallen
overboard!"
And again, as he was presently to tell me (alluding to an early inci dent of the disastrous voyage when some damaged meat had been flung
overboard), he said that a time soon came when his heart ached (that was the expression he used), and he was ready to tear his hair out at the thought of all that rotten beef thrown away.
Now, if he's so old as all those hoops of yours come to, and if he is going to live for ever, what good will it do to pitch him
overboard --tell me that?
On the 17th, two seamen, faint and exhausted, were washed
overboard. The next wave threw their bodies back upon the deck, where they remained, swashing backward and forward, ghastly objects to the almost perishing survivors.
