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Quoth the knight loud and fierce, and his laughter rang hoarse within his helm.
He gazed at the vessel quickly and then called to Frank: "Port your helm hard!"
At the same time, Hazard himself went to the helm.
I was on deck in the twinkling of an eye; the sheets were eased off, and the helm put up.
Later he carved to pieces many a helm and shield.
As soon as the ship was far enough ahead, Mark called out to Bob to put his helm hard up.
It was only a direction to the man at the wheel to port his helm.
At length the mate cried, "helm all right," and the crew pulled away as usual.
He climbed back over me, grasped the helm and jerked a lever.
He insisted, however, on taking the helm as the Clio moved out from the float.
He was replaced at the helm by old Tom.
So, when he was at the helm, Dick Sand did not cease to devour the chart with his eyes.
"I never saw such a tub as this," said James, at length; "I can't make her mind her helm."
And so they did, all armed save his helm.
I will well, said Sir Launcelot, for I have neither helm, nor horse, nor sword.
Then he awaked, and saw in midst of the ship a knight lie all armed save his helm.
The tempest of civil war was raging, with Lincoln's steady hand at the helm.
The helm alone can turn a vessel to the wind.
When, at last, they had tried their helm, it was found that the steering gear had broken.
The helm was a token that told them much.
We'd better up helm, and get the sail upon her.
The man only shifted the helm from his right hand to his left, and kept on his course.
The treacherous sea defeated by a motion of the helm!
One or two went near my helm, and I had several in my shield, but none of us were hurt.
Every sea following caught my helm and battered it.
There was a hood to it also, which went under the helm, but that I took off now.
The light caught the velvet knot upon your helm, and it flamed like a star.
He moved the helm a trifle and examined the chart.
I mind, too, the flash of helms and armor as every man turned to look on her who spoke.
At the helm of the first boat, Captain Carton, eager and steady.
You can be pilot and give your orders, and I'll take the helm.
"Port helm, man, and keep a clear mile from yonder hungry rocks."
Then when the schooner was within her own length of the cliff her helm was put about.
The helm was immediately put down, and the sails thrown aback.
Keep your flag flying, old chap, for I'm at the helm to steer the bark.
"We want none but white men at the helm."
There, jamming the helm down with a thrust of the foot, I ran forward and lowered sail.
He dare not leave the helm to look after his wife and children.
At a quarter-past ten, the Captain himself took the helm.
The country will need a man at the helm, and I must stand by Nadine.
Blanche looks hopeful and ready to take the helm for the family.
Moreover, the times were perilous, and called for a decided hand at the helm.
They had suddenly appeared from below as the helm was changing hands.
Cloven from helms, or on them: dead men's eyes Scarce shine so bright.
The captain was standing near the helm, and Francis made his way to him.
"I think she still gains on us," the captain said to the mate, who had taken the helm.
The captain was at the helm, for he would trust no other there, and Christy went forward.
"Port it is," cried the man at the helm.
She steers badly now, and the moment her helm is free, she'll run up into the wind.
He was master, and Jarvis put down the helm and obeyed.
This minister met with a very cold reception from those who stood at the helm of affairs.
He stood at the helm, and looked, as before, at his boat and at the sea and sky in turn.
Gomez took the helm himself, and strove to right the gallant vessel.
Those above dropped the anchor and set the helm.
To the one man at the helm it seemed to have been given to know the day and the hour.
Sarah takes the helm from this night forth.
I float on a stormy current, without pilot or helm.
The helm was hard up, the after yards shaking, and the ship in the act of wearing.
You could tie one end of a rope to their collars and another to the helm.
The Professor had insisted on again taking the helm.
The helm of night grew dark; the warriors left their seats.
Hard up with your helm, my man, and keep her dead away for the mouth of the river.
Down with your helm, there, you sir, and let her come by the wind.
Mr Bowles had the first watch, and Bob was posted at the now all but useless helm.
I can make it quite worth your while to up helm and run me back at once.
Here, Charlie, take the helm, and keep her the way she is, while I get down the sail.
"Steady it is," answered the man at the helm.
With me at the helm she'd have gone to the bottom before midnight.
Peek took the helm, while the rest went aloft.
In vain the mate tried to put the helm up.
As to what became of the man at the helm, or the rest of the crew, he could not tell.
The Captain took the helm then, and ordered us to stand by and be ready to tend the sails.
The helm was, however, put to port, that we might pass as far as we could from the island.
We put down the helm as she came near us, and the ship rounded to.
He gave me the helm while he looked out for the foreign ship.
Hailed my uncle, as he recognized me at the helm.
He has put his helm up, and away he goes before the wind.
The helm was then put up, and to our great satisfaction the junk paid off before the wind.
Still the mate issued no order except to the man at the helm.
The order was given to put the helm down.
A man named Davis took the helm; he had saved many a life on that coast in his day.
On land, being only a babe, I freely resign the helm to one who knows how to steer.
Then he went to the cross, and found his helm, his sword, and his horse taken away.
"I will well," said Sir Launcelot, "for I have neither helm, nor horse, nor sword."
And when they were met, they put off their helms and kissed together, and wept for joy.
Such was the desperate situation of France when Napoleon seized the helm of the state.
And those men had fair hair, with steel helms which had great horns or wings upon them.
The fierce tune in my helm would play, La belle!
The man at the helm had to watch them.
The man at the helm watched the compass, which was lighted by a lamp.
Leaving the helm for a moment, Tom bent over the injured hunter.
The members of the party sat in a group on the edge of the well, and I took the helm.
The old man was still at his post at the helm, and the two boys at their places.
Her helm had been put up, and she was running off before the wind.
Donald took his place at the helm of the Sea Foam, and stationed the hands.
A slight touch of the helm sent her swiftly to his side.
He shouted to the man at the helm, as soon as the boat shot away on its mission of mercy.
Shoving off from the shore, Adam took the helm.
This firm is sound as a dollar, and it's going to stay sound as long as I'm at the helm.
The boat instantly responded, and Archie took the helm.