Word: passageway
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...year-old boy, returning to his native Ningpo after his Shanghai employer had fled the country, had just fallen asleep in a crowded passageway. Suddenly the deck shot from under him, hurling him against a bulkhead, and an explosion roared through the ship. His first thought was "Communists" and he hid with his blanket over his head; but almost instantly he felt water rushing in. Although his leg was broken by the explosion, he managed to fight through the blackness to reach the top deck...
Built since this map was drawn is Houghton Library, home of the University's rare book collection. It is near Widener, connected to it by a second-story passageway...
Built since this map was drawn is Houghton Library, home of the University's rare book collection. It is near Widener, connected to it by a second-story passageway...
Novelist du Maurier's romantic whoop-dedo also includes a Puritan witch, a villainess with "serpent's eyes," a secret passageway with moldering bones in it, floods of blood, and scads of Gestapolike Roundheads...
...moonlit night while Captain Bliven was working in a command tent. When a stick of bombs exploded close enough to shake the tent and rock the lights, the occupants grabbed their helmets and made for the exit. The third series of blasts found Captain Bliven groping through the canvas passageway...