This feature saves the task of gingerly disassembling the instrument's protective casing while aboard a rolling ship.
"It was like a rolling ship in the ocean."
Imagine a waiter delivering a tray of martinis on a rolling ship, or a late-night reveler trying to walk an unconscious partner past the police.
Gunfire from a rolling ship's deck was not accurate enough at that time to be able to break down brick and stone walls.
The officers around him were struggling to remain on their feet in the wildly rolling ship, their faces frozen masks of neutrality.
Of lying on her, in her, their motion part of the rolling ship that carried them back to Marcus.
On the deck of a rolling ship such clocks would slow down, or speed up, or stop running altogether.
Long enough on a rolling ship, and you forget what it is to walk on land.
Others jumped down into the rolling ships to fend them off from the quay.
"I really think that keeping your emotional equilibrium is like standing on a rolling ship," he said.
