He jumped from his seat and went to a wooden seaman's chest that stood against the wall.

It was the key of an old seaman's chest that had once belonged to a British admiral's ship in the eighteenth century.

With one limp hand, he waved her to the cabin's only seating atop a seaman's chest.

I found in the seaman's chest about fifty pieces of eight in royals, but no gold.

This one had been torn from a dress she'd found in one of the seaman's chests they'd plundered.

There was a big seaman's chest there, too, with 'Abram Trelawny' painted on it.

What furniture there was had a nautical cast to it, here a seaman's chest, there a railed cap- tain's chair.

A female witness who knew Williams well connected him with a chisel that was proved to have been taken from the same seaman's chest as the maul.

James took some handkerchiefs out of his seaman's chest to staunch de Silva's wound, then tore his sheets into strips to bind the bandage to his side.

On the whole, there were few letters anywhere in the ship; but we found one before we were finished, in a seaman's chest, of which I must transcribe some sentences.

It was like any other seaman's chest on the outside, the initial "B" burned on the top of it with a hot iron, and the corners somewhat smashed and broken as by long, rough usage.

The methodical walk to his seaman's chest, the scramble through a few layers to get to his Starfleet-issue cold weather parka, the walk back to his corner all worked together to soothe his thoughts and relax his body.

Pupils may be invited to play at being a detective to resolve some mystery, or they might investigate the contents of a seaman's chest, a collection of craftsman's tools, or a doctor's bag, or a lady's valise, for example to help pupils to build up a picture of the people who used them.