He fell into a dry-dock and broke one of his thigh-bones, at the same time dislocating the joint. |
There's a lot of you who will have to go into dry-dock before long and get patched up. |
A dry-dock is usually constructed with gates, to admit or shut out the tide. |
There were many naval men there, and I paid an interesting visit to a damaged submarine which was being repaired in the dry-dock. |
All of them had been killed except one or two who were in dry-dock for repairs. |
Some of you dry-dock conservative ducks would have let it go by, but papa is nothing if not adventurous. |