Crossword-Solution: SINKIN 6 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Down by the head an' sinkin', her fires are drawn and cold, And the water's splashin' hollow on the skin of the empty hold -- Churning an' choking and chuckling, quiet and scummy and dark -- Full to her lower hatches and risin' steady.

The schooner'll sink no faster when she's awash than she's sinkin' now." Even as he spoke, the scuppers were nearly level with the ocean, and her rolling in the big sea was sluggish.

They’re spirits—ghosts of sailors that drowned as long ago as when that cask went adrift from a sinkin’ ship, an’ that’s years an’ years, Miss, as anybody can see, lookin’ at the size of the barnacles on it.” “Do you think so?” Margaret queried.

When Captain Shadrach was told--not consulted concerning but told--the wages this young man was to receive, he was, as he confided to Isaiah afterward, “dismasted, stove in, down by the head and sinkin' fast.” “Mary-'Gusta Lathrop!” he cried, in amazement.

The fact is—this is an interesting touch—I have always been rather subject to lumbago.” And seeing the nephew Sinkin, who had risen to his suggestion, standing somewhat irresolutely in front of him, he added: “Perhaps you would like to look a little more closely at my eyes.