Huck and Pincer murmured nervously as our vessel plunged toward the mountain-of-ships at a rapid clip, engines running hard in reverse.

Wouldn't we top-dwellers hide if some weird vessel plunged into our midst from above, casting forth both noise and a searing gaze?

For a moment he felt that he was standing over the propellors of some gigantic aircraft carrier, gazing out at the writhing wake as the vessel plunged through boiling seas, shielded from the sky by the overhanging flight deck.

Following her foundering, the vessel plunged directly into the muddy bottom of the gulf bow first, and fixed herself in that position.

The first official announcements came two days after the vessel plunged to the bottom of the Barents Sea, and British and Norwegian help was not accepted until four days after the sinking.

The vessel plunged in and out of the tall waves, its prow sliding down an incline that was steep and smooth as polished steel.

A gentle, easy movement, as regular as that by which a vessel plunges beneath the waves, had succeeded to the immovableness of the bed.

Or rather, the triangular vessels were plunging past them--so intent on the colony, it seemed, that they were ignoring the Christophers above it.

At times the vessel plunged downward in such steep and sickening falls that everyone belowdecks was sent flying in one direction and then another as shrieks and wails competed with the howling winds.

Forty minutes later, the last Geek vessel plunged into the earth with such force that trees, four miles distant, shivered from the impact.