The boughs hammered at the smoke-pipes until they went by the board, and the pilothouse fell like a pack of cards on the deck before they had gone three miles and a half.
"The Crisis, Volume 7"
Winston Churchill
When they were tired of sitting there, they climbed, invited or uninvited, but always welcomed, to the pilothouse, where either pilot of the two who were always on watch poured out in an unstinted stream the lore of the river on which all their days had been passed.
"Short Stories and Essays From "Literature and Life""
William Dean Howells
He did not much care for visitors in the pilothouse.
"The Boys' Life of Mark Twain"
Albert Bigelow Paine