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Sentence Examples In 1839, the seeds of the civil rights earthquake that would rock the United States were sprinkled on a Spanish schooner named La Amistad. The yachts shown are two cutters, a schooner, a sloop with Bermuda rig much like our modern Marconi rig, and a lugger. I am in the musty storage bow of a sailless schooner on the murky waters of the river Styx. He received a fitting farewell in front of his home crowd before enjoying a celebratory schooner in the family pub in Sydney's inner-west. I picked up the trophy with 28 points, and I certainly enjoyed the schooner! They'd rather drink a schooner of fortified wine than be seen with a glass of something pink. The California is represented on the marine railways next to a schooner, and both vessels are receiving fresh coats of paint by workmen. The glimmering vessel was a great schooner, with multiple masts on top and impressive quarters inside. A lone sailboat, a single schooner, a solitary steamship might not have much impact in an eclectic gallery. As a side note, plans for a ship believed to be the schooner Enterprise were recently found in Venice. Dolphin pulled past them and assaulted the outside schooner, her guns taking out the mainmast. In 1881, the schooner Ellen Austin, bound for London, discovered a derelict adrift in the Sargasso. Vessels built of ferrocement may be accepted if they have a gaff or traditional schooner rig. Having no offer of beds, I returned to the schooner, and we pigged it out in the least miserable way we could. Some of the towline was paid out to send the commuter astern of the schooner. The schooner shown her with all sails set, with the exception of the staysails between the masts. In July 1798, Stephen Decatur, on the sloop Delaware, captured the French schooner Croyable off New Jersey. Drawing near the schooner, a crew was dispatched overside in the longboat with a squad of marines. Lighter vessels ranged upward from the cutter, a single-masted schooner with as little as one cannon on the open deck, or nothing but swivel guns mounted on her railings. On the way they passed by the schooner Tavern, where they encountered Dean Schmitz and Molly Flaherty. Show More Sentences An at-sea transfer is never an easy task, especially between a 115-ft. schooner, which has a deck about 20 feet from the waterline, and a much smaller boat. As every good captain knows, a schooner that's sailing a bit too close to the wind often goes slower and runs the risk of being put about on the wrong tack. Far from being an isolated port, one early nineteenth-century view of Monterey harbor shows a Russian brig, a Yankee schooner, and another ship at anchor. I want that schooner mast patched and sail rigged as soon as possible. The crew hopes that in 2005, the 140 ft schooner will become the first single-hulled yacht, or monohull, to cover the distance in less than 80 days. He gunned his engine, and bullied the schooner through, scraping bottom. Typically, 12 to 20 rounds were needed to destroy a caique or schooner. She was a small fast and shallow draft centerboard schooner and her rig except for foretopmasts and yankee was identical to the Shrewsbury Packets. The schooner had a free wind, and was substantially running before it. This was followed by a sudden eruption of angry male voices, what sounded like the phone being dropped into a schooner of beer, and then a disconnection. Turning, he could see the mast of the schooner held by the tackle. The popular annual corn-on-the-cob day was played last Thursday in 40 degree heat and I reckon everyone who finished should have received a free schooner. He took a slurp from his schooner and dug his fork into a chunk of fish. In addition to revealing the lives of black schooner and lightermen, Cecelski discusses canal building, bateaux boating, rafting, levee work, and various kinds of fishing. In 1876 he loaded the schooner City of Manitowoc with pine deals in Manistee, Michigan and took them through the St. Lawrence River and across the ocean. An attempt to relieve this group in 1922 failed when the schooner Teddy Bear under Captain Joe Bernard became stuck in the ice. The church there was built by wrecking the Frances Clayton, a goodsome schooner. International attention continued into the following century with the many racing victories of the Bluenose schooner. He returned in 1890 on the missionary schooner Pitcairn with an ordained minister to perform baptisms. If you're on a tight budget, go for rollmop herring and a schooner of fine Hamburg beer. Show More Sentences Fortunately, once in the beergarden with the good Doctor and a cold and frothy schooner of the amber nectar, everything fell into place. Notable British colonial privateers in Nova Scotia include Alexander Godfrey of the brig Rover and Joseph Barss of the schooner Liverpool Packet. A passing American vessel, the schooner Adams from Marblehead, Massachusetts, had rescued him. Similarly, in 1845 the schooner Naiad punished a native for stealing with such violence that the natives attacked the ship. The training ship Zebu, which circumnavigated the Globe as part of Operation Raleigh, is a good working example of a schooner brig. The brigantine was generally larger than a sloop or schooner but smaller than a brig. In 1968, Bill King sailed off on a junk schooner in the controversial Sunday Times Golden Globe Race. A baffed-out old schooner called The Michigan was being sent over the cataract. His squadron of seven ships comprised five frigates, a schooner, and a brig. What a tiny little schooner! But is it not bold to spread both sails? And see, now that we have come round to the wind, how the skiff keels over. I was unable to handle a brig, but I thought I could make shift to sail her as a schooner without public shame. A schooner, when you allow for the collar, is not much more beer than a stubby. A stubby of home brew costs me 25 cents. The motor schooner Struma was torpedoed and sunk in the Black Sea by a Soviet submarine in February 1942 with the loss of nearly 800 lives. There, Engels booked passage on the English schooner, Cornish Diamond under the command of a Captain Stevens. The voyage across the western Mediterranean, around the Iberian Peninsula by sailing schooner took about five weeks. The books Peter Duck and Missee Lee involve voyages of the schooner Wild Cat to the Caribbean and the South China Sea. The night was considerably clearer than anybody on board her desired when the schooner Ventura headed for the land. The sharpie is a flat-bottomed, shallow-draft vesel of moderate size, comparable to a sloop or schooner. The ewer was originally awarded in 1851 by the Royal Yacht Squadron for a race around the Isle of Wight in England, which was won by the schooner America. From every schooner, dories were being dropped into the shining, clear water. The sound of voices and the splashes of oars carried across the sea. Show More Sentences Shelley and Williams rented a house on the coast and had a schooner built. The schooner ploughed on Northerly for a minute longer, before tacking again to lay herself half a mile in advance of the nearer corvette, now up on their larboard quarter. The Americans discovered the new base at Nottawasaga Bay, and on August 13, they destroyed its fortifications and the schooner Nancy that they found there. And needless to say, the Western Australia row will eventually be filled in as well, though not before drinking a schooner of the amber nectar in Perth. In 1772, colonists in Rhode Island boarded and burned a customs schooner. Examples from Classical Literature Its occupant had just departed for a week's cruise as mate of a mackerel schooner. Mouley came shuffling up in his babouche slippers and we both ordered another schooner of beer. The schooner ahead of us had to cut, and she shifted her berth outside of us. As the grain of sand is to the bidarka, as the bidarka is to the schooner, so the schooner is to the steamer. Those on the schooner could see the gunboat, but the lookout on the cruiser did not see the blockade-runner. On receiving this information, the captain of the schooner ordered his boarding party to quit us. And how campion and Ormsby jumped at that idea of mine about the fishing schooner. The schooner had stayed on cashes Banks and had ridden out a gale that had driven other fishermen to shelter. There was a cockney in that yarn, too, and a South Sea woman and a schooner. The schooner shook with such a convulsion that I was persuaded she had been split. He calculated the number of bags of copra that would be ready for his next schooner. I don't like that schooner, Jess, and its ugly crew, lying there in the cove. And that Scaramouch of a schooner that the Frenchman gave us, in his charity? As he said she was a schooner, however, I thought it must be one of our own craft, and got her direction from him. The topsail-yard was on the cap, and the schooner now came up into the wind. Fig. 150 shows the position of the booms when scudding with a schooner and yawl. It was just possible that she might still be afloat, riding to the schooner as a sea anchor. His eye fell on a small fishing schooner at the end of the wharf, the only boat of seagoing size that the place boasted. Ahead of them the seaweed stretched, apparently all the way to the schooner. In the meantime the schooner had let draw her foresheet, and had already left him a quarter of a mile astern. Show More Sentences You don't mean to say you have taken horses from Fremantle to Singapore on a schooner? When he opened his eyes he looked up and saw a hanging-lamp that creaked on its gimbals as it swayed to the roll of the schooner. He does not sell beer by the bucket or can or growler or schooner, but by the pint. An after mainbrace aboard the schooner was shot away, and it made her head incline a little more towards us. I can see nothing but her top-hamper, but I think she is a schooner bound for New York. In fact, I'd like you to take the schooner to the next port and transship the cargo. His father was supposed to be a huge black and white Newfoundland that came over in a schooner from Miquelon. The schooner, meanwhile, had taken in her anchor and was unfurling her sails. That evening he received his last instructions, and the next day he sailed in the schooner montilla. Pushing one open, Ralph saw a four oared boat pulling rapidly for the schooner. The schooner might well have been warped to a dock in some port of the dead. He shifted his flag to the nonesuch, schooner, and sent the frigate to Trinidad. The mystery of the schooner was overlooked in a sight of the plates and victuals. A moment later, and the whole schooner was ablaze, from waterline to masthead. When we get to Papeete my manager is going to charter a schooner and away we'll sail. As late as 1856, the schooner Sarah Ann sailed from Papeete and was seen no more. And he's put nigh every cent he's got, all peke Latham left him, into this schooner. While this was being done, the youthful Corrie was in the fore-part of the schooner whispering eagerly to Alice and poopy. A neighbor took my father with him and met us at McGregor Landing with an ox team hitched to a prairie schooner. We camped for three weeks, living in our prairie schooner, while the men put up the wild hay. Show More Sentences A prairie schooner is a long deep wagon bed with flaring sides, about eight feet high and twenty feet long. So now we are all starting early in the morning via a prairie schooner to Boulder. You see, my first plan is entirely upset by a prairie schooner, an Indian, and a horse-dealer. They had met emigrants on the Ohio, and had seen the white sail of the prairie schooner in all of the forest ways. If we save the schooner, we will receive as prize money about one-half her value. The schooner built by the mutineers was ready for sea, but not provisioned for a voyage. So on and on and on he went, till at last arriving at red bay he found his schooner at anchor calmly fishing. The old schooner scrunched her way past the Olenia, roweling the yacht's glossy paint and smearing her with tar and slime. The essentials of the schooner are two fore-and-aft sails and a headsail, any other sails being incidental. The schooner had only left Guernsey, after a refit, the day before I was taken on board her. This shark, I was told, had kept company with me as long as I had been in sight from the schooner. By the time Captain Briggs, followed by the faithful Ruddy, reached the stringpiece of the wharf, the schooner was already close. And here the schooner began to feel in earnest the breezes of the Kattegat. The breeze was very light, and the schooner could still be discerned from the deck of the supplejack. The waves rolled high, and the little schooner plunged about in a manner frightful to a landlubber. Ill teach you how to sail a schooner and how to go about barefoot and swab decks. The tafferel of the schooner actually came in sight, when a little swell passed over it, leaving it for an instant in the trough. They laid her out in the bottom of the boat, with the life buoy as a pillow, and pulled energetically for the schooner. The stranger was a large schooner, and the tautness of the spars and rigging showed that she was in beautiful order. Most of the time on the island we spent debating how lobelia come to be on the schooner. Show More Sentences For an endless period, as it seemed to me, I lay with my head on the thwart watching the schooner come up out of the sea. I told scofield this morning he could begin to load that schooner of his. The schooner drifted away, with Captain scroop at the wheel. I met the seal-hunter, Pete Holt, and agreed to be his boat-puller and to sign on any schooner he signed on. The schooner was heeling in a manner which showed the thrust of wind. The Holyoke followed the schooner, and came to anchor near the West Wind. He had been a member of the crew of the smuggling schooner Halcyon when she was captured by a revenue cutter. During supper the schooner approached the dolphin, and lay alongside. Slowly the light in the schooner descended to its normal position. I never did see such a Jonah of an old tub as that dratted schooner! A schooner riding to an anchor in the bay was flying her ensign for help. He slipped it through a loop of rope at the dory's bow, caught Dan's tackle, hooked it to the stern-becket, and clambered into the schooner. They include a schooner being loaded with slates at Greaves' Wharf, Porthmadog and the sailing ship Garibaldi which was used by Sea Cadets. I was mate, then, on the Duchess, a whacking big one-hundred-and fifty-ton schooner, a blackbirder. Maigret and Bachelot left in a schooner for Bonabe, Micronesia. As a cook aboard the schooner, Black Swan, Noonan prepares meals for a sour crew and disappointed passengers. Trelawney had taken up his residence at an inn far down the docks to superintend the work upon the schooner. I don't know how he came to be in command of a fore-and-aft schooner. Amid a mass of spoondrift the schooner drove helplessly before it. She was a screw-propeller, and rigged as a fore-topsail schooner. Show More Sentences Montgomery's movement to follow me released my attention, and I turned and looked about me at the flush deck of the little schooner. Dey garrotte de cap'en and crew, an' Charles go to turn de schooner. In particular, the war fought by the tiny British naval schooner Bream reveals how small units fought this war. Both tackles were hooked in a trice, and the three men, deftly timing the roll, made a simultaneous leap aboard the schooner. On the very day the schooner departed he was ordered to buy a chicken from Samisee, the native Tongan missionary. All right, jess, take his stuff to the beach and hail the schooner. At the same time, the schooner began to turn upon her heel, spinning slowly, end for end, across the current. The schooner was as newly painted and trig as if fresh from the ways. The schooner was also finished, and launched, with the accustomed ceremony, on the second of October, and took her station below the fort. We returned to linga, and all embarked in a little schooner for home. The schooner seemed to be straying promiscuously through the smother, her head-sail banging wildly. The quiet dignity of his bearing transformed the dim-lit cuddy of the schooner into an audience-hall. The next morning all hands set to work with a will to refit the schooner. Lines had to be rocketed from the schooner to the other vessels. There were hundreds of us on board, trying to put out the fire, heaving up water from overside, when the schooner blew up. The little schooner was gambolling all around her anchor among the silver-tipped waves. A prairie schooner should have some sort of a hound following it. The schooner flying the Mexican flag remained hove to abeam. When we got back to the schooner, we found her lifting her anchors. I have just been looking at a little schooner in Apia harbour. Show More Sentences For a trifling sum I could have chartered a schooner and sought the atoll. In the harbor I had noticed a three-master, the schooner Ayesha. The schooner was not bound up the bay for Alviso nor to Vallejo for grain. Over went the schooner, till she lay helplessly on her beam-ends. I felt an abrupt easing of the schooner, a loss for the moment of all strain and pressure, coupled with a swift acceleration of speed. Over his schooner of beer K. gathered something of the story. The beautiful salmon boat lay on the hard sand, squashed flat as a pancake, while on it were perched French Frank's schooner and the Reindeer. The only sail noticeable was a foreign schooner with all sails set, which was seemingly going westwards. Blackburn and his dory-mate left their schooner in a driving snow-storm. He celebrated his landing by mopping up half a case of gin and by thrashing the elderly and wheezy mate of the schooner which had brought him. I stretched myself half over the tafferel, and looked for the schooner. Each brig, brigantine, or schooner, carried three or four apprentices. The English haven't a steamer that can catch a Brookhaven schooner. Heavy weather coming on, the schooner ran into the port of Buenaventura. Waal, about this schooner of yours, is she a pretty sea-boat? And I sent a schooner clear to Hawaii to bring back a dismantled sugar mill and a German who said he knew the field-end of cane. Livesey were seated together, finishing a quart of ale with a toast in it, before they should go aboard the schooner on a visit of inspection. At sunrise the schooner weighed anchor, in order to accompany the coaster. Before he left the schooner, he set her on fire, and fixed up all the powder and dynamite so that it would go off at one time. The schooner sailed like a witch, carrying only two gaff-topsails. Show More Sentences Two gunboats were newly planked up, and work on a schooner was just begun. This schooner was a pearler, and they had the location of a bed of shell. The schooner was wet, and the seas she shipped would put out my fire. The water was now up to my breast, and I knew the schooner must go over. Then I reckon that's the rig-out for the crew of a prairie schooner, eh? The released lead plopped into the sea far ahead as the schooner surged slowly forward. Of course we were lodged and fed, in waiting for the schooner to come in. Around the schooner lay a number of small fishing-boats belonging to the fishermen of the neighboring village, like humble subjects awaiting orders from their queen. Same schooner, Charlie Ritchie, Liverpool, Nova Scotia, 33, single. Meanwhile the schooner gradually fell off and filled again upon another tack, sailed swiftly for a minute or so, and brought up once more dead in the wind's eye. As they headed in for the sandspit, the submerged salmon boat could be seen, gunwales awash and held up from sinking by ropes fast to the schooner and the sloop. On the bottom of the huge and glassy lagoon was much pearl shell, and from the deck of the schooner, across the slender ring of the atoll, the divers could be seen at work. A schooner, yawl, or cutter in charge of a capable man seems to handle herself as if endowed with the power of reasoning and the gift of swift execution. On board the schooner the boat-pullers and steerers are the crew. The profit of that enterprise will enable me to obtain a long, low, black schooner, raise a death's-head flag and engage in commerce on the high seas. The wind and rain had ceased, and the stillness of the night round the schooner was as dumb and complete as if a dead world had been laid to rest in a grave of clouds. During the night, while the oyster pirates lay stupefied in their bunks, the schooner and the Reindeer floated on the high water and swung about to their anchors. A schooner, from Spain or Portugal, laden with fruit and wine. Purists might say a ship can only be used to describe a large sailing vessel with a specific square rigged sail, as opposed to barkentine or schooner. At last, passage paid, and luggage safe, we stood on board the schooner. Show More Sentences Anne and Gilbert found Uncle Jim sitting on a bench outside the lighthouse, putting the finishing touches to a wonderful, full-rigged, toy schooner. Each schooner in sight seemed to be pulling her dories towards her by invisible strings, and the little black figures in the tiny boats pulled like clockwork toys. The seventh year his schooner was seized in Bering Sea by a Russian cruiser, and all hands, so the talk went, were slammed into the Siberian salt mines. Find more words! 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