Looking for sentences and phrases with the word taffrail? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
Pamela was not sitting on the deck, but she was standing near the taffrail looking off the stern.
He noted Kennedy at the taffrail looking back towards whence they had come.
It was the first glitter of New York that sailors saw far out at sea, and the last glimmer on the horizon from the taffrail as they shipped out.
As soon as they passed the helmsman, he pulled her to the taffrail.
A secure fishing chair can optionally be fixed near the taffrail.
Examples from Classical Literature
There he lay like a log, as dumb as the man whom he had left clinging to the taffrail.
Then he stepped to the taffrail and looked down at the gig, which had been passed astern.
The patent log on the taffrail periodically rang a single tinkling stroke for every mile traversed on an errand of faith.
She is built of wood and is 200 feet long from taffrail to fore edge of stem.
The corsair was standing by the side of Mr Tompkins, close by the taffrail.
A small neat moulding at the foot of the taffrail over the light.
Captain Snaggs at once jumped up on the taffrail on our hailing her.
It required two men, however, to draw him on board over the taffrail.
The two midshipmen were standing aft, looking over the taffrail.
And the ordinary seaman, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand, got up, clambered over the taffrail, and vanished.
Come, let us lean on the taffrail, and look at the dolphins.
We went past the steersman to the taffrail, and saw the water come foaming under the stern and the bubbles go dancing and vanishing in her wake.
With the idea of gaining time she walked rapidly aft to the taffrail.
We have a ladder with hooks at the top for catching on the taffrail.
She was perhaps stopped, and her very fate hung in the balance, with the black mass of Koh-ring like the gate of the everlasting night towering over her taffrail.
