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Sentences ending with boat

Then no light whatever issues from the boat. [5]
Hardly any passengers were taken, because they not only add weight but they never will 'trim boat. [5]
But the Maria was hardly cast and under way before it became painfully apparent that the Celebrity was much better fitted to lead a cotillon than to sail a boat. [9]
When the flat was brought up, the side of the house was cut away as the only means of getting the animals out, and the cattle were driven on board the boat. [5]
If you ain't used to this kind of fishing, and go with me, you'd better tie yourself in the boat. [4]
Now comes the tonnage of that boat. [5]
Sappho, therefore, had to take a short farewell of her grandmother, all the more tender, however, for its shortness,--and then, led by Rartja and followed by old Melitta, who was to accompany her to Persia, she went on board Syloson's boat. [10]
Smith ordered him to send a boat; Chambers replied that his boat was split, which was a lie, and told him to come off in the Frenchman's boat. [4]
Now we seem to see why that curious incident happened, so long ago; I mean Cox's return, after he had been far away and out of sight several days in the chief mate's boat. [5]
Then I says to myself, s'pose Tom Sawyer comes down on that boat? [5]

Short sentences using boat

Whose boat is this? [9]
The boat was there. [4]
His boat was just in. [5]
The boat approaches him. [4]
My boat was found upset. [11]
And she's your boat. [9]
He recognised the boat also. [11]
No sign of a boat. [5]
The boat turned. [4]
But the boat? [4]

Sentences containing boat two or more times

A man left to himself drifts about like a boat on a calm lake; it is only when the wind blows that the boat goes anywhere. [4]
A series of these floats would make a line as long as a boat and would show any influence upon any part and all parts of the boat. [7]
Or it was the same stalwart maiden, or another as good, in a boat which stood on end, pulling through the surf with one oar, and dragging a drowning man (in a bathing suit also) into the boat with her free hand. [4]
By reason of the foul weather the pirate could not board Smith, and his master, mate, and pilot, Chambers, Minter, and Digby, importuned him to surrender, and that he should send a boat to the pirate, as Fry had no boat. [4]
There the two stepped into a boat that waited for them, of which the rowers were nobly fashioned, like the Keeper of the House, and as they bowed their heads to a melodious blessing, the boat drew away. [11]
The president and secretary detailed them for service on one boat or another, as they chose, and changed them from boat to boat according to certain rules. [5]
In the bow of the boat is a light in a "jack," the rays of which are shielded from the boat and its occupants. [4]
Then she led Nefert, who remained unrecognized, into the boat, entered it herself with her companions, and shortly after landed at the palace, while Paaker's mother, for whom he had called his boat, had yet a long time to wait before it could start. [10]
They began to mount heavenward; the boat was upset, mocking every exertion; the waves rose to the gunwale, and splitting on the hard stones, the Boat broke into Pieces. [5]
A moment after, Lafarge was in a boat rowing over to meet another boat rowed by Joan alone, who, dressed in a suit of Bissonnette's, had prevailed on her father to let her go. [11]

More example sentences with the word boat in them

The litters and your tottering gait would betray everything if we were to enter the boat anywhere else in the great harbour. [10]
You boldly drive your boat right into what seems to be a solid, straight wall (you knowing very well that in reality there is a curve there), and that wall falls back and makes way for you. [5]
Pyrrhus and his youngest son were just pushing a boat into the water to release from the sands another which had run aground in a shallow near the neighbouring island. [10]
I won't suppose you to be disgracing yourself in one of those miserable tubs, tugging in which is to rowing the true boat what riding a cow is to bestriding an Arab. [6]
May I offer you a place in my boat, or do you propose remaining here to assist at the festival and not starting till to-morrow morning? [10]
But the boat would float on, and the boulder descend again, and then we could see that when we had been exactly above it, it must still have been twenty or thirty feet below the surface. [5]
I had hard work to keep my head above water, and I struggled desperately to escape from my toils; for if the boat were to go down I should be dragged down with her. [6]
Without uttering a word in reply, Ledscha stepped back into the boat, but Hanno plied the oars with the utmost caution and guided the skiff without the slightest sound away from the island to an open part of the water far distant from any shore. [10]
They did so with those they took from a boat that was aground in the Tennessee River a few days ago. [7]
He went up-town with the man I was telling you of, to get a boat and see if they could borrow another gun. [5]
A Cincinnati boat will, but this is a St. Louis one. [5]
And Lige's boat will be back from New Orleans to-morrow or Sunday. [9]
The baker Carcaud, who, with Olivier Delagarde, betrayed the country into the hands of Rullecour years ago, had, with a French confederate of Mattingley's, been captured in attempting to steal Jean Touzel's boat, the Hardi Biaou. [11]
The boat on which the freedman had come was at the disposal of his master and himself. [10]
The enemy's fleet, which subsequently did not let a single boat pass, allows his entire army to elude it. [2]
The boat in which Carmen had been placed was swamped not far from shore, but she managed to lay hold of a piece of drifting wreckage, and began to fight steadily and easily landward. [11]
Do you know where the Boat Club is on the River Boulevard? [9]
Do you remember when we were sailing round the pond, and the boat upset, and you pulled me senseless out of the water? [10]
She and Fabian, when the boat left the shore, went to one corner of the stern, leaving Carnac and Junia in the bow. [11]
Thirty powerful rowers were urging the long, narrow boat toward them. [10]
The sailors' songs were hushed, and the psalms of the virgin sisters, imploring the protection of the Almighty, seemed to float round the gliding boat as softly as the light of the circling moon. [10]
The Fleulen boat went out crowded yesterday morning. [5]
We tied the week's washing astern of our boat, and sailed a quarter of a mile, and the job was complete, all to the wringing out. [5]
But he was wealthy, had an intense admiration for Mrs. Falchion, and had managed to secure her in his boat, to separate from the rest of the picnic party-- chiefly through his inefficient rowing. [11]
Now and then we would hit one of these sunken logs a rattling bang, dead in the center, with a full head of steam, and it would stun the boat as if she had hit a continent. [5]
By and by we took boat and went ashore at Kailua, designing to ride horseback through the pleasant orange and coffee region of Kona, and rejoin the vessel at a point some leagues distant. [5]
When daylight came, we found our boat, though badly wrecked, still held together. [11]
I made my way down to the water-side, where Jake Landrasse sat alone on the gunwale of a Kentucky boat, smoking a clay pipe as he fished. [9]
He threaded his way back to the ferry landing, found nobody at large there, and walked boldly on board the boat, for he knew she was tenantless except that there was a watchman, who always turned in and slept like a graven image. [5]
The men's mouths watered for him, for he would have made a whole banquet; but no one dared to touch him, of course, for he would sink a boat promptly if molested. [5]
Nearly all were watching the rescue boat, though a few looked over the sides of the ship as if they expected to find bodies floating about. [11]
The little Chevalier watched the boat glide out into the gloom of night, and waited till he knew that they must all be aboard Ranulph's schooner and making for the sea. [11]
However, Eagle Bend was two miles wide at this bank-full stage, and correspondingly long and deep; and the boat was steering herself straight down the middle and taking no chances. [5]
The boat which was to convey him over to it lay ready in the little flotilla, where a magnificently equipped galley had just been moored to the shore, undoubtedly the one that had brought the guests from Pelusium hither. [10]
If no boat was there, then we must circle the lake three or four miles farther through a cedar-swamp, with no trail in particular. [4]
So singularly clear was the water, that where it was only twenty or thirty feet deep the bottom was so perfectly distinct that the boat seemed floating in the air! [5]
Though the grass was still wet, she got down on her knees in her white skirt, the better to push the boat along the shore: once it drifted beyond their reach, and was only rescued by a fallen branch discovered with difficulty. [9]
Colonel Ryder's face was stern, Clovelly was pale and anxious, as moment after moment went, and the boat was not yet free. [11]
As the sun was setting they went in a covered boat through the Agathodamon Canal to Lake Mareotis. [10]
As Nahoum's boat was rowed away, Hylda came on deck again, and the Duchess hastened to her. [11]
No, a boat was putting out from the Narcissus. [11]
The next minute was one of suspense, for we saw the boat shoot beneath the archway. [11]
But the boat was not more than a day out of New Orleans before Stephen discovered that the captain was boasting of his exploit, and that all the officers had been told. [5]
Gratiot, if it was my boat, I'd delay the departure till morning. [9]
Indeed, the heat was most oppressive, but we had become to some extent inured to it on the boat, and we were both in such sound health that our slumbers were not disturbed. [9]
Mr. Clarence Colfax was likewise on the boat, and passing Stephen on the guards, bowed distantly. [9]
Just as he was lifting anchor to get away, he saw a boat shoot out from the side of the Cormorant. [11]
If the boat was known to make her best speed when drawing five and a half feet forward and five feet aft, she was carefully loaded to that exact figure--she wouldn't enter a dose of homoeopathic pills on her manifest after that. [5]
That little boat was interesting in every way. [5]
A Government boat was hastening in to the bank, almost opposite her house. [11]
When the boat was gone the king made me paddle up another mile to a lonesome place, and then he got ashore and says: "Now hustle back, right off, and fetch the duke up here, and the new carpet-bags. [5]
After the boat was fast to the landing stage he remained watching the captain, who was speaking a few parting words to some passengers of fashion. [9]
The minute I was far enough above the town to see I could make the towhead, I begun to look sharp for a boat to borrow, and the first time the lightning showed me one that wasn't chained I snatched it and shoved. [5]
Still, one boat was enough; so we went down to look at her. [5]
Soon the boat was drawn up again, and others took the place of those who had disappeared. [11]
But down-stream work was different; a boat was too nearly helpless, with a stiff current pushing behind her; so it was not customary to run down-stream at night in low water. [5]
Once when he was captain of the 'Crescent City,' I was bringing the boat into port at New Orleans, and momently expecting orders from the hurricane deck, but received none. [5]
At noon Hanno was about to get into a boat to go to her father's ship, and she insisted upon accompanying him. [10]
As General Wolfe was about to enter the boat which was to convey him to the flag-ship, he saw McGilveray, who was waiting under guard to be taken to Major Hardy's post at Point Levis. [11]
In the skiff was a youth of fourteen or fifteen years, holding by the slender twigs, the boat dragging at them all the time, and threatening to tear them away and go over the fall. [6]
Sure enough, there was a boat on the water. [11]
The place is waiting for him, and it can't wait longer than the last boat down. [11]
A man of very uncouth and rough appearance was standing over them, and two of his companions were looking on, from a long heavy boat which had come close to the bank while they were sleeping. [12]
At last it ventured out,--showing at intervals, like the boat rising on the billow, sinking into the hollow, and climbing again into notice. [6]
Then, passing through veil after veil of mystery, it told of a grand Seigneur whose boat was overturned in a whirlpool, and was saved by a little brown diver. [11]
The boat came up to the surface, broken in twain, splintered, a load of firewood for those who raked the river lower down. [6]
When we got up in the morning, we found that the fire had burned small pieces of drift wood within six feet of our boat, and had made its way to within 4 or 5 steps of us on the South side. [5]
Every minute the University boat was getting nearer the other. [6]
The boat rode under all her courses, until, as Jean said, they had put the last lace on her bonnet. [11]
The captain, the two passengers, and eleven men were in the long-boat, with a share of the provisions and water, and with no room to spare, for the boat was only twenty-one feet long, six wide, and three deep. [5]
But he had two pals aboard the boat, hiding, and he knowed they was going to kill him the first chance they got and take the di'monds; because all three stole them, and then this fellow he got hold of them and skipped. [5]
He made a trip with good old Captain Y----once, and was 'relieved' from duty when the boat got to New Orleans. [5]
A clump of trees hid the edge of the lake along which the Corinna's boat was stealing towards the starting-point. [6]
He wished to traverse the province on foot and on horseback, and Sabina was to follow by boat as soon as the inundation should begin. [10]
When the boat touched the levee at New Orleans she bade good-by to her comrades on the _Grand Mogul_ and moved her kit ashore. [5]
Presently she hove to, and through our glasses we discerned a small boat making for her side, and then a man clambering up her sea-ladder. [9]
Each held on to the raft by one lean, wiry arm, carrying on the other the round bucklers on which the arrows that came whistling from the boat, fell and stuck as soon as they were within shot. [10]
After he got to the middle of the boat he crept slower than ever, and it did seem like years to me. [5]
When we got to the last place where the pilot could land, the waves were running like hills to the shore, and no boat could live between the ship and the point. [11]
Their breath added to the heat of the advancing day; and though the smoke was borne southwards by the wind, a few cloudlets came over to the boat, choking the sisters and their deliverers. [10]
I followed him to the boat this morning and sought to cast myself at his feet. [10]
We were driven to the boat by the intense heat, and there we remained, spell-bound. [5]
The boat was to tarry at Memphis till ten the next morning. [5]
So he had to take the other boat, and go to the other ship. [5]
He immediately proposed to take me all over the boat and tell me the names of her different parts, and teach me their uses. [5]
The boat came to shore and was tied up for the night. [5]
They were determined to seize the boat, to take its freight prisoners, and have them duly punished. [10]
We have had to run ashore for shelter every time it has rained heretofore, but Joseph has been putting in his odd time making a water-proof sun-bonnet for the boat, and now we sail along dry although we had many heavy showers this morning. [5]
Preparing to go to Roanoke next day, a boat was upset and Captain Spicer and six of the crew were drowned. [4]
He even helped to push the boat towards the water. [9]
King was ready to pull the boat on to the float, and Irene stood by the landing expectant. [4]
It was astonishing to observe how suddenly the boat would spin around and turn tail the moment she emerged from the eddy and the current struck her nose. [5]
She won't want to mount the reef; a boat hates shoal water. [5]
I was willing to make boat trips for pleasure, but I could not conscientiously make them in the way of business. [5]
My duty was to hold the boat steadily on her calamitous course, and leave the consequences to take care of themselves--which I did. [5]
You just ought to have seen him take this boat through Helena crossing. [5]
They had come to fight, even if the boat had been defended by fifty Egyptian soldiers instead of carrying a score or so of sailors and artisans. [10]
But when trying to descend the rope-ladder from the high ship into the skiff in which sailors had rowed from the land, he made a misstep with his stiff leg and fell into the boat. [10]
The door slammed to because it was on the careened side; and in a half second I was in the boat, and Jim come tumbling after me. [5]
Suffering no one to accompany him, he carried the sick man to the boat which had brought the Queen's messenger to Rozel Bay. [11]

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