Use petrel in a sentence
Sentences ending with petrel
- On this particular March afternoon the weather had become morne, as the French say; and I looked down sadly into the grey back yard which the wind of the morning had strewn with chips from the Petrel. [9]
- Such was the inglorious end of the good ship Petrel! [9]
More example sentences with the word petrel in them
- Six shoulders upheld the rear end of the Petrel, others shoved, and Thomas Jefferson's rickety horse began to move forward in spite of himself. [9]
- Well, said Tom, the Petrel hadn't proved much better than a raft, after all. [9]
- This designation of the Petrel as a "raft" was my first legal quibble. [9]
- The history of the building of the good ship Petrel is similar to that of all created things, a story of trial and error and waste. [9]
- The Petrel was sailing stern first.... Would any of us, indeed, ever see home again? [9]
- But he did not volunteer to be one of those to man the Petrel on her maiden voyage. [9]
- Ralph would have none of the Petrel, or of the South Seas either; but he wanted,--so he said,--"to be in at the death. [9]
- No sooner was my father safely on his way to his office than Thomas Jefferson was reported to be in the alley, where we assembled, surveying with some misgivings Thomas Jefferson's steed, whose ability to haul the Petrel two miles seemed somewhat doubtful. [9]
- I had beheld, in my dreams, the Petrel about to take the water, and Nancy Willett standing very straight making a little speech and crashing a bottle of wine across the bows. [9]
- We held a council, the all-important question of which was how to get the Petrel to the water, and what water to get her to. [9]
- Then the Petrel by heroic efforts was got into the wagon, the seat of which had been removed, old Thomas Jefferson perched himself precariously in the bow and protestingly gathered up his rope-patched reins. [9]
- She would fly at them--even as she flew at the head-hunters when the Petrel was menaced; and she could run like a deer. [9]
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