Use raft in a sentence
Sentences ending with raft
- There was a yell at us, and a jingling of bells to stop the engines, a powwow of cussing, and whistling of steam--and as Jim went overboard on one side and I on the other, she come smashing straight through the raft. [5]
- At seventy, you, with a few fellow-passengers, are on a raft. [6]
- He gazed a while through a piece of smoked glass at the penciled line lying on the distant water, and then said: "Land be hanged,--it's a raft! [5]
- He gazed awhile through a piece of smoked glass at the penciled line lying on the distant water, and then said: "Land be hanged--it's a raft! [5]
- Then Jim manned the oars, and we took out after our raft. [5]
- A brave fellow swam to it, and after long and exhausting effort got it to the raft. [5]
- Germany, in the summer, is the perfection of the beautiful, but nobody has understood, and realized, and enjoyed the utmost possibilities of this soft and peaceful beauty unless he has voyaged down the Neckar on a raft. [5]
- He could not stop his raft. [11]
- I improvised bandages, set the leg directly, and in a little while we got to the shore on a hastily constructed raft. [11]
- It was the raft. [5]
Short sentences using raft
- The raft was gone! [5]
- Where's the raft? [5]
Sentences containing raft two or more times
- The connections of the several sections of the raft are slack and pliant, so that the raft may be readily bent into any sort of curve required by the shape of the river. [5]
More example sentences with the word raft in them
- On the raft, you remember, he took off his hat to death. [11]
- As Brydon's gang worked, they saw a man out upon a small raft of driftwood, which had been suddenly caught in the drive of logs, and was carried out towards the middle channel. [11]
- Everybody goes away when I want them to help me tow the raft ashore, and I can't do it by myself. [5]
- By and by we talked about what we better do, and found there warn't no way but just to go along down with the raft till we got a chance to buy a canoe to go back in. [5]
- I took the watch, and Jim he laid down and snored away; and by and by the storm let up for good and all; and the first cabin-light that showed I rousted him out, and we slid the raft into hiding quarters for the day. [5]
- The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind. [5]
- But if you was to go to Europe you'd see a raft of 'em hopping around. [5]
- The other oar was smashed off, and the raft was littered up with leaves and branches and dirt. [5]
- Now the raft was passing before the distant town. [5]
- We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. [5]
- But I didn't want to run the raft in the daytime without anybody aboard to answer questions but me; so I didn't want the plan to begin working till pretty late to-night. [5]
- It had clouded up pretty dark just after I got on to the raft, but it was clearing up again now. [5]
- Before he was t'other side of the river I was out of the hole; him and his raft was just a speck on the water away off yonder. [5]
- So then I took the bearings of a woody island that was down the river a piece, and as soon as it was fairly dark I crept out with my raft and went for it, and hid it there, and then turned in. [5]
- His eyes wandered to the raft where the men were singing, and he remembered the threat made: that if he came again to the Cote Dorion he "would get what for! [11]
- 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]
- It wouldn't do to take to the shore; we couldn't take the raft up the stream, of course. [5]
- You cannot pretend to lecture chiefly for men like that,--a Mississippi raft might as well take an ocean-steamer in tow. [3]
- Towards daybreak we tied up, and Jim was mighty particular about hiding the raft good. [5]
- How different is this marvel observed from a raft, from what it is when one observes it through the dingy windows of a railway-station in some wretched village while he munches a petrified sandwich and waits for the train. [5]
- So at last they got just about dead broke, and laid around the raft as she floated along, thinking and thinking, and never saying nothing, by the half a day at a time, and dreadful blue and desperate. [5]
- We stayed in the wigwam and let the raft take care of itself. [5]
- You start at the raft, and--" "Oh, my lordy, lordy! [5]
- I went to the raft, and set down in the wigwam to think. [5]
- A mile below, the raft was brought to shore, and again the people said that Felion had saved the little city from disaster. [11]
- We would sell the raft and get on a steamboat and go way up the Ohio amongst the free States, and then be out of trouble. [5]
- To be sure, the poor wretches in the painting were on a raft, but to think of fifty people in one of these open boats! [6]
- Well, said Tom, the Petrel hadn't proved much better than a raft, after all. [9]
- The sun had sunk half below the horizon and an evening frost was starring the puddles near the ferry, but Pierre and Andrew, to the astonishment of the footmen, coachmen, and ferrymen, still stood on the raft and talked. [2]
- The people often stepped aboard the raft, as we glided along the grassy shores, and gossiped with us and with the crew for a hundred yards or so, then stepped ashore again, refreshed by the ride. [5]
- His proposition about some insane pleasure excursion on a raft is too absurd to repeat. [5]
- There was a small log raft there which they meant to capture. [5]
- He was never seen any more; his raft got swamped, perhaps. [5]
- Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. [5]
- So when we see the raft was gone and we flat broke, there warn't anything for it but to try the Royal Nonesuch another shake. [5]
- He raised considerable row about it, but me and Jim stuck to it and wouldn't budge; so he was for crawling out and setting the raft loose himself; but we wouldn't let him. [5]
- The boat skirted round and round the raft, started away--the agony of it!--returned, rested the oars, close at hand, listening, no doubt. [5]
- It was the raft, and mighty glad was we to get aboard of it again. [5]
- We struck the raft at the same time, and in less than two seconds we was gliding down stream, all dark and still, and edging towards the middle of the river, nobody saying a word. [5]
- We found a pond of salt water close by and scraped up a raft of salt around the edges, and loaded up the lion's skin and the tiger's so as they would keep till Jim could tan them. [5]
- Felion drew himself over to the huge oar, and with the strength of five men, while the people watched and prayed, he kept the raft straight for the great slide, else it had gone over the dam and been lost, and all that were thereon. [11]
- Then we struck out, easy and comfortable, for the island where my raft was; and we could hear them yelling and barking at each other all up and down the bank, till we was so far away the sounds got dim and died out. [5]
- Then we got out the raft and slipped along down in the shade, past the foot of the island dead still--never saying a word. [5]
- So he ran out on a raft to warn them, but a log turned with him and slid him into the river. [5]
- So we shoved out after dark on the raft. [5]
- On the right, or eastern shore, where the Arabs were constructing the raft, spread solid ground-fields through which lay the road to Doomiat; on the other shore, near which the boat was lying, the bog extended for a long way. [10]
- A vagrant current or a slight rise in the river had carried off their raft, but this only gratified them, since its going was something like burning the bridge between them and civilization. [5]
- It lays right on top of a knoll in the dead center of the buryin' ground; and you can see Millport from there, and Tracy's, and Hopper Mount, and a raft o' farms, and so on. [5]
- Three minutes later, on the raft, he was examining a wound in the head of an insensible man. [11]
- The first day on the raft, as Charley had opened his eyes upon the world again after that awful night at the Cote Dorion, Jo. [11]
- There are some old pessimists, it is true, who believe that they and a few others are on a raft, and that the ship which they have quitted, holding the rest of mankind, is going down with all on board. [6]
- Defying the code of the river, with only one small light at the rear of his raft, he voyaged the swift current towards his home, which, when he arrived opposite the Cote Dorion, was still a hundred miles below. [11]
- Then get up my canoe to-morrow night, and fetch my raft over from the island. [5]
- He said twenty mile more warn't far for the raft to go, but he wished we was already there. [5]
- He had me measure him and take a whole raft of directions; then he had the minister stand up behind along box with a table--cloth over it, to represent the coffin, and read his funeral sermon, saying 'Angcore, angcore! [5]
- He had me measure him and take a whole raft of directions; then he had a minister stand up behind a long box with a tablecloth over it and read his funeral sermon, saying 'Angcore, angcore! [5]
- So he locked me in and took the skiff, and started off towing the raft about half-past three. [5]
- Then he asked me a whole raft of questions about fellows in the neighbourhood I didn't know he'd ever heard of. [9]
- She may have made a raft, or picked up some stray skiff. [6]
- While I was looking down upon the rafts that morning in Heilbronn, the daredevil spirit of adventure came suddenly upon me, and I said to my comrades: "_I_ am going to Heidelberg on a raft. [5]
- The raft had long since stopped and only the waves of the current beat softly against it below. [2]
- It's lovely to live on a raft. [5]
- I am the lineal descendant of that infant--I am the rightful Duke of Bridgewater; and here am I, forlorn, torn from my high estate, hunted of men, despised by the cold world, ragged, worn, heart-broken, and degraded to the companionship of felons on a raft! [5]
- I passed the line around one of them right on the edge of the cut bank, but there was a stiff current, and the raft come booming down so lively she tore it out by the roots and away she went. [5]
- Prince Andrew stood leaning on the railing of the raft listening to Pierre, and he gazed with his eyes fixed on the red reflection of the sun gleaming on the blue waters. [2]
- You see he laid over me and Jim considerable, because we only went down the river on a raft and came back by the steamboat, but Tom went by the steamboat both ways. [5]
- He give a kind of a groan, and says-- '"I've seed a raft act so before, along here," he says, "'pears to me the current has most quit above the head of this bend durin' the last two years," he says. [5]
- When it fell it wiped out a considerable raft of stars just as clean as if they'd been candles and somebody blowed them out. [5]
- About two o'clock in the morning the raft grounded on the bar two hundred yards above the head of the island, and they waded back and forth until they had landed their freight. [5]
- Their raft was in the channel, coming straight between two piers. [11]
- In my experience I knowed it wouldn't take much short of two weeks to do it down the Mississippi on a raft. [5]
- The next moment I had my long-coveted desire: I saw a raft wrecked. [5]
- By the time I got there the sky was beginning to get a little gray in the east; so we struck for an island, and hid the raft, and sunk the skiff, and turned in and slept like dead people. [5]
- As soon as I got started I took out after the raft, hot and heavy, right down the towhead. [5]
- But I said I didn't; so I told him just how to find the raft, and then he started. [5]
- Prince Andrew, leaning his arms on the raft railing, gazed silently at the flooding waters glittering in the setting sun. [2]
- I ran after him, crying out, but he leaped on the raft that was already in the stream and began to pole across. [9]
- We never got him till dark; then we fetched him over, and I started down for the raft. [5]
- There was a great raft built about two thousand years ago,--call it an ark, rather,--the world's great ark! [6]
- Therefore, he instituted games called makahiki, and ordered that they should be held in his honor, and then sailed for foreign lands on a three-cornered raft, stating that he would return some day--and that was the last of Lono. [5]
- You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft. [5]
- I said that, for a tranquil pleasure excursion, there was nothing equal to a raft. [5]
- I see the fog closing down, and it made me so sick and scared I couldn't budge for most a half a minute it seemed to me--and then there warn't no raft in sight; you couldn't see twenty yards. [5]
- Jim made a floor for the wigwam, and raised it a foot or more above the level of the raft, so now the blankets and all the traps was out of reach of steamboat waves. [5]
- They saw a fire smouldering upon a great raft a hundred yards above, and they went stealthily thither and helped themselves to a chunk. [5]
- By that time everything we had in the world was on our raft, and she was ready to be shoved out from the willow cove where she was hid. [5]
- There's a raft episode from it in second or third chapter of life on the Mississippi..... [5]
- We boomed along down the river, watching for lights and watching for our raft. [5]
- So I swum down along the raft till I was most abreast the camp fire in the middle, then I crawled aboard and inched along and got in amongst some bundles of shingles on the weather side of the fire. [5]
- At its back door was moored a raft about thirty feet square, with a sort of fence built upon it, and inside of this some sixteen cows and twenty hogs were standing. [5]
- We had been dancing right along until those men began to shout; then for the next ten minutes it seemed to me that I had never seen a raft go so slowly. [5]
- A small, rudely constructed raft was to be their home for eight days. [5]
- Said the Reverend, concluding: "There was one little moment of time in which that raft could be visible from that ship, and only one. [5]
- The soldier began climbing, and McGilveray caught the oars and was instantly away towards the raft. [11]
- Harris wanted to cable his mother--thought it his duty to do that, as he was all she had in this world--so, while he attended to this, I went down to the longest and finest raft and hailed the captain with a hearty "Ahoy, shipmate! [5]
- I have traveled by canal-boat, ox-wagon, raft, and by the Ephesus and Smyrna railway; but when it comes down to good solid honest slow motion, I bet my money on the glacier. [5]
- The next day brought us to the Cumberland, tawny and swollen from the rains, and here we had to stop to fell trees to make a raft on which to ferry over our packs. [9]
- A raft was bound together, and Tom McChesney and three other scouts sent on a desperate journey across the river in search of boats and provisions, lest we starve and fall and die on the wet flats. [9]
- He is, at best, only a mushroom growth of the recent period (came in, probably, with the general raft of mammalian fauna); but he possesses yet some rudimentary traits that may be studied. [4]
- The raft had been brought out into the current by French sailors, the fuse had been lighted, and it was headed to drift towards the British ships. [11]
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