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Sentences ending with skiff

Huck, I'll take you right to it in a skiff. [5]
The two men were not hauled in, for the gale was blowing too hard, but they clung to the rescuing skiff. [11]
It was impossible to get the insensible body into the skiff. [11]
We'll eat and smoke when we get to the skiff. [5]
She may have made a raft, or picked up some stray skiff. [6]
I know what became of the skiff. [5]
A skiff! [9]

Sentences containing skiff two or more times

And the saddest, saddest man came along--a stranger he was--and he looked that red skiff over so pathetically, and he said: "Well, if it weren't for the complexion I'd know whose skiff that was. [5]

More example sentences with the word skiff in them

An elderly woman would not have sprung so nimbly into the skiff that was to convey her to the land. [10]
Now a skiff would dart away from one of them, and come fighting its laborious way across the desert of water. [5]
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]
When the boats with their chattering passengers had pushed out into the lake and accomplished a third of the voyage, they were met by a skiff containing the faithful chaperons Mrs. Simpkins and Mr. Meigs. [4]
We went out with the skiff and towed it ashore. [5]
Taking a skiff with the General, your reporter was pulled up to a little house of two rooms, in which the water was standing two feet on the floors. [5]
Carver "Captain Colfax was taken to Illinois in a skiff, quarter of an hour since. [9]
At first he was silent, but as she was stepping into the skiff he repeated his promise of meeting her here the following night. [10]
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]
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]
He was moved to capture the skiff, arguing that it might be considered a ship and therefore legitimate prey for a pirate, but he knew a thorough search would be made for it and that might end in revelations. [5]
I peeped out through the willow branches, and there it was--a skiff, away across the water. [5]
I just expected there'd be somebody laying down in it, because people often done that to fool folks, and when a chap had pulled a skiff out most to it they'd raise up and laugh at him. [5]
I picked up the oar and brought my skiff alongside of the boat. [6]
He crept down the bank, watching with all his eyes, slipped into the water, swam three or four strokes and climbed into the skiff that did "yawl" duty at the boat's stern. [5]
The white man's skiff was near the derelict canoe; the bridge was near also. [11]
I'll float the skiff down there, and I'll pull it back again all by myself. [5]
We brought our skiff close to the swirling current. [11]
He untied the skiff at the stern, slipped into it, and was soon rowing cautiously upstream. [5]
Presently the long shell swept into view, with its blooming rowers, who, with their ample dresses, seemed to fill it almost as full as Raphael fills his skiff on the edge of the Lake of Galilee. [6]
When we got pretty close to the cross-hall door there was the skiff, sure enough! [5]
I was thinking of going by skiff to the next town, Necharsteinach; so I ran to the riverside in advance of the party and asked a man there if he had a boat to hire. [5]
There were boats moored there, large and small, and Andreas hailed the man who kept them, and who sat eating his supper, to ask him whether he had unmoored the green skiff for Alexander. [10]
So he locked me in and took the skiff, and started off towing the raft about half-past three. [5]
The old man made me go to the skiff and fetch the things he had got. [5]
A skiff was lying close to this rock, between it and the brink of the fall, which was but a few rods farther down. [6]
All at once it became dark around them, and it seemed as if a powerful sea-horse must have got under the skiff and lifted it with his back, for George was hurled into the air. [10]
Tom Sawyer was in the skiff that bore Judge Thatcher. [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]
Even the mail here is most uncertain, and this I send by skiff to Natchez to get it to you. [5]
For an instant he did not realize what had happened, and then, with angry self-reproach, he flung the oars into the rowlocks of his skiff and drove down and athwart the stream with long, powerful strokes. [11]
The amount of hard swearing which twelve packages of religious literature will command when impartially divided up among twelve raftsmen's crews, who have pulled a heavy skiff two miles on a hot day to get them, is simply incredible. [5]
The skiff was half full of plunder which that gang had stole there on the wreck. [5]
But the skiff had scarcely been brought to a stop there when an elderly matron, who shared the couch of an old Macedonian man of a distinguished, soldierly appearance, called the name "Niobe. [10]
Men cheered him from the shore as his skiff leaped through the water. [11]
Pretty soon I found a man out in the river with a skiff, setting a trot-line. [5]
Right then along comes a skiff with two men in it with guns, and they stopped and I stopped. [5]
Then she drew back, frightened, into the sombre library, conscience-stricken that she should have yielded to this temptation then, when Clarence--She dared not follow the thought, but she saw the light skiff at the mercy of the angry river and the dark night. [9]
Then Hanno leaped back into the skiff, while Ledscha, groaning with rage, retired to the cabin. [10]
So we unhitched a skiff and pulled down the river two mile and a half, to the big scar on the hillside, and went ashore. [5]
I toted up a load, and went back and set down on the bow of the skiff to rest. [5]

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