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Example sentences for "barkentine"

Lexicographically close words:
barke; barked; barkeep; barkeeper; barkeepers; barkers; barkes; barkie; barking; barkings
  1. When the barkentine rounded Cape Karawang, he saw a bediamonded rivulet leap sheer off a lofty cliff and lose itself in the liana below.

  2. Peter Gross, your excellency, first mate of the barkentine Coryander of Boston, now lying in your excellency's harbor of Batavia.

  3. The barkentine was only a coaster like many others which now had begun to fill the sea a little more of late years, and presently host and guest were riding homeward.

  4. Only the barkentine brought the world that he loved to the padre.

  5. One morning Felipe told him that the barkentine was here on its return voyage south.

  6. But if the barkentine would arrive and bring the whole music, then they would have it right!

  7. But his heart did not hail the barkentine as usual.

  8. But the priest was laughing alone inside to see how little it was to him where the barkentine was, or whether it should be coming or going.

  9. Once in the year a barkentine came sailing with news and tokens from Spain.

  10. Before dark the barkentine lay peacefully at anchor upon the bosom of the still, mirror-like surface of the harbor.

  11. One morning, the barkentine Hathor, towing out for Delagoa Bay, dipped her house-flag, and the watch at their stations bent their gaze upon the house on the cliff.

  12. Through the Bight of Tyee his father's barkentine Kohala was coming home from Honolulu, ramping in before a twenty mile breeze with every shred of canvas drawing.

  13. She is now quite close to us, and proves to be a Barkentine under full sail.

  14. Illustration: "She proves to be a Barkentine under full sail.

  15. A barkentine with a dim light was sighted about 800 yards to the west of Admiral Evans's squadron.

  16. It was soon plain that the barkentine would clear the stern of the Louisiana and would become a menace to the Georgia, the following ship.

  17. The barkentine went right between the Louisiana and the Georgia.

  18. When he returned ten minutes later Mr. Murphy, sighting him a block in the offing, knew the skipper of the barkentine Retriever for a broken man!

  19. Good seaman, I daresay, but worthless and unreliable in an executive capacity, and I can't trust a ripping fine barkentine like the Retriever with that kind of man.

  20. Cappy smiled, and outlined to the Swede the conditions surrounding the barkentine Retriever.

  21. But by all means see to it that he completes his contract with the barkentine Retriever.

  22. When the girl appeared Cappy Ricks dictated this wire: Captain Matthew Peasley, Master Barkentine Retriever, Colman Dock, Seattle, Washington.

  23. A GIFT FROM THE GODS The barkentine Retriever, lumber laden from Astoria to San Francisco, lay under the lee of Point Reyes in a dead calm.

  24. Murphy, who first came to the attention of Cappy Ricks at the time he, the said Murphy, was chief kicker of the barkentine Retriever under Captain Matt Peasley.

  25. Day before yesterday I bought the old barkentine Mayfair.

  26. I have to smile at the ease with which one man--provided he is a sizable man and able to stand strain--can sail a barkentine before the wind in fair weather.

  27. This is Henry Clark, second mate of the barkentine Nautilus," he said as the man who had assisted in rowing the dory ashore stepped forward.

  28. Coe turned up from Sydney, where he had gone for a general refitting and overhaul, just as Mrs. Tweedie was taking her passage in the Olive Branch, missionary auxiliary barkentine for Honolulu.

  29. The barkentine was only a coaster like many others which had begun to fill the sea a little more of late years, and presently host and guest were riding homeward.

  30. Only the barkentine brought to Padre Ignacio the signs from the world that he once had known and loved so dearly.

  31. But the priest was laughing secretly to see how little it was to him where the barkentine was, or whether it should be coming or going.

  32. As soon as the barkentine struck, the anchor was let go, by which it was hoped she would be prevented from drifting, until daylight.

  33. We had been so busy since the barkentine came ashore that we had not been able to extend the stockade around the two additions to the house.

  34. Why had we not thought to bring the sails of the barkentine ashore?

  35. The barkentine carried seven men beside the captain and three mates.

  36. Before I slept I had formed a plan to reach the barkentine on the reef, which I believed would prove successful.

  37. When first I saw the men on the deck they were hauling up the anchor, finding that the barkentine had not drifted, with the intention of taking it to windward and trying to work her off the reef by heaving at the windlass.


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