The grown-ups on our side went down to supper, and our little cropped heads remained looking at the barque in the moon's broad reflection long after we were supposed to be asleep.
We maintained a good rate of speed on our new course, which was now nearly due west, passing a large barque with every stitch of canvas set, hand over hand.
We passed a large barque with every sail set, although it was a flat calm, which made us rejoice in the possession of steam-power.
We were on her over four months, and then we sighted the barque California, homeward bound, and she brought us home.
They're saying now--`Look out, there is a barque becalmed.
A barque she was as to rig, but almost clipper built, without extra narrowness of beam.
Well, one wild afternoon we noticed a barque trying to round the point, and would have rounded it, but missed stays like, struck, and began to break up.
On we pulled, but in my eagerness it appeared that we were no nearer the barquethan at first.
Our only fear was that the barque might get the breeze also, and stand away from us.
I believe the barqueis only held down in her present position by the weight of the water in her canvas.
Sounds as though there was something wrong aboard the barque yonder, sir," reported one of the men to the chief-mate.
The first thing the engineer now did was to heave-to the barque as well as he could with his scanty crew; his next act was to sound the well, with the result that a depth of five feet of water was found in the hold.
She had been either barque or ship-rigged; but all three of her masts were over the side, and could be seen floating there still attached to the hull by the rigging.
The articles were placed in the hands of Captain Blyth, who forthwith sat down to examine them, with the result that the barque was found to be the Umhloti of Aberdeen, her commander's name being Anderson.
Why, it's Tom Nicholls, one of the steerage passengers that Blyth shipped after we fell in with that barque on her beam-ends.
Between Tadoussac and Quebec our barque made much water, which obliged me to stop at Quebec and repair the leak.
Did my mother ever tell ye about how the barque was lost?
So away went Alec northwards, over the blue-gray waters, surgeon of the strong barque Sea-horse.
The barque was thrown right upon it with one side stove in; but nobody was killed.
The chief mate of the American barque was courting the daughter, a handsome young woman, whom he ultimately married.
In 1871 I shipped aboard a barque in Liverpool as chief officer.
The helm of the barque was starboarded; but it was too late.
The captain had a dream, or, as he stated, a vision, when off Cape Horn bound to Valparaiso in a barque belonging to a South Wales port.
This was soon done, and the barque put on her course once more.
He had resolved to run away and conceal himself until the vessel had sailed, and then ship aboard an American barque which was in port.
It was June 16 before Poutrincourt returned with forty men, and two days later Champlain set sail in a fifteen-ton barque with De Monts and several others, to explore the coast and discover if possible a better place for the colony.
This vessel had been employed in taking prisoners to Macquarie Harbour and Port Arthur until the government built a barque called the 'Lady Franklin'; then Captain Taylor bought the brig for the cattle trade.
The barque took in 100 head of cattle, the first that were landed at Port Fairy.
He arrived at Launceston in four days, and then went as coasting pilot of the barque 'Belinda', bound to Port Fairy to take in oil for London.
John Toms went over to weigh and ship the bark, and brought it back, together with the men, in the barque 'Andrew Mack'.
We may skirt it in the barque by God's providence; it blows from the west'ard quarter, and its tail may help us towards the mainland quicker than boats would take us.
Now the frail barque stuck helplessly in the mud, which was yet too soft to bear walking upon.
But this was only a momentary joy, as his frail barque was caught in a power beyond his control, and whirled about in a manner which even he saw meant mischief.
They are Danes, and the wreck the Danish barque Aurora Borealis.
There they picked up another barque commanded by Captain Cooke, who had sailed from Jamaica on the same design, and likewise a French privateering vessel commanded by Captain Lessone.
The French governor thereupon sent a barque with 30 filibusters to attack the Englishman, but the filibusters returned well beaten.
Some of the English defenders later deposed before Governor Modyford that the Spaniards had agreed to let them depart in a barque for Jamaica.
Levasseur received his commission from de Poincy in May 1640, assembled forty or fifty followers, all Calvinists, and sailed in a barqueto Hispaniola.
In November 1764 Glas and some companions, leaving his ship behind, went in the longboat to Lanzarote, intending to buy a small barque suitable for the navigation of the river on which was his settlement.
With his wife and child he set sail for England on board the barque "Earl of Sandwich.
And this appearance of the prince on the Barque explained convincingly enough the reason for Katharina's flight here.
Boris's father likes to have the family lunch at the Barque when it is fine.
Then the wait for ten seconds or ten minutes while the wind grew and the big four-masted barque lay over and bumped her bluff bows through racing seas, till the next order, shriller and more urgent, "Lower avay!
The silent, hurried sailors pressed on with their work, while the big barque purred through the water to the drone of wind thrusting in the canvas.
The wreck's crew is aboard, sir; barque Vavasour, of London, sir.
The barqueadvanced near the fort in a dense fog, and anchored.
The party of fifty-two went by road to La Chine and embarked above St. Louis Rapids on the governor's barque and thirteen birch bark canoes.
These were followed in rapid succession by the Kenosha, schooner Iowa, 370 tons, barque B.
In 1857, the same builders turned out the barque c.
The barque Ocean Wave, the first built by the new firm, was followed by the Julia Dean, of 460 tons.
In this part of the ocean he picked up an abandoned French barque on a reef, floated her, and loaded her with coconuts, intending to sail her to New Zealand with a native crew, but they went ashore in a hurricane and lost everything.
The reception of "The Barque Future" was far from satisfactory to its author.
The Barque Future" let me quote a bit of general characterization which applies to nearly all the subsequent works of Jonas Lie.
Jonas Lie was far from nodding in "The Barque Future" (1872).
They sailed in the barque Jane Morice early in the March of 1855, and, after a pleasant and prosperous voyage, entered Durban Bay in the ensuing May.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "barque" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
