The boatmen brought the matter to a decision; for, after lying on their oars for a minute, and whispering among themselves in Low Dutch or German, they began to pull stoutly, and were soon at some distance from the Castle.
Peveril had, in the meantime, leisure to remark, that the boatmen spoke to each other doubtfully, and bent anxious looks on Fenella, as if uncertain whether they had acted properly in bringing her off.
The boatmen always brought up by the shore at night; and our progress was so slow, that we could keep up with the boat when walking along the bank.
Our boatmen pushed out at 3 in the morning, and brought up at 5, in a narrow muddy creek on the island of Sidhee.
The boatmen who had conveyed them across the Strait were seen and arrested at Dandenong, between Western Port and the Capital; but no further trace of the bushrangers could be obtained.
Driven to desperation, they seized upon a whaleboat; by threats pressed four boatmen into their service, and actually compelled them to work the boat across Bass's Straits to the opposite shores of Victoria.
The boatmen were humane and civil enough not to require from us any fare.
Boatmen who have passed all their lives on the Oxus assured me that the sandbanks change position so often that the experience and observation of one day are useless for the day that follows.
From the river below came the long cries to Allah of the Moslem boatmen and the clear music of an 'ood or lute; the deep note of the native drums had been silenced.
Until now he had only been familiar with the music of the Nile boatmen and the popular music of the people.
Basil descended 1065 Down to the river's brink, where the boatmen already were waiting.
Our boatmen knew all about Shelley and the Casa Magni.
Then we returned to give our boatmen wine beneath the vine-clad pergola.
My object, I said, was to escape to France, and I called on him, believing he could assist me, as he must be acquainted with the boatmen around that part of the coast.
Lord Scales endeavoured to take sanctuary at Westminster, but was seized by river boatmen and barbarously murdered.
Nothing was left but to starve them out, and this the Earl of Salisbury proceeded to do, with the aid of the citizens and the boatmen on the river, by whom the Tower was strictly invested by land and water.
The Thames boatmen and sailors were almost as powerful and troublesome a body of men as the London apprentices.
The boatmen or voyageurs who went to and fro into the interior were hired independently for each trip.
As each craft drew up to the landing place, the boatmen sprang out to be embraced and patted on the back by their friends.
Then, with a smile, "They won't hold my hand, and they may be very good boatmen indeed.
But just as he gave the order for his boatmen to push off, a French voice called out "Monsieur!
The commissioner called to one of the boatmen who had been ordered to be in readiness, and asked him to point out the place where the Dutch vessel had been wrecked.
Lin-in then distributed amongst theboatmen the promised reward.
But the hard-hearted and selfishboatmen demanded that a good sum should be guaranteed them, before they would bestir themselves.
Perhaps a little stiff fining of the boatmen for cutting too many pieces would have a more salutary effect!
The boatmen know this perfectly, yet when a fine clump of the reeds provokes the passengers to ecstasy they amiably stop and cut as many as they have passengers--and some for good measure--without a word about the regulations.
No doubt these boatmen are fair types of the rugged island sailors who so nobly acquitted themselves twenty-three hundred years ago on the sparkling bay.
Going back down-stream, the boatmen give an astonishing exhibition of how to "protect" Government property.
Our boatmen observe that signs of coming storm appear in the sky; they prepare as best they can, but soon the hurricane is upon us.
It was to avoid this “bore,” for so the wave is named, and being probably swamped by its force, that our boatmen had pushed on.
But the detention is only for a little; our boatmen resume their work; our boats re-enter the stream, and for a time keep close to the right bank.
It seemed to those left on the hither shore at least half an hour before a call from the other side announced that the boatmen had reached shallow water.
Now that all need for concealment was at an end, the Turkish war cry rose shrilly in the air, and the boatmen bent to their oars.
The vessels would all be examined, and the boatmen questioned as to whether any craft was missing.
When the towing path changed to the opposite side, the boatmen came on board and poled across to resume their labour as before.
If he was quick enough to catch the ferryboat before it had pushed off, and so seize a place for himself, the boatmen simply refused to stir.
When boatmen and sailors on the Hudson heard the harsh clanking of machinery and saw the huge sparks and dense black smoke rising out of her funnel, they thought that the Clermont was a sea-monster.
From the Trenton side of the river, General Knox, who had been sent ahead by Washington, loudly shouted to let the strugglingboatmen know where to land.
Moore says, in reference to this song, "I wrote these words to an air which our boatmen sung to us frequently while descending the St. Lawrence from Kingston to Montreal.
The experienced boatmen understood these portents, and covering the baggage with strong canvas, lashed it tightly to the vessel.
José talked to the boatmen while the cans were stowed away in the bottom of the car, and then turned to Hillyard.
The boatmen bent to their oars with a will, and the boat leaped upon the water.
The boatmen made fortunes, whilst the farmers were nearly ruined by their charges, and those of the storekeepers in the towns.
Every boat belonging to the place is immediately engaged in search of the body, and many of the boatmen freely sacrifice their time and day's wages in the pursuit.
It was propelled by either sail or oars, as either was most convenient, but the Orcadian boatmen never employed the oars when the sail could be used.
The boatmen were bawling to one another, but I could not understand what they said, nor hear more than a word or two at a time.
I saw him in the candle-light for only a moment as he walked by, with boatmen in thick shoes, as I said, clattering beside him.
On the evening I am going to speak of, there was a wild, threatening sunset, and the boatmen of Cardyllion foretold a coming storm.
We had hardly reached the house when we saw the boatmen coming up.
The breeze was light, and the signs of the sky assured the boatmen that we need fear none of those gusts and squalls that sometimes burst so furiously down through the cloughs and hollows of the surrounding mountains.
Some of the Cardyllion boatmen came running along the road that passes in front of Malory.
My boatmen rowed me near enough to hear the music, which was very pretty; but we remained sufficiently far out, to prevent becoming mixed up with the other boats which lay near the shore.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "boatmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
