Gripping the rim of the oval hatchway he gazed, horror-stricken, at two objects bobbing in the water directly in the path of the submarine.
Even in the midst of his great responsibility Bourne's keen eye discerned two heads bobbing up and down in the water.
They couldn't get a holt of her, and the tide swung them along bobbing and clawing at her side, until the mate got his fingers in a crack the sun had made.
A silent man stood almost motionless at the wheel, for the Champlain was lying to under her trysail and jib, making no way through the water, but bobbing with her bow to the sea.
As it came nearer she could see the bobbing heads of Emus, popping up above the dust, and she could see some of the birds running round the little cloud.
Suddenly the big animal seemed to have an idea, and it lightly hopped off into the scrub, where Dot could just see it bobbing up and down as if it were hunting for something.
The mob of Emu soon left the sheep to go their own way, and, grouped in a cluster, watched, with bobbing heads, every movement of the flock.
By your rate of bobbing round And your way of pitchin' in-- For you are a cross Of the old sea-hoss And a regular terror-pin.
Marjorie said good-night politely to Mrs. Fulton and the other grown-ups who had entertained them, making her pretty little bobbing courtesy, as she had been taught to do.
There were several tubs half filled with water, and in these the young people were soon "bobbing for apples.
Within less than a minute thereafter two boats could be seen bobbing up and down not far away, heading straight for those in the water.
What are those funny things bobbing up there for,--that whole line?
The two Belgian boy scouts in capes and tilted caps with tassels bobbingover their foreheads; they tramped the decks, seizing attention by their gay, excited gestures.
The little man straddled as he talked to them, bobbing forward now and then, with a queer jerking movement from his hips.
So here I am, a fee-making machine, bobbing in and out of jail to suit the conveniences of Mister Justice.
She was a large merchant brig, heading any way, andbobbing about, as we were, in the calm.
And while you are doing all this, just turn your eyes out to the calm spot off Montego Bay, where that leaky old brigantine is bobbing about.
And she was going to do tremendous things---- She followed Kennicott and the bobbing ends of the two bags which he carried.
In a few minutes the footsteps on the deck and cabin top stopped and the little craft lay bobbing and wallowing in the sea swell that rose and fell alongside the freighter.
Looking over the bulwark, they saw the two sloops below them, bobbing gently in the swell that washed against the sheer side of the tall freighter.
Sandy dropped the oars and turned to look at the small white sloop with the green decks that lay quietly bobbing at anchor just outside the entrance of the cove where, yesterday, they had been welcomed by a gun!
It had two or three strawberries, some bits of pineapple, and a white grape bobbing about on top, and it was full of chopped ice.
Yes, there were the two heads bobbing like black corks in the tossing waves, close together.
I snatched at the ray as if it had been that everlasting straw which always seems to be bobbing about when an author is drowning one of his characters.
A boat shot down from the davits, with several sailors on board; a few seconds later they were rowing away towards those two bobbing black corks, and I loved them as they bent to their oars.
Then, below the bobbing lights appeared the bodies of two men, stripped to the waist, the black coating of dust that covered them moist with gleaming streaks of sweat.
Heads were bobbing merrily in the water, as though in for a pleasure swim; beyond them lay the steamer, abjectly motionless--looking like a monster which might have arisen from the deeps to bask upon the surface.
Another upturned boat floated at a greater distance, and Jeb saw the bobbing heads appear again, beginning to move as a flock of swimming ducks toward it.
Bobbing for eels is being pursued with much enthusiasm on the Norfolk Broads.
Two-bobbing for haddocks in Kensington is sport enough for most of us.
She looked along the shore at the landing-place not far distant where several boats werebobbing up and down in the wash of the incoming tide.
As they passed the cabins of the negroes the children ran out bobbing and smiling to their young mistress, and Flora called out a friendly greeting.
Their mother stood courtesying and smiling, and the children, on receiving a sign from her, made bobbing little courtesies too.
She first noticed it because an old woman in a red cloak made a bobbing courtesy to her, and then another did the same thing and said, "God bless you, my lady!
From such august anachronisms as the divine right of kings and the Stuart succession, down to humble bobbing of curtseys and pulling of forelocks in to-day's village street, she held a permanent brief for the classes as against the masses.
His head was seen bobbing over the waves, but gaining distance.
He caught it and, putting in all his strength, swung the bow across stream, repeating again and again, until the boat was not far back of John's bobbing head.
At school the next morning, Willie's white head was bobbing about eagerly.
These little people had white caps, for all the world like the white lily blossoms that were bobbing up and down around them.
It stood there, bare and great and smokeless, like a place not lived in; only in one of the top windows there was the peak of a nightcap bobbing up and down, and back and forward, like the head of a rabbit from a burrow.
As for the yard, I saw it bobbing very quietly some twenty feet beyond.
It was a potation, indeed, that might well make the heart of a toper leap within him, being composed of the richest and raciest wines, highly spiced and sweetened, with roasted apples bobbing about the surface.
It connects the bow of the boat with the bowsprit and prevents the latter from bobbing up and down.
All this time his uncle was excitedly bobbing back and forth, mingling with the people and commenting on the points of one or another specimen.
I tell you it takes a great deal of effort and bobbing of heads for Baby Pigeon to get a satisfactory meal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bobbing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
