They stumbled on board as best they could, and were guided to a safe place amidships by Loo, who had thrown a spare sail on the bottomof the boat.
And, sooner or later, all these persons, who are in trouble with their property or their affections, come to me, because money is invariably at thebottom of the trouble.
Silence sets people to wondering and prying; he hides his secrets best who hides them at the bottom of a river of words.
He knew I had looked straight to the bottom of his real self, and had seen the coward that is in every man who has been bred to appearances only.
As soon as I saw that lady, I knew what it was that had been hiding at the bottom of my mind and rankling there.
I've wished it from the bottom of my heart this whole evening, when step by step fate has been forcing me on to do things that are even more hateful to me than to you.
In fact, I found him at the bottom of a deep pit he had dug for himself; and when he first met me he was, without having the sense to realize it, just about to go smash, with not a penny for his old age.
By this time Alfred began to be dismayed lest there should be no present for him; but Hannah had not yet got to the bottom of the box.
Mr. Barnes picked up a flat iron and felt its bottom and waved it in the air as he alleged that it was a rocky, stumpy, rooty, God-forsaken region far from church or market or school on a rough road almost impassable for a third of the year.
Two big pack baskets stood by the window filled with provisions and blankets, and the black bottom of Uncle Peabody's spider was on the top of one of them, with its handle reaching down into the depths of the basket.
She held a cup in her hand with some honey on its bottom and covered with a piece of glass.
The Silent Woman picked a long blade of grass and tipped its end in the honey at the bottom of the cup.
In the middle of the great cedar swamp near Little River Aunt Deel got out the lunch basket and I sat down on the buggy bottom between their legs and leaning against the dash.
The door at thebottom of the stairs opened suddenly.
Never be in a hurry to see the bottom of the bowl.
You see the fate of the ship," said the Wanderer; "it has gone to the bottom in a storm.
The suspicion at last became general, that the students were somehow at the bottom of it; so just an appreciation did the townspeople possess of their capabilities for mischief, that no tricks of diablerie seemed too much to ascribe to them.
When my feet touched bottom I lighted the candle, which had been put out in the descent, and looked around.
New "floating gardens" are sometimes made by the method of driving stakes into the shallow bottom of the lake, winding rushes about them and filling in with the fertile mud.
A good bag indeed and excellent eating, as their ribs, roasted over a fire at the bottom of the arroyo, attest.
The Spanish character, amiable and courteous in friendship or equality, tends to become arbitrary when vested with some brief authority, and this has been at the bottom of much of the political disturbance and bloodshed of the past.
The sand and stones poured down in an avalanche, but I kept my horse's head up, and we landed on the sandy bottom below, unscratched, in a normal position!
A deadly paleness came over Vivian's face as he listened to her--but he sat at thebottom of the board where Cecil could not see him.
On we went, till suddenly there was a piercing cry, and one of the carriages, in which the ponies had been most negligently left, broke from the circle and tore headlong down the common, at the bottom of which was a lake.
Facilis descensus Averni--and he was at the bottom of the pit.
Vaughan sighed from the bottom of his heart, and walked on in silence for a good five minutes.
The screw was reversed, and a rush of yellow foaming water past the side of the ship told us at once that it was at work, and that the sandy bottom was close to her keel.
At last we came to the brink of a valley, into the bottom of which we had to descend.
From this village to Attegrat the road keeps in the bottom of a broad valley, the great part of which is ploughed up and ready for the seed, which is, I suppose, sown before the June rains.
Women are being put to death by being thrown down wells, at the bottom of which spears are fixed point upwards.
The Commander-in-chief and his head-quarters were to move with the second brigade at ten o'clock, so as to allow the baggage of the first brigade to get first to the bottom of the ravine.
He had made some slight progress, and had arrived at the bottom of the valley of the Djedda River.
The slope is steep, but well-wooded down to the bottom of the nullah; but the stream itself has cut a way from twenty to thirty feet wide through the solid rock at the bottom.
The same party, after finishing these passes, have now just completed a broad zigzag road from the bottom of the pass up to the Senafe plain.
The way lay along the bottom of the valley, a road being marked out by the loose stones being removed to a certain extent, and laid along both sides of the track.
From the Bachelo a broad ravine with a flat bottom ran nearly straight to Salamgi, and along this Theodore's road was made.
Insured laden with wood: skipper owner of vessel and cargo bottom out.
Conscientiousness is a sort of moral opium; an excitant in small doses, perhaps, but at bottom a strong narcotic.
To reach it, I had to ascend a ladder and creep through an aperture at the bottom of the sphere.
All the figures are rendered complete by a carved lion's foot, at the bottom of each, and above the feet is a connecting frame, to make that portion of the stand perfect.
You couldn't have wanted it much," said Alice; "living at the bottom of the sea.
Alice tried a little to fancy to herself what such an extraordinary way of living would be like, but it puzzled her too much, so she went on: "But why did they live at the bottom of a well?
I was much amused at the general idea that I should go back again near the bottom of the class, as it was not likely I should fluke again, as it was supposed I had last examination.
God reads to the bottom of my soul, and I am sure I have no desire to marry; I am so well satisfied, so entirely happy in my father's house.
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They were camped on the second bench of the narrow bottom of a crooked, sluggish stream, that was some five rods wide in the present good stage of water.
You ought to know Jeff; he's one of the most enthusiastic engineers in this western country, and one of the best fellows that ever looked through the bottom of a glass.
It was by them looking at it and handing it from one hand to the other that they dropped the little box to the bottom of the sea.
Somebody has been sitting in my chair and has sate the bottom out of it!
So she seated herself in it, and there she sate till the bottom of the chair came out, and down she came, plump upon the ground.
You are full of excuse for her, Agatha, and down in the bottom of your heart you know perfectly well she doesn't deserve it.
Far better would it be to let her return to the father and sisters who longed for and missed her, to her peaceful home where down in the bottom of her heart Mira knew she was not wanted by either father or sisters or step-mother.
Never mind what's at thebottom of it all, old man.
It's downright irreverent, and at the bottom of your heart you're anything but an irreverent man.
Then, turning to Cranston, "We may as well get to thebottom of this business right here and now.
Then we crumbled the top away, and stained the bottom with iron-water, and filled it with pigs' bones and all the oldest coppers we could muster.
Mollie recognized the delicate fronds of maidenhair growing in clumps here and there, and the edge of the pool at the bottom of the hollow was fringed with wild forget-me- nots.
She could see Bridget and Baby at the bottom of the garden gathering gooseberries for a pudding.
The shadows swung slowly round, the sun climbed higher and higher, and the day grew hotter and hotter, but Mollie, skimming along the bottom of the sea in the Nautilus was oblivious of heat.
Why not slip into his clothes and scoot down to the bottom of the scrub- land, and collect that diamond?
Grizzel heaved a sigh from the very bottom of her sinful little heart.
It goes from the top of the glass to the bottom of the glass.
The story ends way down in the bottom of the glass.
But mine is the best one to end with, because I always go right down to the bottom of the glass.
Just as I told you, it started at the top of the glasses in Warner's and ended in the bottom of the glasses at Bennett's.
Hence the proverbial phrase, Omnis res jam in vado est; like a swimmer who has reached the bottom of the water: and Largitio fundum non habet, like the vessel of the Danaides.
He dropped into the bottomof it, and peered over the deck of the steamer.
Deck, as he felt the bottom of the boat strike on its keel.
While dreamily watching the swallows, tending their young in the holes of the sandy bank that formed the walls of my prison, I observed the sand at the bottom of the pit caught up in little eddies and whirling round and round.
At length, when I least expected a change, I was suddenly cast to the bottom of a deep pit.
As you walk enjoyingly on, you descry in the perspective at the bottom of a steep hill up which your way lies, a figure that appears to be sitting airily on a gate, whistling in a cheerful and disengaged manner.
Methought I felt much as a diver might, at the bottom of the sea.
Irrepressible, instructive monomaniac, Mr. Barlow fills my life with pitfalls, and lies hiding at the bottom to burst out upon me when I least expect him.
Arriving at the bottom of the hill and coming close to the figure, you observe it to be the figure of a shabby young man.
His sentimentalization of it is gross--there is no other word--and at bottom the story is as wildly untrue to life as the most arrant Sunday-school prize ever published by the Religious Tract Society.
The master-thought at the bottom of this scheme is not an Academy of British Letters for literary artists, but an Academy of British Letters for literary dilettanti.
Also his attitude towards the spectacle of life is at bottom conventional, timid, and undecided.
She wished now, from the bottom of her heart, that one of her admirers would go away; but at this instant there was a loud tapping at a back door in the farther end of the house.
The petals of the almond flowers were beginning to scatter, and now and then little streams of water leaked out of the newspaper and trickled down the steep slope of her best dress to the bottom of the chaise.
When the whale has been struck, he generally dives towards the bottom of the sea either perpendicularly or obliquely, where he remains about thirty minutes, and sometimes nearly an hour.
The upper leather is next stretched on the last with a pair of pincers, fastened to its proper place with tacks, and then sewed to the bottom of the sole with a waxed thread.
The bottom of the vessel is next sheathed either with sheets of copper or pine boards, to protect it from the worms.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bottom" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
