But the noise of the fugitives scrambling on board the caique and the hoisting of the little boat brought round them a shower of bullets, the splash of which was heard above the rain.
Michael and Sylvia found the most sheltered spot in the caique and ate some cheese.
The captain evidently came to the same conclusion, though at first it looked as if he had changed his mind too late to avoid running the caique ashore before he could gain the southerly lee of the island.
The caique began to ship water, so heavily, indeed, that the captain gave orders to run her ashore where the sand of a narrow cove glimmered between huge towers of rock.
One of these broke a jar of wine, and every man aboard bent to the long oars, driving the perfumed caique deeper into the darkness.
Certainly the caique still labored on, and it might be that, after all, they would clear the promontory and gain shelter.
Yet so frail seemed the caique in relation to the vast bulk before them that it was incredible this haunt of Titans should not exact another sacrifice.
I will find a caique and you will hide by the sea where I show you.
All being ready, we started in a caique very early in the morning, and went down the Bosphorus from Therapia to Stamboul, where we got on board a steamer.
The population of Cairo consists of the ruling class, who are all Turks, who speak Turkish, and affect to despise all who have never been rowed in a caique upon the Bosphorus.
Silently the caique glided over the smooth surface of the Bosphorus; and silently the occupants sat.
The bows of the caique were instantly turned towards the city, and the men gave way as carelessly as though nothing uncommon had transpired.
It was plain that the caique was bound on some errand of more than ordinary interest, and many eyes from the shore were regarding it curiously, as did also the various boat crews that met it on the water.
He saw him, too, pull the little egg-shell caique in which he sat still nearer the wall of the seraglio.
The building extended so over the water that its owner could drop at once into his caique and be pulled to almost any part of the city, and, like all the people who live along the river's banks, he was much on its surface.
The Tornado was lying in the Golden Horn, having made her last trip to the Crimea, when a caique came alongside, an old gentleman in somewhat quaint costume seated in the stern.
Some day, perhaps, I shall tell you what they are, in a caique on the sweet waters of Asia or among the cypresses of Eyub.
It was already late in the afternoon when her caique touched the wharf at the foot of the Galata bridge.
In the strong heat of noon they left the caique and walked slowly towards the hill which rises to the north-east, where the dark towers of the cypresses watch over the innumerable graves.
She was now being questioned about a trip at night in a caique with Hadi Bey down the sweet waters of Asia where willows lean over the stream.
The finish of the caiqueis often extraordinary--finest fret-work and moulding, carved and modelled as for Cleopatra.
I have ridden in a caique upon the waters of the Bosphorus, and looked upon the capital of the Soldan of Turkey.
This startling shock awoke me from a kind of lethargy, and made me recollect that I had embarked in a caique at Tophane, and that I was then afloat.
I have seen it so before; and where would you be with your caique then, Monsieur Soyer?
Auguste told me this place was at all times the most dangerous, and that in bad weather a single-oared caiquecould not cross near it.
On reaching the landing-place not a caique was to be had, the weather was so bad they could not cross.
The mistake occurs in this, that they offer you a caique with one, two, or three caidjees.
In such a scene of noise and confusion, it is almost, if not altogether, impossible for one to make up one's mind whether one requires one caique or several.
I took a caique to the Valley of Sweet Waters, and rambled away an hour on its silken sward.
We took a caique at the mosque of Sultan Selim, at Beylerbey, and floated slowly past the imperial palace.
The sultan wishes to confer upon him the title of chief naval constructor, and to furnish him with a house and a caique with four oars.
About four o'clock we embarked in our caique to return to Constantinople.
The next day I took a caique at Tophana, and went up to the shipyards at the head of the Golden Horn to visit Mr. Rhodes, to whom I had a letter from a friend in Smyrna.
The second caiquewas a little astern, and soon joined the other.
Two boys followed it out into the bay at Nauplia, ran their caique into the stern, set fire to it, and saved themselves in their small boat.
A certain Vassili, a Greek, on board a caique now lying at Gravosa.
Though the storm had somewhat abated, still the caique was now sinking, so that it was beyond all possibility to reach the shore in time to save her.
The caique instead had a steady, strong wind, and less than twenty-four hours after they left Ragusa they cast their anchor in front of the white walls of Zara.
Before the caique sailed off, Uros was fully forgiven, and Giulianic even promised to write to his friend and explain matters to him.
After this, the rope which bound the caique was cut off, and she was left to drift away at the mercy of the waves, and, little by little, sink out of sight.
As soon as he was by the side of the caique he called out "Patria!
Every time your boat was about to sink, I gasped, feeling as if I myself was drowning; but had the caique foundered, I should have jumped in the waves and swum to your rescue.
The caique was then tugged close to the brig's stern, which steered towards the land as well as she could.
Now, as he wanted to hear more of the ship and its crew, he asked: "Is it the Greek captain whose caique is lying just outside?
It must have been about half-past one when Uros saw a man quietly lower himself down from thecaique into the sea, and make for the shore.
Three oarsmen, splendid white-skinned fellows with long fair moustaches, and athletic frames scarcely concealed beneath their white drawers and striped silk gauze shirts, sent their mistress's caique flying through the water.
Mitsos arrived at Corinth next night after a very long day, and found a caique starting in an hour or two for Patras.
The mast of thecaique had gone right through one of the windows in the stern.
The caique in which they sat was piled with inflammable materials and a cargo of brushwood, and carried four large cans of turpentine, with which they would presently soak the sails.
The caique would be lying at anchor opposite; Lelas, the cafe-keeper, had charge of it.
On the second day, however, a Greek caique laden with figs was starting from Corinth, and Nicholas went on board soon after dark, and about midnight they started.
Then the timbers themselves began to fizzle and crack, giving each moment new crevices and footholds for the fire, and the window where the mast of the caique had penetrated showed red burning lips, like a horrible square mouth.
Leaving the Alcyon in charge of his first officer, and bidding me a hasty and tender farewell, the Count entered the caique with the Grand Vizier and departed to pay his respects in person to the ruler of the Turkish nation.
No sooner was the caique lost to sight among the shipping than the strange craft we had previously observed suddenly ran up to the yacht and made fast to her with grappling-irons.
As it was late, no othercaique was in sight, and my boatmen, apprehensive of being run down, stopped to defend themselves with their oars.
As it was calm weather, he sallied forth in a north-westerly direction, and, to his delight, saw the caique in the offing.
So the caique was taken in tow, and a return journey made to Rhodes, where all on board seemed like to be thrown into a dungeon.
The Sultan had often descended there to his splendid caique to go to the mosque, when all the ships in the harbor fired salutes in honor of his majesty.
Recalling such historic memories, and enjoying to the full the beauty of the day, we came down from the hills to the waters, and crossing in a caique to the other side of the Bosphorus, took the steamer back to the city.
The caiqueis long and very narrow, and sharp at both ends--pointed, in fact.
One peculiarity of the caiqueis that there are no rowlocks for the oars, which are held by a loop of leather fastened on the boat.
The caique is gayly ornamented and pretty to look at, but it is the crankiest and tickliest of all nautical inventions--more resembling a Canadian birch-bark canoe than any other craft you are acquainted with.
Glanced many a light Caique along the foam,"-- Stanza lxxxii.
To-day the Sultan crossed in the state caique to his new palace near Beglerbeg.
As our caique again glided swiftly down the stream, we passed many similar vessels, containing seven or eight Turkish women each, and up went the yashmak at our approach.
After partaking of a few bottles of London porter, we embarked in my caique which had been waiting for me, and away we rowed to Terapia.
Boat loads of laughing, joyous Greeks now began to crowd the landing-place; and every caique had either a guitar, flute, or violin on board.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caique" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
