Now for mine--to rub some life Into one's choppy fingers this cold day!
They seem to understand me, by each at once his choppyfinger laying on his skinny lips!
How long could those two girls bear up in the choppy sea?
But now her breath left her and for a moment she stood motionless--only giving to the plunge and jump of the Coquette through the choppy waves.
Soon the going began to be less rough; the choppy motion of the cutter seemed to indicate that we were on fall-ploughed land; and not much later Peter gave a snort.
Dick had reached the drowning boy, and was holding him up in firm athletic grasp, but there was a nasty choppy sea running, which, breaking into spume, both blinded and choked him.
As Jeremiah neared the paddock he stopped to a choppy gallop, and the railbirds saw that blood was streaming from both nostrils and trickling from his mouth.
It will make all the difference to us in such a short choppy sea as we shall be having.
A long craft does not feel a short choppy sea that a small one would be putting her head into every wave: but in a long sea the little one has the advantage.
Notwithstanding this, and the fact that we had run into a very nasty choppy sea, the log showed that the Dolphin was going through the water at the rate of eleven knots.
The waves were choppy and the skiff was knocked about a good deal.
Alongside, a thousand angry, choppy waves reached up like hungry hands, as though determined to come on board and drag the craft to her doom.
The waves were choppy and as the Northerner steamed onward through them, from time to time a glistening cloud of spray was hurled high above her sharp bow.
The water was rather choppy and there were ragged, wind-swept clouds overhead, but neither of them were afraid of a little rain.
Never before had she attempted to make her moorings in such a choppy sea.
Even as, to the shrill crying of the Fleet bugles, a windy grey day broke over the choppy Solent, showing the huge pageant of Sea Power ready for the King.
We had drifted or been pulled into the main channel, where strong currents and a choppy sea made the matter a pretty serious and uncomfortable one.
The water was choppy and roily, the canoe bobbed a good deal, the anchors dragged, and we did not see any fish.
He stared downward at the choppy surface that seemed to sweep upward to meet him, gritting his teeth to drive fear away.
Seven of the foulest old tubs he had ever laid an eye on were churning and wallowing in the choppy sea.
All day the vessels had been wallowing in the choppy seas, driven about by contrary winds.
On the deck there were so many unhappy partings that we became again downhearted, a feeling which was intensified in the choppy seas of the outer bay to the utter misery of mind and body.
The sailor handles his boat in one way in a choppy sea and in a different way in a rolling sea, for he knows that these two kinds of waves act dissimilarly.
Light and heat differ as much as the short, choppy waves of the ocean and the slow, long swell of the ocean, but not more so.
He took one last survey of the choppy gray sea and turned back.
I think the radar noise of the choppy sea, together with all our Stealth capability, will keep us safe.
There was a man seated in the stern enveloped in a large black boat cloak--for Gibraltar harbour is choppy when the westerly breezes blow--a man who looked the Croonah up and down with a curious searching eye.
He was watching the two boats making their way through the choppy sea towards them, and Agatha was watching his face.
Through this choppy turmoil the Hailoong ploughed her way, all the while pitching and rolling in an exasperating fashion, no two successive motions of the ship being alike.
As his accents grew warmer, she turned towards the window, and seemed to be gazing on the water, which the northeast monsoon, driving against the current, was raising in choppy waves.
They made a choppypassage to the rim of the bay, where, turning, they followed the thin, pale glimmer of the broken water on the land's edge.
The yacht swung lightly over the choppy water, and a strong affection for the ketch that had been his home, his occupation, his solace through the past dreary years expanded his heart.
By the time they had finished, Harwich was fairly behind them, and they were laying their course a point or two outside the Naze, throwing the spray high each time the boat plunged into the short choppy sea.
Jack had never before seen a storm at sea, and, accustomed as he was to the short choppy waves at the mouth of the Thames, he was astonished at the size of those he now beheld.
Tide had turned strongly now, and there was a nasty heavy choppy sea until the Bessy passed the end of Southend Pier, when she entered comparatively smooth water.
The sun had long been up, the clouds were flying fast across the sky, and the wind was working round to the east, knocking up a short choppy sea as it met the ebb, and covering the river with white horses.
