There was a big four-masted coaster bound south, too, and light, and for the best part of the night we had a drifting match with her.
And I left the master of the coaster there and went back to the Duncan, where the crew were standing along the rail or leaning over the house and having a lot of fun sizing up those who were coming in.
So far as the looks of it went the big coaster might as well have been anchored then.
The captain of the coaster is evidently an honest man; at any rate he is very sorry for what he did.
The captain of the coaster that pounded you that night was Langdon," laughed Pillgrim.
Toward dusk came the sharp command for the men to march aboard the coaster that had drawn up for them.
That coaster has a cargo of tar and naval stores on board; and, capturing her this evening, they have thought to extinguish our lantern by the brighter and fiercer flame of their own.
The second coaster was a little to the southward of the frigate, under her canvas, hauling in for the land; doubtless with a view to get as much as possible of the breeze from the mountains, and standing slowly to the south.
On the other hand, every minute brought the coaster nearer, and increased the danger, should the enemy be really in possession of her.
Raoul did as the other desired, and after a short trial he found that the coaster had no perceptible motion ahead, while it was certain she was drifting down with the current directly athwart the lugger's hawse.
That and the succeeding jar, as the coaster came end on into the bows of another steamer, toppled Jim over.
Thus it happened that Jim, having sold the boat and effects at Colon, went aboard a coaster bound for New York, Sadie and Tom and Sam, with the Chinaman, accompanying him.
Nor were they fortunate in obtaining information till late that afternoon, when they sighted a coaster lazily sailing parallel with the low-lying, muddy shore.
The advertisement caught Jim's eye as soon as he looked at the newspaper which happened to be aboard the coaster on which he and Sadie and the others were voyaging to New York, and fascinated him.
Inventor of the Robinson wireless electric railway signal system, of the Robinson radial car truck, of the coaster brake used on bicycles, of roller bearing skates, and of a repeating telephone.
Coaster Hub I am also the inventor of the back pedal braking and coasting bicycle hub, which has been in general use for many years.
Most bikes we were used to in Britain were equipped with two hand brakes but this one had a coaster brake, trying to pedal backwards would apply the brake to the back wheel.
Resulting from this roller-coaster action many of us had queasy stomachs and were not very happy though it was heartening to see that all ranks were treated equally by the elements.
Lying on the ground attached to the bike I tried to disentangle myself but with the coaster brake I couldn't reverse the direction.
Wall, naow, ef that ain't a coaster talking my name ain't Nickerson!
Wait 'til you've been southabout in a starvation Scotch wind-jammer big enough to carry thiscoaster on her davits and with hardly enough men in two watches to swing her yards raound.
A roller coaster circled through the skies with a noise that was audible above the crowd's staccato voice and dashed itself at the earth below.
He took her on the roller coaster and became taut and laughing when she screamed and held him.
Only the coaster brought that bit of beam away, with the Fleur d'Epine writ clear upon it.
Shaggycoat thought it must be great sport, but the coaster should play upon his own pond, if he had one, and leave other people's undisturbed.
Sometimes this playful coaster would slide the entire length of the pond, going half a mile in two or three minutes.
The papers of the coaster did not give a more detailed description of her character and pursuits, than that which is contained in this verse.
A heavily-moulded and dull-sailing coaster was going eastward not a league ahead of the brigantine, while one of the light sloops of those waters was coming westward still further in the distance.
A successful slide carried the coaster far out on the smooth ice and occasionally to the farther bank of the river.
It was a merry-go-round of coasters climbing up single file by the slide while coaster after coastershot singly down.
At Eucla we again met the coaster with supplies, etc.
At Eucla all the remaining provisions and stores that may be required should be landed, and the coaster despatched on her return to Fremantle with a report of your proceedings.
After despatching the coaster on her return to Swan River, attempted to get inland north of Eucla; but, owing to the scarcity of water and the dryness of the season, was unable to get more than thirty miles inland.
When they got to the top the twins offered theircoaster to him to try a ride.
So he got on the coaster and flew down the hill, only he was such an expert he made a zigzag course going down and also jumped the coaster off a bank about four feet high, which none of the other coasters dared to tackle.
When they were all seated ready to start, he told them that when thecoaster made the jump they must look straight ahead.
He at once offered to help them drag their coaster to the top of the hill.
It being pretty steep, Stone boy waited for them, so as to lend a hand to pull the big coaster up the hill.
I have been thus particular in describing our coaster and its live freight, to show what misery is endured in these coasting voyages.
Left Jerbah in the evening for Tripoli in the coaster Mesâoud ("happy").
Leave the Isle of Jerbah for Tripoli in the coaster Mesâoud.
The roar of these stones, as they rolled over each other and crashed and dashed in the bed of the flood, was louder than the angry surges on the tempestuous shore when Edwin saw the coastergoing down.
That a coaster should have gone down in the terrific storm was a casualty which the dwellers by the sea-shore were well prepared to discover.
If there is anything washed ashore from the little craft, you'll store it up high and dry until another coaster calls to fetch it away.
Another of the shipwrecked sailors might be watching for a coaster to take him on board.
The captain of the coaster paid no attention to the order, and continued on his way, until a shot from the cruiser crashed into the sloop, and took off the head of the captain, John Pearce of New York.
From Port Royal, the trim-built speedy French privateers put to sea, and seldom returned without bringing in their wake some captured coaster or luckless fisherman hailing from the colony of the Puritans.
In response, the pilot of the ketch answered, that the ketch was a coaster from Malta, that she had lost her anchors in the late gale, and had been nearly wrecked, and that she now asked permission to ride by the frigate during the night.
As the course of the vessels was along the New England coast, they were in the direct path of American commerce; and more than one wretchedcoaster fell into their clutches.
The British officer hesitated a moment, as if the little coaster was of too little importance for further examination.
The lowness of her deck allowed us to board the coaster without trouble, and a short, scuffling fight ensued which was over in a minute.
The old coaster sent a quick, anxious look down the river, and saw at once that there was no chance of reaching the bank.
The plan of the boys to put up a little carpet house on the big toboggan coaster did not work.
Tom, as, having rubbed as much of the candle on his sled runners as the steel would hold, he turned his coaster over right side up.
West was on fire, the mountains in the South had grown dark on their Eastern side, and the plain of the sea was like a lake of blood, with the heavy hull and masts of the coaster grown large and solemn and distant.
It was a world of light, unbroken but by the presence of a heavy coaster that had anchored in the Bay, and that sent a long line of trembling black down on the perfect mirror of the sea.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coaster" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dish; freighter; receptacle; ship; sled; tanker
