When at last the unwieldy brown coble sailed into the little haven, it was to create unwonted excitement among the few fishermen who put in there frequently for bait.
On a big fishing-coble some men were laughing and cursing.
A vast drowning billow leaped forward, and when the cloud of spray had scattered, there was no coble to be seen.
Meanwhile, the brown coble tacked back to Borosay, and the fisherman sailed away to the Barra coasts, and Alan and Ian were left solitary in their wild and remote home.
Then there came the day when the coble of Aulay MacAulay came out of Borosay into Caisteal-Rhona haven.
Mrs. Darling went back to her work in the lighthouse, but Grace remained on the beach until the coble that bore her friend away had passed completely out of sight.
If the coble is beaten against the rocks, she will be smashed to pieces.
The coble was full of precious human beings; but the sea abated none of its fury, that it might ride the more safely.
When his hands are properly hardened like his horny feet, he is allowed to row thecoble with crossed oars; and then he becomes very useful, for the men are left free to haul nets and plash on the water to frighten the trout.
He came ashore one rainy morning, and he and his son had sore work in hauling the coble up.
Years upon years of apprenticeship are needed before a man can manage one of these crank boats; in fact, the fishermen's proverb says, "You must be born in a coble if you want to learn anything about her.
My young friend said: "Let's get the coble down to the water's edge.
A big coble was got out, and ran down to the Tyne with a northerly wind through the shrewd and vicious sea.
If we could only have got a coble out it would have been all right, but there's nobody to pull except a few daft wives and old Adam.
The coble has an exceedingly deep bow, which grips the water to a depth of some three feet, and which resembles in contour the breastbone of a grebe or northern diver.
The men were wet and sleepy enough, but when the little boy told them his story they lifted him into the bow of the coble and shoved off again.
The long rudder smashed; a green sea doubled up behind her, and she turned over exactly as the coble had done when Tommy first prayed.
The black streak on the water was made by the cork floaters of a net, for the men in the coble were engaged in catching sea-trout.
Up to their waists in water, the men clambered on to the sand and looked round, only to see the wreck of their coble beating herself to pieces with heavy lunges twenty yards from the shore.
In passing the coble the mare plunged, and the axle-tree of the cart staved in the head of the boat below the water-line.
As soon as the coble is put under sail her great rudder is fixed; and this rudder, which is very broad, goes under water to a depth of three feet or so.
The coble was lifted on to the launching-wheels and run down to the water; then the two men took their places, and the boat stole away northward over the bay.
To "get away Norrad" is the right of men; and he feels himself manly as he sits amidships while the coble skims out into the bay.
This checked the speed of the boat; I unshipped the oars, and sprung out just as the coble came crash alongside the bank, then swirling round, her head flew out to the stream, dragging Donald along the grass after her.
The coble had been repaired, with two new thwarts and several patches of some rare and beautiful foreign wood, the name of it unknown to me.
If it were not too late,' I cried with indignation, 'I would take the coble and go out to warn them.
At the eastern edge of Norbreck, a low wall of coble stones encloses his garden.
In summer, the white walls of the cottage part are covered with roses and creeping plants, and there is an air of order and tasteful rusticity about the whole; even to the neat coble pavement which borders the wayside.
Or he is at Newcastle, opening the Coble Dene Dock for the Tyne Commission.
Obadiah Coble shrugged up his shoulders, as he took an extra quid.
And now, d'ye see, as Obadiah Coble has said as how spirits must be laid, I think if we were to come for to go for to lay this here hanimal in the cold hearth, he may perhaps not be able to get up again.
Short had the charge of one, Coble of the second, the stern sheets of the third was occupied by Vanslyperken and the informer.
These disputes were constant at the time, but seldom proceeded further than words--certainly not between Coble and Jansen, who were great friends.
The cutter had not been half an hour at anchor, before Obadiah Coble went on shore with the corporal.
Coble threw away his cutlass, and walked aft; the other men did the same, all but Jansen, who still hesitated.
As soon as Smallbones had ascertained the situation of his master, he went forward and reported it to Dick Short, who with Coble came aft in the cabin.
If it were not too late," I cried with indignation, "I would take the coble and go out to warn them.
At day-light in the morning of the 2d of December, I went in the coble to Phillip Isle, where I landed on a rock, in a small bay on the north side.
On the 1st of July, the new coble was finished, and her bottom payed: her dimensions were twenty-two feet long, by six feet six inches wide.
The next forenoon, the coble came on shore, and soon afterwards the Golden Grove anchored in the road.
During the 18th, all the provisions were received on shore, except sixteen casks of flour; but the surf increasing very much in the evening, I made a signal for the Supply to hoist the coble in.
As sune as the keel o' the cobletouches the sand, deil a bit mair will the lazy fisher loons work, but the wives maun kilt their coats, and wade into the surf to tak the fish ashore.
He has sailed thecoble wi' me since he was ten years auld, and there wasna the like o' him drew a net betwixt this and Buchan-ness.
I canna hear the wind whistle, and the sea roar, but I think I see the coble whombled keel up, and some o' them struggling in the waves!
Why, Sir, a very simple arithmetical calculation will show that the irregularity was of grave importance.
Use your own liberty: but do not restrain that of your neighbours.
The Irish Church, as at present constituted and endowed, you are fully determined to uphold.
But do you mean to say that a bad institution ought to be maintained because some people who have been many years in their graves said that they did not complain of it?
Is it possible that any man can be so dull as not to perceive that, if this be a reason, it is a reason against all our statutes of limitation?
For myself, Sir, I hope that I am at once a Liberal and a Conservative politician; and, in both characters, I shall give a clear and conscientious vote in favour of the amendment moved by my honourable friend.
Can an Established Church which has no hold on the hearts of the body of the people be otherwise than useless, or worse than useless?
It is not easy to say how soon Anti-Trinitarian doctrines were taught there.
And, if this property should be transferred to those who covet it, what would they gain in comparison with what the present occupants would lose?
He put his foot into the boat, He little thocht o' ony ill: But before that he was mid waters, The wearycoble began to fill.
I wat they had mair luve than this, When they were young and at the scule; 50 But for his sake she wauked late, And bored the coble o' bonnie Cargill.
Gae tell my father and my mother, It was naebody did me this ill; I was a-going my ain errands, 35 Lost at thecoble o' bonnie Cargill.
Woe be to the lass o' Balathy toun, 25 I wat an ill death may she die; For she bored the coble in seven pairts, And let the waters perish me!
She bored the coble in seven pairts, I wat her heart might hae been sae sair; For there she got the bonnie lad lost, Wi' the curly locks and the yellow hair.
Coble took a quid, and Short thrust the box again into his pocket.
The cutter had not been half-an-hour at anchor, before Obadiah Coble went on shore with the corporal.
Coble caught the cutlass out of his hand, and threw it overboard, just as the boats dashed alongside.
As soon as one boat was loaded with the boxes of money, Lady Ramsay, Lilly, and Wilhelmina were put in it, and one half of the men went with them on board of the cutter where Coble had already arrived with the wounded seamen.
Coble then took the crew with him and pulled on shore to the cove, on the margin of which they found all their men lying either killed or wounded.
Short had the charge of one, Coble of the second, the stern-sheets of the third was occupied by Vanslyperken and the informer.
A coble wanted six men and two boys to work her: a yawl would carry fifty tons, and some were always out a fishin'.
He saw the thirteen houses washed away, and at the same time a coble carried right over the bridge and left high and dry on the other side.
A coble was converted into a lifeboat on these principles by Lukin, and launched at Bamborough, where, in the course of the first year, it was the means of saving many lives.
The poor man did not see that the same argument, if correct, would have justified his going off in a coble instead of a lifeboat.
In this mode of fishing the hooks are all baited, generally by the fishermen's wives and children, before the coble proceeds to sea.
They are about the same length as those used in the coble fishery nearer the shore, though thicker, and having the hooks placed at greater intervals.
In the foreground is a group of salmon-fishers on the shore examining the produce of their last haul, while two others in a coble are shooting the net.
The usual length of a Holy Island coble is from twenty-five to twenty-seven feet, of which there are about sixty belonging to the island.
I wot they had mair love than this, When they were young and at the school; But for his sake she walked late, And bored the coble o' bonny Cargill.
Woe be to the lass o' Balathy toun, I wot an ill death may she die; For she bored the coble in seven parts, And let the waters perish me!
She bored the coble in seven parts, I wot her heart might hae been fu' sair; For there she got the bonny lad lost, Wi' the curly locks and the yellow hair.
He put his foot into the boat, He little thought o' ony ill: But before that he was mid-waters, The weary coble began to fill.
Gae tell my father and my mother, It was naebody did me this ill; I was a-going my ain errands, Lost at the coble o' bonny Cargill.
A rope was bent on to the stern, and the crowd quickly hauled the cobleaway from the heavy surf into safety.
A volunteer crew of five fine specimens of English manhood were promptly got together, and a large coble was wheeled down the beach and launched into the breaking sea.
She did not think of scrutinising the shadow of the beached and long disused coble which lay a few yards away.
He glanced at the old red coble drawn up on the shore.
Of course, all the louts that own a fishing-coble or an acre of orange-trees will be eager to annex her and her island.
Clifford paused in the level glade where his father had said the graves must have been when Roger Coble passed the spot twenty-six years before.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coble" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
