A kuffah,(1) the familiar pitched coracle of Baghdad, would provide an admirable model for the gigantic vessel in which Ut-napishtim rode out the Deluge.
And so its memory survived in the picture of Ziusudu's solitary coracle upon the face of the waters, which, seen through the mists of the Deluge tradition, has given us the Noah's ark of our nursery days.
There in the harbour of the lake before me I saw a juicy little coracle of beef; its thwarts were of curds, its prow of lard; its stern of butter; its oars were flitches of venison.
I sprang to my feet, and leaped, stamping thecoracle under water.
First, moving with all care, I gradually baled out the coracle with my sea-cap; then getting my eye once more above the gunwale, I set myself to study how it was she managed to slip so quietly through the rollers.
The current was bearing coracle and schooner southward at an equal rate.
I was drenched and terrified, and fell instantly back into my old position, whereupon the coracle seemed to find her head again, and led me as softly as before among the billows.
With rare skill she plied the light oars, baring her shapely arms and stretching them to their full length, and arrived at the staircase-foot out of breath, but safe, ere the coracle had time to fill.
At the shore he entered the little coracle that brought him daily from the Holy Isle, a triple arrow-flight seaward.
But the great advantage of the coracle it certainly possessed, for it was exceedingly light and portable.
And when, at last, I shouldered the coracle and groped my way stumblingly out of the hollow where I had supped, there were but two points visible on the whole anchorage.
I wrought like a fiend, for I expected every moment to be swamped; and since I found I could not push the coracle directly off, I now shoved straight astern.
I sprang to my feet and leaped, stamping the coracle under water.
Gradually weariness grew upon me; a numbness, an occasional stupor, fell upon my mind even in the midst of my terrors, until sleep at last supervened and in my sea-tossed coracle I lay and dreamed of home and the old Admiral Benbow.
The Cruise of the Coracle IT was broad day when I awoke and found myself tossing at the south-west end of Treasure Island.
I had not then seen a coracle, such as the ancient Britons made, but I have seen one since, and I can give you no fairer idea of Ben Gunn's boat than by saying it was like the first and the worst coracle ever made by man.
I was drenched and terrified, and fell instantly back into my old position, whereupon the coracle seemed to find her head again and led me as softly as before among the billows.
Ten to one, if I were so foolhardy as to cut the Hispaniola from her anchor, I and the coracle would be knocked clean out of the water.
But Fin is pictured as starting from Dublin Bay in his little coracle (curachan) on his voyage to the country of the Big Men.
It ought to be added, however, that this coracle was an open boat, capable of holding at least four persons; as is shown on the return voyage.
How the murderer had crossed the moat was likewise a mystery, for the coracle was carried away when its purpose had been fulfilled.
As soon as the coracle was launched, he stepped into it, and was followed by his attendant, who pushed the frail bark noiselessly across the moat.
This narrowed rapidly and the lad got out from his boat into the water, as the coracle could proceed no further between the lines of rushes.
Beyond moving slowly away as the coracle approached them, the water-fowl paid but little heed to its appearance.
Ground game at that, for Coracle is in the act of "jugging" a hare.
The coracle is seen standing upright in the shed; the lurcher not anywhere outside--for the animal is within, lying upon the hearth in front of a cheerful fire.
It is no paddle whose stroke he has heard, nor a coracle impelled by it; but a boat rowed by a pair of oars.
There is but one seat, or thwart, as the coracle is designed for only a single occupant, though in a pinch it can accommodate two.
By this he should be miles away; unless he and Coracle have had a capsize, and been spilled out of their boat.
If the result rested on her, Coracle Dick would have nothing to fear.
The coracle swept up abreast of him, then paused, as Eadwulf, half unconsciously, rested on his oars, and gazed into the despairing and blank features of his enemy.
There is a peculiar stroke of the paddle much used in coracle driving, to which the canoe man seldom has recourse.
When he unfolded his mantle, he saw that the coracle was already far from Iona.
Silence was between them as they neared the cove where a large coracle lay, with three men in it.
Neither Columba nor Adamnan nor any other early chronicler speaks of Iona as held by the Druids when the little coracle with the cross came into Port-na-Churaich.
The sun was already among the outer isles when the coracle passed near the Isle of Columns.
The coracle swerved, and the four men were wet with the heavy spray.
The frail coracle in which he and others had crossed the Moyle had been driven before a tempest, and cast at sunrise like a spent fish upon the rocks of the little haven that is now called Port-na-Churaich.
First, moving with all care, I gradually bailed out the coracle with my sea-cap; then getting my eye once more above the gunwale, I set myself to study how it was she managed to slip so quietly through the rollers.
In a frail coracle they swept the sea, discovering strange lands, in one of which the half-forgotten people of Ross were found, living so contentedly that few of them cared to go back.
The coracle used for fishing in Ireland and in Wales is merely a framework, sometimes of wicker and sometimes of wood, somewhat in the shape of the half of a walnut-shell.
The current was bearing coracle and schooner southwards at an equal rate.
At first the coraclespun round and round, but by and by each daddy could, by rowing or paddling, make the thing go straight ahead.
The coracle was made strong by a wooden frame fixed inside round the edge, and by two cross boards, which also served as seats.
A delight of the eyes, a glorious range Is the plain on which the hosts hold games: Coracle contends against chariot In Silver-white Plain[3] to the south.
Along the top of a wood Thy coracle has swum across ridges, There is a wood laden with beautiful fruit Under the prow of thy little skiff.
To Bran in his coracle it seems A marvellous beauty across the clear sea: To me in my chariot from afar It is a flowery plain on which he rides.
She spent her time in daydreams, drifting about in her coracle for hours, to return dripping wet, but, in a hazy way, more than half content.
It was easy now to understand how she had recognized that rock tunnel through which the little coracle had been paddled.
In the narrow channel that separates Inch Marnock from Bute she saw a tiny coracle with a man on board.
Have ready a fishing coracle with some fish, and dress you as a fisher maid.
There is a fishing coracle coming alongside of us, my master," said he, "with two fishermen in her.
In half-an-hour's time the two had arrived at another sheet of water which is called Loch Tarbert, and here launching the coracle again, they seated themselves and sailed down the narrow loch.
I longed to be in my coracle on the Waveney, paddling along among the reeds, chucking pebbles at the water-rats.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coracle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: boat; canoe; cruiser; ferry
