That derelict will never menace any skipper afloat, from now on.
In an instant more nothing of the derelict was to be seen, saving some floating wreckage made up of less water-logged wood.
Do you think the derelict is utterly smashed, sir?
Everything about that old derelict that could float has come up to the surface.
In the course of a little speech after dinner Captain Magowan referred in glowing terms to the splendid work of the submarine boys on that Lightning Cruise, and their success in being first to reach the derelict and torpedo it.
Do you feel then, Mr. Danvers, that we should be satisfied to drive back to Dunhaven and content ourselves with wiring the Navy Department news of the derelict and of her present position?
Then we've got to use a sounding line to find out in which direction the hull of the sunken derelict lies.
Is it a death-dealing derelict in the very path of coastwise navigation!
He knew where the hull lay, in what direction, and how far below the surface the deck of the sunken derelict lay.
When I went below you made some remark about not letting the derelict off too easily, Benson.
That derelict is blown to kindling wood," exclaimed Danvers, himself manipulating the searchlight as they sailed through a sea littered with small wreckage.
Unless the semi-submerged derelict had moved much faster than such derelicts usually do, it was difficult to see how the wreck could get through this line of exploration.
I've just written a telegram to the Navy Department, Mr. Danvers, advising them of the location of the derelict as well as I could gather it from the captain of the late 'Mary Bond.
He's saying hard things about us, for cutting in on his course and getting the derelict away from him.
Ahead, the derelict was now some fifteen hundred yards away.
Mist drifted fitfully around and hid, now and again, two derelict tanks, at which a forward post of my company was stationed.
Seen by pale moonlight, these derelict roads, in places pitted with huge craters or flanked by shattered trees, wore a mysterious charm.
Note the four derelict Tanks] For it was an attack by our own gas.
Monchy, the hill-village which had cost us so many lives to capture, was heavily shelled by German howitzers both day and night; below its slopes lay several derelict tanks.
The sight of derelict tractors, motor cars, and steam rollers, left in the sunken road at Gouzeaucourt, produced a sense of shock.
But the wind blew another way and I drifted amiably with it, as a derelict drifts with the currents of the ocean but preferably with the warm gulf stream.
In spite of their acrimonious tilts over the card table, he and the baron were as thick as could be when it came to the question of the derelict countess.
The boys said little more, but kept their attention concentrated, waiting for the first sharp, quick cry that would announce that the derelict of the skies had been sighted.
The derelict we struck has torn a big hole in the engine room.
In a flash that derelict taught her to read Dan better; gave her a better insight into the look that she sometimes caught in his steely, inscrutable eyes, and the grave lines in his sun-bronzed face.
Presently a mass of vapor, like a detached squadron of cavalry, swept about the derelict and then moved on, leaving little shredded patches hanging about the foremast.
The breeze came over the starboard beam, the sail filling nicely, and Dan, taking a stand by the wheel, directed the derelict toward land.
In that blue glow the derelict took form, grim, ghostly, heaving, as a spirit picture might be thrown upon a black cloth, every detail limned in filmy perfection.
Oh," smiled Dan, "the thought of fudge on a derelict was and is responsible for this twinkle.
It was thederelict they had viewed from the fancied security of the Tampico's deck, a few short hours before.
Virginia was a sensible girl, but it must be confessed that her position alone with a man on a derelict in the middle of nowhere would have dazed a woman who held even broader views of the ordinary conventions than she did.
Despite Dan's fears as to the manner in which their tenancy of the derelict might terminate, he abandoned himself to the sheer charm of it all.
Placed in the mainmast it was easier to maintain steerage way and at the same time it served to push the derelict forward.
Virginia was standing at the wheel, and with the pall throwing the derelict into more sombre relief, Dan caught more strongly than ever the utter contrast which her presence brought to this abandoned hulk.
The terrible thought that the derelict was going to pieces was in both their minds.
Both knew that at any moment the derelict might succumb to the forces striving to destroy her.
At the old stone bridge, spanning the river at the bottom of the High Street, he paused, and, resting his arms on the parapet, became intent on a derelict punt.
The afternoon was far spent when, at last, Abel, in his skiff, rowed out to the anchored derelict and brought it in again to the landing place.
So Abel lost no time in hauling in and coiling his jigger line, in adjusting his oars, and in pulling away toward the derelict with all the strength his strong arms and sinewy body could muster.
The boat was unmanned--a derelict upon the broad Atlantic.
He pushed his skiff a few yards away and, resting upon his oars, viewed the derelict from a respectful distance.
I have a good telescope at the observatory window upstairs, and while I cannot guide this car, I can at least increase or slacken its speed so as to dodge any other derelict that may come into dangerous proximity with us.
Or it may have been that, having told Harden-Hickey of the derelict island, the latter persuaded the captain to allow him to land and explore it.
By right of Halley's discovery, England claimed the island; as a derelict from the main land, Brazil also claimed it.
In the dusk of yesterday, as he clung to the drifting, upside-down canoe, and the lights from the launch had played over it, the name painted on the battered derelict had seemed to sear into his brain.
Hal brought his plane to water as close to the forest derelict as he dared.
He bumped into what he thought was a drifting log, but it turned out to be a derelict canoe upside down.
Had he crossed the whole length of Alabama and the top of Florida to go drifting like a derelict above the Gulf of Mexico?
This big piece of drift and the derelict canoe must have entered the main flood out of the mouth of Tanabee Creek--or what had once been Tanabee Creek.
But unlighted derelictships adrift on the sea, and floating ice peaks were dangers that the red eye of the noctovistor could not record.
His sharp eyes soon showed him, though, that this derelict had already been searched.
Not you, mate," came from the encouraging Hawkins, who hastened away at once so that he might save this derelict fisherman some suffering.
Alone, cut off from his own kind, alien and derelict amid the conditions of a humanity strange, perhaps unknown to him, he sought companionship where he could.
