Following in the wake of the last sloop a yawl with a dingey in tow was coming towards the quay.
I suppose he wishes I had left him in the dingey on No Man's Sea.
The dingey lay there on the glassy surface, not a sign of life about her.
What happened to him at Port Darwin and elsewhere, I don't know; but one day I found him on a fashionable steamer in the Indian Ocean, looking almost as near to Kingdom Come as when he starved in the dingey on No Man's Sea.
In the bottom of the dingey lay a man, apparently dead, wearing the clothes of a convict.
The dingey had scarcely reached the drifting vessel when the wind began to freshen into a decided blow.
The young man saw that the men were about to launch one of the boats, and that some of the crew were now making ready to raise the dingey to position on the davits, while others were hastening to take their seats within it.
They sent their Dingey aboard with Four Men for me and my chief Officers.
Myself and my Second Mate went in the Dingeyaboard the Grabb.
And even as he came to this conclusion, the dingey from the Sylph hove in view, and, without pausing to reconsider, he hailed it.
Two oars struck the water with a splash, and the dingey shot out from the gang steps of the Sylph the steady strokes of two sturdy sailors sending the little craft swiftly on its way.
Two men huddled in the stern, and distances were so magnificent in the dingeythat the rower was enabled to keep his feet partly warmed by thrusting them under his companions.
No mind unused to the sea would have concluded that the dingey could ascend these sheer heights in time.
Tide, wind, and waves were swinging thedingey northward.
Four scowling men sat in the dingey and surpassed records in the invention of epithets.
The men in the dingey had not discussed these matters, but each had, no doubt, reflected upon them in silence and according to his mind.
In a ten-foot dingey one can get an idea of the resources of the sea in the line of waves that is not probable to the average experience which is never at sea in a dingey.
Their backbones had become thoroughly used to balancing in the boat, and they now rode this wild colt of a dingey like circus men.
The captain, rearing cautiously in the bow, after the dingey soared on a great swell, said that he had seen the lighthouse at Mosquito Inlet.
A dingey buries too much on the stroke, and spoils style.
A dingey is a short craft, originally designed as a sort of tender to a yacht, but adopted for pleasure purposes on the Thames for nearly half a century.
Unlike thedingey or flat bottom boat, the canoe is easily upset.
Whether your boat is a dingey or an expensive rowing shell, always enter it, if the purpose is pleasure and exercise, with the determination to get the best out of it.
We dropped anchor there at about five o'clock in the afternoon of such a day as only southern California can boast of, and the dingey was lowered to take us ashore.
In another minute the dingey was back on its davits, the anchor up, and we were under way.
Send in the dingey with a lead or pole, and sound for the deepest place on the bar; when this is found, let the dingey lie there or on a line inside of it to guide you in.
I would advise the young seaman to take a small skiff or dingey to a beach where there is a small sea breaking and practice making-off and landing through the surf.
The Admiral got into the dingey to see what sort of people they were.
Three men were sent from the Almiranta in a dingey to land.
Armitage and I went off in ourdingey and had a few pleasant hours shooting looms.
Coming back for the dingey I rowed out to a point of ice past which there was a flight of ducks, but was astonished to find the birds so shy in such a quiet place.
During the morning I took the dingey and rowed amongst them, as there was no floe ice near.
I took the dingey with a boy and pulled off to a long point of ice on the west side of the island not far from where we lay.
The dingey was lowered and the Captain and myself had a few hours' shooting and secured a great many.
A boat and the dingey with a net and ten men were sent to try to catch some salmon.
Crawford of the Arctic came on board and we took our dingey and went to one of the islands.
Her first wild impulse was to run to the cove, for the little dingey always moored there, and to desperately attempt to overtake him.
She was quite hidden in the shrubbery when she saw a boat making slow headway against the wind towards the little cove where but a moment before she had drawn up the dingey beyond the reach of breaking seas.
Preserved through her very weakness, ignorance, and simplicity of purpose, the dingey had all the security of a drifting boat, yet retained a certain gentle but persistent guidance.
Recovering again just in time, I saw another wave send the dingey once more on board with a crash, and splinters flew up, so we thought she was smashed, but it was the jigger-boom that was broken by the collision.
However, the Rob Roy had a charming sail among the yachts as she towed at her stern the dingey and a canoe, for the members of our Club are ubiquitous, {287} so two of them are at Margate.
Now that we can reckon about three thousand of such canoes, and now that this little dingey has proved a complete success and an unspeakable convenience, the laugh may be forgotten.
My little dingey was the attraction, and the lady confessed boldly that she “would so like to have a boat like that to row in.
Of course the dingeyhad its Sunday voyage at Cowes, and was everywhere received with kindness.
The dingeytoo had its usual meed of applause; but one rough mariner was so vociferous in deriding its minuteness, that at last I promised him a sovereign if he could catch me, and he might take any boat in the port.
On the Sunday the little dingey had its usual cargo, and the bargemen on the Seine, in the heart of Paris, were just as glad as others elsewhere to get something to read.
The bluff bow above, and the keelless, round, smooth bottom below, enabled the dingey to top the sharpest wave, and I often forgot my steering while turning round to watch the little creature as she nimbly leaped over the tumbling billows.
We've got to stay on this old turtle as long as she'll let us, for we couldn't get that dingey off now if we tried!
Perry dropped into thedingey again and set the milk-can upright, and then, after another minute, Cas returned empty-handed.
Boarding in that sea was no child's work, for the big swells, which slammed into and sometimes over the schooner without much effect, tossed the dingey high in air.
The dingey pulled off again, narrowly escaping capsizing more than once, and ten minutes afterwards the Catspaw was once more wallowing along in the wake of the cruisers.
Then that little old dingey would be worth about a thousand dollars, I guess.
Repairs kept them there two days, and then, having acquired a new anchor for the Follow Me and left the extra dingeyin safe storage, the Adventure Club set forth once more in the early hours of a drizzly morning.
A quarter of an hour later the two boats continued their way up the shore, the Follow Me poorer by one eighty-pound anchor and richer by one cedar dingey which the six boys aboard seriously suspected of having been stolen.
Two blurred forms resolved themselves into men as Perry beached the dingey and tiredly dropped the oars.
It was ten minutes later, perhaps, when Steve suddenly swung around and looked back past the bow of the dingey on the after cabin roof.
In a calm sea they could reach the shore in the dingey if it became necessary, while a distress signal would undoubtedly be soon seen from the nearer head-land.
The dingey floated off the sand again, headed for the Follow Me, and then the storm broke.
At one moment the tiny dingey was seen poised on the summit of a great green sea and the next was quite gone from sight.
It was not until I had got the water under (for the water in the dingey had been shipped; the boat was perfectly sound) that I had leisure to look at the people in the launch again.
I heard the bows ground in the sand, staved the dingey off the rudder of the big boat with my piggin, and freeing the painter, landed.
It has hitherto been supposed that the four men who were in the dingey perished, but this is incorrect.
The dingey of the "Lady Vain" had been towing behind; it was half full of water, had no oars, and was quite unvictualled.
I told him the dingey was nearly swamped, and he reached me a piggin.
The captain, rearing cautiously in the bow, after the dingey soared on a great swell, said that he had seen the light-house at Mosquito Inlet.
With mighty strokes he sent thedingey ahead into the boiling surf.
Again making a strenuous effort to get beyond their reach he sent the dingey scudding to westward, was caught by a current, and carried further away from the vessel.
It was very dark, but there was a good land-breeze, and he sailed the dingeyright along the edge of the reef till he came to the passage, and disappeared in the darkness.
These I declined, and after waiting till I perceived that most of the shore visitors had left the brig, I took our dingey and pulled aboard.
The Strong's Island women then told us that the dingey had been brought down from Chabral harbour by Jansen, and was then lying outside the coral at anchor.
While he stood watching her from the brig's deck, he suddenly remarked that they were making a mess of it, and calling two boys to bring the dingey alongside, he was pulled into the shore.
See all clear," he shouted to Davy Fayle; and Davy stood on the quay with the duty of clearing the ropes from the blocks, and then following in the dingey that lay moored to the wooden steps.
In silence they carried the body of Ewan to the dingey that lay on the beach.
On the west coast of St. Patrick's Isle they must bear down and run the dingey ashore.
The men wore their oilskins, as if they had just stepped out of the dingey on the beach, and on the floor were three baskets of cod and ray, as if they had just set them down.
Then I heard the falls run, and a soft splash as the dingey was launched overside.
The men made some sort of shelter for themselves by turning up the long boat and the dingey on edge, crawling into the lee, and thus finding a little protection.
It held two figures only, that of the deck-hand who rowed, and that of the large white-flanneled man who now disembarked from the dingey and went aboard the yacht.
It was more than a mile to the foot of that vast curve; and even as I leaped at the grimy oily motor, I saw a white dingey with blue trim make out from the wharf and leisurely pull alongside the landing stair of the yacht.
Some one turned on the search-light, so that a wide shaft of light swung along the foot of Natchez Hill, toward which the dingey was headed.
I could see the stubby dingey forced half out the water by Peterson's oars, though she made little speed enough.
First, I called to Willy, our deck-hand, who had the dingey now astern, some fashion.
Be that as it may, I cautiously pulled thedingey under the lee of the Belle Helène.
The sight of the dingey brought the hunchback into Martin's racing thoughts.
So I crossed to the side and felt around until I grasped the boat's painter; and then I overhauled until the dingey was beneath me.
Carew, himself, had disappeared below, but a sailor appeared on the main deck, and hauled the dingey alongside.
No, as soon as you get the dingey made fast, put on headway and run the boat back to Mr. Dunstan's pier.
I'm going to lower the dingey into the water and row ashore.
I watched the dingey row off--the tide was out, so there was barely water for her to get clear--and then I went back home to think.
Then I see a dingey with three men aboard rowing in, and I walked down the beach to meet 'em.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dingey" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
