Whenever these tentacles passed over the river in a direction against the current, an ugly chop sea was the result, and our boat, stout dory though she was, shipped water in some of these places.
He was working over the engine, his hands covered with grease, when the dory scraped the side of the boat.
When they finally got into the dory she leaned close to the Captain and set his staid old heart palpitating.
She's going to keep house," replied the Captain, drawing the dory alongside his power-boat.
I was 'feared you'd be setting out to sea in my dory after hearing that sermon last night," he said banteringly, with a twinkle in his eyes.
The small dory to which I clung, caught in some mysterious current, floated at the very extremity of its slender towline, and in consequence the sloop appeared little more than a mere smudge, when my eyes endeavored to discover its outlines.
These were some of the thoughts which animated me, and gave new strength to my arms, as I sent the dory flying through the water.
The sharp bow of the dory ran up on the soft sand of the beach, and I stepped ashore, hauling the light boat after me beyond the reach of the waves.
I shall never know how long I remained thus, the little dory in which I lay rocked aimlessly about by the waves, and constantly drifting in the grasp of unseen currents farther and farther out into the Bay.
Bradford as the dory lay ready to transport the last three to the pinnace already under sail.
They were fully two hundred feet from the ship, when suddenly it seemed to roll around half-way, and they could look over the entire deck, so fully was it exposed to those on board of the dory in which the boys had taken refuge.
Thus, a dory has a speed of four miles per hour in still water; if it be run up stream against a current flowing four miles per hour it would move at that speed with respect to the water, yet remain at rest with respect to the earth.
In this instance both catboat and dory are moving with respect to the water if the latter be regarded as stationary.
The small dory running at a speed of four miles per hour against the current is moving at that velocity relative to the current, yet is at a standstill relative to the catboat.
I have a little model of a fishing dory that Georgie made for me, with its sprit-sail and killick and painter and oars and gaff all cleverly cut with the clumsiest of jackknives.
With a dory his work would not have been comparatively easy; but with a thirteen-foot yacht's tender it was super-human.
Salt is a makin' thedory fast with a new haulin'-line, ma'am.
As they came out upon the shore, the doryloomed up, beached, a dark silhouette against the starlit water.
So Marche towed the dory around to the westward and drew it into a channel where it might lie concealed under the reeds.
The steady breeze filled the sail; the dorystood straight away toward the blinding glory of the sunrise.
For some time as he drove his dory across the stream toward the spot where his boom was fastened, the boy reflected upon the cost of doing the right thing, the thing that in the end would result in the most good to the greatest number.
Pant had been down the river in a dory for bananas, cocoanuts and casabas.
John Dory in the market, he would turn round, and lazily remark, "then call me again to-morrow.
He is said to have so loved John Dory as to declare, that for the enjoyment of it, a man "should have a swallow from here to the antipodes, and palate all the way!
A BRILL and JOHN DORY are carved in the same manner as a Turbot.
The halibut was so completely engaged in the pursuit of the codfish that it paid no attention to the dory and was easily captured.
Don was racing up a rocky trail while Lester was tugging with all his might at the long oars, driving the heavy dory farther and farther out into the face of the oncoming storm.
Pearl sat in the stern of her dory on this particular afternoon and recalled all the strange tales that had been woven about the cove.
Once more she thought of the ancient wood-carrying schooner, of the bolts of silk cloth in her hold, and of the dory that had passed them in the night.
That same day, Pearl took her new dory and rowed away to her favorite fishing ground, Witches Cove.
She thought now of the three bolts of red cloth in the beached schooner's hold, and of the dory that had passed them in the night.
He was battling the storm to keep his dory afloat.
The two boys, Don and the city boy, Lester Hilton, had just completed the laborious task of dragging a heavy dory up a rock-strewn beach.
Soon she would be upon the dory from the smoking schooner.
All the time he talked Don was helping to shove the dory off.
He gave the dory a stout shove, then went racing up the bank.
Before Ruth in a borroweddory bumped alongside she had the sail up and was winding away at the anchor rope.
The man was rowing slowly and awkwardly, as if unused to the exertion, but as the sea was fairly calm he was not having a hard time, especially as the dory was built for safety.
They could not go to both places, as the lighter was in one direction and the dory being rowed in another.
Without further delay I jerked loose the painter and drew the extra dory alongside.
One evening before the night winds I sat in the shadow of the extra dory on top of the deck house.
But there's one thing we're all anxious to know; how came you in the dory which we found and left on the Laughing Lass no later than two days ago?
She had two surf boats, a dingy, and a dory slung to the davits.
With a deftness which had made the Wolverine famous in the navy for the niceties of seamanship, the great cruiser let down her tackle as she drew skilfully alongside, and made fast, preparatory to lifting the dory gently to her broad deck.
Dory was aboard when we found her the second time, after Edwards had left.
Besides, it helped me get the ship here, so I could go in a dory to my helicopter, and 'put on my sky show.
He drew against the pull of the wind until he could get the dory and the low wingtip close enough together to enable him to step across.
There he stepped back onto the wing bracing, steadying the dory as Garry and Don entered it.
If only that jut of land extended far enough they thought it possible to reach the smashed airplane by a safer route than the dory could afford.
Let's get my dory and I'll row you down to the 'base.
Their tasks completed, Don and Garry, one on the wharf planks, the other balancing the light flying craft, waited until Chick could scull the dory close alongside the fuselage.
They hurried to the edge of the platform, drew a dory close, and were quickly within its cluttered hull.
I'se 'most as ole as Miss Dory when lill chile was born," was the reply, which silenced the Colonel with regard to her age.
From a drawer in the chamber above she brought a little white dress, stiff with starch and yellow and tender with time, which she said "lil Miss Dorywore when she first saw her father.
That was ole Miss Thomas, who stood out agin Miss Dory till she seen de ring.
Not to know Miss Dory was bad enough, but not to know who he was was much worse.
She tole me so, fo' she died, an' Miss Dorynever tole a lie.
But she did not mind it, and as she walked to the house she felt greatly comforted with the thought that she had cussed him, and that Miss Dory was wearing her ring as a sign that she was good, and that "ole granny Thomas had gin in.
Lavender took the precaution to beach the dory at an abandoned wharf near Sunset Lane.
The fishing party and all the paraphernalia shipped safely aboard the Mabel T, Lavender let the dory drift as Sidney had begged him to do the first time she had gone out.
As the dory bumped its nose against the wharf one of the men threw a line to the man on the dock who caught it dexterously with the iron hook.
Come on, now, we'll pull the dory round to the starboard side.
With the line from the dory in his hand the boy considered.
Lavender had already let the line of the dory slip out of his hand.
Then the little party waded out to the dory and embarked.
For that reason a dory approaching Rockman's caught her eye.
If anyone comes up and sees the dory they'll know someone's aboard.
Sidney told of the landing of the dory and the man with the iron hook for a hand.
She looked at the ugly hook and at the man and then at the approaching dory and every pulse quickened and tingled.
One can always find a dory one can use--whenever he wants one.
Darwinism, as he leaped upon the deck with the painter of the dory in his hand.
Monkey's old dory had been towing astern during the trip, and after putting everything in order on board of the yacht, the two boys went on shore.
The Skylark passed out of hearing of Ben's voice, but he immediately jumped into his dory and pulled for the wharf.
Then came a day when, as the four went down to see Old Tin-Back set off from the little dock in his dory to take up his lobster pots, they saw a motor boat heading into the bay.
He said he passed her in his dory the other day, and some one yelled to him not to come too close.
Nevertheless, her heart almost failed her as she got into the little dory and rowed out.
He pulled in his oars and let the dory float amid the ripples.
They launched the large dory with difficulty and pulled out into the surf.
He walked over to the dory and helped Mary Stella out of it while Benjamin made the painter fast.
Seated on the gunnel of a dory or on the sunny side of a boat-house, where the warmth is grateful to my limbs, or by my own hearth when a friend or two are there, I overflow with talk, and yet am never tedious.
Thence it is an easy digression to the halibut--scarcely smaller than the whale--which ran out six codlines and hauled my dory to the mouth of Boston harbor before I could touch him with the gaff.
With the exception of some emergency rations and half a bucket of water, all provisions, including medical kit, were taken from the dory and left on the rafts.
I was picked up by the motor dory and at once began to make arrangements to try to reach the Scillys in that boat in order to get assistance to those on the rafts.
After a very trying trip during which it was necessary to steer by stars and by the direction of the wind, the dory was picked up about 1 p.
Exercise, I guess,” he answered, as he steered the dory in under the boom.
At the landing he threw the bag into the motor-dory and climbed in, followed by Nelson.
All would have gone well with him if at the very moment of his take-off the dory had not, for some unaccountable reason, suddenly started to back away.
From the direction of Crescent came the chug--chug--chug of the motor-dory returning with the evening mail.
SHOWS THAT A MOTOR-DORY CAN GO AS WELL AS STOP 22 IV.
Presently Dan appeared around the corner of the nearest building, and Nelson quietly pushed the dory away from the landing.
Last time I raced with them this pesky dory stopped short half-way across.
Bob consented, and the three tumbled into the dory and set out.
But Dan had nothing more to say until the motor-dory had come alongside and its occupants had finally taken themselves off up the hill, whooping like an Indian war-party.
In the afternoon they secured the motor-dory and with three others went for a trip around the lake.
But perhaps they would let him take thedory some other time.
The dorywormed its way in between a lot of rowboats, the propeller stopped, and Dan poised himself for a leap as the boat drifted in.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
