She said very coolly: "Any person of sense must know that a marriage is unsuitable between a servant to Douw Fonda and John Murray Drogue Forbes, Laird of Northesk, and a Stormont to boot!
To this elegant and formal and amazing letter, writ by a secretary and signed by my Lord Stirling, was appended in his own familiar hand this postscript: "Jack Drogue will not refuse his old friend, Billy Alexander.
Well, sir, as the saying is in Northesk, 'a Drogue stops at nothing but a Forbes.
Only Jack Drogue dissents," she murmured, bending over her knitting.
Who is Jack Drogue to flaunt his pack and his politics under my nose!
Lieutenant of Rangers Drogue to report to Major Westfall," said I bluntly, in reply to a Continental Captain's inquiry.
John Drogue hath shown me what is my privilege in this idle game of bussing which men seem so ready to play with me, whether I will or no!
Mr. Drogueis arrived to await her ladyship's commands," said I.
He did not want the block of wood just then,--only the line tied to it; and this having been detached, the drogue was left lying upon the carcass.
He had slidden to the end of his tether,--the other end of which was fast to the drogue drifting about in the sea, as already said, on the opposite side of the carcass.
Beyond it he could see the gleaming metal ribbons of the drogue chute.
Should wait at least ten seconds before releasing the drogue chute so I'll clear the ship.
The usual drogue is a trawl tub, quite perfect if filled with oil-soaked cotton waste to make a 'slick' which keeps the crests from breaking.
But sometimes a sudden storm, especially if it follows fog, will set the chickens straying; and then the men must ride it out moored to some sort of drogue or floating anchor.
A sea anchor or drogue was devised to enable the airship to "lay to" for extended periods, without consuming fuel, in case it wishes to use its listening devices against submarines, make repairs or for other purposes.
Illustration: With a drogue or sea anchor to hold the airship steady, supplies or personnel may be taken aboard at sea.
But he repressed the inclination, and that gentleman went on to say-- "When the boat of the Red Eric came up to the whale was the drogue still attached to it?
Oh, then you did not see the drogue attached to the whale?
If the drogue had become detached the fish would have been free, and both crews would have been entitled to chase and capture it if they were able.
The whale had been first struck by Glynn with a harpoon, to which a drogue was attached; it had been followed up by the crew of the Red Eric and also by the crew of the Termagant.
The harpoon fortunately happened to be attached to a large buoy, called by whalers a drogue, which was jerked out of the boat like a cannon-shot as the whale went down, carrying harpoon and drogue along with it.
I'm surprised to find how few of the men can state with absolute certainty that they saw the drogue attached to the whale when the boat came up to it.
If the craft be such as I am imagining her to be, she should be able to ride out almost any weather with drogue out, and possibly a bit of trysail or mizzen set, sheeted well amidships.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drogue" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
