The vessels that were to be sunk in the fairway were moored opposite the fort at a distance of about a ship's length from one another.
Carlos Island, and making short boards, we had a weather-tide, while in thefairway of the Strait the stream was running to the S.
Illustration] Chukchi Sea The largest colonies of seabirds in the Chukchi Sea are those on Little Diomede Island, Cape Lisburne, Cape Thompson, and Fairway Rock.
The putting-greens are in the nicest and most beautiful places, belts of trees line the fairway at several of the holes; there are others in open country, and the short ones are uncommonly good.
Yet it is well bunkered, the fairway is smooth and dry, as it is at Fontainebleau, all through the winter, and the putting greens are most excellent, fast and true.
The fairway is as hard as might be expected, and consists for the most part of bare places and tufts.
Its fairway is not perfect, any more than the fairways of other American courses are.
The fairway at Brookline is far better than on the average American course, and if one says that its putting greens are among the very best in America, the greatest possible compliment is paid to them.
They are up and down, straight and crooked, interesting always, with a good fairway that gives fine lies to the ball, and putting-greens of the smoothest sort.
The fairway is tolerably good, and there are putting greens in pretty places.
They race up, lifting their poles above their heads as a sign the fairway is blocked, and the word of command, "Lock in, lock in!
I'll have that cursed rock out of the fairway next summer, if I have to splinter it.
He was half across the fairway now, the pole swung round, the lithe body made a lightning turn, and he was borne downstream at a furious pace.
It's a good bit off to Fairway Tower, which we must round before we turn homeward.
They did not hesitate; up they climbed Fairway Tower was in sight; a wide valley full of streams and rather difficult country was, however, between them and it.
Again, we would be staggering through the tide-rips and overfalls that infest the open fairway of the Weser on our passage between the Fork and the Pike.
Erratic puffs from the high land behind made her progress timorous at first, but soon the fairway was reached and a true breeze from Flensburg and the west took her in its friendly grip.
The navigable fairway shoals and shrinks, middle grounds obstruct it, and shelving foreshores persistently deny it that easy access to the land that alone can create great seaboard cities.
The positions where the ships were sunk in the fairway were examined, and the King, with his professional knowledge of the Service in which he spent his young manhood, could reconstruct the whole battle.
The depth is in general ten fathoms; at no place in the fairway is it less than nine fathoms.
From the village Tas-Ary I shall carry the vessel of the expedition to the town of Yakutsk, inasmuch as I shall show the proper fairway on the Lena river.
It was not until the 7th September that the delta was finally passed, and the Lena steamed in the river proper, where the fairway became considerably better.
Yes, that was the sound of the bell hung from within the cage-like framework surrounding the buoy, which is moored on the edge of the shoal skirting the fairway leading into Portsmouth Harbour.
Mr Gadgett, the bo'sun, was complaining just now of their taking up all the fairway of the deck, and told me I must get rid of them from here somehow or the other!
He cut away the rocks at the entrance, deepened and improved the fairway and approach to the beach; and rendered the numerous existing caves more convenient for the stowage of smuggled goods.
Considering Henry’s quarrel with the Holy Father at Rome it was somewhat an irony that the final blow to Sandwich’s prosperity as a port was dealt it by the sinking in the fairway of a large ship owned by the Pope.
Even in the doubtful holding ground of Trinity Bay some large ships were anchored, and the fairwaythrough the Roads was encroached upon by more than one of us--despite the summary signals from the Guardship.
The deep of the fairway is scored by passage of coasting steamers, an unending procession that joins lightship to lightship in a chain of transport.
If the seas are too high for boatwork, she steams ahead and offers a lead to a quieter section of the fairway where boarding may be attempted.
At a bend in the fairway we close and speak the channel patrol steamer and draw no disquieting impression from her answer to our hail.
As in the bottle of commerce, the bottom is re- entrant, and the shore-reef runs prominently forth into the basin and makes a dangerous cape opposite the fairway of the entrance.
Hayti, or Hispaniola, is in the fairway of ships coming from Europe towards the Main.
The islands are in the fairway between Panama and Lima, but ten days passed before the watchers saw a sail, and cried out to those in the boat.
On the 14th of November the Minerva very narrowly escaped striking on a rock, in the fairway of the west entrance to Bass Strait, on the south side of King's Island.
Forth and Clyde Canal--the river widens decidedly, the fairway being indicated by a stone wall continued seawards as far as Dumbarton.
From Dumbarton, where the firth is commonly considered to begin, to Ailsa Craig, where it ends, the fairway measures 64 m.
In English ports the practical importance of allowing free ingress for friendly traffic overruled all other considerations, and the friendly channels were always straight and coincided with some part of the usual fairway channel.
Beyond that the water spreads o'er the swamp with no fairway for a boat.
It drove for the blue fairway of the channel between the frothing shoals of the bar and made brave headway for the harbor.
The distance from shore to shore at the nearest point is about forty miles, the two Diomede Islands and Fairway Rock being situated about half-way across.
Fairway rock, a little way east of Ratmanoff island, is not inhabited.
To this end, once in the fairway of the river he headed the boat downstream, rowing strongly though cautiously for some minutes, careful to avoid all plunge of the oars, all swish of them or drip.
After passing the Lower Hope point, sheets were checked, jib topsails and balloon staysails were set, and, with a puffy breeze broad off the Essex side, they went straight up the fairway pushing on a big bow wave.
Nature has done nearly all the bunkering work for these last two holes; at the others she has had to be assisted by man, and man has been very busy cutting pot-bunkers, and mostly towards the sides of the fairway and the edges of the green.
Well bunkered and difficult enough is that particular hole, and yet so utterly lacking in the least breath of the sea, and the fairway is just a smooth avenue mowed out of a big field.
The fairway is so beautifully flat and shaven and runs so straight and so precisely between two lines of thick tufty grass, which might at certain seasons be irreverently called hay.
The course is still comparatively young, and has not yet put forth any very thick crop of bunkers; but the heather is wiry and tenacious and the fairway narrow.
In narrow channels every steam vessel shall, when it is safe and practicable, keep to that side of the fairway or mid-channel which lies on the starboard side of such vessel.
A vessel aground in or near a fairway shall carry the above light or lights and the two red lights prescribed by article 4 (a).
This rule shall not give to any vessel or boat engaged in fishing the right of obstructing a fairway used by vessels other than fishing vessels or boats.
