The felucca looked every moment as if it must capsize.
My proposal was accepted with great joy, and the proveditore-generale placed a felucca at my disposal.
The felucca had much the advantage of us in breadth of canvas and her high-peaked sails; but being heavily laden, she was deep in the water.
He may be the padróne of somefelucca from Leghorn or Naples.
To give the proper effect to our meeting I commanded that each felucca fire twenty-one guns as a salute to His Majesty Ghak, King of Sari.
When the prisoners were aboard, Ja brought the felucca alongside our dugout.
In them were fully two hundred men, while but fifty lined the gunwale of the felucca to repel them.
After this we landed--an arduous task since each felucca carried but a single light dugout.
When I had a moment to look about me, I took in the felucca on which I was.
But still Hooja was coming nearer, nor could the leading felucca overhaul him before he would be along-side or at least within bow-shot.
When they came a bit closer my eyes fairly popped from my head at what I saw, for in the eye of the leading felucca stood a man with a sea-glass leveled upon us.
One thing that had inclined Ja particularly to the felucca was the fact that it included oars in its equip-ment.
But the feluccapursued them relentlessly, her crew firing at will.
I changed my course; the felucca did the same, both vessels sailing very fast, but the distance growing less and less between us.
The wave and squall that carried away my boom dismasted the felucca outright.
Our felucca came round from Porto Mauritio in the night, and embarking next morning, we arrived at Nice about four in the afternoon.
But in doubling the point of Faro, he descried two Spanish scouts, and learned from the people of a felucca from the Calabrian shore, that they had seen from the hills the Spanish fleet lying to in order of battle.
At last we seemed to have fallen in with the traditional 'long, low, black schooner,' metamorphosed into a felucca for the nonce.
The felucca was next observed standing on the same course as ourselves.
The felucca had disappeared; Groslow and his men were annihilated.
All recognised the voice, and strained their eyes in the direction in which the felucca had disappeared.
After this, Lieutenant Lodwick cheered his men on to get up to her before she discharged this fearful battery; but no sooner was the cheer uttered than the felucca opened on the boat.
This was a staggerer for the British boat; but fortunately the slaver's crew fired too high (the felucca had now filled, and was going just as fast as the boat could pull).
A second volley from the felucca told with far more disastrous effect; two men were shot dead, and Lieutenant Lodwick and two men severely wounded--the lieutenant having been struck on the left knee and thigh.
The felucca had been chased by every vessel on the coast, and always got away clear.
Mr. Greatorex, taking a look at the feluccathrough his glass.
But, quick as thought, the Moor whipped out a knife and struck at Timothy; and when the sailors came running to the spot they found the poor fellow groaning on the deck, and caught a glimpse of a felucca speeding away into the gloom.
The Moors left the yacht; the feluccasailed away; not shorewards, as Tom had expected, but out to sea.
Just then a midshipman came down to say that a large barge and a felucca were coming off from the shore.
We fortunately captured a felucca a short distance from the coast, and her master was now directed to stand in and make our request for the articles we required known to the authorities of the place.
In another moment, still flying up into the wind, the felucca crashed into our starboard quarter with a shock which made us heel to our covering-board, and caused our antagonist to rebound a full fathom from us.
I said nothing, however, trusting in Carera's assertion that he knew the place, and presently a narrow band of unbroken water appeared in the midst of the foam, toward which a minute later the felucca was headed.
The Foam I shall pay off at once, and I think it will be a good plan if you, Mr Courtenay, will try to secure the hands you now have on board the felucca for your next cruise.
Then, whilst Courtenay narrowly watched the boat, and held himself ready to fill on the felucca again in good time to avoid being boarded, I sprang into the lee rigging and hailed: "Boat ahoy!
I am gratified to learn from Francisco that you rested soundly during the night I was afraid the motion of the felucca would prove disagreeable to you.
Now, what is to hinder you from rigging out your sweeps and sweeping the felucca into such shallow water as will prevent the frigate yonder from approaching you near enough to reach you with her guns?
Just jog the felucca gently along, taking care that the boat is not allowed to come alongside again, and I'll see what I can do.
Then you don't believe the story of the Austrian brig having sent the feluccato us?
And now, if you please, tell us why it is the felucca there was so anxious to speak to us?
Why, sir, that they serve to confirm my suspicions, and those of my mate, that the felucca is not honest, and that there is a good deal of mystification going on somewhere or other.
It is, Mitchell, the people in that felucca now approaching us," said the colonel.
Much the same scene occurred which had happened before, when we saw the felucca off Saint Kitt's.
On his doing this, the felucca hauled her wind and stood to the northward.
The captain saw, I suppose, that there was no use in trying to prevent the boat from coming alongside; for had he done so, the felucca would very quickly have been after us again, and might not another time have treated us so civilly.
A boat shoved off from thefelucca with four hands in her, and he came on board us.
Whenever, during that and the following days, a sail appeared anywhere abaft the beam, till her rig was ascertained, it was instantly surmised that she was the felucca coming back to overhaul us.
The darkness of the water, like streaming ebony, took the felucca and the fateful voices.
Below lay a whitefelucca containing two sailors, splendidly handsome black men, who were squatting on their haunches and smoking cigarettes.
Soon after one o'clock in the full heat of the day, he set out in the tiny tub which was the only felucca on board of the Fatma, and he took Hassan with him.
He did not dare to say that he saw, and he went down to the bank of the Nile, got into the felucca that was waiting, and was rowed out into the river.
Always Hamza was rowing against the tide, but she noticed that the felucca was drifting out into the middle of the Nile.
The breeze that had filled the sails of the felucca had either died down or was the possession of the river.
Jack was certain that he had seen the slaves carried on board in Elephant Bay, and he had no doubt as to the felucca being the same vessel he had seen in Elephant Bay.
He suggested, that while the frigate stood after the felucca in one direction, he should be allowed to cruise in an opposite direction, to double the chances of falling in with her.
Still Hemming, at all events, did not feel at all certain that the felucca would be caught.
You may be able to send a shot into the felucca and knock away a spar, perhaps.
As he sprang on board, he exclaimed, "The felucca is under weigh, and there's a breeze off the land.
He made out clearly the tall pointed lateen sails of the felucca rising from her decks, and then the sound of the windlass working reached his ears; while a breeze, not felt below and every moment increasing, fanned his cheeks.
The felucca escaped, but as she was never again heard of, it was supposed that she was lost in a fierce gale which occurred two days afterwards.
The felucca had got considerably the start, and was going through the water somewhat faster than the man-of-war's boat; the more also she drew off the land the stronger she got the breeze.
The men on board the felucca watch them and the sea.
Then there is some bustle and confusion, as Luigione brings the papers ashore and friends crowd around the felucca in boats, asking for news and all talking at once.
A big felucca shot round the rocks, still under way from the breeze she had found in the little bay.
Down foresail, and the good felucca forges ahead and rounds the little breakwater.
What could you do in an open felucca with the green water running over?
Down helm, as you meet the next puff, and the good felucca heels over a little.
Footnote 1: A felucca is a two-masted boat of great length in proportion to her beam, and generally a very good sailer.
The model of a first-rate felucca is very like that of a Viking's ship which was discovered not many years since in a mound in Norway.
I have no doubt you would, but they have some things to get from the felucca as well.
I ordered the felucca to be in readiness and summoned my brother to go on board.
The felucca was very conveniently arranged, and was propelled by the twelve oarsmen.
Very good," said I, "but as the prince is coming I must go to the felucca and fetch a capital pie of which the prince is very fond, I know.
When we came back from our walk we were greatly astonished not to find the felucca any more.
He tripped the anchor, and the felucca began to swing away from the shore.
Clairmont brought us an excellent dinner, and we laughed incessantly during its progress, even at the astonishment of the abbe and Possano when they came to the quay and found the felucca had flown.
This duty compelled extraordinary care, for the felucca would keep changing its rig and the bulk of its hull swelled and dwindled.
I leave him to change his dress and shave his beard, while I go down to the harbour and hire a felucca to put him over to Tarifa.
As, with a flowing sheet, we doubled the craggy point, concealed close under the rocks we saw a low and snake-like vessel, of the felucca build.
All the neighbours knew was this, the felucca had passed Point Girolata, and had been seen in the early morning, standing away due south.
We found no trace of any tent, no sign of any landing, and an aged fisherman, whom we met, declared that no felucca or vessel of any sort had lately been near the bay.
After the felucca was sold and her crew dispersed, the mate had followed for a while the fortunes of Lepardo.
There he comes, and there is another man with him,” replied Raimundo, as the felucca appeared off the light–house.
On the eminence they could distinctly see the felucca headed away from the shore in the direction from which she had come when they were on board.
Raimundo had run when he landed, because he saw that the lay of the land would conceal the movements of the felucca from him if he remained where he had come on shore.
As soon as the victory was accomplished, Raimundo sprang to the helm, and brought the felucca up to her course again.
Raimundo, as the boatman, who had taken the helm from Bill, threw the felucca up into the wind, and her keel began to grate on the rocks.
I am confident no one saw the felucca take us off those rocks.
He had no boat; and he was unable to find one from the shore till the felucca was well out of the harbor.
I have a big boat like that,” persisted the man, pointing to a felucca which was sailing down the bay.
There's a feluccato windward of her, which I take to be the 'Panchita!
No, amigo; thefelucca is anchored just outside of it.
They seem to have brought some of the crew of the felucca with them too.
Still the hoarse roar of the pirates in their carouse arose from the covered sheds in the calm night, and the two solitary lights from each mast-head of the felucca and schooner twinkled above the basin of the inlet.
The inlet and basin, framed in by their rocky walls, were still clothed in the gloom of night, and dimly reflecting the fading stars on the calm unruffled surface where the schooner and felucca were moored.
In fact, she was a Spanish feluccaall over, from stem to stern, and truck to water-line.
But bear in mind that we must break up at midnight, for our compadre here has a multitude of articles to get on board his felucca to-night, and I must be astir at daylight.
Soliloquizing these remarks, Captain Brand withdrew his telescope as the commander of the felucca approached, and, with a cheerful smile, waited to receive him.
Finally, however, his greed overcame his prudence, and he accepted the last proposition, with the understanding that the articles should be transferred to the felucca the next night.
I only heard the following circumstance: Ascanio Pogomas, or Passano, had been released at the end of November, and had then been embarked on a felucca bound for Toulon.
While we were talking, the consul came in to announce that the felucca was ready.
We left Naples at four o'clock in the morning, in a felucca with twelve oars, and at nine we reached Sorrento.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "felucca" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
