They was the North Star an' the Eastern Star of the Aspinwal Line, a mail an' freighter runnin' between Aspinwal near the Isthmus of Panama and New York.
And they know every time that a liner, a freighteror a warship sails from this port.
Although we were only about half a mile away the freighter sank before we could get to it.
As we turned to starboard we noticed an American freighter behind us heavily laden with wheat and very low down in the water.
You will awaken inside the freighter and be able to reach your own people.
There is an old freighter of your people which we have found abandoned and adrift.
Once in a while Dick Davis or Ab Perkins had the operator on the freighter flash back a wireless message of a friendly, personal nature.
The "Restless" and the freighter were now within a mile of each other, and almost head-on.
The drab boat, about two miles away, had altered its course so as to pick up the freighter at a more southerly point.
He felt certain that the freighter had entirely eluded the vigilance of those on board the drab boat.
I know the Langley type offreighter build," Halstead explained, eagerly.
Then the hoarse whistle of the "Glide" sounded, and the freighter began to go ahead at half-speed.
Dalton doesn't seem to want to try thefreighter now.
Joe again appeared just as the freighter began to make full headway once more.
Captain Halstead took the glasses again, studying both the seventy-footer and the freighter intently, judging their relative speeds and positions.
He reasoned that the ship must be a freighter of broad beam.
Dave had already reasoned out the probable course of the neutral country's freighter in the last hour before he had overhauled it.
In spite of his determination to be crusty and keep his upper lip stiff, he could not repress a little wistfulness, and his eyes roved over the old freighter with affection.
Was not that the general method of the freighter skippers?
After five minutes, you take your bag and walk to Dock Seven and go aboard the freighter Ariel--go just as if you belonged there.
They're going to haul up this freighter and blame it on to me because I ain't making money for the owners.
He found that at seventy-five revolutions per minute the Montana would log off about the same speed that the freighter made when doing her best.
She had been their "chum" for some time, and Mayo had occasionally taken her bearings by sound and compass and knew that the freighter was slowly forging ahead.
That freighter leaves to-night for Barbados with sugar machinery.
Mayo noted that his chief was wholly absorbed in this speechless activity; therefore he pulled the bells which stopped the backward churning and sent the freighter on her way.
He yanked the cord and the freighter howled angrily.
I have telephoned down to the docks, and there's a Vose freighter in here discharging rails.
The freighter shook and shivered when the screw began to reverse, pulling at the frothing sea, clawing frantically to haul her to a stop.
He slowed the freighter to a snail's pace when he approached the dredged channel, and at last the leadsman found suitable bottom.
The impact of that wave sent a long shiver through the 600-foot length of their freighter and what seemed a very wall of water shot high into the air before it fell on them with a drenching crash.
The winds whip up mountainous waves that can break a freighterin two.
This other one, as you call it, occurred on the freighter Herman Frasch, while she was well out at sea.
He waved frantically as the freighter got under way, and thought he caught a glimpse of a white handkerchief being wafted in return.
Captain Braceworth never leaves the bridge in bad weather, even if this is only a freighter and not a dandy passenger boat with pretty ladies and big swells on board,” retorted Raynor.
We got the freighterjust a few minutes ago," he reported.
He strained to remember the time it had taken that freighter to come here, and estimated that, with its slower speed, this world was somewhere between ten and fifteen lights.
If it continues to work out, we'll feed all of 'em this stuff, and I'll requisition plenty more next time the freighter comes in.
He is wanted in connection with the crash of the space freighter Annie Jones and the death of two spacemen.
Born in space," cackled Shinny, "on a passengerfreighter carrying colonists out to Titan.
Down on the control deck, Tom had been watching a space freightereasing out of the station when Roger's voice came over the speaker in a thin scream.
What's that guy and the space freighter Annie Jones got to do with us?
Jardine, meanwhile, had Mason in a viselike grip, but again Loring used the lever, bringing it down hard on the neck of the freighter pilot.
The freighter blasted evenly, smoothly onward through the darkness of space in a straight line for the man-made satellite.
Shinny had promptly started roaring through the passageways of the huge freighter in his nightshirt singing snatches of old songs at the top of his voice.
Monitor seven, take freighter out of station on port sixty-six; monitor twelve, stand by for identification signal of jet liner coming in from Mars.
Fifteen years ago a freighter was forced down in the jungles right near Venusport," said Shinny.
And what you meant when you saw the spaceman get out of that freighter today!
The rights and obligations of the shipowner and the freighter depend, as in the case of all parties to contracts, upon the terms of the agreement entered into between them.
They used some lumber from a load the freighter had and walled up a grave for Olaf.
I know what the trouble is: these horses used to belong to a freighter and are used to being cussed.
This freighter had one, and as we drove past I was surprised to see the form of a woman and a small boy.
Mr. Haynes kept some distance ahead; but occasionally a bit of "cussin'" came back to us and we knew he was using freighter tactics.
I knew none of our men or the freighter were harmed, so I dismissed fear and went to Mrs. O'Shaughnessy.
Together we made out the outline of the freighter at the next wharf and speculated as to the location where we had left Herndon with the huge reflector.
A ship was coming in and was being carefully and quietly berthed alongside the other big iron freighter on that side.
A huge freighter which had been disgorging its cargo into one of the basements that line the river had been endangered by the fire.
Puffing and snarling, adding its bit of smoke to the dense, lampblack cloud which hung over the city, a tug was working the freighter to a place of safety.
Fortunately the men were looking toward the huge freighter a quarter of a mile farther on, and from their talk it was evident that the freighter was to be her prison--bound for where?
And it was a lucky thing that I was on the freighter that picked you up at sea.
The freighter came to a halt in about ten minutes.
He desired Braine to believe that his escape from the freighter had been a bit of wild luck and not a preconceived plan.
Too bad this freighter that just got in isn't going the other way.
The River Road between Washburn and Bismarck approximates the overland freighter trail established in the early 1870's between the end of the Northern Pacific Railway at Bismarck and Fort Buford near the mouth of the Yellowstone.
It was a freighter known as the Captain Rallow, running between Detroit and Buffalo.
The lumberman was right; the freighter Tom and Sam had hailed was approaching, the castaways having been discovered by the aid of a marine glass.
Why they didn't take their time, recapture that freighter and give her skipper a chance to hustle across to San Francisco or Honolulu and intern, is a mystery to me.
Half an hour later with the submarine's crew safely under lock and key on the Narcissus, the big freighter continued on her course, followed by the captured submarine, with Michael J.
We established a systematic seeding procedure for the starfish that kept arriving by the freighter load.
If that meant star-freighter loads of oysters, then it would be star-freighter loads of oysters.
Finally the barge was supposed to be exactly where the freighter had thrown overboard the big stone.
Lucky the captain of that freighter 'Perry' took a bearing on the lighthouse at Port Baracoa; otherwise it would be like lookin' for a boll weevil in a bale o' cotton!
The freighter was listing badly to starboard and looked as though it were partly filled with water.
Soon their attention was attracted by a coarse whistle, and looking around they saw a large freighter steaming up to the dock.
The freighter had anchored off the Manila port area during the night, berthing in the early hours.