In the evening Mr. Ryan, with a crew of six men, went in the captain's gig to see how the natives were getting on with the tree.
It's one thing to work a light well-balanced oar such as you use in a gig up the river, but it is a very different one to tug away at one of these heavy oars in a sea-going boat like this with ten sitters in her.
Four of you men get out the gig and tow the canoe alongside.
As soon as the anchor was dropped the captain's gig was lowered, and he started for shore to make arrangements for landing the cargo.
The crew of the captain's gigmust also be retained.
The biscuit was apportioned out to each as far as it went, and the gig parted company from its fellows.
Then Mr. Bollum went away, and was driven back in his gig to the Cambridge Hotel.
He hired a gig and drove himself over from Cambridge to Folking.
The hired gig had been kept; and in his letter the son had asked whether he could be taken in for Thursday night.
The cutter lay to, and thegig was hauled up from the stern to the gangway.
With a slight grating, the keel of the gig touched a sunken piece of land, and almost at the same time, its weigh was stopped entirely by the stem coming in gentle contact with the main rock.
No man in a gig could have such interest in the milestones.
Why here is a man in a gig coming the same way now.
No man in a gig could see, or feel, or think, like merry users of their legs.
That evening John Thurtell and Hunt came again in a gig about nine: they took supper; after supper, John Thurtell and I went to the stable, leaving Hunt talking to Mrs. Probert.
On our way I asked Hunt who the man was who was in the gig with Thurtell; but he answered, 'You are not to know his name; you never saw him; you know nothing of him.
When marketing was over, she rushed off to Liddy, who was waiting for her beside the yellow gig in which they had driven to town.
They were silent now awhile, and having struck into an unfrequented track across a common, the creaks of Boldwood's saddle and her gig springs were all the sounds to be heard.
The gig with the two men took the Queensferry Road.
The mail was followed closely from Stirling by a gig containing two men.
The gig also stopped there, and the two men in it went into the house.
He knew it was Farfrae's gig descending the hill from an indescribable personality in its noise, the vehicle having been his own till bought by the Scotchman at the sale of his effects.
The gig and its driver lessened against the sky in Henchard's eyes; his exertions for Farfrae's good had been in vain.
At length she turned to hasten onward after her contemplation, when she saw a green-and-black gig approaching from the contrary direction, the vehicle being driven by Farfrae.
Baronet, nearly stamping the bottom of hisgig out with vexation.
Just as he offered to lend Billy his gig and horse and then reduced the offer into the loan of the gig only.
Sir Moses's mare breaks into a canter, and makes the action of the gig resemble that of a boat going to sea.
Full of this thought, he hastened down stairs and ordered Melchizedek to put the horse to the gig and get ready to go an errand.
Take this note, sir, jump in the gig and drive as fast as possible to the beach below Pine Bluffs.
The gig had pulled up and from it a man leant over.
He set his horse off with a cluck of his tongue, and continued talking to himself as the gig rattled down the hill.
At the Croix-Verte, as the Abbe was about to cross the highway leading from Plassans to La Palud, a gig coming down the hill compelled him to step behind a heap of stones.
The consequence of this is, that the horse is very often returned to his owner broken-kneed, or else killed upon the spot, by the shaft of anothergig penetrating its chest; and the carriage left minus a shaft or a wheel.
The crew of the gig rose upon the warder, disarmed him and consigning him to the bottom of the boat, carried it and him to Algeciras, where all parties landed without let or hindrance.
The fate which eventually overtook this gig and its convict crew well illustrates the difficulties of management in an oversea prison in near proximity to a foreign country.
Some one immediately ordered out the convict gig to go in pursuit with an armed escort.
He was taken away in his gig to be cured, and I was taken into the school-room to be flogged.
It wanted but one hour of sunset when I reached the part where this infernal gig was supposed to be, and the sky gave strong indications of an approaching gale.
Collins's gig vanished into the outer darkness with the young artist, whom Percival Thorne has never chanced to meet again to this day.
The fact is, when I have done for to-day I'm to have old Collins's gig and drive into Fordborough to see if there are any letters for me.
