He now, to his great surprise, perceived one of his messmates swimming ahead of him; but he did not hail him.
He now caught sight of a vessel at anchor, but a great way off, and to get within hail of her he must swim over Carton Sands (the grave of thousands), the breakers at this time showing their angry white crests.
The storm dies away, when the crew are startled with a sound which proves to be a hail from another vessel.
The ashes fell on our deck like hail and snow, the fire and smoke roared like thunder.
From the forward end came the clink of the windlass, and soon afterwards the hail of the chief mate informing Lingard that the cable was hove short.
The loudhail that succeeded these words was emitted nearly under the silent listener's nose.
He worked very leisurely, but as soon as he was nearly alongside he began to hail the silent craft with the tone and appearance of a man in a tremendous hurry.
In every port he had a household--his own or that of a relation--to hail his advent with demonstrative joy.
At last there was heard a loud hailfrom down the river.
His big bell had sounded for New Carthage, and John Courteney had appeared down forward of it, but neither Hugh nor Ramsey was enough diverted to answer the parting hail of the town's two residents joyfully going ashore.
I'll set thee in a shower of gold, and hail Rich pearls upon thee.
Let the sky rain potatoes; let it thunder to the tune of Green Sleeves, hail kissing comfits, and snow eringoes.
I am glad to see you for yourself, and I hail you as a counselor, in the strange pass to which we have come.
Three times the cannon were discharged into their midst; but though broken and disordered, they still pressed on until they swept up to the very foot of the walls, pouring in a hail of arrows.
I thought she would just row around the island, and then come back and hail us, at all events," said Eunice, laying down her book and standing up to give the call.
This is the way that 'Hail to the Chief' goes," and Cricket sang the first line.
It was the middle of the afternoon, and Nat was seated in the cabin reading a book on the Incas, when a hail from the pilot house brought him to his feet.
No hail from the deck above," he whispered to Hal.
Hail be thou, Lord of high magnificence In tokening of priesthood, and dignity of office, To thee I offer a cup full of incense; For it behoveth thee to have such sacrifice.
Hail freely, leaf and flow'r, that all thing has wrought!
To right and left it ran, crashing and rolling like the sound of a heavy hail on a tin roof, magnified a thousand times, with the cannon pealing out in the midst of it like claps of thunder.
It had the appearance ofhail striking on the surface of water, only it wasn't cold.
But they could not face that hailof death any longer; they could not make that rush!
Yet not to those alone who bear command Heaven gives a heart to hail the marriage band; Among their servants, we the pairs can show, Who much to love and more to prudence owe.
The wintry winds have ceased to blow, And trembling leaves appear; And fairest flowers succeed the snow, And hail the infant year.
Who hail the day in each revolving year: These are with us, as in the world around; They are not frequent, but they may be found.
Their other national air "Hail Columbia," is intitled to more respect.
As he limped onward, the sun level in his eyes, he heard somebody speak behind him, but did not catch the words or apply the hail to himself.
A moment later a far hail sounded across the uplands, and against the sky figures moved distantly.
When we chugged along the shore, and slackened opposite our camp, I heard the stern voice of Lafitte hail us: "Ship ahoy!
And we poured in a hail of chain-shot and set her hull afire.
There came an answering hail which assured me that yon varlet, Davidson, had heard.
Yet he seemed no tramp; and even if he were, he had no right to hail us in this fashion.
I shant be sorry to come within hail of her white cliffs again, though I did not expect, two weeks ago, that I should see them for many a long month.
The clouds hung low, heavy with hail and snowflakes, and on the fence stood the raven, crying, "Croak!
Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands to Yahweh; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth.
Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left.
The hail struck throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and animal; and the hail struck every herb of the field, and broke every tree of the field.
When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
Every man and animal that is found in the field, and isn't brought home, the hail shall come down on them, and they shall die.
For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left.
The hail ceased and the heights above us cleared as we ascended.
When this hail was squeezed together, it exactly resembled a mass of oolitic limestone which I had picked up in 1853 near Blankenburg in the Hartz.
And no mountain has its base at so great a height as this, which lifts itself above almost all the clouds; and snow seldom falls there, but only hail in the summer, when the clouds are highest.
And no mountain has its base at so great a height as this, which lifts itself almost above the clouds; and snow seldom falls there, but only hail in the summer, when the clouds are highest.
The carnival of his life, however, was nearly over, and probably the termination of the race-week might hail him a man.
He is already your devoted; and I have no doubt that, inspired at the same time by your universal charms and our universal hints, I shall soon hail you Duchess of Burlington.
And Miss Dacre, with her father, was among the first to hail his return to health and the metropolis.
After the corpse has been taken out, and the snow or the hail has melted, the water is clean, and both cattle and men may drink of it at their pleasure, as before.
What part of a sheet of snow or hail does the Drug Nasu defile with corruption, infection, and pollution?
Hail to thee, whom the Gahi kills, and the ungodly Ashemaogha, and the wicked tyrant.
Hail to thee, who dost bestow his part upon the righteous faithful, and wilt bestow it on the faithful yet unborn!
We had been guilty of no irreverence beyond this omission, and even under the hail of priestly wrath did our best to withdraw correctly without turning our backs to the altar.
The Society of the Holy Childhood asks for a contribution of only one cent a month from each of its members, and requires each one to say daily a Hail Mary and an invocation to the child Jesus, to have pity upon all poor pagan children.
This work has attained a well deserved popularity in the Catholic community; and we hail with pleasure this new and enlarged edition of it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hail" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
