Progress was sometimes very tedious, because the wind persisted in meeting them head on, and it is not the easiest task in the world to force an iceboat against a negative breeze.
A few minutes later and the skipper of the leading iceboat brought his speedy craft to a halt close to the shore, where several scouts awaited them.
There were many skaters on the river, but a clear passage down-stream had been made for the start of the iceboat squadron.
There were a good many people on the ice, mostly boys and girls, and the coming of the iceboat flotilla created something of a stir.
Reff Ritter knew how to handle an iceboat to perfection and brought his craft up in the breeze in a manner that won considerable admiration.
The iceboat belongs to a fellow in Cedarville," said a cadet standing near.
The sails were lowered and they went ashore to stretch their legs, for sitting on the iceboat rather cramped them.
Fred and Jack can take theiceboat back to the Hall and explain matters to Captain Putnam.
Skimmer; and in a moment the iceboatrace had started.
They were just getting aboard of the iceboat when they saw another craft heave in sight.
Several other men of Cedarville were told about the robbery, and a crowd of half a dozen got on the iceboat and sailed to Point View Lodge.
The course of the iceboat was slightly changed, and in less than a quarter of an hour they swept up to the dock attached to Point View Lodge.
Fred Century had had a new iceboat built at Cedarville.
Skating is one thing; to sail a heavy iceboat is another.
The iceboat was now within ten feet of the ice, so he could see Coulter quite plainly.
When the pair came up they were some distance from the iceboat and also some distance from the edge of the ice.
It caught the sail of the iceboat and tilted the craft over in the water.
The chums skated as closely as possible to where the iceboatwas drifting in a sheet of open water--a spot where some days before a farmer had been cutting ice.
Coulter, and then, as the iceboat whirled around, the exhausted cadet lost his grip and commenced to slip slowly downward.
A mile ahead the Cranberry flows into the Conoque; and unless my eyes deceive me there's aniceboat coming whooping down that smaller stream.
What he meant was that if we happened to run across his hawser, I would find my new iceboatas badly left in the lurch as my old one was last year.
There was a new shed attached to this, in which Paul kept the iceboat he had had built recently, but which had as yet hardly been tried out.
This was just the time and opportunity for one who knew all about the tricks which an iceboat is capable of developing, to coax her to show her fine points; and that was what Harry was now starting to do.
These boys, seeing that those on the fine new iceboat wished to speak with them, only too gladly came to a standstill, and watched the clever way in which Harry managed to bring his craft up in the teeth of the wind close beside them.
And, urged on by the sarcastic sneers of the ugly Pud, as well as his own keen disappointment at seeing his pet iceboat fairly beaten, he might even take chances which at another time would have appalled him.
Shooting out from the Cranberry like a thing of life, the rival iceboat made a graceful sweep and continued up the river.
No sooner had he taken his departure from the river than the boys who had gathered about the iceboat took up the discussion of the affair.
The Rushville boys were quite indignant, and talking about it when the second iceboat hove in sight.
Was that a real iceboat that went whipping past us just after we started out; or might it have been just a shadow when a cloud passed over the sun?
And as the breeze was almost due west this allowed of almost unlimited possibilities in sailing, with a craft so sensitive to the slightest breath of air as an iceboat on a smooth, mirror-like surface.
Having no recitations after the noon recess, Paul suggested that Jerry, Harry and he should take a sail on his new iceboat Lightning, which had just been delivered to him.
And now the whole river lay before the two iceboat chums, with not a single person to interfere with their sport; since it was as a rule farming country above Rivertown, on both sides of the watercourse.
At that moment a very shabby iceboat came in sight.
Just then a beautiful iceboat with reefed sail and flying streamers swept leisurely by.
Not content with sitting on all the old ladies' laps, you must make a Juggernaut of every iceboat that comes along.
Why, Corny Ludson, a man who seems to be uncle or guardian or something to the boy we pulled out of the Mohunk, the last time we ran myiceboat up river," Bristles informed him.
As the iceboat rumbled down stream Billy asked, suddenly: “What do you think about that dummy, Dan?
I saw those two boys racing over there in a most marvelous iceboat run by a motor——” “Oh, jolly!
Barry shot the white iceboat down toward them as they came out of the cove, and shouted: “Better come aboard here, girls, if you want to reach the lake.
They unleashed the bigger iceboatand pushed her off from the dock.
The regatta committee, headed by Mr. Darringford and made up of influential sportsmen of Riverdale and vicinity, had set the date for the iceboat races in that week between Christmas and New Year’s, when business is slack.
It’s just this: Let’s go in for an iceboat ourselves.
Mr. Spink is going to show you boys how an iceboat ought to be handled.
Their own cries might not have carried very far, save in the lulls of the tempest; but with the voices of Mr. Parker and the sheriff, they raised a cry that was certainly heard by whoever was working the motor iceboat through the blizzard.
But I wonder if we’ve got money enough to get us the fastest iceboat that’s going to be raced on the Colasha this winter?
The iceboat flew right down to the wide channel where the moonbeams glanced upon the ripples—— But she kept right on in her flight, and to Dan’s amazement the runners rumbled over the apparently open water with an increasing roar!
The sail of the overturned iceboat was billowing like a parachute.
Always delighting in a new sport, she had built the iceboat herself--spars from a wood lot, the sail from an old tent.
Still giddy, he staggered and caught the iceboat for support.
I've got those plans for our new iceboat nearly finished, with several novel suggestions which I'd like to ask your opinion about before I order the wood to make it in my shop.
Toby, maliciously; "he's got something a whole lot better to attend to than just jabbering with his two chums over the lines of a projected iceboat wonder.
Jack did not stay longer than half an hour, but during that time he went over the whole scheme of building the new iceboat in Toby's shop.
Let's go hire that iceboat you were talking of, and have a sail on the river.
The iceboat was some distance ahead, but Tom was rapidly overhauling her.
The main sheet became caught, the big sail filled, and a moment later the empty iceboatwas racing over the smooth, frozen river at dangerous speed!
The place where Tom hired the iceboat was quite a distance from the skating course, and, in consequence of a bend in the river, none of the other pupils, who were indulging in sports on the steel blades, were in sight.
Tom brought the iceboat up to his chums, and they got aboard.
There was one iceboat out on the broad surface of the river as our hero and his chums arrived.
Perhaps the appearance of another iceboat that had just passed the sleigh had startled the horses.
The Blue Streak ran closer and of a sudden the young folks aboard the iceboat saw that something was amiss with the Pendletons' horses.
Indeed, Chet had stopped the aero-iceboat and run back to the prostrate stage director.
The two chums owned a small iceboatwhich went, on Lake Luna, by the name of "scooter.
Do you think that iceboat Chet has built is really safe for the girls, James?
Chet and Lance Darby, had they not been so extremely busy learning their parts in the new play, could not have used their aero-iceboat during this time.
Chet snapped his watch back into his pocket, raised his hand, and the iceboat tore ahead.
Let's combine a flying machine with an iceboat and beat out everybody on the lake this winter!
As though shot out of some huge cannon the aero-iceboat skimmed the lake.
But now, although the wind was fair and the other yacht traveled splendidly, the aero-iceboat bore down upon it, beating it out and leaving it behind like an express train going by a freight.
The great sail went slowly over; the iceboat swooped around like a great bird skimming the ice.
The latter brought the iceboat into the wind near the shore, and Isadore dropped the sail again.
As the iceboat swept out farther from the shore, the four friends aboard her could see several men running in the same direction.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "iceboat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
