They came prettily lipping through the boiling torrent from rock to rock, taking the blows upon keel and bilge pieces, so that they were scarcely damaged.
The steamer was lying alongside the bank, but not close in; for it was necessary to keep a certain depth of water under her keel in a falling river, and to be able to shove off quickly.
We caught her lower down; and with 200 men portaged her over a rocky hill, across the neck of land formed by the curve of the Bab, then laid her keelupwards across two other boats, and so floated, took her up to Gemai dockyard.
I have the fish with a small piece broken off the keel by the impact, in a bottle.
The keel is depressed, and the stamens bearing the anthers are removed at their base by a {188} pair of fine forceps.
The flower of the pea with its standard, wings, and median keel is too familiar to need description.
This done, the keel is replaced, and the flower again enclosed in its bag to protect it from the possible attentions of insects until it has set seed.
It will probably be found necessary to tear the keel slightly in order to do this.
Tell me, O mariner, dost thou never feel The grandeur of thine office,--to control The keel that cuts the ocean like a knife And leaves a wake behind it like a seam In the great shining garment of the world?
Manhattan's narrowing bay No rebel cruiser scars; Her waters feel no pirate's keel That flaunts the fallen stars!
As when from pier to pier across the tide With even keel we glide, The lights we left along the shore Grow less and less, while more, yet more New vistas open wide Of fair illumined streets and casements golden-eyed.
The world-tried sailor tires and droops; His flag is rent, his keel forgot; His farthest voyages seem but loops That float from life's entangled knot.
They passed the frowning towers of Briel, The "Hook of Holland's" shelf of sand, And grated soon with lifting keel The sullen shores of Fatherland.
The keel (properly so called) is formed by the joining of the two vertical planes.
All those masses of water which receive a horizontal acceleration from thekeel run counter, on the contrary, to the propulsive stress, and it becomes of interest, therefore, to bring them to a minimum.
In five minutes, her keel was resting evenly on the smooth sand beside the largest of the three pyramids.
But she seemed unable to lift her loot-laden mass from the ocean floor, and headed off crazily across the plateau, dragging her keel in the sand.
She stood gazing at them in horror, evidently expecting to see every one of them keel over and go to the bottom.
We steadied his keel at the crowded beach, When the multitude gathered to hear him teach; The feet of our Master we smoothly bore, And he walked the sea as a paven floor.
From the laying of the keel to the final equipment, the Constitution was kept in the shipyard fully three years.
The old Constitution has been rebuilt in parts, and repaired many times; so that little remains of the original vessel except her keel and her floor frames.
The design of the Constitution was sent to Boston, and her keel was laid in Hartt's Naval Yard, near what is now Constitution Wharf.
Spikelets flat: glumes keeled, the keel suddenly produced into a sharp stiff awn or mucronate point.
Palea canary yellow to light-brown, lanceolate with rounded back and the mid-rib prominent as a slight keel and margins infolded, about 4 mm.
Keel pronounced, with one large vascular bundle and a sclerenchyma band occupying its crest.
Glumes connate below, silky-hairy on keel and ribs all the way up.
Keel with sclerenchyma at its apex, and a small band of the same at the margins.
The “seed” here consists of the two glumes, connate below and hairy on the keel and ribs, including the caryopsis enveloped in a single palea with a dorsal awn.
Small, compact annual shore plant, with the glumes acute only and the keel ciliate above.
The arsenal of Venice had once laid a keel at sunrise and launched the galley before sunset.
Ericsson knew the value of time, and before the contract was ready the keel plates of his turret-ship had been rolled and a dozen firms had started work on her various parts.
The boatbuilder may be further restricted as to breadth, and, therefore, he again detracts from the form a boat should have by dispensing with sheer and increasing the depth from keel to gunwale amidships.
It has been shown that water came into the five forward compartments to a height of about 14 feet above the keel in the first 10 minutes.
Depth from top of keel to top of beam at lowest point of sheer of C deck, the highest deck which extends continuously from bow to stern 64.
At 10 minutes after the collision the water seems to have risen to about 14 feet above the keelin all these compartments except No.
Then out to the sea to rest no more Till her keel is grounded on Chili's shore.
More than a keel to us, steering the straightest: Emblem of that which is freest and greatest.
The first boat melts; and a second keel Is blent with the foliaged shade-- Their midnight rounds have the rebel officers made?
Now, the flag of the haughty Confiance is trailing; The Linnet in woe staggers in toward the shore; The Finch is a wreck from her keel to her railing; The galleys flee fast to the strain of the oar; Macdonough!
Bidden by fevered trade, our keel Had ploughed unbeaten deeps; From many a perfume-laden isle To the dark land that sleeps Forever in its winter robe, Th' unsocial hermit of the globe.
Keel and ribs were made of oak, and no evidence has been found of metallic sheathing.
And, stumbling over the tangled dead, The deck a crimson tide, We fired the ship from keel to shrouds And tumbled over the side.
And the swiftest keelthat was ever launched shot ahead of the British fleet, And amidst a thundering shower of shot with stun'-sails hoisting away, Down the North Channel Paul Jones did steer just at the break of day.
Mid-ships with iron keel Struck we her ribs of steel!
The waters of my native stream Are glancing in the sun's warm beam; From sail-urged keel and flashing oar The circles widen to its shore; And cultured field and peopled town Slope to its willowed margin down.
The tallest mast that sails the wave, The longest keel its waters lave, Will bring them to an early grave On the shores of Pensacola.
And as long as one swift keel the strong surges stems, Or "poor Jack" loves his song and his story, Shall shine in tradition the valor of Semmes And the brave ship that bore him to glory!
Eastward from the Sandhill is Sandgate, immortalised in the "Newcastle Anthem"--The Keel Row.
No stir in the air, no stir in the sea, The ship was as still as she could be, Her sails from heaven received no motion, Her keel was steady in the ocean.
Mid-ships with iron keel Struck we her ribs of steel; Down her black hulk did reel Through the black water!
But there was no time to study the wonders of Nature then, or even look at the way in which the keel of the boat was illumined by myriads of golden points.
Now and then the keel of the boat grated on some unseen rock, or was lifted by the water and dropped softly, as it were, upon some portion of the stony bottom as the water rose and fell.
Then the remaining cargo was shifted, and by the additional aid of tackle and purchases on shore fastened to her masts, she was heeled over until her keel nearly reached the level of the water.
The ship, now several feet lighter in the water than before, was brought broadside to shore until her keel touched the ground.
Unsteadied by keelor rudder, it bobbed unexpectedly this way and that.
He had not dared to take one of the boats, for fear the grating of her keel on the beach or the sound of her oars might betray him.
Very exciting, we were told, watching them dart beneath the keel through the crystal clear water.
But, as the keel of the boats touched bottom, each boat-load dashed into the water and then into the enemy's fire.
Closely allied now to these cylindrimorphous Conchozoa are all those Mollusca in whom the keel (carina) or sole is wanting; i.
Lastly, the prehensile organs dwindle down into mere filaments or small lobes, but the body always retains its cylindrical form without keel and sole, as in the Ascidiæ or Meerscheiden.
The shore was soon reached, and the keel had no sooner grated on the sand, than the boys sprang out and ran up the beach, saluting old Jennings with a parting cheer as they went.
They all simultaneously leaped out into four-foot water, and by their united strength contrived to drag the boat on until her keel rested on the sand.
The anterior edge of the keel forms the sharpest angle in B.
In Dulus, the keel is moderately deep, the manubrium short, and there is a distinct indented curve between the manubrium and the anterior angle of the keel.
They have straight, long, pointed bills, with a keelon the upper mandible.
On the shell of the adult animal there is a depression along the centre, which leaves a sort of keel on each side of the central line.
Amongst other mechanical devices R19 was provided with a heavy metal keel that in case of emergency could be released from within.
At the same time a considerable portion of the false keel had become detached, although what caused the automatic fastenings to release themselves remained a mystery.
It was the sudden release of both the keel and deadweight of the projectile that had caused R19 to shoot up to the surface.
At that depth the submarine was immune from the danger of being stove in, even by the keel of the heaviest battleship afloat.
Other guns' crews were rushing for'ard to serve the bow quick-firers, for by this time R19 was floating on a perfectly even keel and showing an abnormal amount of freeboard.
When lowered to the lowest limit there are 22 feet of water over the keel blocks at high tide.
Straight as an arrow over the seething smother the Death Ship was running, and her keel slided smooth as a sledge through the feathery surface.
She was flying dead into the east, and every minute her keel passed over as many fathoms of sea as would take her hours of plying to recover.
She could not beat, she had nokeel for holding to the water.
