Swiftly to Hellespont's shore they came, and there Beached they the keels again, and deftly dealt With whatso tackling appertains to ships.
Misery encompassed all; For some with heavily-plunging prows drave on, With keels upturned some drifted.
But the number of heavily laden keels which arrive and depart daily, show that the improvements in the channel have been such as to secure us an uninterrupted navigation from Pittsburg westward, at the very lowest stages of the water.
Merchandise was sent from Pittsburg in Keels and flatboats down the Ohio to Limestone and Louisville.
Lead was procured from St. Louis; and rum, sugar, molasses, and some dry goods were received from New Orleans in keels and steamboats.
Germany was quite free to do as she pleased, but so were we, and we should probably lay down two keels for every one which she added to her program.
She might build more ships, but we should in that case lay down twokeels for each one she laid down.
At such times the short crossing from Cape Tormentine to Cape Traverse is used, and the mail is carried in ice-boats with double keels made to act as "runners.
These boats have double keels which serve for runners, and sometimes the ice-fields are packed in solidly between the two shores, enabling the boats to cross on the ice without putting them into the water at all.
Happy, ah too happy, had the keels Of Troy ne'er touched my shores!
The anchor is cast from the prow; the keelsare ranged on the beach.
She drew little more than a foot of water, so could, when her keels were drawn up, pass over the shallowest part of the broad in safety.
Such a keel was not sufficient to enable the boat to sail to windward, so two drop-keels or centre-boards were added, each about seven feet long and two feet six inches deep.
At last our grating keels outslide, Our good boats forward swing; And while we ride the land-locked tide, Our negroes row and sing.
So loud and near it sounded, I started at the shout, As the keels ground on the gravel, And the eager men burst out.
Our keels are furred with tropic weed that clogs the crawling tides, 666.
What we want is naught in envy, And for all we pioneer; Let the keels of every nation Through the isthmus steer.
Tis a song of havoc the rowlocks sing, And Death marks time in the rower's swing; 'Tis a baleful glow on the spouting spray, As the keels in their cruel lust make way.
Our coasting voyage at an end, our keels grated the beach among many prostrate palms, decaying, and washed by the billows.
Shoals, like nebulous vapors, shoreing the white reef of the Milky Way, against which the wrecked worlds are dashed; strewing all the strand, with their Himmaleh keels and ribs.
All these in ninety hollow keels grave Nestor did command.
The blazing rafts had already bumped keels with the moored fleet.
Gleaming with gold the stems cut the waves keenly; Onward of Halland west, with host aboard, and the keels thrilling.
King Harald after the Danes rowed hard and put them to rout, but no easy task was it, for so little sea-room was there betwixt the keels that motion was well-nigh not possible.
Earl Hakon & the men of his company did not lash their ships together, but rowed against the Danish keels that were faring loose, and every ship that they grappled did they clear.
So that when it is low tide in the river, the keels of the ships inclosed by the quays are elevated more than twenty feet above those of the vessels in the stream.
They look like wreckers; and the scattered goods they expose for sale, involuntarily remind one of the sea-beach, covered with keels and cordage, swept ashore in a gale.
And the keels of commerce may come again to stir its waters.
Sections of sheathed leaves more or less acutely two-edged, owing to the keels of the compressed equitant leaves.
The allied Phalaris canariensis has wing-like keels to the glumes.
By offering bounties they drew the price of their freedom to work in the keels from outside sources.
The beautiful sea before me is almost unfurrowed by the keels of commerce.
Hitherward, nevertheless, some keels already are steering, And on this Pontic shore alien vessels will be.
Where are the stately argosies of song, Whose rushing keels made music as they went Sailing in search of some new continent, With all sail set, and steady winds and strong?
Then a mighty shout told that they were discovered; and the grinding of the heavy ships' keels was distinctly heard upon the shore, as they were pushed off into deep water.
A few seagulls rose startled from their nests, and sailed upwards with plaintive cries, as the keels of the boats grated on the rocks, and the men stepped out and hauled them up on the beach of one of the islets.
The result of a strictly economic inquiry may, as already suggested, prove that more things went to the 'making of England' than were imported in the keels of the English invaders of Britain.
Ever they greet the hunted fleet -- lone keels off headlands drear -- When the sealing-schooners flit that way at hazard year by year.
Hold me fast; my Praya sleeps Under innumerable keels to-day.
Traders cried; Our keels ha' lain with every sea; The dull-returning wind and tide Heave up the wharf where we would be; The known and noted breezes swell Our trudging sail.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "keels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
