The knockabout was forthcoming shortly after she had demonstrated her amphibious qualities by diving from the rocks and performing water feats which dazed her anxious guardians.
I suppose a knockabout like myself gets all the taste for the fine arts knocked out of him.
But I must be decently treated, and there must be no more sand-bagging or knockabout variety business.
The story had taken all the way in, and as we rowed towards shore, leaving the catboat and launch at the mooring where the knockabout lay, the night was swiftly shutting in.
In the afternoon, they had seen a knockabout running free before the wind, with all sorts of strange action.
He had left a little shooting box, whither he had run down alone on Monday, and taken the knockabout out.
I suppose you might call this knockabout business.
The disadvantage of this rig is that sufficient canvas to drive a heavy, full-bodied boat cannot be spread; consequently, a true knockabout is a comparatively roomless craft.
The pole-mast sloop, of which the knockabout is the commoner specimen, is an excellent rig for use on a cruiser.
The disadvantage of the knockabout is that, being a narrower model than the cat, you are cramped for room where it is most needed--aft.
With uncertain step the boy loitered in the sun, glancing at the expanse of sea and at a knockabout that heeled dangerously in the rising wind.
A cool breeze rippled the water, stirring it into tiny waves and as Dick dropped into one of the big wicker chairs he fidgeted to be out in the freshly-painted knockabout that bobbed invitingly at the float.
Blake held the knockabout to its course, with the confidence of youth in his prowess, against them.
They reached the side of the knockabout as Blake and Kathryn were dragging Jack Schuyler from the water; and they took him into the other boat.
In the meanwhile, far out on the sound, the little knockabout was heeling far over in the playful breath of the summer breeze.
A girl of decided ability, her knockabout life had in many ways made her old beyond her years, and she had that capacity for organization and power of making others work with her that belong to the born leader.
Her knockabout life had taught her self-control and sound common sense in many respects, and she was old enough to appreciate the expediency of the altered plans.
I laugh at the knockabout brothers, I confess, so long as they are on the stage; but they do not convince me.
I present the idea, for what it may be worth, to the concoctors of knockabout turns.
Moored there lay a handsome white sloop, some forty-two feet in length—a boat of a good and seaworthy knockabout type.
Presently Eph made out the lines and the spread of canvas of a handsome knockabout sloop standing on out of the harbor.
And, I suppose, owing to our knockabout sort of intimacy, she has adopted a protective, motherly attitude towards me.
Moored there lay a handsome white sloop, some forty-two feet in length--a boat of a good and seaworthy knockabout type.
They talk about knockabout racing craft," said Clancy, "but did y'ever see anything drop to a berth slicker than that?
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