But when all this was done it was still blowing too hard--although the worst of the gale seemed to be over--and the sea was altogether too rough to allow of our attempting to launch her.
And away I hurried toward the spot where I saw the launch approaching, for the double purpose of reporting to Mr Perry the news of the captain's fall, and dispatching the surgeon to see if life still remained in the body.
The sea, too, was no longer raging like a boiling cauldron; yet, even so, it was still too heavy to justify us in attempting to launch either the longboat or the raft.
In fact, he was almost cheerful as he boarded the launch at the wharf.
Then thelaunch glided around the stern of the gunboat, leading the way.
Our launch will follow and show you your moorings," came the reply.
Down at the water-front a naval launch was in waiting.
So he was still behind his private doors when a summons reached him to go to the wharf and take the launch to the "Oakland.
Everything was now ready to launch the enterprise.
It was only a case of choosing the highest class of names in the community, to launch the great undertaking under the most brilliant auspices.
From the bow of the launch protruded a long spar, loaded at its end with a 100-pound dynamite cartridge.
The next minute the bow of the launch struck the logs.
The launch was still gliding onward, and carrying the spar forward.
Without an instant's delay the launch was wheeled round, steamed rapidly into the stream until a good offing was gained, turned again, and now drove straight forward for the Albemarle with all the power of her engines.
Little more than five minutes had passed since the first hail, and already the Albemarle was a wreck, the launch destroyed, her crew swimming for their lives, and bullets from deck and shore pouring thickly across the dark stream.
The launchwas turned again, and moved once more towards the Albemarle.
The gallant commander of the launch they failed to find.
The launch turned and glided almost noiselessly towards the wharf.
Barnstable lingered on the sands for a few minutes, until the footsteps of Dillon and the cockswain were no longer audible, when he ordered his men to launch their boat once more into the surf.
In his turn, however, he was soon compelled to give way, by the arrival of Griffith in the heavily rowing launch of the frigate, which was crowded with a larger body of the seamen who had been employed in the expedition.
Cabot Grant, with hands thrust into his trousers pockets, leaned against a wharf post and surveyed the oncoming launch with languid curiosity.
With this timely and expert aid, the canning business was so rushed that by ten o'clock of the next morning, when the lookout again reported a launch to be approaching, every can was filled and the pack was completed.
Also the French launchwas about to depart, and it would never do for the captain of the "Isla" to be informed of the recent unfortunate encounter in advance of his own commander.
Then a boy, who had been posted outside the harbour as a lookout, came hurrying in to report that he had seen a navallaunch steaming in that direction.
Instead of flying the British Union Jack the launch that now appeared in the harbour displayed the tri-colour of the French Republic.
At the same time the man whom White had left at the tiller was pointing up the coast, where they caught sight of a steam launch that had just cleared South Head.
By the time the launch was lost to sight in the growing dusk the "Ruth" had also disappeared.
The launch slowed down as it neared him, and an officer inquired in the crisp tones of authority: "What place is this?
She is certainly gaining on us," said Cabot, after a long look, and he had hardly spoken before a second shot from the launch plumped a ball into the water abreast of the little schooner and not two rods away.
Just then a launch came alongside for the mails, and a ship's officer came up and asked if we would like to go ashore on it.
Her motor launch had failed to get alongside, outside the harbor, and she had men enough for anything.
Officials of the company said that they expected tolaunch in the course of time two such vessels in each week.
The roads were rock, the sky was flame, The seething mob filled strand and quay, Where came an ancient curious dame Three leagues afoot the launch to see.
Now as she stooped amid the crowd, Stooped to remove a galling stone, She heard a shouting rash and loud; She raised her head--the launch was gone.
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The regular throbbing pant of a steam launch on the silver Thames outside was heard, and Lucy turned suddenly in Poyntz's direction.
Then'll come the moment when we really launch out and become a national Institution.
Bedient's uplifted hand caught the other's eye as the launch neared.
Bedient helped to make a rigging to launch this over the stern.
I did not expect water spaniels to pay me the subtle compliment of trying to gambol in my breakers, nor children to try to launch their toy sailboats in my lagoons.
Do you mean to send the launch all the way round from here?
Doubtless he would be able to find an excuse to heave-to off the cove, while I piloted the launch in to get our man.
Even if the launch stands up against the gale outside, aren't you done for if they come off from town and make a search of the steamer?
If he was willing to risk his own launch and his own career to save my friend, it was not for me to hang back.
If the Mate was lively about it, "Choppy" suggested, he might find that the fires of the launch had not yet been drawn from her trip to the landing.
Just as the launch was about to shove off, Ranga begged the coxswain to hold on for a moment, and went clambering back up the latter.
Smartly handled in the nasty cross-lop, a small but powerful steam launch bumped in alongside the landing stage.
Butler's theory, propounded as the launch put away from the landing, that the figures descried on the Cora the afternoon before were those of blacks or coolies, attracted to the hulk by the hope of loot.
Pisco," heeding the quiet directions, brought his launchalongside the broad solid flight of steps as neatly as he would have laid her up to the Mambare's gangway in broad daylight.
As the gangway was already raised and the launch had to come in anyway, we remained aboard her and were hoisted right up and swung in to the chocks on the Mambare's boat-deck.
For myself, at the moment the launch brought us back from the Cora and put us ashore at the landing, I would have been incapable of writing my own name correctly.
The waterfront housed the temporary prison, the immigration offices, and the launch service that went out to the aquariums and hydroponics plants that floated on vast pontoons three miles away.
I won't even tell you to go down to the launch where they take the workers out to the aquariums and the hydroponic's gardens.
The tide's full, the shoals are in the bay--stop your nonsense, and help me launch like good fellows.
The words seemed to launch themselves from the air, stinging like fiery javelins.
That fast launch means they are in the habit of making swift trips back and forth, perhaps taking the night for it every time, so as to run less chance of being seen.
He saw that the wind had shifted just a little; but this was enough to carry the drifting launch a trifle toward the side of the island.
The launch landed on the white beach, and leaving Lorenzo tinkering with the engine, Captain Dettmar strode across the beach and up the path to the Consulate.
And there's the launch over the side, and Captain Dettmar dropping into it.
The young eagles, being comfortable in their nest, have no desire to launch forth into the untried experiment of flight.
Let no one suppose that it is not a very solemn thing to die, to be suddenly cut off from everything of which we have ever had any experience, and to launch out alone into an invisible world.
Thaw yourself a bit by the fire while we're getting the beach-wagon out, and then you shall do your share of the work, unless it so chances we're forced to launch the boat.
Early in the morning of the 28th, Lieutenant Clerke, with the master and fourteen or fifteen men, went on shore in the launch for water.
On the 9th, I sent the launch for more ballast, and the guard and wooders to the usual place.
I landed just as thelaunch was ready to put off; and the natives, who were pretty numerous on the beach, as soon as they saw me, fled; so that I suspected something had happened.
In the afternoon having landed again, we loaded the launch with water, and having made three hauls with the seine, caught upwards of three hundred pounds of mullet and other fish.
After breakfast, I went ashore with two boats to trade with the people, accompanied by several of the gentlemen, and ordered the launch to follow with casks to be filled with water.
When I got on board, I learnt that, when the launch was on the west side of the harbour taking in ballast, one of the men employed in this work, had scalded his fingers in taking a stone up out of some water.
I therefore ordered the launch to be hoisted out to complete our water, and then went to the isle to assist in the observation.
When I returned on board I found every thing got off the shore, and the launch in; so that we now only waited for a wind to put to sea.
Two creatures launch into the tactics of sentiment; they talk when they should be acting, and skirmish in the open instead of settling down to a siege.
And he is prepared to launch his anathema against every wilful impugner, no matter what his pretensions, or the quarter from which he comes.
The Celtic temperament loves to launch itself out in vehemencies and flourishes of this sort.
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