Such minor disfigurements as the throwing of ashes from steam-launches into the water or of kitchen débris from houseboats are forbidden.
We both know he hasn't made much with his boats in the last few months, yet Bronson says he's having twenty new launches built at Port Angeles.
One by one the launches were carefully examined by the girl and despatched singly on a course mapped out by herself, a course which would bring them to Northwest Harbor without skirting the shore of the island.
They are fair sailors and have had some experience in handling launches and small boats.
Launches and boats are continually passing up and down the Chesapeake and its tributaries and one more could easily have escaped notice.
All roads are patrolled by motorcycles; four launches are on the waterfront, and there are seven planes aloft.
In which the old Man launches forth into his favourite Theme, and relates a Story about a queer Client 22.
The European Space Agency launches its communication satellites from Kourou.
With three hundred feet of clear water between them, the launches moved rapidly along.
As there are still a few hours before dark Admiral Timworth wishes you to take one of the launches and go alongside the British flagship.
Signalman, send my order to the other launches not to use their searchlights without first asking permission.
Two launches are keeping with us, over the starboard, and I judge the nearer one to be about four knots off.
After dark the two launches were to maneuver more closely together, and Whyte, who knew the North Channel, was to be pilot for both craft until it came time to use their searchlights.
The two otherlaunches belong to the warships of other powers.
We have four large launcheson the flagship," the fleet commander stated.
How many launcheswill Admiral Barkham put in service?
Less than a minute later the lights on both navy launches had picked up the strange yacht, well over in the Channel.
Each of the flagship's launcheswas equipped with a searchlight.
One had a sense of groping his way, yet the launches dashed along at full speed.
Both fleets now knew that one of the launches had sighted the submarine craft.
Over the starboard quarter the searchlight signals of two other launches were observed.
Launches are waiting to receive the load of fashion and celebrity.
He buys the brains of lesser folk and launches the product of those brains for the edification of womankind and his own glory.
Camps and their attendant landings, with here and there a hotel or boarding-house, became frequent along the shores, while in the distance launches and steam-boats shone like white specks against the blue water.
Finally, licences are issued at a few pesetas to shoot from the foreshores or from small launches stationed among the reeds at specified spots, but which the licensee must not quit during the shooting.
The male launches into the air, and gives forth a brief but melodious song, after the manner of all larks.
The anxious parents rush to and fro shouting tisic, tisic, now in encouragement, now in caution, while baby number one launchesfor the nearest beam.
While we are ogling, the bird launches from his post, seizes an insect some thirty feet distant, and is back again before we have recovered from surprise.
The special interest about the launches has always been the pleasant connection which they have enabled us to maintain with the universities.
The stories of a doctor's work in these launches would fill a volume by themselves.
Experience has shown us that while boats entirely dependent on motors are cheapest, it is not always safe to do open-sea work in such launches without a secondary and more reliable means of progression.
Early in the engagement two launches put out toward the Olympia, with the apparent intention of using torpedoes.
The launches replied and the fire from the ships quickened, but although the Spanish volleys slackened momentarily, every now and then they grew stronger.
Both launches ran out under a heavy fire of from six to eight minutes.
At a distance of two hundred feet from shore thelaunches stopped, and the cutters were sent ahead.
On gaining the main stream, greatly to the relief of all in the boat, no red and green lights of patrolling launches were to be seen.
This one of the motor launches secured and made fast, while the second slipped half of the boats and transferred them to the care of the first towing craft.
There are launchesup and down the river, I am told, looking for us.
The motor-launches were doing their work magnificently.
Our conveyance was the Effuenta, a steam-launch attached to the mine of that name, bought second-hand, and a fine specimen of what launches ought not to be.
The waterman thus allowed latitude, launches forth into a full account of his own life--those chapters of it relating to his courtship of, and betrothal to, Mary Morgan.
The two launches were drawn side by side, and the transfer made; the man who was running the smaller launch stepped into ours--evidently having been instructed in advance.
But as we drew nearer, I noticed a boat coming out; it proved to be one of the smaller launches heading directly for us.
The smaller galleys, which are not specially described, doubtless resembled ships' launches in size, but of a form enabling them to be propelled at a considerable rate of speed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "launches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
