The sun leaped up from the sea, and the longboat seemed to sail into its golden heart; and after the sun had risen above it, the boat was visible for a long time as a dwindling, ever dwindling speck.
For some minutes it seemed as if there was to be a conflict between Almanza and his followers, but the mutineers appeared to yield to his appeals, and assisted in getting the longboat out.
The new house which Raymond had built was not visible from the bay, but there were some thirty or forty native houses clustered under the shade of the trees, a few yards up from the beach, on which they noticed a ship's longboat was lying.
Twelve of my crew took the longboat and deserted from me during the voyage, and I am in a tight place.
Those buzzards--same gang in the longboat that was here last night.
Well, those four took the longboat which was saved from the wreck and went scouting, they called it.
A few minutes after the longboat had disappeared around a neck of land, the ironclad gunboat hove into view.
The ship's longboat was therefore put out, and was pulled as close to the long roll of furious breakers as was considered safe.
This salute did cause some little excitement; for, by some mistake, round shot were fired instead of blank cartridges, and one shot went through a longboat swinging on the davits of a Norwegian barque, and did other damage.
Galatea is her own longboat lengthened and raised upon.
In the morning of the 17th, we sent the Unicorn's longboat along with ours to the town, whence they came back in the evening with four butts of water each, not willing to fill more, as it was brackish.
We departed on the 26th June, leaving our longboat with Crosse, together with powder, shot, and provisions.
And presently; another longboat pulling up to them, the two together drifted in the open and then, without a word, began to row away to the lesser reef, whose gate I had shut not an hour ago.
Indeed, the poor people in the longboat were just racing for their lives; and whether we could help them or whether they must perish time alone would show.
From some cause or other, I could only surmise, the longboat lay drifting with the tide and one of Czerny's boats, far ahead of its fellows, was almost atop of her.
The longboat was ready by this time, her barrels full of water and her lockers full of biscuit.
There was shelter in the bay both for man and ship, and when we'd dragged the longboat up on the beach we gave Harry Doe his orders and left him to his duty.
We have still a great deal to do, and very little time to do it in; therefore let us see about getting the longboat into the water, and the raft over the side.
The longboat had launched herself; and before I could collect my senses, or lift a hand, I found myself adrift alone, some twenty fathoms to leeward of the doomed ship, and driving farther away from her every moment.
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.
It was thelongboat of the Charleston packet, bound for New York, and was commanded by the first mate.
The longboat had become separated from the others during the night and had sighted Henlopen a little after sunrise.
If not, step into the longboatand get about your business.
Hawksworth was standing on the steps of the maidan when the sail of the English longboat showed at the turn of the river.
Mackintosh shouted at the paralyzed seamen, knowing it was already too late, and then he began to sever the moorings of the longboat lashed to the mainmast.
The longboat was returning, its prow biting the trough of each swell, while on the Resolve seamen swarmed the shrouds and rigging.
As the other English muskets spoke out in a spray of pistol shot, several Portuguese in the longboat pitched forward, writhing.
As he passed along the main deck, half a dozen crewmen were already unlashing the longboat from its berth amidships.
Hawksworth motioned to Elkington as the last seaman climbed over the side of the longboat and onto the back of a waiting porter.
No sooner had the pinnace righted itself than the first longboat glanced off the side of the bow, and a grapple caught their gunwale.
And when he emerged again on deck with the oilskin- wrapped dispatch, after what seemed only moments, the longboat was already launched, oarsmen at station.
The longboat scraped crazily across the deck and into the surf.
Guess that explains thelongboat on the beach, Charlie.
A hundred miles they sailed in the longboat and, at last, the second island was sighted.
Then, as if to make escape impossible, a sudden gale came up and the longboatwas smashed by the surf.
We can't spare the time to fool around watchin' those fellers; so have the longboat hauled alongside, and let all hands except the cook and the cabin boy take their guns and cutlasses and get down into her.
And the longboat alone will not be big enough to take us all with any degree of safety, to say nothing of comfort.
I said nothing, however, but, seizing the bucket containing the pearls which I had gathered during the morning, hastened away with the others toward where the longboat was moored.
Meanwhile, we who were left behind in the forward house gathered from the various sounds which reached us that the longboat was now being hoisted out; and presently we heard the heavy splash of her as she was dropped into the water alongside.
And while this was being done the longboat returned to the Martha Brown and was hoisted in; after which we tripped our anchor, hove it up to the bows, and stood out to sea.
Now you jump down into that longboat at once; and if you dare to open your mouth again and speak another word of temptation to the men, I'll blow your head off," and he wound up with an oath.
Shortly afterward, their own longboat carried them to the Termagant troop-ship, and the first words uttered by the Marblehead skipper after reaching her, were duly reported to his superiors.
The longboat was lowered, the men got into her, with provisions for two days, and away she went, her own sail careening her as if it were in haste to get from under the brazen muzzles of the Noank's French guns.
No one had been killed or wounded, but the brig's longboat had been stove to bits, and all the pigs and chickens which had been cooped in it for the time being, and there were many of them, were running frantically about the main deck.
None of the others were doing anything theatrical except the two captains, and all the while the longboat was hurriedly made ready for the short and entirely safe, but probably cold, uncomfortable voyage before them.
The crew of the Windsor were now summoned up from their temporary confinement in the hold, and were ordered to get out their own longboatready for launching.
It did but rudely graze the larboard stern timber of the Solway's longboatat the water line.
The longboat in which he stood carried a snub-nosed six-pounder, and its gunners at once blazed away.
The impressed men were freed of their manacles as soon as the longboat was well away.
The longboatwas close to the Revenge's quarter now, but there was no sign of the pirates along her rail.
Both boys welcomed the opportunity and as the longboat was just then starting back, they were soon aboard the battered pirate, so recently their home.
Then old Johnny Buck piped the longboat overside and on shore we went, firin' all the time.
Now I wished for my boy Xury, and the longboat with shoulder-of- mutton sail, with which I sailed above a thousand miles on the coast of Africa; but this was in vain.
One, a slower sailer than the other, was sailing back to the fleet; the second had hove to about a mile away, with her longboat lowered to pursue us.
Indeed, the longboat had crept to within six hundred yards of us; it was time we were moving, though the guns were no longer firing on us from the ships.
We've got the longboat an' we can easily make one of the islands near by where we can find a ship to take us to the States.
Neither the longboat nor the smaller one was in sight, nor could anything be seen of the crews.
Ten in the longboat and seven in the other," was the answer.
This, Daughtry got from him, and nothing else did he get save maunderings and ravings about the heat of the longboat and the treasure a fathom deep under the sand.
You never got them in the fight in the longboat when the bo's'n carved you up.
The longboat was deep and heavy in the water, for it was burdened by the entire ship's company of twenty-one.
Stark they came into the world, and stark they passed out over the side of the longboat and down into the dark freezing ocean.
The longboat was lowering away to larboard, and I saw men, struggling on the ice-sheeted deck with barrels of provisions, abandon the food in their haste to get away.
The longboat rolled drearily on an empty, windless sea, and the stagnant, overcast sky gave no promise of any breeze.
He, with the three other men selected, was released from his bonds, and ordered to lower the longboat of the gallivat and stow in it all the ammunition for the guns that was to be found in the ship's magazine.
The longboat was lowered, out of sight of the enemy.
Mr. Toley at the wheel put the helm down, the longboat was lowered, and with some difficulty, owing to the heavy sea, the thirty men on the grab were taken off.
He gained the longboat in safety, as I have said, and the fate of Captain Poynings and his men was still a mystery.
Nevertheless, we made preparations for the expedition, provisioning the longboatand the like.
By a special providence we made the gap between the reef in safety, then rowed slowly, for the longboat was an unwieldy craft, towards the Gannet.
The sound came nearer, so we both stood up, the boat-keeper thrusting an oar into the water so as to keep the longboat off shore.
At 8 came on board Captain Bowen from the Albion sent the longboat to assist in getting her into the Cove.
Harbour: out longboat to tow, at 7 made sail in boat.
Sent some of the stores belonging to the colony on shore: the longboat assisting the Albion discharging.
A sound longboat may always be had at a moderate price in Victoria Docks, and a fresh-built boat, on the longboat pattern, need not cost more than L30 when the most minute articles employed in fitting are paid for.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "longboat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: boat; canoe; cruiser; ferry
