Before he could speak, lines of fire shot across the surface of the water, as fire arrows came, slamming into the longboats as they drifted away on the tide.
He also realized theirlongboats had been abandoned.
As Karim instinctively cut the pinnace toward the shore, Portuguese longboats maneuvered easily toward them, muskets spewing sporadic flame.
About the middle of the seventeenth century certain French adventurers set out from the fortified island of St. Christopher in longboats and hoys, directing their course to the westward, there to discover new islands.
As they set grimly to work readying their weapons, a row of longboats along midships was unlashed and quietly lowered over the side.
Next the longboatswould be driven off, and the invading infantry slowly surrounded.
Morris was carefully monitoring the line of longboats bringing his men ashore.
A line of longboatswas now edging across the bay below, headed for the shore beneath the fort.
Those in the second wave had somehow masked their lighted matchcord until their longboats pulled into the surf.
Finally, as the longboats rowed closer and the infantrymen began pulling themselves aboard, the militia halted, content to end the rout by hurling curses above the roar of the surf.
Amidships, moored longboats were being loaded with helmeted infantry, muskets at the ready.
Nearest the shore, and already launchinglongboats of Roundhead infantry, were the Rainbowe and the Marsten Moor--the red and white Cross of St. George fluttering from their mizzenmasts.
While Winston unlocked the gun racks in the fo'c'sle and began issuing the muskets and the bandoliers of powder and shot, John Mewes ordered the two longboats lashed amidships readied and launched.
We've got to launch thelongboats as soon as we drop anchor.
The retreating infantry had drawn itself into a protective circle, knee-deep in the surf, yelling for its longboats to be brought in closer.
The commander had been watching apprehensively as his tattered troops disembarked from the longboats and waded in through the surf.
The guns of the warships were already primed and run out, set to provide artillery support if necessary when the longboats neared the beach.
Directly ahead, two longboats were being towed in through the surf-- wide, hulking forms in the dim light, with sails furled and rows of oarsmen midships.
Serina by her side, and studied the glimmer of lights along the shore, swaying clusters of candle-lanterns as seamen passed back and forth inlongboats between the brothels of Tortuga and their ships.
Two gunboats and the longboats then proceeded to Swanton, where they destroyed some old barracks and plundered several citizens, and committed similar piratical depredations at several points on the western shore.
The defenseless condition of the western shore invited attack, and on the last day of July Colonel Murray sailed up to Plattsburgh with two sloops, three gunboats, and a number of longboats manned by 1,400 men.
They swung the two longboats out on the davits, and the port crew were in their seats, when Mister Jacob touched my arm and questioned my order--a thing I haven't known him to do twice in ten years.
To such strange places the longboats turned when we would have none of them.
While the Abraham Lincoln heaved to, its longboats radiated in every direction around it and didn't leave a single point of the sea unexplored.
One day we were chased by thelongboats of a whaling vessel, which undoubtedly viewed us as some enormous baleen whale of great value.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "longboats" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
