The lookouts soon proclaimed it to be a dismasted ship.
Just now, as fore and aft lookouts were needed, and as the big motor was running smoothly, control of the engine was managed through the deck-gear near the steering wheel.
The lookouts were able to see over the waters for a distance of some two hundred feet at least.
The lookouts were aloft, as usual, but it was as much for form as for any great use they were likely to be, since it was seldom a man could see further from the cross-trees than he could from the deck.
From the moment light returned lookouts had been aloft with glasses, examining every nook and corner of the bay, in order to ascertain whether any signs of the lugger were to be seen under its bold and picturesque shore.
The cases will be clear and not detain us long, and we can send lookouts up on the heights to examine the sea and the coast outside.
He saw pass by black American scouts and spies and lookouts and pioneers headed for the frontiers of France to gain an immortal halo of glory.
Only when Stewart got his ship past the outer point of the harbor did he spread his upper sails to the breeze, and the British lookouts saw with surprise a cloud of canvas suddenly bursting out upon the air.
Captain Stewart set no sails higher than his top sails, and these were hidden by the fog, so the British lookouts saw nothing.
When morning dawned the British lookouts gazed for the American fleet, it was nowhere to be seen.
No doubt the Spanish lookouts saw all this and told their admiral what they had seen.
This Sunday morning the lookouts saw smoke coming up the harbor, but likely enough they thought that the Spaniards were frying fish for their Sunday breakfast.
Once upon a time on these hills, lookoutsused to give warning when pirates were sailing up to plunder the villages.
There are 88 round towers rising from these walls, where sentries and lookouts were posted, but only 16 ways to get in and out, so that the city could be guarded more easily.
The lookouts kept a close watch for floating torpedoes; while the sailors off duty spun their yarns in the forecastle, and bet pipes and tobacco on the result of the coming battle.
But the British lookouts were sharp-eyed; and by eleven o'clock two frigates had closed in on the crippled ship, and a third was rapidly coming up astern.
Hearing the cannonade, the lookouts on the enemy's vessels looked eagerly for its cause, and caught sight, above the fog, of the rapidly receding topsails of the fugitives.
As the fog had lifted a little around noon, and we could see the houses on shore, evidently the lookouts had reported our presence and the Italians had left Grado to tackle us.
One of the witnesses said that much dependence is not placed upon the lookout, and that those lookouts who used binoculars constantly found them detrimental.
I had previously had lookouts doubled, knowing that Titanic had struck ice, and so took every care and precaution.
He tried to realize that the lookoutswere rimmed with black--cold, fireless black!
Other lookouts were black, the dead black of empty space.
And the forward lookouts showed only the brilliant fires of distant suns and one more glorious than the rest that meant a planet.
He was leaning forward to search the stars in the blackness ahead, but the pilot turned often to stare through the rear lookouts as if drawn in fearful fascination by what was there.
Above the hull a control-room projected flatly; its lookouts shone in the brilliance of the nitron illuminator that flooded the room with light.
The lookouts of the control room were obscured, and the port from which they had come!
In vain the lookouts swept the surrounding country with their eyes in search of some trace of coming aid.
Quickly afterwards the lookoutsdiscerned the glitter of weapons and the waving of Christian banners on the hill.
That would not be difficult, provided none of the Lookouts happened to desire her company on some particular jaunt or merry-making.
Lucy will wonder what has become of me," Ronny declared, as the three Lookouts entered Wayland Hall.
The rest of the Lookouts were going through similar demonstrations of joy.
The Lookoutswere not in the least worried over their own position in the matter.
The Lookouts agreed among themselves that it showed very plainly who was responsible for the misunderstanding.
Phyllis had set the hour for the serenade to the Lookouts at a quarter to nine.
The Lookouts had long since included their four close friends in the formal association which they had dubbed the Five Travelers.
Beside the three Lookouts and Katherine were the beloved trio, Helen, Leila and Vera.
The Lookouts had returned to Hamilton College that afternoon from the long summer vacation.
We called ourselves the Lookouts and we rented a house and started a day nursery for the mill children.
Half of it went to the Sanford guards and the Lookouts got the other half.
Are any of your Lookouts here at Hamilton with you?
We Lookouts have tried our hardest, but we couldn't have done much if you hadn't been behind us like a solid wall.
The precaution of extra lookouts resulted in a prompt report to the Captain, via the bridge, of the sighting of the torpedo.
As the great dirigible, answering this joy call, sped through the snow haze and skimmed lower and lower, herlookouts sighted the orange signal laid out on the frozen white, and her engines were halted.
A second week was wearing itself away when lookouts sighted a thread of smoke on the north horizon.
One glance through the lookouts behind him showed lashing serpent forms, translucent as pale fire; impossible beasts from space.
The lookouts gave free vision in all directions except directly below the hull, and a series of mirrors corrected this defect.
The heavy lights of the lookouts were smeared with sticky fluid that drew together in trickling streams.
Every eye was held close to the lookoutsthat faced forward.
The lookouts were still in their places; but so far as seeing anything was concerned they might as well have been in the hold.
The lookouts kept a close watch, and the flashlights continued to play all over the bosom of the rolling sea.
As nearly the captain's whole wealth was tied up in his share of the schooner, he was naturally anxious to make a safe trip, and he often came on deck to aid the lookouts in watching for the possible appearance of an enemy.
The lookouts were also doubled, and when night came the strictest watch possible was maintained.
A fire-launch patrols the lake and lookouts are stationed all the time on Strong Mountain and Crow's Hill.
These lookouts now have telephones, but until last summer they used the heliograph instead.
And so the decks were left to the gun-crews, to the lookouts and the members of the guard posted there.
If they did," maintained the former speaker, warmly, "then it was because the lookouts and gunners were asleep.
The lookouts had been instructed to aid their vision by the free use of their marine glasses and precautions out of the ordinary had been taken in other directions.
Presently he neared the stern just in time to see one of the two stern lookouts leap upon the other and bear the latter to the deck.
The lookouts in their high towers, which overlook large areas of forest, watch constantly for smoke, and as soon as they locate signs of fire they notify the supervisor of the forest.
Lookouts use special scientific instruments which enable them to locate the position of the fires from the smoke.
Thus planned, the receipt of a cable at the Department from one of the lookouts off Puerto Rico would be like the touching of a button.
Meantime the Naniwa pursued her course, the lookouts keeping a most careful watch for torpedoes.
The Japanese vessels made for Hai-yang, a large island off the Manchurian Peninsula, and considerable irritation was displayed when the lookouts declared that no Chinese ships were in sight.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lookouts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
