Thus began the "Lorcha War" of 1857, in which France joined for the sake of the booty to be expected.
While in the central provinces the T'ai P'ing rebellion was raging, China was suffering grave setbacks owing to the Lorcha War of 1856; and there were also great and serious risings in other parts of the country.
Directly we arrived at Chin-kiang, I proceeded to the Custom-house, and ascertained that a lorcha had passed up the river only the preceding day.
The lorcha had anchored within thirty yards of the bank, so, giving our vessel rather a broad sheer into the stream, we passed close to her, in fact, almost grazing her side.
Continuing on past the lorcha for nearly a mile, until the turning of the river hid her behind the hills she was anchored abreast of, we hauled close in to the bank and made fast there.
It was just about dusk when the lorcha ceased tracking, and came to an anchor under some steep hills.
The lorcha having to round-to each time she fired, in order to get her pivot-gun to bear, her way was checked very considerably; and to this may our escape be entirely attributed.
I hurried on deck with him, and found it was just daylight, and although we had undoubtedly made considerable progress before the lorcha had started in pursuit, yet there she was, some five or six miles astern, and crowding all sail in chase.
She was alone, within my reach, and I was at the most concealed spot about the lorcha to take advantage of the opportunity.
After successfully running past the fortifications and flotillas situated at the commencement of the Imperialist jurisdiction, early one morning, when within a few miles of Chin-kiang, we came in sight of a lorcha close in to the river's bank.
If either of these misfortunes should occur, before we could make repairs aloft the lorcha would be alongside; if hulled, before reaching the Nankin batteries we should sink.
When arrived at its summit, I found it commanded a capital view of the water for many miles; a glance told me the lorcha was nowhere near, neither could I distinguish her in the distance.
The people on board the lorcha now saw their mistake, and, ceasing firing, kept steadily on in chase.
Who is going to tack back and forth across this channel in a lorcha or a parao, because a Jap got kicked?
He came down on the lorcha last week, and we picked him up with the launch.
I got out and let him step stiffly into the boat, which I obligingly sent spinning from the lorchawith one long, strong kick.
The solidarity in misfortune that had bound the unfortunates of the lorcha broke into a ferocious individualism.
For when I rushed about and finally found a lorcha that was to sail for Bacolod and asked him to chip in with me on provisions, he demurred.
Just then the lorcha began to rise by the head; the bowsprit went up slowly like a finger pointing solemnly to heaven; then, without a sound, almost instantaneously, the whole fabric disappeared.
This afternoon the lorcha will be towed behind the breakwater.
The cholera had crept upon thelorcha before it had left Vigan, and all the way down the coast it had been doing its dread work about him, plunged in the oblivion of his solitary orgy.
There had been seventy people on the lorcha when it had left Vigan; and there were still a half-hundred.
Down in the bowels of the lorcha a weird, gentle commotion was going on, a multitudinous 'gluck-gluck' as of many bottles being emptied.
That afternoon the lorcha was towed behind the breakwater, and at sunset a woman who was lighting the fire for the evening meal whirled on her heels and slapped the deck with the whole length of her body.
In the spring of 1857 Lord Elgin accepted from Lord Palmerston a delicate mission to China at a very critical time when the affair of the lorcha "Arrow" had led to a serious rupture between that country and Great Britain.
The heavy wind caught them without warning almost, and its impact soon pressed the lorcha over.
I spoke to him about the rumor as he leaned over the side staring at the lorcha, and he gave vent to his feelings in a description of the general appearance of the lorcha in language too technically nautical for me to transcribe.
Our lorcha was about sixty feet long, and, according to one of the teachers who had once seen Lake Michigan, was "schooner rigged.
Our quarantine was up on Sunday morning, but at the eleventh hour it was noised about that we should not leave, because a lorcha which we had to tow had failed to get her clearance papers.
The lorcha was a dismasted hull, no more, with a Filipino family and one or two men aboard to steer.
He was in a small lorcha, or sailing vessel, with no barometer, his glass having been left on a lorcha of larger tonnage, which was at another point.
There the trail ended: it was for this that Malabanan had brought the big lorcha that the secreto had mentioned.
After a short time, by consent of the parties, the question was referred to arbitration, but the arbitrators could not agree and an umpire was appointed, who awarded that the ownership of the lorcha should continue undisturbed.
No British lorcha would be safe if her crew were liable to seizure on these grounds.
Lei-yeong-heen, one of the partners in the Chin- chew Hong, for the purchase of the lorcha by the former.
The brutalizing influence of this method of carrying on the foreign trade of England was shown by a later altogether unnecessary war with China about the Lorcha "Arrow.
Consul Parks had, however, demanded at first that the men should be as publicly sent back to the lorcha as they had been taken away.
Fifteen years of profitable commerce had passed, during which China had been a double gainer, receiving light and experience in addition to less valuable commodities, when Viceroy Yeh seized the lorcha Arrow, on a charge of piracy.
European as mate, in our lorcha Anglo Ti-ping, the latter to convoy his junks and our old one.
My own lorcha carried two beautiful pivot-guns amidships, which proved of no little use during the different actions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lorcha" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: galleon; junk; vessel; yacht
