Somebody--probably old Lewis or another man--arranges with the owner of a lugger to bring some brandy from France, the spirit being sent over in little tubs or ankers.
In this way, when the men are up to their work, it takes only a few minutes for the lugger to discharge her cargo, while the carriers get clear of the beach and disappear.
Was it possible that some smuggling lugger was then off the coast, and that the gang were going straight on board?
Chasse-maree," said Hezz, shading his eyes to look at the long three-masted lugger with a display of interest.
Their help did not last, for the water deepened rapidly and the greatlugger was well on the move, and unless the boats of the revenue cutter were waiting for them her safety was assured.
He burnt blue lights at the top window as a signal to bring the French lugger ashore.
A fresh Levanter having sprung up, the lugger sails immediately.
The Valiant lugger has this instant joined me from Plymouth, and has brought me the extraordinary Gazette; I most truly rejoice at the good news it contains, though I am savage enough to wish a few more had been sunk or taken.
The Plymouth lugger had already sailed, the wind being fair, with Captain Ferris, who, as well as Lieutenant Hills, were bearers of the interesting details.
These were confided to Lieutenant Hills, of the Hannibal, who, with Captain Ferris, were embarked on board the Plymouth lugger for England.
Another disappointment this morning, having been joined by a lugger which we hoped had letters, but which proves to be from another quarter.
The weather not permitting our going on the French coast, I anchored in this bay, and detached a lugger with the third lieutenant, which will execute the service better than we could in the ships.
Yes," said the master of the lugger maliciously, "but he's a beautiful swimmer.
I meant to swim off and cut her adrift-- the lugger Zekle was in--he said he'd tell you.
Meanwhile the luggerdrifts erratically over the surface of the ocean.
A "blow" to this individual means being suspended over the gunwale with his helmet unscrewed for such time as the lugger may take to sail to the next known patch, after which he is allowed to drop again.
There was a small crowd around the door of the "Lugger Inn" when we drove up.
As in Oliver's case every one forgot his weakness and exhaustion, in his efforts to wade out toward the lugger which was steered to meet them through the warm sunny water, and they climbed on board.
For the sail hoisted had filled, and the second was being raised while the mate at the helm was steering the lugger as if to bring her close to where the young men stood.
He paused breathless, watching the exciting scene of the lugger careening over, as she raced through the water.
The helm was put down, and the lugger glided softly over the smooth water between the thickly wooded shore and the surf-beaten reef, to where Mr Rimmer waded out to meet them.
On board the brig the carpenter with three aides worked hard at the lugger being constructed.
I'll, as I've said before, get my lugger finished and launched.
And then as they stood leaning upon their guns, the dinghy reached the lugger and was made fast, the mooring rope was cast off and the men began to hoist the first sail, when Drew suddenly uttered a cry of horror.
If I could only have got the lugger too, Raystoke," he cried, "it would have been glorious!
Oh, he went off in the lugger this morning, after they'd tried to run a cargo.
There's a three-masted lugger coming over from Ushant, and she may be in to-night.
No sooner had he passed round the race, than lights had been shown, and the lugger was run in.
Strikes me that he'll lie there, and not show a light, on the chance of a smuggling lugger coming along, though that's hardly our luck.
Why, he must have a luggerof his own, and keep his stores in here.
No shadow this, but a limb of some one who had thrown himself upon the floor; and Hilary rightly judged that the crew of the lugger were snatching an hour or two's repose previous to being called up by their leader.
Softly as his whisper was uttered it was heard upon the lugger by the watchful smugglers.
One day he chased and boarded a lugger that bore despatches from France to certain emissaries in England; but the lieutenant did not find the despatches, only some dried fish, which he captured and had conveyed on board the cutter.
Quite a couple of hours had passed, and the lugger had for some time been out of sight round the headland astern, when all at once the lieutenant came on deck to where his junior was pacing up and down.
The boats were run one on either side; the crews pulled out their cutlasses and sprang up, racing as to who should be first on board; and after a short sharp struggle the smugglers were beaten down, and the lugger was taken.
The sound was still going on upon the beach, and the people were evidently very busy, when, at the same moment, the crews of the two boats caught sight of a large lugger run ashore, and not twenty yards away.
If I come in my little boat the boys on shore would make signals, and the schooner would keep off, but if they see us go as usual out in our lugger they'll pay no heed.
Nothing but a fishing luggerwould be likely to be about, and no fishing lugger would have any reason for running ashore here.
No answer was given, and as the boat reached the side of the cutter the sails of the lugger were being hoisted, and she began to move quickly through the water at once.
A large lugger propelled by a dozen sweeps passed them in the darkness, but so silently that they did not hear so much as the splash of an oar, and a drowsy feeling seemed to pervade the whole crew.
The single shot that the lugger had fired flew fair between our masts, cutting our lee topsail brace.
The lugger almost instantly replied with her starboard broadside, and again the shot went humming over us, but this time without doing any damage.
At the moment when the Dolphin began to move, the lugger was some seven miles away, bearing due west, the brig being about half a mile astern of her, and the ship perhaps a mile astern of the brig.
The galliasse was somewhat like the lugger or felucca of modern days.
The following year, however, being on a cruise off Havre-de-Grace, he discovered a lugger in the outer road.
From the moment that the lugger parted company a confused idea as to the possibility of retaking the barque had been gradually attaining definite shape in George's mind.
In a few minutes the lugger was alongside, the gangway was lowered, and the passengers began to come on board.
A number of small boxes, bags, coats and cloaks were handed up, and then the rope was cast off, and the lugger made her way back to Dover, and the Paramatta again got under sail.
I expect that big lugger you see, running out direct for us, 'as got them on board.
The lugger was laden with turpentine; she sprang a leak, and in working the pumps they pumped up with the water all her cargo.
The sun was already down, but there was still a broad light in the west, which showed me some of the smugglers treading out their signal fire upon the Ross, and in the bay the lugger lying with her sails brailed up.
He kept a small lugger mainly for this purpose, and plied her so briskly that he promised to know the sea-bottom between Kelsey Head and Godrevy Rock better than his own fields.
And precious soon the Johnnies had altered the brig's course and stood away for the coast of France, the lugger keeping her company all night.
My father's luggercarried twelve hands--I counted myself, of course; and indeed my father did the same when it came to charging for the crew.
Both vessels were fleet and fast, but if anything, the lugger could sail closer to the wind.
The forepart of the lugger was wedged into a cave, close under a black beetling cliff, fully fifty feet in height.
It shone down upon the place where the lugger had lain, but not a timber of her was now to be seen.
The lugger has been dodging off and on the coast for days, and there is a sloop all ready down at the steps near St. Abb's waiting to take the stuff off.
The lugger rushed on, sailing quicker, lying up closer to the wind.
The lugger was hardly moving, for the tide had only turned half an hour ago.
As we were entering the harbour, we saw a fine-looking lugger at anchor, and while passing I inquired where she was bound to.
But it was for none of these purposes that the new boat was required, for it had been built with a deep keel and a lugger rig, with a view to being a quick sailer.
So it happened that when the lugger cast anchor in the harbor which lay nearest to Börje's home, she still did not know but that she was the wife of a rich man.
His name was Börje Nilsson, and he was a sailor on the Swedish lugger "Albertina.
Before he left they were betrothed, and when the lugger came again, they were married.
Then Maxwell himself and his bailiff--Sandie Irvine--rode down to Solway where his lugger was awaiting by his orders the chance of their return by water.
Heartened by this, Sandie thrust all his strength upon the tiller and kept the lugger straight 'twixt Scylla and Charybdis.
I had asked Mr. Berry to forward me any Letters because I thought you might write to say the Lugger was planked.
I am very glad that the Lugger is so well thought of that any one else wants to build from her.
Posh came up with his Lugger last Friday, with a lot of torn nets, and went off again on Sunday.
For I think your Luggermust have got away before that.
I am vexed to see the Lugger come in Day after day so poorly stored after all the Labour and Time and Anxiety given to the work by her Crew; but I can do no more, and at any rate take my share of the Loss very lightly.
I had thought of returning him his written Promise as worthless: desiring back my direction to my Heirs that he should keep on the Lugger in case of my Death.
The paint will keep for another time: and I suppose that the sooner the Lugger is afloat this hot and dry weather the better.
But do not you wait for it, if you want to be about the Lugger at once.
For what I know of the old longshoreman, I am convinced that if he brought his nets home in his lugger he did so because he thought it was the most profitable way of bringing them back.
The lugger is an excellent boat for sailing, but it lacks the trim appearance of the cutter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lugger" 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
