He was puzzled, for, save a few luggers swinging from the little buoys that dotted the surface of the sea, there was not a sign of an accident by the upsetting of a boat, or of any one struggling in the water.
The summer passed away, the winter returned, and the large luggers being once more laid up in harbour, John Hadden and his sons went home to spend their Christmas.
Their nets differ much from those used by the luggersand boats.
His stakes were very large, and all depended on the flicker of those lanthorns out towards the men on the luggers that were hidden in the black expanse of the sea.
The silent flittings of lights that I had just seen, the answering signals from the luggers far out to sea, the enforced sleep of the towns and countryside whilst his plans were working out at night, had impressed me with a sense of awe.
A letter written by Ablett Pasefield [otherwise called Percival] yesterday tells me there are four Lowestoft Luggers in Weymouth.
Down by Tenbow Head the first pearling luggers were putting out under silver clouds of sail.
Those luggers seem pretty close together, sir," remarked the helmsman of the "Gannet.
Early that morning the luggers "Crown and Sceptre" and "Unity" had left Brixham in company.
The luggers have, as a matter of course, a sufficient amount of ballast on board, and are in good sailing trim.
As soon as it is daylight the wreck is seen from Margate, and all is at once astir down by the jetty and the pier; the life-boat is speedily manned and gets under weigh, and two fine luggers race with her to get first to the vessel.
At last they make her out, and, as they approach, find two Broadstairs luggers riding at anchor outside the Sands.
Bright skies make dirty ways;" and before daylight closes the men overhaul their luggers and see that everything is ready for a sudden start, should their services be needed.
Then I could make out that they were both luggers by their rig, and that one of them had three masts and the other only two.
Not a sound to be heard on either of the luggers lying at their buoys, and no light was visible at the cottages at the head of the little bay.
There were scores of sails upon the Kattegat, a multitude of ships and barques and brigs, schooners and sloops, and small fishing smacks, and larger fishing luggersgoing far out upon the North Sea.
We did not see many vessels; far to the north I made out the smoke of a steamer which the captain said was bound for Kristiansand, in Norway; and south of us were a few sail, which I took to be fishing luggers from Holland.
This syndicate is always willing to purchase "on chance" any shipment of shell that may come into port, and have a large fleet of their own luggers constantly on the waters during the season.
Already the luggers were stretching off in a long line across the bay; and among them appeared a number of visitors: Lowestoft yawls come down to the West after the early mackerel.
Under moonlight, the returning luggers crept homeward, like inky silhouettes on a background of dull silver.
The sun was burnishing the sea, and she watched Mousehole luggers putting out and dancing away through the gold.
They had actually to urge him to fight, but the luggers were right close on to the cutter before Comben had given the word.
Every sailorman knows that the tides in that neighbourhood are exceedingly strong, but the addition of the breeze did not improve matters for the Jackal's two boats, although the luggers were getting along finely.
They had some of the best designed and best built cutters and luggers of that time.
It was further pointed out at the trial that the luggers could not have been bound on the voyage alleged, for they had not enough provisions on board.
The armed cutters had long since given way to the luggers as the smuggling craft.
To return to Captain Stewart and the two boats: for the first twenty minutes these oared craft gained on the luggers owing to the absence of wind, and the smugglers could do nothing.
After that for three-quarters of an hour the crew fought the ship, and were at their respective quarters when Comben actually turned to the luggers and shouted to them: "Leave off firing; I have struck.
It was some little time before the Kite had made up her mind that she was a smuggler, for at first she was thought to be one of the few Revenue luggers which were employed in the service.
Many luggers are to be found among the English; though more, certainly, among the French.
There is no Sir Smees, nor Sir Anybody else, in command of any of our luggers anywhere.
Why, I've fallen in with smaller luggers than yours cruising in the Channel with eight of a crew.
On board a ship I shouldn't doubt your capacity; but the handling of these here luggers is a job as needs the eddication of years.
First of all, there ain't no money in Deal; and next, the days of these luggers is nombered.
Little pearling luggers pile up on the white coral by the hundreds, every year.
At one end of the beach is a shipbuilding yard, where small pearling luggers are built and repaired.
When he came abreast the centre of the town a number of sailors and fishermen were standing talking in low tones, and looking with horror at fourluggers moored in a line in the centre of the river.
Not a few, too, of the larger luggers were during the French Wars fitted out as privateers either by their smuggling owners, or merchants who had purchased them for the purpose.
The men who manned the luggers were sailors who knew every bay and nook round the coast.
Happily for me, the luggers had disappeared before I grew up.
As I was boss, I had moored the cutter in a well-sheltered nook under a high bluff, and the luggers near to her.
Before that time the Deal luggers attempted the work of rescue on the Goodwin Sands.
A few moments before the Deal lifeboat, there launched from the south part of Deal one of the powerful luggers which lay there, owned by Mr. Spears, who himself was aboard; and the lugger was on this occasion steered by John Bailey.
These splendid luggers being of five feet draught, and having therefore a deeper hold of the water, could do better than a lifeboat in the deep water of the Downs.
In the morning of the day two luggers launched to help vessels in distress, but such was the fury of the gale, and so mountainous was the sea, that the luggers were themselves overpowered, and had to anchor in such shelter as they could get.
Ever on the look-out in case of need, galleys, sharp as a shark, and luggers full of men, would rush down the beach into the sea in less time than it has taken to write this sentence.
The most powerfulluggers along the beach tried to launch, but as the tide was high they had not run enough to get sufficient impetus, and were therefore beaten back on the beach by the surf.
The luggers are about forty feet long and thirteen feet beam, more or less.
Long lines of heavy dangerous rollers broke on Deal beach, and only the first-class luggers could launch or live in the Downs, so great was the sea.
A little fleet of luggers was tacking down, under a light breeze, towards the anchorage, their white sails gleaming picturesquely in the warm sunlight.
The fact is, Esther, I'm going away with the luggers the day after to-morrow for a month.
Two days later Ellison gave the signal for departure, and the three luggers weighed anchor and stood out of the bay.
From the place where he stood he could see two luggersapproaching the jetty.
A number of pearling luggers rode at anchor on either hand of him, and the township lights twinkled merrily ashore.
Soon great luggers came splashing along with shrieks from the crews, and sails flapping, chains rattling, spars knocking about, as if a tempest were in rage.
This was of course a most critical time for such a mishap, with a strong breeze dead ahead, driving me in upon piles, and a tumbling sea, and numerous large luggers sailing about me in the dark.
Presently some fishing luggers were getting under way, and soon the usual clatter and din of the French sailors, at full tide, rang forth as if by a magic call at two in the morning.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "luggers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
