The last we knew was that he disappeared from the waterfront and shortly after that a motorboat sped down the river.
The clerks were able to give me only a fair description of the man who made the call, but one of them told me a motorboat had started down river shortly after the man left.
No, he walked in here, but just after he left I heard a motorboat getting under way.
Mary Louise and David McCall stepped into their flower-covered canoe; Mrs. Gay joined the Partridges in a rowboat, and Jane waited for Cliff Hunter's motorboat to come puffing across the river.
You'll walk away with the motorboat prize, Cliff," called Mary Louise to the young man at the wheel.
The familiar "chug-chug" of a motorboat interrupted the girls' discussion.
Her supposition proved correct: no sooner had the Gays returned to their own bungalow after supper than a motorboat chugged its way across the river and anchored at their dock.
The blast of a motorboat engine told them that Harper and his companion had started in pursuit.
Jack can pick you up in themotorboat in the morning.
The motorboatthey had expected to meet them had not yet arrived.
Above the fury of the storm could be heard the faint clatter of a motorboat engine.
Several times, the men tried without success to start the motorboat engine.
Presently, the blast of a motorboat engine cut the stillness of the night.
A mahogany motorboat with glittering brasswork, approached at high speed from the direction of Shadow Island.
Barely had they taken cover when the motorboat came into view, heading for the little cove.
Keeping steadily on, it passed the drifting motorboatwell to starboard, and disappeared into the curtain of rain.
After a long absence, he returned to say that the boy was nowhere on the island, and that the motorboat was missing.
Better thank Sally here," replied the captain, giving orders for the motorboat to be taken in tow.
Far to the right, the chug of a laboring motorboat was heard for an instant, then died away.
As they stood at the railing of the Queen, gloomily watching the spreading, creeping line of fire, a motorboat chugged up.
Penny had forgotten the motorboattied up at the pier.
Presently the motorboat moved away from the Harper dock, its engine laboring.
That night there was a meeting of the organization Jones engaged a motorboat "Leo, are you using any drugs these days?
Jones engaged a motorboat and it was speeding seaward when the two pursuers arrived.
Mituásik ang bawud nga misúgat sa pambut, The waves dashing against the motorboat splashed in all directions.
Will again, as he and his chum walked out on the small dock, at the end of which the motorboatwas made fast.
You're welcome to come in the motorboat if you like, though it isn't much of a craft.
Finally their motorboat was taken, and they were in sore straits.
He lived in the village of Briartown, on the Pine river, and had much sport running his motorboat on that stream.
If we don’t hurry, we’ll be late for the motorboat ride.
Far across the bay the girls heard the muffled roar of a motorboat engine.
Then, able to mount the waves, the motorboat was in much better condition for fighting the storm.
Think of poor Russ and Mr. Sneed out in that motorboat all alone!
Besides, we shall be in the water only a short time, and the motorboat will pick us up.
The speakers were Alice and Ruth DeVere respectively, and they were leaning over the rail of the Mary Ellen, peering off into the swirl of driving mists, and across the heaving waters toward where the motorboat had been last seen.
And, as I also said, themotorboat has a better chance of going where she wants to than have we, who must depend on our sails.
The plan of the shipwreck included the jumping overboard of some of the company, and their rescue in small boats, or by the motorboat Ajax, that would follow, with Russ in it taking the moving pictures of the "thrilling scenes.
And indeed, at that moment, the motorboatwas making the best of the bad weather.
They were near the big motorboat Ajax, which still rested in the cradle on deck.
Get on the side where the motorboat will be," the manager directed, "and line up along the rail.
CANAL [Illustration] The Narrative of a Motorboat Vacation in the Heart of Maryland [Illustration] BY JOHN P.
While we were floundering in the breeze and trying to paddle ashore, a motorboat came alongside and its occupants inspected our equipment.
Running up the Monongahela in the twilight we moored at the motorboat landing at the foot of Smithfield street.
We sat in the lantern light till midnight swapping motorboat experiences for fish stories.
They could see some people along the shore waving to them and shouting, but what they said none of those aboard the motorboat understood, nor could they take the time to try and find out.
A motorboat would be able to get around in this flood all right, I should think, provided it kept away from that nasty current of the river.
Apparently the craft ahead had not discovered the presence of the motorboat containing Lord Hastings, Jack, Frank, and a crew of four men; neither did the distance between the two boats seem to diminish.
A moment later Edwards clambered over the side of the motorboat and this time there was no shot.
Gradually the wind increased and the little motorboat tore along before it.
The wind increased in violence until it blew a hurricane, but still the little motorboat did not falter; it bore on as bravely as before, climbing wave after wave swiftly and unerringly.
Aboard The Hawk Lord Hastings made a careful inspection and then left the lads, while he held an interview with the British commanding officer in charge of the motorboat flotilla.
He gave the command and the motorboat slowed down.
As the light flashed over the water, the lad made out another small motorboat dead ahead, upon which signs of life became apparent.
But now one of the commanders with the motorboat flotilla could restrain his impatience no longer, and while still some distance from the enemy gave the command to fire.
All that afternoon the motorboat flotilla trailed the Glasgow; but until nightfall no other German submarine had appeared.
He again began to tinker with the engine and the motorboat now increased its pace; and then, as the man raised his head to look at Frank, he perceived two dark figures suddenly clamber over the rail and dash toward him.
The head of the motorboat was brought about, and gaining his bearings from a compass in the cabin, Jack shaped his course.
The men appeared on the run a moment later and Lord Hastings led them toward the river, where they all embarked in a small motorboat and headed for the spot where they had left the submarine.
Lord Hastings threw the wheel over with such violence that the motorboat careened desperately and all but capsized.
In the first place," said Lord Hastings, "they are so small that they escape the notice of a submarine until the motorboat is almost upon them; and then it is too late for them to act.
The boys ran out on the front porch and around the house, then down the long flight of stairs that led to the cove where the motorboat landing was located.
Also, I want to know why that motorboat appearing on the scene and flashing a searchlight made the junk gang jump us.
Rick started to say he was, but no reply was necessary because just then he heard the sound of the motorboat engine for which his ears had been attuned.
Moments seemed hours as they strained at the oars, but at last they bumped the side of the motorboat and the next second found themselves on board.
Tripped by creeping vines, torn at by underbrush, swished by wet ferns, they in time arrived at the point where the motorboathad been moored.
Yet the thought of returning to tell Lucile's brother that they had lost his motorboat was disheartening.
One day, with many regrets, they packed their camp-kit in the motorboat and went pop-popping to Lucile's home.
The chances of their recovering the motorboat seemed very poor indeed.
Yesterday when Salt and I were waiting at the drawbridge we saw a motorboatcruise down the river.
And if we try to use the motorboat the gang will be warned and flee while we're on our way down the river.
The young cub is taking a vacation at my expense, running up a bigmotorboat bill!
It's no crime to run a motorboat near the Kippenberg estate.
The two boys in the motorboat knew how to manage, and brought the little vessel in close enough so that even clumsy Bumpus was able to clamber aboard, after handing up his possessions.
But they could see him limp more or less as they headed for the camp by the captured motorboat of the fish poachers.
There's a motorboat trying to reach one of the boathouses here!
It looks like the Flyer," said Helen, who knew the lines of every motorboat on the lake.
A smart-looking motorboat tugging at its chain completed the scene.
I wondered if his delightful daughter, whom I had learned to venerate, would allow me to use a motorboat so I could go to her father.
He was about to head the craft for a landing place, in order to begin the tramp through the woods, to a point whence the ledge could be reached, when the attention of all in the motorboat was attracted by something happening on shore.
To hire a steamer or motorboat for such a long trip was practically out of the question for them, and, with much regret they all admitted it could not be considered.
Then, as he watched, a long, low, whitemotorboat came into sight.
That will leave you a car, and you can use the motorboat for exploring or for fishing.
You can't run a motorboat all your life," I reminded her.
So I dismissed my motorboatand grimly turned to scows instead.
The sub had come from the sea, the plane from the sub, and the motorboat from the land.
When the men reached the shore the moon was under a cloud again, the sub had vanished, the motorboat heading out to sea, and the airplane thundering somewhere in the sky.
Betty sprung into the motorboat and they were away.
Slowly, surely, the sub and the motorboat moved closer together.
He explained that the large square far out on the water was not a sail but a target, that it was being towed on a long cable by a small motorboat some distance from it.
A motorboat engine would scare every swordfish within a league of the Banks--so he says.
Nor did they see the girl who had helped them ashore from the boat, creep over the knoll to watch the motorboat and its tow going down the river again, by way of the northern channel.
The boys shot the skiff in beside the motorboat and helped the girls aboard.
The motorboat took the south channel in passing Wild Goose Island.
Actually, when the motorboat had been running for five minutes, the girls in the sternsheets seemed sitting at a much lower level than the surface of the river.
She observed the motorboat overtake the drifting craft, and saw Neale carry a line aboard the latter and then start up the engine of the power boat again.
The sudden thrust Purt gave the dog cast the surprised brute overboard; with a yelp of amazement he sank beneath the foam-streaked surface as the motorboatrushed on.
Prettyman Sweet's motorboat Duchess, a very nice craft, and the larger powerboat belonging to Chet Belding and Lance Darby, named Bonnie Lass, were manned by the boys before the girls appeared.
At that moment the motorboat that had been skimming across from the main land, pushed her nose against the shore of the island.
The boys brought over a part of their own provisions, when they arrived in the bigger motorboat soon after sun-up.
The latter looked at themotorboat for a moment, and then began to laugh, too.
The river was half a mile wide at this place, and the Barnacle left a wake like a motorboat behind him.
A moment later the motorboat scraped alongside the submarine, and the three clambered over the side as fast as they could amid a veritable rain of bullets, none of which, however, found its mark.
The submarine was perhaps fifty yards away, and Lord Hastings ran the motorboat toward it at full speed.
Milo had unlocked the boat-house, and was at work over a fifteen-foot steel motorboat which was slung on chains above the water.
I gather that Hade had taken them up to the path in his yacht's gaudy little motorboat and carried them to the tunnel.
As the shadows thickened Brice half-arose in his seat to get a better glimpse of a little motorboat which had just sprung into view from around the mangrove-covered headland that cut off the view of Standish's mainland dock.
He recalled the motorboat which had darted, arrow-like, out from around the southern edge of the mangrove swamp, and which he had been watching when his scow went to pieces on the reef.
So, too, was the gaudy little motorboat wherein Rodney Hade had come to the key.
