On your own terms when my carriers are tied to your dock with a capacity load which I must sell or throw overboard within forty-eight hours," MacRae smiled.
He slidoverboard the small skiff the Blackbird carried and rowed ashore.
I'll signal them," thought Herc; but even as the thought entered his mind he recollected that as he had gone overboard the flags had gone with him.
But are you not the two boys who fell overboard a short time ago?
At that moment he beheld Palinurus, his pilot, who felloverboard and was drowned.
Then Somnus pushed him overboard and he fell; but keeping his hold upon the helm it came away with him.
On the passage, a man felloverboard from the Beagle, at night, and was drowned.
I seem to be a sort of Jonah, and live in expectation of being thrown overboard every time I go on a yacht.
I said I did, that my last hour had come, that I wanted to throw myself overboard and hasten the end.
Another heavy sea dashed over us, and by the light of a dazzling flash I saw the unhappy man, although he had managed without assistance to disengage his foot, washed overboard before it was in my power to get near him.
The crew were frantic at this new misfortune, and shouting "Overboard with the masts!
His body was thrown overboard almost directly; it had decomposed so rapidly that the flesh had not even consistency enough for any fragments of it to be reserved for the boatswain to use to bait his lines.
But surely," I protested, "it will not be difficult to throw overboard a few hundred bales of cotton; two or three days at most will suffice for that.
At one moment he longed to leap overboard and try to swim to the shore, and then again he would feel as if he must do something to check the approach of those men in the barges.
I'm afraid we'll have to cast overboard a part of the load," said the leader, when the third effort proved as futile as its predecessors.
Down the Malay Archipelago I learned something about tides, spittin' overboard from salvage craft.
Nobby Clark--'im as jumped overboard in the Bandsmen's Race" was thereafter his designation among his fellows.
He pitched the stump of his cigar overboard and turned up the collar of his ulster as the spray began to drift past their heads.
Then they sighed, and made such sorrow (streaked somehow with happiness) that I got myself ready to leap overboard if either or both of them should jump in.
But I heaved him overboard at once, and laid my course with this cargo of gold, exactly as if it were shipper's freight, under bond and covenant.
The glory of her mind was such that overboard she must have jumped, except for my Sunday neck-tie with a half-hitch knot around her.
They also would tumble overboard sometimes: he had heard of one or two such cases.
On that dangerous coral formation the celebrated clipper had hung stranded for three days, her captain and crew throwing her cargo overboard with one hand and with the other, as it were, keeping off her a flotilla of savage war-canoes.
The sailors and Jim Adams, lifting the dredges, threw them overboard on either side, and the work was begun.
He had barely time to dodge when the boom caught him, grazing the top of his head and hurling him overboard into the icy water.
Henry Burns, knockedoverboard by the blow of the boom, sank in the chilling water, then rose again.
Went overboard in the chop, down below, and I couldn't get him.
Then followed the work of "culling," or sorting and throwingoverboard the oysters that were under two inches and a half long, which the law did not allow to be kept and sold.
Confound you, if I'd a-known it was you, I'd just have chucked your overboard neck and crop.
Half a dozen seamen of the night-watch were cut down where they stood, the mate was felled by Sharkey and tossed overboard by Ned Galloway, and before the sleepers had time to sit up in their berths, the vessel was in the hands of the pirates.
Some of them were touched with religion, and it is still remembered how Sawkins threw the dice overboard upon the Sabbath, and Daniel pistolled a man before the altar for irreverence.
More than once they had to leap overboard and, wading, shove and haul until the boats came off the mud banks into practicable water again.
The Bengalis, always ready for an entertainment of this kind, slipped overboard and were soon rowing down to Chinsura.
The commanders of private armed vessels are to keep this paper connected with a piece of lead or other weight, and to throw the whole overboard before they shall strike their flag, that they may be sunk.
Tea thrownoverboard in Boston harbour by the discontented populace, November, 1773.
Over and over in spite of the six poles, she was thrown back on the stones, whereupon they all leaped overboard and put their backs under her lee.
At the same instant the boat lurched drunkenly; and they pitched overboard together.
We at length up-anchored, as the mids declared if we remained longer the captain feared we should ground on the beef-bones we threw overboard daily!
As they had neared us so rapidly, we thought it prudent to throw overboard the foreign stores in order to improve our sailing.
Having no boat that would float, four of the seamen jumped overboard to rescue those who could not swim, and they all regained the ship.
The latter vessel caught a large shark the morning after, and found in its maw the false papers of this said American brig, which she had thrown overboard when the Nimrod chased her.
The mutineers taken in the Hermione were but few, as the greater part were either on shore or had jumpedoverboard from her when they saw they should be overpowered.
The first lieutenant had been ill and keeping his cot, but on hearing the noise, he came up the hatchway in his shirt, when one of the carpenter’s crew cut him down with an axe, and he was sent overboard with several others.
Masterman's cabin to account for his extraordinary behaviour in rushing out on deck and jumping overboard in the middle of the night?
He tells me that if I refuse to do so I am to be lashed up, neck and heels, and hove overboard with a sinker attached to my neck some fine night when the women and children are all below.
Discipline's a first-rate thing, I admit; but a man can have too much of it, and it does him good to chuck it overboard now and again.
The wind meanwhile had freshened perceptibly, and was now blowing a ten- knot breeze, the effect of which soon became perceptible, for the lead- line had not been overboard five minutes when Saunders cried out that the ship was moving.
Bulls were perpetually running into him, and once he fell overboard and a whale chased him to shore.
Ras, yawning prodigiously, heaved a variety of unnecessary provisions overboard from the seat pantry, abandoned the ice-cream freezer to a desolate fate by the ashes of the camp fire and peeled the hay-bed.
Overboard went cables, guns, spars, shot, every thing that would lighten the "Hornet.
From the decks of the "Bienville," the nearest steamer, the officers with their glasses could see the crew of the distressed vessel working like beavers, throwing overboard every thing of weight to lighten the ship.
Her pilots declared that if the ship was lightened they could take her up the James River; and accordingly all hands threw overboard ballast and trappings, until she was lightened three feet.
Those on board busied themselves throwing overboard all things movable, with the intention of lightening the vessel.
Ninety of the horses were lost, some having been thrown overboard ten miles from the land.
One man who was knocked overboard by the concussion was back again and serving his gun in two minutes.
A chase ensued, in which the American vessel threw overboard her guns and anchors, and started the water; but to no avail, for she was overhauled, and forced to surrender.
Pray, do you happen to know what time elapsed from the man's falling overboard till he was unhooked?
I directed the after dories and life rafts to be cut away and thrown overboard and ordered the men in the immediate vicinity to jump over the side, intending to follow them.
Some, however, were swimming and a few appeared to be about a ship's length astern of the ship, at some distance from the rafts, probably having jumped overboardvery soon after the ship was struck.
As he neared the shore, the water became so rough that the boat was useless, so he dove overboard and swam the rest of the way.
These were lowered overboard and swam ashore, which occasioned much surprise and astonishment among the natives, who viewed these strange animals with both fear and distrust.
As he dropped lifeless into the stern of his canoe, the remaining red men fled in terror, some even leaping overboard to swim for it.
This was Nova Scotia, and they coasted along it, for many days, occasionally coming to anchor in one of the deep bays, and heaving overboard their fishing lines, so as to catch some of the many fish which seemed to abound in these waters.
I will not put back, under any consideration, and if any of you speak to me again of this, I will throw you overboard where the sharks can have a full meal.
The great canoe had, by throwing overboard a part of her cargo, got off from the reef at the rising of the tide, and resumed her voyage.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overboard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
