Then I told her how that I had seen the Dominie but yestereven, when she was sewing at the pearling of her bridal dress and thinking of me.
For thou, Spurheel, art not of the quality to wear such, but they will do excellently for the pearling and ribboning of a baron's daughter.
Although motor-driven craft are common amongst the pearling and trading fleets in the Pacific, he had left the fishing-grounds some years before the first motor had made its appearance.
Pearling is chiefly carried on in what are termed "proved grounds"; but if a good haul be made at any time the pearler is not averse to prospecting for new grounds (waters).
The headquarters of the pearling industry is at Broome, the landing station of one of the Australian cable systems.
This gentleman was a very superior person to those usually met in such latitudes; he was of a scientific turn of mind, and had designed many strange appliances which were the wonder and admiration of the pearling fraternity.
During the monsoon season the pearling fleet shelters in Roebuck Bay, on the shores of which Broome stands, and then that wicked and evil-smelling township wakens up from its sleep.
This is Broome, the headquarters of the pearling fleet, and the hottest hole on earth.
Then after a pause he began to discuss with his officer the probabilities of the future--the return of the Mahina and the establishment of a permanent pearling station on the lagoon.
You are an experienced man in the pearling business; I know nothing about the matter practically.
But whilst matters in regard to the pearling operations had gone on without interruption, there had been several collisions between Warner's Solomon Islanders and Barry's men, and worse followed.
A beautiful pearling stream of water, plenty of wood and any amount of grass met our eyes as we came to the place to stop.
We stopped on the bank of a little pearling stream of cold water, where there was plenty of grass for the horses, and ate our luncheon and rested about an hour.
The night we reached Honey Lake, we camped in a little grove of timber near a pearling stream of cool, sparkling water about a half a mile south of the trail.
The pearling season in the Paumotus was over, and all hands were returning to Tahiti.
I had had some experience in blackbirding before I went pearling in the Paumotus.
In the old records, which I am never tired of reading, there is a copy of a statement, made on oath, twenty-five years ago by two slaves who made their escape from an Assab pearling dhow working on the Arabian coast.
When the pearling ground is reached the dhow is anchored from time to time and the canoe lowered.
The pearlers go out in schooners called floating stations (their enemies call them floating public-houses) and no man knows what hospitality is till he has been a guest on a pearling schooner.
Young MacTavish, who is in a crack English regiment, asked the captain of a pearling lugger whether he didn't know Talbot de Cholmondeley in the Blues.
New chums on the steamers see a fleet of white-sailed pearling luggers, a long pier clustered with a hybrid crowd of every colour, caste and creed under Heaven, and at the back of it all a little galvanized-iron town shining in the sun.
This lightened the load for a while; but it soon became painfully evident that, unless more capital was soon forthcoming, the pearling station must inevitably close its doors.
A number of pearling luggers rode at anchor on either hand of him, and the township lights twinkled merrily ashore.
I want to see all I can of the pearling industry in that time.
The pearling season had not turned out as well as had been expected of it.
The pearling station, after Murkard's death, grew distasteful to us, and as I was fortunate enough to be able to sell it to great advantage, I bought this boat.
Well off the steamer routes, and with only the most infrequent comings and goings of pearling and trading craft, the problem of reaching Australia with any dispatch seemed, at first, a hopeless one.
Dalton, from Sandakan, awaiting the arrival of a fleet of boats of light tonnage belonging to the English concern, The Pearling and Trading Co.
Guess I'm getting round," and the big, bronzed-faced man raised his eyes to mine as he lay under the awning on the after deck of his pearling lugger.
I was in charge of the supply schooner which was tender to our fleet of pearling luggers, and was the one man among us to whom the silent, taciturn Paul would talk--sometimes.
He asked Aaron, two weeks after their first talk, whether they had questioned the white men on the pearling schooner.
Also, there was a pearling schooner in the lagoon, with drunk white men aboard.
Within three hours I'll be off on the pearling banks about my business, and I never heard of any lost steamer.
Nobody questioned his account of hailing from the Low Archipelago, or the curiously yachtlike snap to his craft, or his own odd employment on a pearling license.
Down by Tenbow Head the firstpearling luggers were putting out under silver clouds of sail.
On the 2nd of November preceding, the pearling schooner Timothy S.
I'm going to be married at Ocho Rios next month by the Gold Commissioner, and there is a pearling lugger bringing me a lot of stores round from Somerset, and I have arranged to meet her at the Coen on the 22nd, and sail round in her.
There will be a steamer here in a fortnight, which will take us to Somerset, and from there we can get to Ocho Rios in one of the pearling luggers.
You should have seen the skipper of the pearling lugger at Somerset stare when he saw the thing swing out of the hold of the Gambier.
An interesting find at Kinaven in Aberdeenshire, several miles distant from the Ythan, a famous pearling river, was a dug-out eleven feet long, and about four feet broad.
The pearling beds may have been destroyed or greatly reduced in value,[69] or the metals may have been worked out, leaving but slight if any indication that they were ever in situ.
The Scottish pearling beds have suffered great injury in historic times.
This was the "launching of the ship" for the "Pearling Schooner Dance.
Morton had for some years worked a pearling boat off the unknown northern coasts of Western Australia, and had been a spectator and an actor in many wild scenes; but never had he known so acutely miserable a quarter of an hour as the present.
I have had a share in a pearling boat at Shark's Bay for two seasons.
That was why she did not kill Lucas de Ayllon at the pearling place as the Cacique wished her to do.
There was a lookout built in the palmetto scrub below the pearling place, and every day canoes scouted far to seaward, with runners ready in case ships were sighted.
That night he was to sail again for thepearling grounds at Matahiva lagoon, and would be away three months.
And for this did Merani, my cousin, teach me how to make a wide hat of FALA to shield thy face from the sun when thou art out upon the pearling grounds.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pearling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
