He was tortured by the Spaniards for piloting Drake to the South Seas.
Girls and women are everywhere, driving cattle, carrying great round baskets crammed with fowls, which are kept quiet and in place because their legs are tied, or piloting pigs.
Bridger was later engaged in piloting emigrant trains across the prairie, in the vicinity of the Republican River, where Sandy Forsyth had his great battle with Roman Nose some years later.
He was a Florida man, and had been chiefly employed in lumbering and piloting on the St. Mary's River, which divides Florida from Georgia.
Hastings, who was even then piloting a small company over the cut-off.
Hastings was then piloting through the canyon would ever succeed in reaching the plain.
Vallejo headed this subscription, and $500 was promised to Greenwood if he succeeded in raising a company, and in piloting them over the mountains.
He has done all the piloting and figuring courses, and he even invented a one-man control so he can land and take off without all the trouble and preciseness needed before.
He is also an inventor, and will shortly apply for patents on a new automatic piloting system--which I don't pretend to understand anything about, but which I do know from watching its use is far in advance of anything you now have.
Sam was a fine pilot, and in a day when piloting on the Mississippi required a great deal more brains and skill and application than it does now.
He had been on the Coast five and a half years, and to his professions of printing and piloting had added three others--mining, journalism, and lecturing.
As long as any one reads of the Mississippi they will look up those chapters of Mark Twain's piloting days.
Horace Bixby, at eighty-one, was still young, and piloting a government snag-boat.
RIVER DAYS Piloting was only a part of Sam Clemens's education on the Mississippi.
I wish I was back there piloting up and down the river again.
Piloting suited him exactly, and he proved an apt pupil.
Then turning her eyes aft towards the steering wheel, she said, crossing the deck: "Captain Ericson, do you not think you should be attending to the piloting of this ship?
He started piloting two days since in opposition to my father.
And you and Jack Paterson can start the pilotingas soon's ye like.
But, ye see, Halcro, I canna do the piloting without a boat.
The Curlew was steered out into the open sea in the hope of falling in with any ship that required piloting into the safe haven of Stromness.
Not only had he gained in the assault case, but in the matter of the piloting he was equally fortunate.
The lad canna aye be idle; and there's nothing but the fishing for him, I doubt, if he doesna gang to the piloting with Carver Kinlay.
Bumpus looked like a well-laden, led animal as he trotted along at the heels of the tall scout, who was to do the piloting of the expedition.
A larger detachment would do more harm than good, since Old Cale might be angry at having his solitude invaded by a party that Jim was piloting through the piney woods.
Now, on September 30 Fonck had shot this Lieutenant Weissman through the head as the latter was piloting a Rumpler machine above the French lines.
A number of the boys came down to the river with him, and several of them swam it, meeting the cattle a mile above and piloting us into the ford.
It's one reason why I have Quent Miles piloting for me.
All the value any feature of it had for me now was the amount of usefulness it could furnish toward compassing the safe piloting of a steamboat.
Captain Dinan now ordered the boats to be got ready, and he, with Bill Rullock, accompanied by Wenlock and one of his mates, went out in order to assist in piloting in the king's ship.
As both ships, after the action, required a good deal of repair, the commodore accepted Captain Dinan's offer of piloting him into the harbour.
I'm no quitter," he told the piloting breast-ray, blazing its ruby trail ahead.
They struck out for shore, passed as far inland as Jack considered tactful, and through his clever work in piloting the airship actually passed directly over Black Water Bayou.
I never had the pleasure of piloting one of that type of ships, and so there'll be a heap for both of us to learn.
Jack, having nothing to do with the piloting of the machine, kept a vigilant watch ahead.
All of us who haven't been piloting bombing planes will feel about the same way, Jack.
I can take a good example of the way improvement in piloting has outdistanced improvement in machines--in the case of myself, my 'looping' Bleriot.
I consider,' he said, 'that the present day standard of flying is due far more to the improvement in piloting than to the improvement in machines.
The breakage caused the machine to overturn, killing Rolls, who was piloting it.
By piloting I mean flying understandingly, skilfully; not merely riding in a machine after a few weeks' training in the hope that a safe landing may be made.
Piloting his machine in a slanting glide, he alighted upon the surface of the water.
I had thought Dan Ellis was piloting us, and rode forward to see about the young lady.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "piloting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
