There were a great many boats plying to and fro about the lake, and the quays and the little islet were crowded with people.
He watched the boats that were plying to and fro over the surface of the lake, and the different parties of ladies and gentlemen in them.
Besides the sail boats and row boats, there were a number of large and handsome steamboats plying on the lake.
Johnny Cos, the yellow, woolly-haired boatman, plying his oars, sat perforce in face of his passengers and close to them.
The two were side by side, plying their brooms along the wet planks, while about them the dawn broadened towards the tropic day.
At the time his last letter was written, he had expected to take a certain steamer plying along the Western coast.
Sidenote: Caught in a Web] "And yet these thoughts of ours are as a weaver's shuttle, plyingendlessly through the web of night and space and time.
To these he adds Amaster son of Hippotas, and follows plying them with his hurled spear Tereus and Harpalycus and Demophoon and Chromis.
While I seem ever to be plying this task, to be searching into the nature of things, and revealing it, when discovered, in writings in my native speech.
The husband smoked his pipe on the opposite bench, and the little pet negro girl, seated on the step at her mistress' feet, was industriously plying her needle.
They now lose their natural shyness, become fearless and familiar, and may be seen plying about in all directions, with an air of great assiduity, in search of building materials.
The gipsy-women too were already plying their mystery in by-corners of the village, reading the hands of the simple country girls, and no doubt promising them all good husbands and tribes of children.
In 1810, a schooner called the Lady Gore or the Bella Gore, commanded by Captain Sanders, and plyingto Kingston, was a well known vessel.
In January, 1829, the schooner George Canning was plying between York and Niagara, the weather being open.
Another sloop, commanded by Captain Grace, was plying between York, Niagara and Kingston about the same time.
In 1802, "Skinner's Sloop" wasplying occasionally between York and Niagara.
We shall then find him in command of a slip-keel schooner plying on the Lake between York and Niagara.
Captain Thew, above named, afterwards commanded the John Watkins, a schooner plying to York.
All sail was set, and the little craft slipped away from the land with the ease of an aquatic bird, that is plying its web-feet.
After plying to windward for an hour the weather tide ceased; when the disadvantage of a lee tide was counterbalanced by smoother water and a steadier breeze.
It is unconsciously backward, near as it is to Europe--a rifle-shot off the track of ships plying from the West to the ports of the Mediterranean.
Cobbler, plying his awl as if he thought much more of mending the old shoe on his lap, than of the words he was speaking.
He silently took his seat in the stern, and the man plying his oars with vigour, the small skiff shot rapidly from the shore.
They have two boats plying across the river, taking corn from Sheikh el Obeyed to Waled a Goun.
The Arabs have eighteen boats plying as ferry from one side of the White Nile to the other.
What was the use of plying the Gorgio with ale and brandy," he murmured, as he lay down to sleep in his tattered blanket, "if he is to leave the Romanies no poorer than he came to these tents?
Parson, plying Cassock with his spurs, while he scanned the ravine before them, and reflected, not without a grim humour, how impossible it seemed that any creature unprovided with wings should reach the other side.
By the sound he knew it to be the Valhalla, one of the line of fruit vessels plying for the Vesuvius Company.
But the most impolitic of the administration's moves had been when it antagonized the Vesuvius Fruit Company, an organization plying twelve steamers and with a cash capital somewhat larger than Anchuria's surplus and debt combined.
As this error could be rectified by no other means than those of plying her with the bottle, until her distinguishing faculties should be overpowered, he promoted a quick circulation.
It is a very short and simple story," answered Margarid plying her distaff.
On McGill Street, the wide space permitted any amount of boating, and skiffs and rafts were plying in all directions.
In the summer two vessels plying on Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, belonging to American merchants, had been seized and partially plundered by the southern refugees.
South side of thiss Island saw a Shipp off att sea standing into the shore plying to windward.
We shall keep plying Constantly about 'em and hope to Succeed one time or other.
When the travellers reached Black-rock, where they were to cross the Niagara, they were compelled to await for some time the return of the ferry-boat, which was then plying towards the Canada shore.
He was therefore a little surprised one day to hear the unwonted sound of wood-felling, and to find, when he came to the spot, four of the men plying their axes lustily upon a huge cedar.
At one end of it stood two archery butts at which men were shooting; a smith was lustily plying his sledge at an anvil; and in the middle, on a stretch of sward, two stalwart bearded figures were disporting themselves at a game of bowls.
And steamers are briskly plyingup and down the Congo.
But our men stuck grimly to the task, and again plying their busy spades, soon had advanced to a point where batteries could be erected.
Bob evidently was not accustomed to hard knocks himself, though he might often enough have cause to give them to others while plying his nauseous trade.
I'll teach him that he can't go about the country, plying his trade and frightening gentlemen's horses with impunity.
Mrs. Brown sat in the centre of a pile of curtains, steadilyplying her needle: the finishing stitches were being put to the work; at least, they would be before night closed in.
