After some dubiety expressed on the subject, in which the ardent mind of the landing-master suggested many arguments in favour of his being able to convey the praams in perfect safety, it was acceded to.
There being too much wind for towing the praams in the usual way, they were warped to the rock in the most laborious manner by their windlasses, with successive grapplings and hawsers laid out for this purpose.
One of the praams mounted ten guns, and the other eight.
The Elephant was warmly engaged by the Dannebrog, and by two heavy Praams on her bow and quarter.
Enemy’s heavy Ships and Praams had ceased to fire.
This ceremony was ushered in by bringing nine Swedish galleys, and seven praams filled with prisoners, and rear-admiral Erenschild's own ship, into the harbour of Cronstadt.
The three remaining stones of this cargo were left on board of one of the praams at her moorings, and the Patriot thus discharged, again sailed for Arbroath at 9 P.
In the same manner, in making the praams fast to their moorings, this chain was simply to be laid hold of, by taking the small floating-buoy on board.
There being too much wind for towing the praams in the usual way, they were warped to the Rock, in the most laborious manner, by their windlasses, with successive grapplings and hawsers laid out for this purpose.
The praams were accordingly employed in delivering the Smeaton and landing a supply of these articles, together with four blocks of stone.
Smeaton and Patriot had returned from Leith Roads, and the praams had been loaded, and were riding at their moorings, yet they could not approach the Rock.
The cargo of the Smeaton was partly landed upon the Rock; but, calculating upon the settled appearance of the weather, the greater part of it kept on board of the praams at their moorings.
In this manner the praams were conveniently disengaged, or attached to the large buoy h.
The facility, also, with which the praams were attached and disengaged from their moorings, was another very great conveniency to the work.
In the praams the life is a little less bleak and rough than it is on board the rafts.
Like the rafts, these praams take on board a great many pilgrims from the upper country; giving them a free passage down, with a supply of tea and black bread as rations, in return for their labor at the paddle and the oar.
Jack guessed that, besides the Fury, only the sloops and the praams were likely to be armed with cannon, though the lugger might carry a small gun.
A few days before, Admiral Keith had exploded some vessels among a hundred and fifty of the French praams at their anchorage outside the pier at Boulogne.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "praams" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
