She drove her iron prowstraight through the side of the Cumberland.
The ship shines from prow to stern, and the decks are clean enough to eat from.
A single place was vacant in the prow of the whale-boat--that which Captain Hull would occupy.
Yes, I shall be able to put her prow to the east, nearly at the point of the American coast that we must reach.
Captain Hull strode over the netting, and, descending the rope ladder, he reached the prow of the whale-boat.
At the "Waldeck's" prow a large opening indicated the place where the collision had occurred.
In the prow they talked of it also, but they did not draw from it the same conclusions.
At the prow Captain Hull, his legs a little apart to maintain his equilibrium, held the weapon with which he was going to give the first blow.
Dick Sand, who, leaving his post of observation for an instant, ran to the prow of the ship.
Night was coming on as Jean turned the prow of his canoe down the bay; soon it was quite dark; and only the glimmer of stars on the water and the dense blackness on either side showed the way.
The sharp prow of the Lawrence found its mark and the German submarine was crushed like an egg shell.
Far out on the prow stood a man with a coil of rope.
The man in the prow swung his rope and let the coil fly.
The black divers rose lazily on the swell, and the shields round the prow of the ship shone like white fire.
He went alone to the prow of the vessel and looked out over the fair sun-bathed sea, and there were tears in his eyes, and his mouth was softer and more tremulous than it was wont to be.
The machine darted at the boys' craft suddenly, and, but for the fact that Hal at that very moment happened to glance over his shoulder, the sharp-pointed prow of the German craft would have cut them down.
So silently had she approached, that the Germans, engaged in hurling shells upon a little village, did not perceive their presence until a shell from the Russian plowed up the water under the prow of their boat.
Then, taking up a bottle of the champagne, I broke it over the prow of the vessel, and we solemnly christened her the Areonal in honour of the planet for which we were bound.
You were not able to see the moon when you first looked through the window because it was nearly in a direct line with your course, and therefore just hidden by the prow of the vessel.
Footnote 8: The prowof the ship carrying this ode, with which Pindar, as has been said, identifies himself.
The prow cuts across the waves, the water leaps over the bow.
After a short race the prow of our boat ran into the bank on the side where brains was at work.
The scene changes, and we stand on the deck of a river steamer with its prow pointed eastward.
The solid prow of the ram had crushed through the leafy side of the Praise, as an iron steamship would run through a fishing schooner.
No wonder that Pipe, when he saw two-thirds of his command swept out of existence, should have felt a cold shudder run through him as this invincible and invulnerable mystery of the sea now turned its prow upon him.
For a while he could make out little or nothing beyond the jutting prow beneath him, itself also illuminated, and various outlines and silhouettes of devices and rigging which even now he did not properly understand.
The upper deck ended in a railing, below which protruded, from the level of the lower deck, the prow proper of the boat.
Alert and at the prow Of life's broad deck To seize the passing moment big with fate From opportunity's extended hand.
She had watched for the enemy and when sighted, she turned her prow in the direction of the fight.
Medric turned her prowto the south and Sunset Isle.
Billy, scowling at the prowof the unconscious boat.
It was evidently the forward watch looking down at him for the prow of the vessel was all that was in view.
We turned our prow westwards, prepared like good adventurers to take what fortune the seas might bring us.
And with carved posts and rails for her bulwarks, many-windowed cabins in the after part, tapering, artistic prow with the gilded boar rampant, her designer had had an eye to beauty also.
In fact the whole coast seemed to be dead and deserted, and we were glad when the Lapland began to turn her prow inland.
Suffice it to say that in due season the good ship Lapland turned its prow away from the white cliffs of Dover and straight toward the low-lying shores of Flanders.
The vessel having been seized in this manner, herprow was headed for Quebec, where her master and crew were summarily cast into gaol.
And yet we had not taken aboard two buckets full of water, which swept over the covered prow and would have swamped us, but for the decking.
We will all be drowned," said Bill, a young Hydah Indian, at the same time stripping off his clothing as I turned the prow of our little ship towards the shore.
Suddenly, on approaching the prow of the ship, where were the third-class passengers, I made a most agreeable discovery.
The “lift” of the boa1’s lines toward the prow may be plainly seen.
An extra piece of cedar is carved and fitted with dowels on theprow of this craft also, “lifting” the lines of the hull somewhat.
The tip of the prow is shaped into a “notch” resembling an open mouth.
This consisted of a projection from the prow of the ship, either above or below the water-line, strongly shod with a casting of iron, and terminating either in the head of an animal, or in one or more sharp points.
Orpheus thrummed away briskly, and the galley slid at once into the sea, dipping her prow so deeply that the figure-head drank the wave with its marvelous lips, and rising again as buoyant as a swan.
Discovering a spot seemingly fit for travel, I pushed the prow through the long marsh grass, and stepped ashore.
Turn theprow of the canoe toward the upper end of that rock, Madame," I said, resuming my place at the oar.
Madame immediately turned the prow that way, and, bending our heads low, we shot beneath their trailing branches, grounding softly on the red clay of the bank.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prow" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: beak; bow; companion; figurehead; nose; parts; rostrum; ship; stem
