The sea is extended in a tremulous sheet of dazzling gold, and the black prows and the figures on the junks are cut in Vandyck relief out of this gilded background.
The prows were immediately cut adrift, and the crew, under the direction of their officers, proceeded with admirable order and coolness, one part to extinguish the fire, and the rest to defend themselves against the murderous attack.
Instantly all flung from their lofty prows step-ladders, covered with rich rugs.
In the harbor the ships are rocking, impatiently tugging at their anchors in the east wind, their eager prows turned toward the west.
At last a faint-flushed April Dawn arose With milk-white arms up-binding golden clouds Of fragrant hair behind her lovely head; And lo, before the bright black plunging prows The whole sea suddenly shattered into shoals Of rolling porpoises.
Marvellous The pomp of dawn and sunset on those heights, And like a strange new sacrilege the advance Of prows that ploughed that time-forgotten tide.
In the distance I could see the brig burning furiously, while alongside the rocks lay several long prows with swivel guns in their bows, and their general appearance betokening them to be, what we supposed, pirates of Sooloo.
They employ them in making models of their prows and bamboo huts, by running a small wire through them before they are dried.
On the shore a number of prows were hauled up and being refitted for sea.
Having anchored their prows in the sheltered bay, they had, as is their custom, landed and encamped.
The prows are shoving off to sea, pulling away like mad!
When the captains of the two remaining gunboats saw the stars and stripes fall from the peak, they turned their vessels' prows toward the sea, and scudded out of danger of capture.
Shall they sing, as the Hirlas goes round, of his steeds of the sea, when no flag came in sight of his prows between the dark isle of the Druid [167] and the green pastures of Huerdan?
The gilded statues in the prows of the large galleys shone and sparkled in the broad radiance of the day-star, and flashes of light also came from the low hills on the shore.
The next day, having passed the straits, we bore away to the westward along the coast of Java in company with the prows before mentioned.
In the night of the 31st several prows were rowing about us, on which account we kept all night under arms.
Abbo saw the black hulls and horrid prows of the pirates' boats as they turned the arm of the Seine below Paris, seven hundred strong vessels, and many more of lighter build.
The blunt, rounded prowsand heavy sterns of the English or Dutch vessels were replaced by American models, sharp, nothing superfluous, and riding the waters as easy as a bird.
They constructed machines containing grappling irons, which they mounted on the prows of their vessels.
They took the prows of the ships which they captured and conveyed them to Rome, and built what is called a rostral pillar of them.
He did not peril his prows beyond the shoals which environed the entrance to his harborage.
The river to which his prows were especially directed, was that to which the name of Jordan had been given by Vasquez de Ayllon, some forty years before.
He then proceeded and continued in safety upon his route, until he reached Cape Verd, when he turned his prows suddenly in the direction of America.
He was now within two hundred leagues of Florida, hisprows looking, with unobstructed vision, directly towards the enemies he sought.
He was now drawing nigh to that beautiful island; and after leaving Enecaque, he turned his prows in search of its sweet retreats.
At last the beach was reached, and boats-prows grated upon the pebbly sand.
As the schooner's shotted guns went off one after the other, the Americans turned their boats' prows homeward, and soon dispersed quietly to their homes.
As they turned their ships' prows down the Delaware, the dull sullen roar of an explosion told that the "Augusta" had met her end.
They had also notice of the grappling-irons, against which they specially provided by stretching hides over the prows and much of the upper part of their vessels, in order that the irons when thrown might slip off without taking hold.
Accordingly, I made up my mind to protect the prows of the galleys with a hard alloy of copper and tin, and to sheathe the keels and flanks of all the four vessels with plates of wrought copper.
It occurred to me that if the keel and flanks under water were protected with copper in the same way as the prows had hitherto been, the solidity of the vessel would be greatly increased, and the wood would be far less liable to decay.
At the same time he adorned the rostra withprows of the captured Egyptian vessels.
Eastward sail the ships of war; The graven bucklers gleam afar, And dragon heads adorn the prows of gold.
Some turned their prows to the northward and settled in the Faroes or Iceland, or on the more distant American shore.
We could scarcely make headway against it, though we had the wind fresh and fair; so, seeing that we made no progress, or but very little, we determined to turn our prows to the northwest.
On the lofty prows shone the gilded dragon-heads whose glitter had first caught Roland's eye.
Spellbound by the sight, warriors and courtiers and king alike stood silently waiting while the stately prows swept inshore.
Some vessels had turrets erected in them for soldiers and warlike engines; others had sharp prows covered with brass, for the purpose of dashing against and sinking their enemies.
XX Erewhile restored, in Afric waters ride Sir Dudon's ships which did the paynims rout; Whose prows (new miracle!
XIII Nor poops nor prows does Roland more descry, For all have launched their shallops, which are wide Of that dry shore; while from his level eye Their hulls the tall and shifting surges hide.
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