We were pulled across the river on a punt secured to each shore by a cable, and made our way up the banks in the direction of the sugar-mill.
Or he stands erect on the flat punt as it comes in from regions unknown, bearing bananas green from the tree, the very picture of ease and contentment.
As for a picturesque task for which he had no song--well, he had promised Joan to keep away from the punt when the horn beneath the willow blew for a ferryman.
An old, old ramshackle inn, quaint and archaic like the puntyonder and your gown!
The rock had merely scraped the punt while he was listening with politeness to why the old man had "doubled up" his charge and had a church on either side of the river.
Did she scull the old, flat-bottomed puntback and forth, back and forth, when the winter wind was howling up the river?
The puntwas a fairy boat sailing him over a silver river to Hy Brazil, the Isle of Delight.
I knew as we crossed the river that first day in the punt that the madness could not last.
And he hated the village boy who ferried the punt back and forth upon the river, hated the horn with its transforming miracles of reminiscence, for it pointed the nameless lack of sparkle now that struck melancholy into his soul.
For an eternity it seemed he traced the forward sweep of the punt until it grated on the shore.
Anxious to help, Kenny sculled the old punt back and forth, whenever the horn blew, until dusk.
The punt at first floated slowly, and was sheltered by the jutting point, but still the flow of the water carried it out, and in a little time the wind pushed it more strongly as it got farther from shore.
The old punt always leaked, and the puntsman being too idle to bale till compelled, the space between the veal and the false bottom was full of water.
The impetus of his push off and the wind and waves carried the punt out, and it was already fifteen or twenty yards from the land when Crassus and his men appeared.
Bevis set his teeth, and prepared to dig his nails into the sand, when just as the punt was within three waves of the shore, it seemed to pause.
Had they not been so occupied they would have heard the thump, thump of the sculls as he rowed, or rather moved the punt up to where the narrow mound separated the New, Sea from the quarry.
Before he had time to think what was best to do the punt partly swung round, and the rush of the current, setting between the islands, carried it along close beside the shore.
Bevis watched to see where the punt would ground, or whether it would miss both islands and drift through the narrow channel between them.
In shallow water--they could pole along like a punt better than row, for the raft would be cumbrous.
They grounded the puntand undressed on the sward where there was more room.
The increase of the water in the punt again forced Bevis to move, and he sat up on the seat with his feet on the sacks.
The punt being nearly on the streak he hoped he should get there.
The punt being so cumbrous and heavy did not rise buoyantly as the waves went under, but hung on them, so that the crests of the larger waves frequently broke over the gunwale and poured a flood of water on board.
The punt was now in the centre of the storm, and the waves seemed immense to Bevis.
Behind the stony promontory at the quarry they could see the punt from the high ground where they stood; it was partly drawn ashore just inside Fir-Tree Gulf, so that the projecting point protected it like a breakwater.
The word punt in the fourth line is short for prierunt.
Occasionally our party in the punt would get the effect of a gentle wave from an automobile boat or a steam-launch as it rushed by.
Catching hold of a tree with the hook on the end of her pole, Miss Green brought the punt up against the bank under the overhanging willows, and the young people were quickly out and on shore.
Presently the punt glided behind a clump of trees.
And hold on to every punt that comes to you--no fumbling.
At the same moment, as if maliciously calculated, the great booming punt of Bannerman brought the Princeton stands, rollicking and gleeful, to their feet in a burst of triumph.
Deliberately he sent his next punt low, swift, striking the ground about thirty yards away and rolling treacherously another fifteen feet before Dudley, who had swerved out, could stop it.
He had but one duty--to be true to what he had promised Tompkins: not to fumble, not to miss a tackle, to get each punt off clean.
I want you to get off every puntwithout having it blocked; and that's a good deal, with what you're up against.
The varsity being forced at last to kick, Bangs came out opposite him for that running scrimmage to cover a punt that is the final test of an end.
Incidentally, too, thepunt had to be calked and the boat-house had to be strengthened, so that in the end it was half-way into November before Guy realized he had been coming to the Rectory almost every day.
The Rectory punt could only be used on the mill-stream; and Pauline rejoiced, if somewhat guiltily, that they could not invite either of her sisters to accompany them.
In the Rectory punt she would not have had to bother with sisters who would not come out for a walk when they were invited.
He accepted her proposal, and we had the satisfaction of seeing the light punt put off from the shore opposite to that from which we were idly and uselessly looking on, and go gallantly over the surging torrent toward the sinking men.
The moment they got into a less rapid current, which, they knew, led into comparatively still water they ceased rowing, and allowed the punt to float down with it.
By this time Toby had already turned the punt round, and was propelling it deftly back towards the lawn.
A common wooden punt lay moored at the end of the garden, useful and homely, fit for the carrying of the produce of the labourer's garden to market.
As like as not Kit would step on it when she got into the punt again.
I noticed they went for a stroll in the punt yesterday afternoon, which I thought promising.
The cushions were in a punt, and the punt was on the Thames, and it was Sunday afternoon, and she and her daughter were spending a Saturday till Monday, the last of the season, with the Conybeares.
Hence, on the following afternoon she wished for a private conversation with Toby, and at this moment they were in the punt together.
Toby, in flannels, with his shirt-sleeves rolled up to his elbows, was resting from his labours with the punt pole, and sitting opposite this lady.
Ay, ay," squeaked a boy who was so small that he could scarcely lift the oar, light though it was, with which he sculled his punt cleverly along.
The little punt had been long out of sight ere the news reached them, and the wind had increased to a gale.
The current that swept out of the harbour whirled the light punt away from the ship's side, and carried it out seaward.
Their punt was moored to the side of a tiny island, set like a gem in the clear brown water, the red silk cushions of the boat making a vivid splash of colour on the bank.
In a moment or two, the young man was propelling the long mahogany punt with easy strokes towards the artificial cutting which led to the Seaming boathouse.
Tis t' be a fair day for fishin' the Skiff-an'-Punt grounds the morrow.
The puntstruck the soft sand and mud of the island beach with a little thump.
The second oar was, indeed, at a greater distance from the punt than the one the little boy had been trying to reach.
In the punt they were being rapidly carried out of the little bay.
I will," answered the boy, and he changed the direction of the punt so that it was headed for the island.
The punt had "slipped her anchor," as a sailor would have said.
The clumsy punt was not easy to send along, and Teddy was not very strong on the oars.
They had barely time to gain the firm bank when the bore thundered past, sweeping the punt away like a straw.
As he did so the punt swung in towards the ship's side, her gunwale making a resounding sound as it came in contact with the steel plating.
Then signing to his companions to lie down he covered them with the broad leaves, cut the log-line, and allowed the punt to drift at the mercy of the strong ebb-tide.
Once the punt tilted alarmingly as a dark heavy body rasped underneath.
The flat-bottomed punt glided easily over the slime until its bows were within a yard of the fallen tree.
The barrel appeared to leap away from them, as the puntwas swept down-stream.
Unless they conclude, from finding the punt jammed alongside the pier, that we've been slung out and drowned," rejoined Denbigh.
Released from the hold of the two ropes the punt swung away from the ship's side, but showed little tendency to yaw.
The punt was bearing down upon a line of dark objects that were apparently forging ahead against the swift current.
There's a punt made fast alongside the port quarter," said Denbigh.
Near Cowey Stakes is Walton Bridge, on the far side of which is a large pool connected with the river by a channel; here are constantly to be found punt fishers.
For this reason they have power to remove snags; to prevent the egotistical punt-fisher from placing hispunt broadside in the midmost current; and to regulate the rules for the passing of craft.
Here the swimming trials take place, when a set of trembling pink youngsters stand in a punt ready to take a graceful header, or, from sheer nervousness, to fall with an ugly flop smack upon the water and be disqualified for the time being!
A shy-bold wren, with a sudden glint of sunlight on his rich brown back, flies to the edge of the water where the punt lies drifting, and then darts back in haste to the shelter of that commanding hedge he never likes to leave.
For two long minutes he remained steadfastly peering through the telescope; then he suddenly closed it with a snap, and exclaimed excitedly: "Away to the punt and pull out to sea for your life, Nicholls.
He was hailed as soon as seen; but, of course, the only notice he took of this was to urge the clumsy, heavy punt with redoubled speed through the water.
As each had by this time expected, the punt is not there; and now any lingering hopes as to the skipper's safety which either of them may have cherished disappears, and in his own mind each mutely gives the poor fellow up as lost.
In the afternoon, when Sinfi and I were in the punt fishing together, I could not help noticing that she was much absorbed in thought.
You skipped into the punt with the greatest glee, baited your hook, adjusted your float on the line, cast it into the water and fished with such skill that you caught two fish to my friend's one.
We had hop-poles from the hop-garden beyond the orchard topunt with.
It was the boathouse, and Albert's uncle had got the punt and took us back in it.
Time and again the punt was nearly swamped, but Billy dared not drop the oars to bail.
The punt and the rodney, the latter far in the lead, ran quietly out from the harbour, with their little sails all spread.
That means a new punt for me," said Billy, quietly.
But when he had once joined the little fleet of boats, he cheerfully threw his grapnel into Bobby Lot's puntand beckoned Bobby aboard.
He sculled thepunt to the little cove by the Head, and there loaded her with rocks.
But he let the punt drift as near as he dared, and so followed the pack towards the open, keeping watch, ever more hopelessly, for the black forms of the two men.
If, then, the waves broke only at long intervals, the puntmight at any moment be lifted and overturned.
He had found the harbour entrance thus in many a thick summer night when his fishing punt rode a trackless sea.
They turned the head of the punt and pulled with all their might.
Channing could come over in your punt and rusticate.
The partially triangular shape of these boats approaches that of a salmon-fisher's punt used on certain British rivers.
