Rounding a bend, they suddenly came in sight of a small sailboat and two struggling men.
One fine October afternoon, in the year 1880, a sailboat might have been seen gliding serenely over the waters of Lake Okechobee, in the southern part of Florida.
When he saw the sailboat approaching through the gathering darkness, he uttered a cry of alarm and hastily seized his rifle, which stood against a tree.
Harry got into the sailboat along with the kicker and remained there.
Old King Brady made no reply, but hastily descended to the launch, which towed the capturedsailboat to a bonded warehouse on the India Basin, where Secret Service men were waiting to receive them.
Alice, do you think you can get aboard the sailboat without tumbling into the bay?
Why, certainly," replied Alice, and she stepped aboard the sailboat with the kicker's aid.
A few moments of anxious suspense and a large sailboat loomed up out of the mist right ahead of them.
Certain sounds were heard that indicated a sailboat going about.
Loaded down as the sailboat was, it would have been both difficult and dangerous to attempt to open the bulky box on board.
The girls aboard the sailboat now cried out in alarm as they felt the extreme list of the boat under them.
The unconscious form of Miss Butler was passed up over the side, followed by the other members of the sailboat party.
My markings are all right, but I know that I don't know enough to take a sailboat out and bring it back.
Her captain after many exploits had been pursued by several English cruisers, and to save his little vessel from being captured he had deliberately sent her to the bottom of the sea, and the Swedish sailboat had picked up the crew.
On the other hand, if the steamer or sailboat obeys the summons, then the warship puts out a boat with an armed prize crew and an officer to look over the ship's papers.
Seizing Betty by the hair, he held her head above water till the sailboat drew near and strong arms caught hold of her and dragged her in, pale, dripping, and seemingly lifeless.
The water all around the sailboat was filled with broken cases that were gently floating away.
Iron did not exist in these terrestrial constructions suggestive of the sailboat whose rooms were as dark as staterooms.
The sailboat needs a wide sea and a favorable wind in order to double Cape Horn,--the utmost point of the earth, the place of interminable and gigantic tempests.
A little further on, a swift four-masted sailboat had run aground, losing its cargo.
They came around on both sides of the sailboat as though they were going to crush it with the meeting of their hulls.
He instinctively understood that the only thing that would prevent the Wireless from plunging into the luckless sailboat would be a prompt reversal on the part of the skipper at the wheel.
A couple of white, scared faces could be seen for two seconds; and then the sailboat was engulfed in the shadows that lay on either side, out beyond range of that searchlight radius.
The adventurous sailboat glided out of the way, so close that the sharp bow of the Wireless almost touched the boom that was hauled well in during the tacking process.
Only a distant steamboat and a smallsailboat were in view.
The fellows on board told us that they had seen a sailboat with two men in it beating up the river, and from the description we took the men to be Loring and Gouch.
Wà makairug ang barútung gikalmáhan, The sailboat was caught in a calm and could not move.
Ang linayágan ug way hángin gawrun (gawran) lang, A sailboat is rowed if there is no wind.
At the boathouse Davy launched the small sailboat and Nora took the tiller.
She would slip away quietly to the boathouse, get Davy to launch the little sailboat for her--and then for a fleet skim over the harbour before that glorious wind!
After some delay a sailboat came in sight and made up to the shore.
When they heard that the people on Kent Island had fitted out a largesailboat as a man-of-war, Governor Calvert fitted up two pinnaces, or small boats, and mounted a cannon in each.
Then the boat went puffing away up the river against the current at the rate of six miles an hour, and the friends on deck thought they were going very fast, as there were no railroads then and this was faster than a sailboat could go.
When George was seven years old the Washington house was burned down, and the family had to move about fifty miles in a sailboat to another estate named “Ferry Farm,” on the Rappahannock River.
It was about the last of January that I made a trip to Iligan, arriving in a Moro sailboat from another port on the north coast of Mindanao.
The last I saw of him was as he put out on a stormy sea in a frail Moro sailboat bound for Cagayan, which at that time was infested with ladrones.
He must make the trip in his sailboat to Beaufort, the nearest town along the coast.
He told me also that he had come in a small sailboat to carry me away from the shack, but had seen on approaching that his services were no longer needed, so had returned whence he came.
They gave their attention instead to a sailboat that was approaching.
I looked out toward the horizon and saw a sailboat dipping across the waves.
We're helping Dad and Mother do all the things that are important when a sailboat enters a harbor.
After the two boats had been hauled as close together as possible, a plank was shoved over the side of the sailboat and left with its outer end resting on the rounded deck of the submarine.
While Matt and Dick escorted their caller below, those on the sailboat hauled in the plank and stood off toward the shore.
As soon as Matt got his head out of the hatch he saw a small sailboat hove to alongside the submarine.
We'll have a ride in the sailboat and do all sorts of things.
Then Ptolemy and I rowed out to where the sailboat was.
As the sailboat drew down into plain view, exclamations of admiration were heard on all sides.
They then retraced their steps to the camp, talking animatedly about the great treat in store for them--the sailboat with the homely name.
The blotch neared the sailboat and was lost in the shadow that surrounded the larger craft.
Oh, it's just too glorious for anything," cried Margery, now awakened to the possibilities of having a sailboat of their very own.
Then the sailboat began moving slowly from the bay.
But it wasn't our fault this old sailboat upset," Penny returned reasonably.
It was sure bad luck for me when your sailboatcame floatin' down the river.
Nearly all of her business dealings had been with Burt Ottman, a pleasant young man who had painted her father's sailboat that spring.
Mr. Oaks helped my friend and me when our sailboat upset," she supported his story.
Just a straight version of how your sailboat upset and what you saw as it floated down toward the bridge.
Making their way along the mud flats, the girls came at last to the tiny stretch of sand where the sailboat had been beached the previous night.
The girl on the overturned sailboat was making frantic gestures and calling: "Hurry!
The two portages, Ennuyeux and Detour, were duly passed, and on the morning of October 3, as we travelled, a sailboat hove into sight.
They were the thoughts that were going rather indefinitely through Lawrence's mind one afternoon as he lounged in a little sailboatopposite the hamlet where he was spending the summer.
The next day the owner of the sailboat came to Lawrence and demanded to know what had become of it.
It looks a good deal worse to you fellows who were never out in a sailboat when it blew hard than it really is.
Who ever heard of such a thing as a sailboat running away from a steamer?
Probably the pilot did not consider that any thing of the kind was necessary, and that the steamer ought to overhaul the sailboat simply by outsailing her.
I have no sailboat of just her size, and she may be useful.
Two of his guests wanted a sailboatand a skipper for three days from Tuesday morning.
I have been out in a sailboat when it was as bad or worse than it is to-day.
Captain Gildrock was not a man to be trifled with, or one to be balked by a sailboat like the schooner.
They were ecstatic in their praises of the Goldwing, and did not believe there was a finer sailboat on the lake than she was.
This sailboat will do that, and other things too, and come spinning down again to take another message.
Besides, you have promised me a sailboatnext spring.
With the aid of a sailboat we can get across the lake easily.
Having made sure that the sailboat would return to her usual berth, the boys headed their air ship for the beach.
He was in an armor-plated room, and the sailboat was a small wooden vessel, and was hardly fitted with such a cabin as that to which the prisoner had been taken.
The sailboat was not putting out any lights, and the growing darkness rendered it impossible for Matt or Dick to see any one aboard her.
The Hawk followed the sailboat as far as the channel leading through the bar at the entrance to the Inlet.
While he spoke, he started for the edge of the wharf with the apparent intention of getting into the sailboatand making a search.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sailboat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: boat; galley; sail
