Tis the spires of Juggernaut pagoda on one side; and as the brisk morning breeze drives the water into short surges, till the schooner rises the ship upon the other, all of a sudden she looms square and white upon our starboard bow.
The schooner rose from one heave to another to an even keel on the smooth length of it, hoisting her spanking gaffs, hauling aft the sheets, and slipping ahead once more to a breeze fed by the rain.
Do you mean me to tell you all that happened in that time, about the Frenchman, and what befell the schooner in the China seas?
There was one full hurrah from the seamen in the bows, and they ran of themselves naturally enough to the ropes, standing by to haul the schooner on a wind--to head up for the old salt sea, no doubt.
For our parts, we had to amuse ourselves the best way we could, waiting for the schooner to come down again for us, which was the only thing I looked for now.
Footnote: In the winter of 1876, centennial year, a schooner laden with salt somehow ran on to the southerly reef of White Island and lost its rudder.
And they explained to me bould Mickey that the crew was gone twenty miles up the coast to rescue the men on a steam schooner that was wrecked off the Siletz, word of it having come down but two hours since.
Me father and all the bhoys' fathers are gone up north to rescue the crew of a steam schooner that's wrecked.
Captain Tyler took his gas schooner down the coast yesterday.
The impact was not dead on--it was a glancing blow that the schooner received, and it only carried away the weather main rigging and the davit on the stern.
As we made our way over it, lighted by the moon, which had just risen, I could see our schooner in the distance, standing in for the bay, and another vessel farther off.
The schooner sailed on, and in a few minutes we were gliding calmly up the Saint John River, here a mile broad.
At length the tossing and tumbling to which the old schooner was exposed began to tell on her hull, the seams opening and letting in the water at an unpleasant rate.
The schoonerwas hove-to, and two blacks stepping in to pull, we wished the skipper farewell, and shoved off.
We had nearly reached a mangrove island, called Sanibel, when a squall from the eastward struck the schooner and almost laid her over on her beam-ends.
Knowing how welcome it would be on board, and hoping the schooner had not sailed, we despatched Bill to request the captain to send for it.
On leaving the schooner we kept close to the bank, so that we might approach the deer without being observed.
As our distance from the schooner could not be great, I hoped those on board had heard the firing, and, guessing that we were attacked, would come to our rescue.
The thunder roared, the lightning flashed, and the wind blew with a force which threatened to drive the schooneron the tree-fringed shore.
The schooner having discharged her cargo, we again sailed, steering our course for the mouth of the Saint John River, twenty miles off.
The generally calm surface of the river was broken into foaming seas, which dashed up over us, while the schooner heeled over to the blast.
I'll send the boat on shore, gentlemen, with you and your traps, and will heave the schooner to until she returns.
Early the next morning a King's schoonerwas sighted.
The King's schooner arrived at Passmaquaddy in due time, and Paul took his departure for his native woods.
He sent word hack by the captain of the schooner to Margaret Godfrey that he would watch for her spirit some evening when he sat by his mother's grave.
The King's schooner was soon to sail for Passmaquaddy.
The vessels put into several harbours; and the night before they arrived at Halifax Captain Spry's schooner was lost sight of in a thick fog.
The King's schooner came to an anchor about the same time--a league distant.
Mrs. Godfrey, true to the promise she had made to Paul on board the King's schooner in Halifax harbour, never revealed to her husband the Indian's feelings of regard toward her.
Captain Godfrey, his wife and children went on board the schooner to bid Paul farewell.
The Captain of theschooner said that his vessel would sail for Port Royal, if there were sufficient wind, early the next day.
The other schooner is also a yacht: she belongs in Montréal.
I expect that is a schooner uncle is expecting, and she will come here, Mr. Wherren.
It was not long before a coasting schooner was beating off the mouth of the harbor, saying plainly by her actions that she wished to make port as soon as possible.
A schooner often carry a royal," returned the black, resolute to acquiesce in all the other said.
The crew of the schoonerare meanwhile to be kept prisoners on the prison-ship.
Just as this was completed, the Government schooner arrived from Port Jackson, and King sent ten ringleaders of the mutiny to Sydney for trial, pardoning ten others.
MacArthur partly owned a schooner which was employed trading to Tahiti; in this vessel a convict had stowed away, and the master of the vessel had left him at the island.
One o' the best-looking men I ever knew was Cap'n Bill Smithers, wot used to come up here once a week with a schooner called the Wild Rose.
And there was that silly cook standing about on the schooner on tip-toe and twisting his silly old neck till I wonder it didn't twist off.
She used to come up to this wharf once a week in a schooner called the Belle.
He tried to make it stand up, and failing in this, went on alone towards the moonlight; and came to the sea and saw a schooner lying there at anchor.
As soon as the schooner came to anchor, three of the four boats were hauled in, and lowered to the deck, where they were turned over to be painted.
The second cutter would therefore be her first victim; and Perth hoped that, by the time she had picked up the other three boats, his own would be in shoal water, where a schooner of her tonnage could not come.
The wind was more to the eastward than when the schooner left Brest, which still kept it fair.
The pirate had also hoisted sail, but lay as though waiting for the approach of the schooner and the sloop.
The very schooner that met him at Jamestown—how familiar it was!
He afterward found that the stranger was a Captain Hotchkiss, master of a schoonerbound for the port of Philadelphia.
The few pirates who had been left aboard of the schooner had jumped overboard and were now holding up their hands.
He’s no more right to come blustering down here into Governor Eden’s province than I have to come aboard of yourschooner here, Tom Burley, and to carry off two or three kegs of this prime Hollands for my own drinking.
Jack could see that the schooner carried as a cargo three or four hogsheads of tobacco and a great load of lumber.
The schooner left Norfolk that morning, but the breeze was very light, and it was not until the following day that they reached Marlborough.
The schoonerwas now some three quarters of a mile away.
Mr. Maynard at once sent word ashore to Colonel Parker, and then had himself rowed aboard the schooner on which the young lady was.
It was about ten o’clock that Sunday morning, when the lookout in the foretop of the schooner sighted an open boat under a scrap of sail, beating up into the bay against the wind.
Then he called out across the water, “I’ll come aboard with myschooner as soon as I can push her off here.
The lieutenant looked down into the water over the stern, and saw that the schooner was already raising the mud in her wake.
It was about noon when anchor was hoisted, and, with the schooner leading, both vessels ran slowly in before a light wind that had begun to blow toward midday.
Lieutenant Maynard’s force consisted of thirty-five men in the schooner and twenty-five men in the sloop.
Being uncommonly shrewd he learned something about a captain of a schooner from Boston, and determined to approach him with regard to securing a passage.
He was quite a genius of his age, who had escaped from Norfolk, stowed away in a schooner and was known by the name of "Dick Page.
They are within sight of the lock, but no human beings are visible about the schooner save the Captain, the mate and a small boy, the son of the Captain.
Before a great while the captain of a schooner turned up, from Wilmington, Delaware.
Through one of the Underground Rail Road Agents the glad tidings were borne to him that a passage might be procured on a schooner for twenty-five dollars.
At the appointed time, the passengers were at the disposal of the captain of the schoonerwhich was to bring them out of Slavery into freedom.
On approaching the bank, in the direction of the discovered mast, the schooner was also discovered.
Cunnagan, had hired him out in Washington, where he was accused of being in the schooner Pearl, with Capt.
Availing himself of a passage on the schooner of Captain B.
There he hired on board the schooner Thomas and Edward (oyster boat), of Baltimore.
The moon was shining and soon the mast of a schooner was discovered.
The name of the captain and schooner being at once recognized, the first impulse was to jump down on the deck.
If he falls off the deck of that wrecked schooner and hits his head against a rock as the sea washes him about, who is going to connect us with the accident?
She never before had felt anything like this strange impression that the schooner was more than just a plain ordinary boat cast up on a narrow strip of beach.
At such times she wondered about what had happened on the schooner cast up on the shore, lying on its side almost at her very feet.
As though Mr. Seymour had read her mind he asked Jo, “Where did that schoonercome from?
If we had been with you on the schoonerprobably we should be feeling exactly as you do about her.
Just think of having a cottage with a wrecked schooner right in the front yard.
I think that we are late for supper already,” and from the tones of his voice Ann could tell that Ben had been as anxious as she for some word that would take them over the side of the schooner without having seemed to hurry away.
Well, you may be sure I will do all I can to serve and save you,” continued Scott, taking the hand of his friend, as the movements on deck indicated that the schooner was ready to anchor.
Two of them had been transferred to the Tritonia from the Prince at Genoa, and the other two had been in the schoonerbut two months.
You belong in the cage,” said Marline, walking up to the two conspirators, as soon as the schooner began to gather headway.
A few minutes afterwards, the schooner started before the wind, under all the canvas she could carry, and entered the channel.
From that moment the schooner was steered to the westward in order to round Cape Reykjanes, the western point of Iceland.
And here the schoonerbegan to feel in earnest the breezes of the Kattegat.
Towards evening the schooner doubled Cape Skagen, the northernmost part of Denmark, crossed the Skagerrak during the night--skirted the extreme point of Norway through the gut of Cape Lindesnes, and then reached the Northern Seas.
A ladder went down to her, for she was no more than a schooner of a little over one hundred tons.
How did that white schooner get into such an enclosure?
Smith's, we embarked on the steam-schooner Annie Laurie, and soon after seven, took our farewell look at the island of Kauai.
By this time, the schooner had luffed up into the wind, and Tom directed his companions to pull again.
Captain Somers, the head of the family, had been, and was still, for aught his wife and children knew, master of the schooner Gazelle.
The schooner was put about, and after running with the wind amidships for ten or fifteen minutes, Tom discovered the outline of Mrs. Budd's house, which was directly under the guns of the Union battery.
The little schoonerwhich the picket guard had captured was loaded with valuable supplies for the rebels, which of course were confiscated without ceremony.
The schooner was running with the wind on her starboard quarter when we boarded her.
The foresail came down, and Tom sprang upon the pier, as the schooner came up under its lee.
Dan asked, and straightened his back at the bench as he turned the schooner end-for-end in the vice to get at her counter.
Ra-ather,' said Dan, unclamping the schoonerfrom the vice.
To their great relief, though, the young sailor came on deck to declare the schooner dry as a bone; and now to hide his own self-reproach, Mark turned to the men for an explanation.
The crew of the Nautilus sent up a tremendous cheer as the great spar came down with its gaff sail, leaving the schooner for the time like a bird with a broken wing.
He ate and drank mechanically, but made not the slightest sign when spoken to, and for his sake Mark kept every stitch of sail on that the schooner could bear, so as to reach medical assistance as soon as possible.
If he cannot, the slaves must be brought on board, and the schooner burned.
I can pick out half-a-dozen blacks from the other schooner who will help the man forward to keep pretty good watch over your crew, and who will not be over particular if there are any tricks.
Then a hawser was made fast and sail set, the first schooner towing the second fairly well, and some knots were sailed toward the north before the position of the sun suggested to Mark that an anxious time was coming.
How could I go plunging round-shot into the miserable schoonerand kill no end of niggers?
Now, if we'd been awake, some of us might have got out and took the schooner again.
The captain has either took theschooner or give it up; and then, as he was coming back to pick us up, he's been and got becalmed.
But no heed was taken, and the schooner kept along close in shore till her captain saw that escape was impossible in the direction he was taking, and altering his helm, the swift vessel glided round and made off in the opposite direction.
Entering the Mbokwe branch we were compelled to use sweeps, or the schooner would have been dashed against the sides; as we learned by the trees, the tides raise the surface two to three feet high.
She was a fore-and-aft schooner of twenty tons, measuring 42 feet 6 inches over all and put up at Bonny Town by Captain Birkett.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "schooner" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cup; drink; galleon; goblet; junk; mug; vessel; yacht
