In the morning the twoschooners from windward sailed down upon us in the middle of the lagoon.
And thereafter the schooners hunted us up and down the lagoon.
A veer in the wind induced them to slack off sheets, and five minutes afterward a sudden veer from the opposite quarter caught all three schooners aback, and those on shore could see the boom-tackles being slacked away or cast off on the jump.
Then six of our men, whom we thought long dead, were put ashore from one of the schooners, and the schooners hoisted their sails and ran out through the passage for the Solomons.
The owners write off twenty per cent of the cost of their schooners each year.
Raoul he was, Alexandre Raoul, youngest son of Marie Raoul, the wealthy quarter-caste, who owned and managed half a dozen trading schooners similar to the Aorai.
But the next day, or in two days or three days, the schooners would be coming back, hunting us toward the other end of the lagoon.
The captains of three tradingschooners returned with him to Lord Howe.
At last the three schooners grew tired of chasing us back and forth.
We were twenty-five thousand on Oolong before the three schooners came.
With a favoring breeze cutters could win in through the tortuous and shallow channel, but the schooners lay off and on outside and sent in their small boats.
By and by, the schooners full of copra and beche-de-mer and our trees empty of cocoanuts, the three skippers and that mate called us all together for a big talk.
The schooners sailed up and down the lagoon, harrying and destroying.
After the schooners left, we were but three thousand, as you shall see.
The three men stepped outside in time to see the two schooners go hastily about and head off shore, dropping mainsails and flying jibs on the run in the teeth of the squall that heeled them far over on the whitened water.
We must not forget the fruit schoonersowned by Messrs.
The only vessels that got through to their port of destination in spite of the easterly gales were the fruit schoonersconveying cargoes of oranges from the Azores.
Schooners trained their guns on islands for pleasure or practice, and destroyed villages with all their inhabitants.
The supply being limited, often it is the first vessel on the spot after a harvest that is able to buy it, and captains of schooners guard their movements as an army its own during a campaign.
Men unloading cargo on the manyschooners dropped their burdens and began to dance.
The schooners had anchored just inside the inner bar, and all the necessary preparations having been made, and the tide serving, they again got under weigh.
The Venezuelan squadron consisted of a corvette, a brig, and three schooners of war.
She came up to the batteries on the morning of the 6th, with a strong wind and current against her, and the heavy schooners in tow.
The crews of the Monte Videan schoonerswere in a dreadful fright all the time, expecting to be sent to the bottom.
The two schooners again weighed and ran down to the Wolverine, lying off the Brass, ten miles distant.
I looked at the beautiful river and the schooners with their sails spread to the breeze.
Yes, the men in it don't seem to be gathering clams, which work all the other schooners are engaged in around here, and they're not net fishermen aboard her.
But it did not seem strange, as he went swiftly on with the river, to see the first houses of the town, and the lumber-yards, and the schooners at the wharf.
Merril can't do it with hisschooners or the big steamer.
He has been working up a notion of a coast shipping combine, one that's to be all Merril's, and he has two or three schooners and a big unhandy lump of a coal-eating steamer.
As you know, since Merril's schooners can't get here until there is a change of wind, I could strike you for double.
Merril had evidently sent two schooners up to the cannery, but the Tyee was some sixty miles astern of the Shasta, and it was clear that the skipper of the other vessel could no longer thrash her to windward in that weather.
As I struggled there, the great sloops and schooners rustling by with the ebb, and eclipsing an instant the June sunset, gave me a miserable impression of careless unfriendliness.
There's a fine tidy harbor in there, and we'd be findin' some schoonersanchored there now.
All that day the people came, and it was late that evening when the sick on the schooners had been cared for and the last of the visitors had departed.
All the fleets ofschooners cruisin' north and south go through Domino Run.
Under such conditions there were ailing people enough on the schoonerswho needed a doctor's care.
Not only were there large fishery stations at both Battle Harbor and Indian Harbor, but both were regular stopping places for the fishing schooners when going north and again on their homeward voyage.
They were acquainted with schooners and the coast, while the little launch Princess May was a new species of craft to them, and was manned by green hands.
In June, when the ice breaks away, the great Newfoundland fishing fleet of little schooners sails north to remain until the end of September catching cod, for here are the finest cod fishing grounds in the world.
Several schooners were lying at anchor within the harbor's shelter, and the strange new ship created a vast sensation as she hove to and dropped her anchor among them, and hoisted the blue flag of the Deep Sea Mission.
The order was given and after moments that seemed hours, down the long hill they rushed pell-mell, without lock or brake, the prairie schooners tossing like their namesakes on a stormy sea.
Past the last sign of civilization, the Mormon town of Kanesville, a mile or two east of the Missouri River, the prairie schooners were fairly out at sea.
Eleven dismasted schooners were moored in line across the river and secured by six heavy chains.
The ugly duckling of the Confederacy, in plain view of the whole Federal fleet and witnessed by French and English vessels, captured three schooners and carried them into port as prizes of war.
The batteries of Farragut's mortar schooners were hurling their eleven-inch shells with harmless inaccuracy.
Off the coast of Portugal we meet with many different kinds of craft, of which the trading schoonersdiffer from almost any other kind of vessel.
The best guide to the rapidity of the ship's progress was the way in which she passed fast-sailing schooners and overhauled the steamers.
When built very large they are intended for the deep ocean trade, and many schoonersapproach in size to full-rigged "ships.
Schooners sometimes carry a large square-sail, which is spread when the wind is "dead aft.
They proved Spanish vessels, four smallschooners and a sloop laden with fruit, principally oranges and shaddocks, and a quantity of yams and plantains.
The schooners had been sold off, but the skipper had their destinies at his fingers' ends as a man follows the fortunes of his children.
I looked them up in the sailing-lists and I proved beyond a shadow of doubt, from their dates of sailing and arrival at various ports, that not one of those eight schooners could have been the brigantine we passed off Ushant.
I rather understood that the schooners were noted boats.
This gentleman, when he received the news, found it in him to smile and drink three schooners without breathing.
His friends perceived in that smile and the absorption of the three schooners such a great and deep mystery, that they looked at each other, filled with faith and enthusiasm for their chief.
The "Defence" bore the brunt of the conflict, for the four schooners did not come to sufficiently close quarters to be of much assistance against the enemy.
The gunboats and their prizes were taken in tow by the schooners and brigs, and towed out of range of the enemy's shot.
After having thus eluded his pursuer, Jones skirted the coast of Cape Breton, and put into the harbor of Canso, where he found three British fishing schooners lying at anchor.
Broughton with two armed schooners belonging to the colony of Massachusetts.
Leaving theschooners to his two faithful consorts, Murray threw himself between the two larger vessels and the flying merchantmen.
About nightfall, she fell in with four American schooners that had just been having a tussle with two heavy British transports.
The lake was calm, with enough wind blowing to admit of manoeuvring, yet gentle enough to be of advantage to the schooners that made up the greater part of each fleet.
The ocean fairly swarmed with trim Yankee schooners and brigs, and in the two years that followed nearly eight hundred merchantmen were taken.
The four schooners had found the transports too powerful for them, and had therefore drawn off, but were eager to renew the fray with the help of the "Defence.
Had the fourschooners been manned by such brave men as those who defended the "Lottery," the assailants might have been beaten off.
But Perry's bold action in sending forward two schooners to engage the enemy seemed to alarm the too prudent commodore; and the British bore away, and were soon out of sight.
The "Icamiaba" calls here twice a month; besides which there are small schooners which occupy about five months in the round trip between Ega and Pará.
Five schooners were anchored in the harbor of Monte Alégre, a sign of considerable trade for the Amazon.
And the very first thing he could remember Was the rigging of the schooners by the quay.
There were rusty dusty schooners out of Sunderland, And ships of the Blue Cross line.
Topsham is now a little port, whose shipping trade is confined to small coasting schooners and fishing smacks.
I shall equip another lot of schooners as soon as possible, and send you out again," said Barry.
Their schooners were probably the first to enter, yet it was strange such a place had not been discovered before.
Barry Tuxford agreed to purchase the shares desired, and said when Jack and Harry were prepared to leave Captain Seagrave's hospitable ship, he would put them up until the schooners were ready to sail.
Here they remained three or four weeks, while the schooners were being fitted out, and learned what their duties would be.
These schooners are going north to some bay Jacob Rank discovered, and where he says there are many shells.
Amos Hooker, as he watched the schooners leave the bay, wondered what would be the result of the trip.
These blacks had travelled in various schooners and were accustomed to the sea, moreover they were expert divers.
When Barry went to Fremantle, to arrange for the return of the schooners to the bay, Jack wrote a reply to Winifred's letter.
The cargo was hauled on board, and the schooners were soon under weigh, Harry Marton remaining on the "Heron" for the night.
There are several things you can do for us if you will, and you shall be well paid, if not in cash in kind, and when you hear who has fixed out these schooners you'll know he is not the man to forget you.
It was evident the arrival of the two schooners had created some sensation amongst the dwellers in tents, for a small knot of men stood discussing them.
What I propose to do is to send two schooners to the place; you will be on one, Harry Marton on the other.
The best plan will be, however, to do the best we can with them, and not send one of the schooners to look for more.
About a month later the pearling schooners arrived at Fremantle, and Harry Marton reported a prosperous trip.
Three or four small schooners annually left the wharves for the St. George's and Labrador fisheries.
And there, on breezy morns, they saw The fishing-schooners outward run, Their low-bent sails in tack and flaw Turned white or dark to shade and sun.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "schooners" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
