If you can find a scowor flatboat already built, of suitable dimensions and which is sufficiently tight, or can be made so by caulking, you have only to proceed to build the house upon it.
This makes an excellent foundation on which to build a house, and has some advantages over a boat for a stationary arrangement, but is obviously not as well suited for moving around as a scow or flatboat.
The pretence of trying to sell that scow in Havana is only the baldest kind of a bluff.
This they did, and found that the pocket of the dumping scow was amply large to hold the Mermaid, at the same time allowing her free egress and exit.
In that way we could carry her right into Havana harbour, and there offer the scow for sale to the Spaniards as a blind.
They lapsed into silence after that, and there was no more said until after they had arrived at the bank where the scow was to be left.
They entered the scow without more words, and Handsome poled it away from the shore, and along the waterway through the almost impenetrable darkness--but there was never a word said about the use of the blindfold.
The truth was that though Gravity was the owner of a scow which he had partly hidden at the time he saw the possibility of its need, he was afraid it had been taken by others of the fugitives that had stumbled upon it.
When they observed how deep the scow sank in the water, naturally enough their fears were withdrawn from the great calamity, and centered upon the one of drowning.
She, therefore, held her peace, and watched the young lady, who applied the pole with a vigor hardly second to that of Gravity in his efforts of another kind to force the scow through the water.
Almost the first person whom he recognized was the middle-aged friend, who told him about the escape of the Brainerd family in the scow that Maggie and the servant had propelled across the Susquehanna.
The Susquehanna is generally quite shallow along shore, and it was necessary to push the scow several yards before the water was found deep enough to float it with its load.
The scow containing the three fugitives was nearing the eastern shore of the Susquehanna, when the negro servant, Gravity Gimp, stopped, checking the craft by grasping the stern.
Had thescow been near where the main stream of fugitives were rushing into the river and striving to reach the opposite bank, the boat would not have kept afloat for a minute.
Aunt Peggy and Eva were deposited beside her, by which time the scow was sunk within a few inches of the gunwales: had the African followed them, it would have been swamped.
Here the semicivilized Indians and traders had a single rude ferryboat, a scow operated in part by setting poles, in part by the power of the stream against a cable.
A half dozen civilized Indians of the Kaws, owners or operators of the ferry, sat in a stolid line across the head of the scow at its landing stage, looking neither to the right nor the left and awaiting the white men's pleasure.
After a somewhat cautious inspection, Themar was hoisted aboard the scowand harnessed discreetly with ropes.
The towline led to a grimy scow which loomed out of the misty stillness like a heavier drift of the dawn itself.
Jem" jerked sharply at the tiller and presently the scow scraped the shore.
Provision was not made for tying up to the dock a heavily loaded brick scow and allowing it to remain there through rough weather.
Stiffy and Mahooley ferried them across team by team in the scow they kept for the purpose.
Surely this was enough to make anyone turn back; a heavy shute of broken water down which no scow could ever run without being smashed to pieces; even Pat now acknowledged that he was hopelessly lost.
Canvas-Cabined House-Boat If you take an ordinary open scow and erect a frame of uprights and cross-pieces, and cover it with canvas, you will have just such a boat as the one seen in central New York.
To Transform an Ordinary Skiff orScow Into a Sailing-Boat [Illustration: Fig.
Pulling manfully at the oars the captives sent the scowthrough the water at a good rate of speed, rapidly shortening the distance between themselves and the town.
Into this scow he put the boys and then seated himself, rifle in hand.
Arrived at the leaning oak he compelled the lads to untie both boats, towing the small skiff that had been brought by Harry and Arnold behind the big scow rowed by their friends.
Youall come with me while I fix these young rascals and then I want you to come back here and take that shipyard man's scow back to him and take that skiff back to the shipyard, too.
So hard had the scow rammed the other craft that the two were held together by a mass of splintered wood, the front of the ferryboat breaking a hole in the side of the house-boat and sticking there.
At a few quick orders from Jones and the Don, the Mexicans and the ferry captain's crew backed the scow away from the house-boat.
Some of the seamen soon ascended the cliff by a small ravine near at hand; and the work of throwing down the wood to the beach, pitching it to the water's edge, and piling it into the scow was at once commenced.
An east wind springing up gave them a chance to profit by a wagon-cover rigged as a sail, and two hours later the scow was safely landed at West Side, where was a country store, and the head of the wagon road to the Schroon River.
They boarded the scow to ply the poles till the deep water was reached, then the oars.
A settler named Hulett had a scow that was borrowed by the neighbours whenever needed to take a team across the lake.
The boy took the skiff in to a dilapidated boat-wharf at the foot of Castro street, where the scow schooners, laden with sand and gravel, lay hauled to the shore in a long row.
The bottle was not entirely absent in these scow fraternities, but I saw no one the worse for liquor on the trip.
And, taking the painter from Frank's hand, he drew the scow out of the water, high upon the bank.
I want to get this scow up to my shop; but I'm afraid it is a little too heavy for me to manage.
Not you the cod I twigged[A] navigating that scow up the creek?
He then untied the painter--a long rope by which the scow was fastened to the wharf--and drew the scow down to the place where he had left the wheelbarrow.
The load was heavy, but Mike was a sturdy fellow, and the scow was soon at the door of the shop.
The oncoming tug was barely twice its length from the scow when Boyd saw Big George cease his violent antics and level a revolver directly at the wheel-house of the opposing craft.
They were strewn in a great mass upon the dock and inside the shed, while from the scow beneath they came in showers as the handlers tossed them upward from their pues.
They stand upon a bank if there be one, in order not to be run over in the dark; while the scow shows by the reflection of the light at her bow where the river is.
The land that used to be part of your field seems to be on a scow or something or other and we're on the land that's on the scow.
The letter which Townsend Ripley wrote to the dredging company asking permission to use the old scow surmounted by a luxurious desert island was very funny, but it was not nearly as funny as the hunter's stew which Pee-wee made.
Gee whiz, we're going to stay right here because we're on a public waterway and anyway you don't own the scow that this land is on, do you?
It simply happens to trespass on the scow first," said Townsend.
Do you own this old scow or whatever it is underneath us?
We take possession of this scow in the name of the new Alligator Patrol or maybe it'll be the Turtles, we don't know yet.
But suppose the owner of the scow wants his property," Townsend said.
The river was too tame and narrow, and the island altogether too secure upon its vast scow to introduce the smallest element of peril into his exploit.
Here is a piece of land belonging to old Trimmer on a scow or something or other belonging to a dredging company or somebody or other and claimed by the boy scouts by right of discovery.
I looked at Bab Azzoun; he was standing at the gunwale of the scow (somehow we were back on the scow again) with an unloaded pistol in his hand.
He passed me at a bound, leaped from the scow upon the back of a riderless horse, and, mingling with the Kabyles, rode out of sight.
But climb down into the scow and I'll take you over.
But since either he or Chip must remain in camp, Davy set out alone, pretty gloomily, pulling the heavy scow with what speed he could.
It was the scow MacLester had used and it was empty.
With a keen sense of duty and resolute determination to overcome every thought of fear, however, he ran the scow against the steep bank of the lake's far shore.
The only one that lay loose, and at liberty, was an old leaky scow which was so unfit that no one thought of using it.
They couldn't help believing that the old scow had gone down, and that the little one lay dead on the lake-bottom.
At first he couldn't make out what it was that shone so brightly out here on the lake; but he soon saw that a scow with a big burning torch stuck up on a spike, aft, lay near the edge of the reeds.
When the old scow was rocked like this--out to sea--its Cracks opened wider and wider, and the water actually streamed into it.
And then came the thought that the old, leaky scow was no longer on the strand.
And just the very moment that Per Ola set foot on land, the scow was filled with water, and sank to the bottom.
The Bachelor's Button that wanted to be a sunflower: thescow that wanted to be a schooner.
The scow "Eliza Rodgers" was waiting for us at anchor among the captain's flats.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scow" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: boat; canoe; cruiser; ferry
