Mr. Smales cried "Murder," at perceiving the imminent danger in which his friend was placed, and exerted himself to save him by throwing to him two of the sculls in his boat.
The twentieth, by the ship's side, we there killed penguins, and saw manysculls of fish.
Here we saw sculls of herring, mackerel, and other small fish, in great abundance.
He did not "grasp his sculls with the precision of a machine, and row with a grand long sweep which made the boat spring under his arms like a thing of life"--I quote from an author whose name I have forgotten.
Bevis agreed, and they pushed the boat along with the sculls a few yards up the Nile which was quite smooth there, while at the mouth the quick wavelets dashed against the shore.
So soon as they had got an offing the sculls were shipped, and the sails hoisted, but before they could get them to work they were blown back within thirty yards of the cliff.
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.
They carried the things up in the flag-basket, and, before filling the box, took care to look round and behind the shed where the sculls were kept, lest any one should be spying.
Fetching the sculls from the tumbling shed where they were kept, he pushed off in the blue boat which they were fitting up for sailing, never dreaming that the first voyage in it would be like this.
And rowed off at once with so charming an air, And feathered her sculls with such neatness and care-- This Water-Girl was so delightfully fair!
The four Chinks bent to their sculls with the utmost exertion, and after an hour we reached our destination, which lay many miles downstream on the opposite shore!
I pushed my boat under it, took both sculls with me as a precautionary measure, and hid them in the long grass.
Fellows that han't sense to value a Civil Employment are necessary to front an Army, whose thick Sculls may repulse the first Fury of the Enemy's Cannon Bullets.
Though the Metropolis[71] of humidity seems least disposed unto it, which might render the sculls of these Urnes less burned then other bones.
Dantes[78] Characters are to be found insculls as well as faces.
With all my heart,' said I, taking up my sculls with alacrity.
A good, stout, broad-bottomed little fishing boat lay beached on the shingle, with its scullslying in it.
Both sculls and oars consist of the same parts, except that the handle of the oar is made long enough for both hands, as at (b).
Consequently the boats were rather long, and rather low in the water; the sculls were fixed on pins, so that you could drop them when you got a bite, or landed hastily to take the hair-rope at your end of the net in drawing up.
In netting, there were always two partners, and so two thwarts and two pairs of sculls were used; in trolling, one went out alone, but there were rods and lines which needed space for convenient stowage.
Away flies the punt to the left, and he is just about to bend to the sculls with the force of Goliath, when he perceives his mistake--the divergence was to the left!
The sculls bend like wands, the rowlocks creak, the thole-pins crack.
Between them is a circular table, on which are eight sculls of a Pope, Emperor, Cardinal, &c.
The present edition has also an additional engraving at the end, representing a gate, within which are seen several sculls and bones, other sculls in a niche, and in the distance a cemetery with coffins and crosses.
Further on, within the gate, is a flat stone, on which are several sculls and bones, a snake biting one of the sculls.
I clambered in over the stern, caught up the sculls which lay across the thwarts, and, dripping but triumphant, brought my captive back to shore.
But she didn't move, and d'Alcacer, too, remained seated on the thwart with the blades of his sculls raised as if ready to drop them and back the dinghy out into deep water at the first sign.
At every stroke of the short sculls Mrs. Travers felt the boat leap forward with her.
When she entered the boat he had the sculls ready and directly she sat down he shoved off.
In her he was independent of a crew, and, if the wind failed, could make his way with a pair of sculls taking short cuts over shoal places.
Lingard laid in his sculls and she saw herself gliding under the high side of the brig.
All our strength and the leverage of the sculls could scarcely move her, so much had she settled.
The low thud-thud of sculls in the rowlocks of a distant punt travels up the water.
The distant sculls have ceased to work in the rowlocks--those in the punt are listening to the echoes; most likely they have been fishing for tench in the deep holes under the black shadow of the aspens.
Then she grasped the sculls again, with a sigh of pain: "Come on!
She got into the boat, loosened the heavy rattling chain and flung it in board, took up the sculls and began to pull.
There was a boat moored under an aspen, a great clumsy boat, but it had sculls in it.
Betty pulled two strong strokes, driving the boat's nose straight for the nearest island, shipped the sculls with a jerk, stumbled forward and caught at an alder stump.
A little further off is the burial ground where they laid their slain, and where even in our own time the spade of the gardener has struck upon many sculls and thighbones at a short distance beneath the turf and flowers.
Heads were found cloven down to the throat, and scullsstruck clean off just above the ears.
Everything was so peaceful, so quiet, the ripple of the sculls alone breaking the stillness.
High piles of hands, shin bones, and sculls are placed separately in the different corners of these chambers, which the monks are with difficulty persuaded to open to strangers.
The man obeyed; but he had to breast a strong stream, and had a lazy bark and heavy sculls to contend with.
The girls got into their boats first, taking their station a hundred yards ahead of the three sculls to be pulled by the men.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sculls" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
