These are what Starr King calls "the fleet of islands that ride at anchor on its bosom--from little shallops to grand three-deckers.
Sun kisses are warm, and the summers last But the shadows are calling us dim and vast So we set our sails like shallops at sea And drift away without rudder or mast To the dark that will last For eternity!
Whither away like shallops at sea With torn pink sails and never a mast Whither away so fast?
These shallops were used in opening a fur trade among the Indians on the Kennebec River that eventually discharged the indebtedness of the Pilgrims to the London adventurers.
The coasting trade led to the building of small shallops and sloops and the need for firewood in Boston and Charlestown brought about the building of sloops, broad of beam, intended especially for that trade.
Like the Pilgrim Fathers and their fishing shallops they had nowhere else to go.
The seafaring pioneers won their way from port to port of the tempestuous Atlantic coast in tiny ketches, sloops, and shallops when the voyage of five hundred miles from New England to Virginia was a prolonged and hazardous adventure.
He was in Europe while it was being built, and mamma persuaded the Shallops to give him carte blanche to buy all the beautiful things he could lay hands upon," Barbara explained.
League from the Cape, it is a Fishing Village, and a Bar Harbour, that will admit Fishing Shallops at a quarter Flood; to this Place and Fortune resort the Crews of Fishing Ships, who lay their Ships up in Harbour Briton.
He gave orders to three shallopswhich were moored in the river to go out and take on board the provisions and troops which were on board the galleon.
Pelsart perceived at the time the two shallops coming toward him, and had scarcely got on board his vessel before they came alongside.
He afterward sent twenty-two men in two shallops to destroy the company of Weybehays, but they met with a repulse.
As horsemen galloped along the roads and boatsmen in their shallops ascended the great rivers, the word was passed from mouth to mouth.
Some of the Burgesses had come on horseback from their James City or Charles City plantations, others by shallops from the Upper James, still others from the far-off Eastern Shore.
In a word, it was on their account they sent that little army of people to us loaden with provisions, which our men met before the two shallops came down.
In the first place, I took the two shallops and went across the mouth of the great river to the south shore, to see what kind of a country was to be found there.
I embarked into one of their shallops & had the wind favorable for us N.
But in all that I saw, I found no place more favorable than a little spot to which barques and shallops can easily ascend, with the help of a strong wind or by taking a winding course, in consequence of the strong current.
On the 2d of May, seeing two shallops equipped to go to the Falls, I embarked with the before-mentioned L'Ange in one of them.
Both parties then signed the articles of capitulation, and the English troops, conducted by Champlain, came in shallops near to the habitation.
After the Indians had cut off Captain Winslow and thirteen of his men in the River St. George, encouraged by this success, the enemy made a still greater attempt by water, and seized two shallopsat the Isles of Shoals.
Leaving their vessels in some good harbor, they manned their shallops with good men, well provided with lines a hundred and fifty fathoms in length, of the best and strongest hemp.
Here sailed the little shallops of the colonists as they explored and charted this unknown land.
He afterwards sent twenty-two men in two shallopsto destroy the company of Weybehays, but they met with a repulse.
Pelsart perceived at the same time the two shallops coming towards him, and had scarcely got on board his own vessel before they came alongside.
While they were talking the two shallops appeared; upon which the captain rowed to his ship as fast as he could, and was hardly got on board before they arrived at the ship's side.
Scarcely had the shallops gone to sea, than one of them--the Raleigh--deserted its companions and put back.
At last--seeing that they could not get away--the shallops were forced to turn about and retrace their passage.
I had much ado to prevent my comrades from avenging upon the crews of those baubling shallops the disappointment which they had occasioned to us.
Children of dark Thule, know, Those who dwell by haaf and voe, Where your daring shallops row, Come to share the festal show.
In this emergency, three shallops were filled with armed men, to sail for the protection of the chief magistrate, and ascertain the intentions of the French.
The alarm, which the appearance of the French at first excited, had gradually subsided; but still there were so many volunteers in the cause, that it was difficult to prevent the shallops from being overloaded.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shallops" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
