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Example sentences for "sheeted"

Lexicographically close words:
sheerly; sheers; shees; sheet; sheete; sheetes; sheeting; sheets; sheh; sheiks
  1. But now that the winter had sheeted the black ice evenly with a white cover, the seal holes, though open, could not be found.

  2. On each side there was a low ice-sheeted island, beyond the larger islands which Sverdrup had named Ellef Ringnes Land and Amund Ringnes Land.

  3. Lying on the sheeted deep, beneath my ears I heard the noise of the moving, grinding, crashing pack.

  4. No longer necessary to lift the feet, we dragged the ice-sheeted boots step after step over smooth young ice.

  5. Again we were drenched with spray, and the canoe was sheeted with ice above water.

  6. But now all was well sheeted with crusted snow.

  7. It was snow covered, ice-sheeted and desolate.

  8. Placing our tent, bags and camp equipment on a sled, we pushed it over the ice field, crossed a narrow lead sheeted with young ice, and moved on to another field which seemed to have much greater dimensions.

  9. These, during most months, are quickly sheeted with new ice.

  10. His path was the open, snow-sheeted channel of a little river, with the fir woods crowding down to its brink on either side.

  11. In the early morning he was amazed by the sight of a man crawling from under the heavy tarpaulin that sheeted one of the barges--a man so dazed and weak that he nearly fell into the sea.

  12. Yes, sir, but it'll be all sheeted up on deck.

  13. A sheeted spectre white and tall, The cold mist climbs the castle wall And lays its hand upon thy cheek.

  14. For, first, the sun now fell on it from high overhead, and its surface shone and undulated like a great nor'land moor country, sheeted with untrodden morning snow.

  15. Jim stuck his hands in his breeches and gazed stubbornly at the sheeted mound.

  16. Just then the rear of the cloud opened and cast out the moon, sheeted in the white mist that she had torn from it.

  17. The men were in a few seconds on deck, and the others, who had now sheeted home the topsails, hastened aft.

  18. The galliot was at that time just under steerage way, her topsail had been loosed and her jib hoisted, but the former had not been sheeted home, for the three men below could not, in the dark, find the ropes.

  19. We watched my father's hand for the word, and steadily sheeted home until all seemed to be going well.

  20. And my father cried to us that we had best follow her; and he put the helm over, while we sheeted home and stood by for the shock of grounding.

  21. The sails were loosened; but as they were about to be sheeted home, the cable parted.

  22. The topsails and courses, long furled, were let fall and sheeted home; staysails were hoisted, and with the screw thus aided, the ship again rushed rapidly through the water.

  23. As swift as the glance of the arrowy lance That the storm-spirit flings from high, The star-shot flew o'er the welkin blue, As it fell from the sheeted sky.

  24. When o'er the brink the tide is driven, As if the vast and sheeted sky In thunder fell from heaven.

  25. The sails were sheeted home, and the vessel began to move rapidly through the water.

  26. Then the capstan was manned, and the anchor slowly brought on board, and the sails being sheeted home, the craft began to steal through the water.

  27. In another instant he stood beside the sheeted form upon the slab.

  28. Round went the capstans, up came the anchors, the broad folds of white canvas were let fall from the yards and sheeted home, and in the course of a few minutes the whole fleet was under weigh and standing out to sea.

  29. A fire was kept up from the ships, however, all the time, while their anchors were weighed, and their topsails being sheeted home, they stood out of the harbour.

  30. This chamber changed for one more holy, This bed for one more melancholy, I pray to God that she may lie Forever with unopened eye, While the dim sheeted ghosts go by!

  31. Careening under startling blasts The sheeted towers of sails impend; While, gathering bale, behind is bred A livid storm-bow, like a rainbow dead.

  32. Four white-sheeted figures danced down the steps and paraded on the walk in front of the home lot, tooting horns and performing antics in a manner which no set of self-respecting ghosts ever dreamed of.

  33. Again came the stinging volleys on the sheeted figures.

  34. The topsails were let fall and sheeted home, and we once more glided forward.

  35. Suddenly her seamen swarmed on the yards, the topsails were let fall and sheeted home.

  36. All was sheeted home in a moment, and we stood in between the two line-of-battle ships, the Director and Inflexible.

  37. Jeffries, in mortal terror of the grim sheeted forms behind him.

  38. The boy's fist shot out and landed with a crash on the point of his jaw, but although Dayton reeled under the force of the blow he recovered instantly and charged furiously again on the sheeted form.

  39. Gradually, all the segments were worked forward, and, at the same time, the whole soft ground face was sheeted with timber.

  40. In this way all the soft material was excavated down to the rock surface, and the roof, sides, and face were sheeted with timber.

  41. When the British arrived within the stated distance a sheeted fire opened upon them from rifles, muskets, and fowling-pieces, all levelled with deadly aim.

  42. The men rushed forward with fixed bayonets, and attempted to force their way through, or scramble over the abatis, under a sheeted fire of swivels and musketry.

  43. A sheeted fire mowed them down, and drove them to take shelter behind the redoubt, near the ford, which the enemy had abandoned.

  44. Secret covenants arrived at by a sheeted brotherhood, veiled signs, orders written in blood and posted at midnight on the victim's door--by such means did the Klan substitute the masque for the ballot.

  45. Ku-Klux horsemen who rode white-sheeted through the south in the nights of 1866 regarded themselves as upholders of sectional patriotism.

  46. The darkness thinned; I saw a thing below Like sheeted corpse, a knot at head and feet.

  47. A film of sheeted silver gray Shuts in the ocean's hue; White-winged feluccas cleave their way In paths of gorgeous blue.

  48. No iron ship of yesterday ever attained the marvels of speed which the seamanship of men famous in their time had obtained from their wooden, copper-sheeted predecessors.


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