Andy Racer, paying no attention to his brother's well-meant advice, and then the two lads got into the swing of the oars, and the skiffs fairly leaped over the waves that rolled in long swells.
At ten in the morning, numerous skiffs left the shore and pulled alongside the lugger, boarding it on all sides simultaneously.
When all the members of the council were on board, Michael the Basque gave the skiffs orders to return ashore, and to come alongside again when they saw a large black and red flag hoisted at the mainmast of the lugger.
Our skiffs are small, it is true; but more than two hundred against sixty.
The Queen of the West went down the Mississippi, destroying skiffs and flatboats whenever found, as far as the Red River, which was reached on the morning of the 12th.
Meanwhile, for the surprise of Brashear, Mouton had collected thirty-seven skiffs and boats of all sorts near the mouth of the Teche, and manned them with 325 volunteers, under the lead of Major Sherod Hunter.
Still, I had great confidence in the native boatmen, whose skill in their skiffs is quite as great as their dexterity when naked in the water.
The busy skiffs are hurried to and fro incessantly till the cargo is entirely ashore, when the secured gang, led by the captain, and escorted by armed sailors, is rapidly marched to the nearest plantation.
The negroes almost perished from thirst, but the daring example was successfully followed during the succeeding year, byskiffs of similar dimensions.
The weather was balmy, soft and warm, and the little skiffs with their gay flags did a large trade on the river.
If these were picked up without comment, you might notice that now a dozen otherskiffs had been drifting down upon us without saying anything.
There were a great many skiffs rowing about or floating with the stream in the neighborhood of the ferryboat, but the boys could not determine what the men in them were doing.
As twilight drew on, the ferryboat went back to her accustomed business and the skiffs disappeared.
It all seemed perilous in the extreme, and at one time Jim Hughes hurriedly went below and brought up his carpet-bag, which he deposited in one of the skiffs that lay on deck.
They were to sell the skiffs at New Orleans or above, and to have a part of the proceeds as commission.
Phil quickly manned theskiffs and instituted an inspection.
Even when tied up to the trees or anchored in the snuggest cove to be found, it was sometimes necessary to jump into skiffs and "fend off" great threatening masses of drift.
Two of their skiffs had been carried away, and it would have been certain death to make even an effort to launch any of the others.
Lest the desperadoes on shore should follow in skiffs or otherwise, Phil ordered the boys to the sweeps again, and kept them there until they had driven the boat well over toward the opposite shore.
Then Phil threw himself down on the deck and closed his eyes as if in sleep, and the boys in the skiffs came back on board.
Rosen, and amid the exclamations of the children the two skiffs met in mid ocean, while a gentle pressure from Faith's hand gave an affirmative answer to the bold question of the youth.
At that moment the water became slightly agitated, and both skiffs left their stations at the side for the open sea.
The skiffs were now made ready; many a knight stood there.
I guess they were stuff some men had gone out in skiffs to catch as they floated by, before the river got so rampageous.
So if they catch you in theirskiffs they bat you a good one.
Any one may see that this lake was made for skiffs and fishing; it has a length, breadth, and depth suited to such purposes.
When it happened that the two skiffs came alongside he called out to Elmer, as if to settle some point he had in mind.
They made their way along for some distance until near the place where the three flat-bottomed skiffs were kept tied up.
What about the skiffs then, if we abandon the same?
Johnny was already showing them how to pull the skiffs in by means of a rope attached to each.
After all it was nothing to speak of, for the two skiffs were easily handled, and nicely concealed from view.
They had several flat-bottomed skiffs that were used for that purpose, usually by the boy in his fur-hunting expeditions during the fall and winter seasons.
I tell yuh, Elmer, I handled three skiffs yist'day--seen as they was tied securely.
The skiffs for the most part kept fairly close to the shore, skirting the strong current of the channel, avoiding, too, the large steamboats, whose passage ever jeopardized the small craft which crossed in their wake.
Punts worked with canoe paddles are perhaps the most popular, but skiffsand frail Canadian canoes, as well as the solid hired craft of the boat builders may be seen.
If the skiffs which were expected from Pittsburgh were there they would be of vast assistance in reaching the ruins, which are separated by the stream of water descending from the hills.
These poor unfortunates did not know the reservoir would burst, and there are no skiffs in Johnstown to escape in.
Stony Creek first showed their white faces and lifeless bodies floating on the surface, and men in skiffswent after them with their grappling rods.
Music floats from club lawns; every reach from Richmond up to Wargrave is joyous with the laughter from skiffs and punts and launches.
Securing the paddles, he put them into the skiffs and watched for his companions.
Then, it was easy to pursue them along a pathway that led to a graveled beach where a dozen or more skiffs had been drawn up and tied to stakes for the winter.
The Buduma islanders of Lake Chad use clumsy skiffs eighteen feet long, made of hollow reeds tied into bundles and then lashed together in a way to form a slight cavity on top.
It recalls the "bull-skin boat" used in pioneer days on the rivers of our western plains, and the skiffs serving as passenger ferries to-day on the rivers of eastern Tibet.
Yffim Beg hastened to announce the prohibition, and when the skiffshad departed one by one from the ship, he got into the general's curtained gondola and had himself rowed over to the ship of Haji Baba.
Presently the skiffs disappeared among the trees on the river bank, the last hideous cry died away, and from the rose-groves of the castle came a romantic song which resounded over the Danube through the silent night.
During the night I saw some skiffs row out towards the island, and I heard the sound of stifled shrieks.
With an intent that was really subconscious, she rowed one of the light skiffs in the direction of his island.
One of the skiffs is gone, sir--the new one," he said.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skiffs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
