And now she gave a wild cry as she saw the sloop bearing down upon her.
But, to her amazement the sloop was heading for the bar, sailing away from her fast!
I'm going out in the sloopafter breakfast," said Dolly.
Dolly had brought them up cleverly beside the skiff, and, once the anchor was dropped and everything on board the swift little sloop had been made snug for the night, they dropped over into the skiff and rowed to the beach.
So six months after Sydney Belton joined the sloop Ariel, and this time saw active, service in the eastern seas.
Uncle Tom always said that a boy should commence life either in a sloop of war or a smart frigate," said Syd, sharply.
Catboat and sloop tacking out on pleasure bent, tramp steamer ploughing heavily up the coast,--one after another, we came alongside and asked the same questions.
I knew he’d think he ought to go; so as soon as I reached Folkestone I had a little yacht built, a sloop with an auxiliary motor, which hasn’t a nail in her.
One day Mont and Carl obtained permission to hire a sloop at the town, and go out for an all-day cruise over the bay and back.
It took the sloop but a moment to run up alongside of the pair.
There was one grinding, smashing crash, and then came a shock that split the light-built sloop from stem to stern.
On the night of the 22d, we fell in with the Kangaroo sloop of war, which was bound to the coast of Africa, with a few vessels under convoy.
He described himself as a Portugueze sailor, a European by birth, and as having belonged to the Portugueze sloop of war, called the Andorinha, which was wrecked upon the coast between Parà and Maranham.
It would have gone overboard from the sloop if I hadn't saved it; and it won't do for so careless a man as you are to accuse anybody of stealing your money," added Lawry angrily.
The sloop did not usually make more than four or five miles an hour, being deeply laden with lumber, which was piled up so high on the deck that the mainsail had to be reefed, to make room for it.
Off Mauritius we were chased more than once by a sloop of war, and it would have gone hard with us if we had been captured.
So much she knew, but nothing besides, and it was with as much curiosity as myself that she saw the Sunderbunds drawing near, and our sloop anchoring off Falta to wait for a pilot up the river.
A week later the Admiral carried his fleet back to Bombay; but I had got my discharge, and was with Marian on board the sloop Thetis, of twenty-six guns, bound for the river Hooghley with despatches.
Jim then recognised that the sloop was doomed, and that it would be of no use for him to strive to regain her.
But each of these shells weighed as much as 300 pounds; and whenever they hit the unfortunate sloop at which they were aimed, the effect was terrible.
She was nearly past--only a few yards more and she would be in safety--but her wretched engines chose just that precise moment to break down, and the sloop at once lost her way.
He accordingly steamed for the Esmeralda at a speed of about eight knots, steering north-east, while the sloop was steering due north but was only just moving through the water.
Then came the corvettes O'Higgins and Chacabuco; and, lastly, the sloop Esmeralda.
Captain Hazard of the Providence, a sloop of war of fourteen guns and 103 men, was dismissed from the service, and Jones was put in command of the ship.
A barren descent was made on New Providence Island, and later the fleet was engaged with the British sloop of war Glasgow, which, in spite of the odds against her, seems to have had the best of the encounter.
While proceeding in this little sloop to L'Orient, for the purpose of fitting her out, he met the great French fleet and demanded and obtained the first salute ever given the United States flag by the war vessels of a foreign power.
The voyage was uneventful, with the exception of a night battle with a British privateer sloop of inferior force.
The night that followed was one of darkness and horror; the sloop caught fire and all on board perished.
It happened that he arrived at the wharf just as the sloop had got beyond the possibility of reaching her, and he turned away bitterly disappointed.
Thereupon a commander of the Navy, in charge of the sloop of war Cyane, was ordered to repeat the demands and to insist upon a compliance therewith.
It is thought that Jim Huntington's sloop must have split its seams open in a heavy squall, Li.
He saw the yawl set a course toward Ka Lae, leaving the sunken sloop abandoned.
Got caught in a terrific storm, and his sloop sank.
Huntington's sloop is on the bottom of the ocean somewhere in this area.
The possibility that the stoneware in the sloop Thomas and Tryal had been made by Rogers is highly conjectural, since European imports often were redistributed and transshipped in American ports.
And, although we have no assurance that the earthenware was made at the Rogers pottery, we learn from the Gazette that two days prior to this the sloop Nancy had sailed from Yorktown for Maryland, bearing a "Parcel of Earthenware.
Sloop Thomas and Tryal, of North Carolina, John Nelson, for North Carolina .
At some point he went into partnership with a Captain Charles Seabrook in a mercantile venture that involved ownership of the ocean sloop Judith and two "country cutters" named York and Eltham.
The first number was written by Hamilton in the cabin of a sloop on the Hudson, in October, 1787; and they continued to appear, sometimes as often as three or four in a week, through the winter and spring.
On the 26th, a sloop laden with rice was sent out from this place in order to land her cargo at Macassar; but after having attempted it three days she was forced to return.
We saw a sloop at anchor about four miles from us, which hoisted Dutch colours.
The Swallow was a sloop mounting fourteen guns; her complement was ninety men, with one lieutenant and twenty-two petty officers.
While taking in water near the Bay of Honduras, they surprised a sloop from Jamaica, which surrendered without a blow, striking sail at the first terror of the black flag.
With great guns the lieutenant might have destroyed him with less loss, but no large vessel would have got up the river, so shallow, that, small as it was, the sloop grounded a hundred times.
They then erected a battery of four guns on the island, and another of two guns near the road, while a sloop with eight guns protected the mouth of the channel.
By this Blackbeard's sloop floated, and the royal boats were fast approaching.
He had declared he would not go in the sloop unless forced; that when he first came to Barbadoes his resolve had been to ship himself on board the first pirate he met with.
The sloop in the channel soon sank, and the larger vessel was much punished, but the Scarborough, fearing the reef, stood off and on for a day or two and blockaded the creek.
The governor of Jamaica despatched a sloop in pursuit of them, who found the pirates carousing with a boat's crew from Point Negril, and they were soon overpowered.
While careening at the Cape Verd Islands, after making many prizes, Low sent a sloop to St. Michael's in search of two vessels, but his crew were seized and condemned to slavery for life.
On his way to the mainland, Teach was joined by Major Bonnet, a gentleman planter, turned pirate, who joined with him, commanding a sloop of ten guns.
Maynard finding his own sloop had way, and would soon be on board, ordered his men all down below, for fear of another broadside, which would have been his total destruction.
Low and Lowther always quarrelling, at last parted, Low taking forty-four hands in the brigantine, and leaving the same number in the sloopto Lowther.
In the Bay of Honduras Low boarded a Spanish sloop of six guns and seventy men, that had that morning captured five English vessels.
The Continental Prize Court reversed the decision and ordered the whole amount received for sloop and cargo to be paid to Olmstead and his associates.
During the Revolution, Olmstead and three other American sailors captured the British sloop Active and sailed for Egg Harbor, New Jersey.
We're to go aboard the sloop and see what she is," he called.
We used to hire a sloop and cruise along the coast in summertime.
He leaped at the opportunity, and that very afternoon saw him making his way down the bank to the spot, some two miles distant, where a sloop lay off in the river.
News had come out to the frigate, meanwhile, that I ought never to have been impressed, and so the captain sent me on in the sloop to Oporto.
As it turned out, however, it was to Oporto that the little sloop made.
Going out to join my regiment, this little sloop in which I had taken passage was held up by a French man-of-war.
I have orders to take this sloop to Oporto, there to hand over this young fellow to the authorities.
All seemed so far going well, when one morning Mr. Doughty's sloop was missing, and he along with her.
Enough to say now that he was a relation of Hawkins, the owner of a small smart sloop or brigantine, and ambitious of a share in a stirring business.
The sloop and schooner pursuing them; and, though they engaged them for an hour and a quarter, they could not get on board.
On the 19th the Falcon sloop, being disabled, was sent back, with seventeen men of the regiment; and the General proceeded with the guard sloop and schooner.
There were three ships, and one two-mast vessel lying within the harbor at the time that the English engaged the sloop and ship.
Here the working men and carpenters who came in the sloop and long boats, disembarked, and were immediately set to work.
The Pocahontas, sloopof war from Charleston bar," said a man in the crowd.
To-night we will try to steal a small sloop out of the river with a despatch for Clinton; but we must not place our whole dependence on this means, and a second must be sent him overland.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sloop" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
