But the sailors had drunk so much wine that they could not see to steer aright.
Every day Grace Darling helped her father to trim the lamps, so that at night they might shine brightly, and warn sailors to steer their ships away from the dangerous rocks, upon which they would have been dashed to pieces.
Sometimes one fall is not enough; the steer jumps up and pursues the horse.
On the border of the herd they edged in as if by accident upon a fat steer and walked him amiably forth into the open.
For the steer that is roped and busted in the hot weather dies suddenly at the water; the flies buzz about the ears of the new-marked calves and poison them, and the mother cows grow gaunt and thin from overheating.
In his other hand he held a horn, knocked from the bleaching skeleton of a steer that had died by the water, and to its end where the tip had been sawed off he applied the red-hot iron, burning a hole through to the hollow centre.
Down by the branding pen the mother cows licked the blood from their offsprings' mangled ears and mooed resentfully, but the big white-faced steer stood in brutish content on the salting grounds and gazed after the town herd thoughtfully.
He was in the hands of the champion roper of Graham County, a man who had hogtied a wild hill steer in thirty-three seconds by the watch.
The steel horn of the saddle was built to check a half-ton of bolting hill steer and fling it instantly.
He was thinking about a slim girl standing on a sand spit with a wild steer rushing toward her, of her warm, slender body lying in his arms for five immortal seconds, of her dark, shy eyes shining out of the dusk at him like live coals.
The steer pounded past so close behind that one of its horns grazed the tail of the cowpony.
And I've discovered that we know the man who saved me from the wild steer in Arizona.
It rang so vibrant with crisp command that the girl, poised for flight, stood still and waited in white terror while the huge steer lumbered toward her.
The tread belts on either side of the tractor are separately driven and by making one belt run faster than the other it is possible tosteer the machine.
Cadmus said it was a good tern miles to the nearest point of the mainland, but that he was certain he could steer almost a straight course thither.
I suppose the best thing we can do now is to steer for Cleveland.
If I was sure of the course I would steer for shore, Tom.
Since secrecy was no longer to be maintained, Hilary bade the master to steerfull into the broad path of the moonlight, so that we might be distinctly seen.
How strange to be once more in open water, able to steer whatever course we chose, with broad daylight all night, and at noon only a couple of days' run from Cape Crozier.
But now it wanted only a week of the great race with the Old Boys, and here was I summoned to take charge of the rudder at the eleventh hour, which of course meant I would have to steer the boat on the occasion of the race!
You know this coast; can we not steer closer in, and so gain on them?
With no landmark to steer by, with wind and sea dead in our teeth, with the waves breaking in over our sides, and one useless mutineer in our midst, we felt that our fate was fairly sealed.
Smooth Island, in 6 fathoms, near a point of the main where a round hill afforded me a good view of this extensive bay.
It was drunk upon deck; and with half a biscuit, made a luncheon for both officers and people.
Other cliffy heads came in sight as we advanced eastward; and at seven, the appearance of an opening induced me to steer close in; but it proved to be a bight full of rocks, with low land behind.
Very little progress was made until noon, at which time shoal water obliged us to steer westward.
We continued to steer upwards, before the wind; but as the width contracted rapidly, and there was much shoal water, it was under very easy sail, and with an anchor ready to be let go.
He now hesitated to steer more to the east in case his chronometers had been going more slowly, due to the rise in temperature.
Things went well until the Fram was abreast of Cape Camperdown, but here the ice compelled them to steer a course more and more to the east.
Peary now decided to strike farther into the interior, so as to avoid these glacier basins, but in carrying out this plan he found the snow increasing and the grade so steep that he was compelled to steer more to the north.
If a man comes out to steer you will shoot him till he runs downstairs again, then we go aboard and sail home.
In and out among the restless heels the onlooker must steer his course, up into the ampler space on the hill-top, where the horses stand in more open order and a general view is possible.
The hunt and all that appertained to it had sunk out of sight over a rugged hillside, and she had nothing by which to steer her course save the hoof-marks in the occasional black and boggy intervals between the heathery knolls.
It's good to feel that no matter what else goes wrong they keep right on, absolutely true to their orbits and their service of shining; so unfailingly true that the mariner can always steer his course by them.
So I set my teeth together and repeat grimly as he used to do: "I will not bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
A map of the heavens is painted on it, with all the constellations that the mariners steer their ships by.
One of the most striking features was the large center pyramid, surmounted by a monster steer of the Hereford type, 7 feet in height, fashioned of red and white shelled corn.
Another attractive feature of the agricultural exhibit was the mounted steer "Challenger," which won the first prize of the world at the international stock show at Chicago, December, 1903.
All this time Rawlins persuaded the captain, who himself had little knowledge of seamanship, to steer northward, meaning to draw him away from the neighbourhood of other Turkish vessels.
I shall venture my bark on the waters of this wide realm, and if she cannot weather it I shall steer west and try the waters of another world.
Luther" might have been an apter theme; but there too it would have been a strain to steer clear of theological controversy, of which he had had enough.
I suppose this was all in our favour; but how our guide knew the marks by which to steer was a puzzle to me, and as I never meant to profit by this experience I asked no questions.
To get into the river's mouth it was necessary to make a détour, to do which we had to steer out towards the blockading fleet for a quarter of a mile before we could turn to go into the river.
The shell of this vessel lay for months on the beach and was by no means a bad mark for the blockade-runners to steer by.
This swift stop caused the steer to go heels over head and fall on his back, the pony holding the rope tight till the rider dismounted and tied the steer up in orthodox fashion, the pony watching every movement till the task was finished.
I steer my bark with Hope in the head, leaving Fear astern.
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