All the steersmen were down, pincushioned, and Tito was handling the massive sweep alone, gasping black curses, his braced legs knots of straining thews.
Nearer crept the inexorable raiders, and they were still a good mile from the surf when one of the steersmen fell gagging across a sweep, a long arrow through his neck.
Colonel Howell knew that his old steersmen were accompanied by quite a group of relatives but he did not know the exact extent of the Martin and La Biche families.
But when I tried to arrange for my old steersmen to pilot me down the river again, I found that energetic Calgary had beaten me to it.
By the time the old steersmenhad been found, the Count was out of their minds.
While the two steersmen lifted their own hats and grunted with the only show of animation that had lit their faces, the ceremony of inspection was over and the long voyage was officially begun.
And it is from them that the skilled canoe men and the experienced flatboatsteersmen are selected for the conduct of the precious flotillas on these northern waters.
After this one of the steersmen chose another man; and so on, till the crews of all the boats were completed.
With his left hand on its butt end, the pilot gave his orders to the steersmen by means of an old fan which he carried in his right, for the noise and hissing of the waters drowned his shrill voice.
Once, however, the steersmen were slow in obeying an order, when the old man threw his fan on the deck, and with his clenched right hand repeatedly struck his left palm.
He then one day called a meeting of the ship-masters, and gave them and all the merchant ships and their steersmen leave to go where they pleased.
When it was told the king that some Halogaland people were come who were heathen, he ordered the steersmen to be brought to him, and he asked them if they would consent to be baptized; to which they replied, no.
The rudders consisted of long poles, flattened at the end, and the two steersmen generally remained seated down at their work, unless special care and attention were required.
A glance at the Norse steersmenmight have reassured the captives.
All is well," repeated Olvir, and he waved the steersmen back to the wedge.
The gangway was drawn ashore, the boatswains whistle sounded, and the steersmen leapt to their niches in the stern, grasping the shafts of the great steering-oars.
The steersmen climbed to their niches, and the huge steering oars creaked as they were swung out.
Longitude, some of our steersmen having got one or two degrees more, some less, which in the plane charts makes a considerable difference, about 217 miles by calculation.
The bowmen and steersmenwere to receive forty pounds wages annually and the middle men thirty-five pounds.
He also took Sestos from the Athenians, and would not allow the people of Sestos to live there, but gave the city and territory over to those who had acted as steersmen and masters on board of his ships.
For those two have perished by the fate they have met with; but among our host aresteersmen yet, and many a one.
And him in reply Aeson's son addressed with helpless words: "Son of Aeacus, where are these steersmen of thine?
You had better follow them," replied the captain, with a jerk of his head towards the ladder down which the two steersmen had disappeared.
He cast a look ahead, and saw that his boat was approaching, at swift speed, a knot of other boats, the steersmen of which were too confused to know what to do.
The bowmen and steersmen were to receive forty pounds' wages annually, and the middle men thirty-five pounds.
The officers were capable men, the small boats sturdy and their crews and steersmen skillful and confident.
The best consultation was held with the steersmen as to arrangement and manœuvres of every trireme, nor was any precaution omitted which the scanty means at hand allowed.
At the first onset, the skill and tactics of the steersmen shone conspicuous, well seconded by zeal on the part of the rowers and by their ready obedience to the voice of the keleustês.
The wind proved full and adequate to bear us on, without endangering our safety, which enabled the steersmen to hold out boldly, from point to point.
There we lay two days and two nights suffering much alike from toil and distress of mind, but on the morning of the third day we again raised our masts, set sail, and took our places, letting the wind and steersmen direct our ship.
Nothing went ill with any of our ships, and we had no sickness on board, but sat where we were and let the ships go as the wind and steersmen took them.
The strangers remained at Keaau until evening, then Aiwohikupua ordered the steersmen and rowers to stay quietly until the two of them returned from their search for a wife, only they two alone.
And the steersmen as well as soothsayers saw plainly that he might go on his journey.
Before going up to Paliuli, Aiwohikupua told the steersmen and the paddlers, "While we go on our way to seek her whom I have so longed to see face to face, do you remain here quietly, doing nothing but guard the canoes.
Before the going down of the sun the steersmen and soothsayers were ordered to observe the look of the clouds and the ocean to see whether the chief could go or not on his journey, according to the signs.
He clothed his oarsmen and steersmen in red and white tapa as attendants of a chief; so were all his bodyguard arrayed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "steersmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
