All night across the waters The tossing lights shone clear; All night from reeling taffrail The Three Bells sent her cheer.
Listening to the pirate's moving ballad, they sat and swung their legs from the ship's taffrail while their gaze idly roved to the green curtain of undergrowth which ran lush to the water's edge to the northward of the beach.
Joe Hawkridge glided to the taffrail and peered over the stern.
But the shout gave the alarm, and as the ship cleared us, her taffrailwas covered with officers.
Heads appeared over her taffrail for some time, and we fancied these man-of-war's men regarded us as the instructed are apt to regard the ignorant, whom they fancy to be in danger.
He made a gesture, turning an arm upward, and I knew an order was given immediately after, by the instantaneous manner in which the taffrail was cleared.
The gun was accordingly trained aft, but part of the taffrail had to be cut away to work it.
We passed close under her stern; and her skipper, as we drew near, walked aft to the taffrail and hailed us.
The hurricane struck us fairly astern, and I fully expected to see the mast go clean out of the cutter, whilst the foam boiled up over the taffrail and surged inboard, filling our decks, and piling; over us in a truly alarming manner.
The bottles were slung to an oar which was stuck upright in the taffrail aft; and placing themselves close to the windlass, my two associates secured a range of some forty or fifty feet along the deck.
These were sailors, who long ago had lashed themselves to the taffrail for safety; but must have famished.
At the same moment a blood-red flag streamed out over the taffrail and soared away aloft, until it fluttered out from the gaff-end--a fit emblem of rapine and murder.
Indeed," said George, rousing himself and stepping aft to the taffrail with the carpenter; "whereabouts is she?
Leicester who was leaning over the taffrail and watching the proceedings with the greatest interest, saw the great fish turn like a flash and rush to the spot where the bait had fallen, turning himself over on his side as he did so.
His voice was like the bellow of a bull, and could be heard from the taffrail to the flying jib-boom end in anything short of a full-grown hurricane.
Ellinwood leaped for the weather-rigging and the other two clutched the wheel as they stood waist-deep in the surge that roared over the taffrail and to leeward.
Tanner suddenly straightened up, and slipping the wheel swiftly into the becket, he ran to the taffrail and looked over the side.
He himself stooped with one hand on the line of the taffrail log.
If we go softly, we can all get back to the taffrail in time to see the fun!
The captain sprang on the taffrail of his ship with the activity of a younger man, and in an instant he perceived the truth of the other's conjecture.
What a deal of fuss we made about things that didn’t really matter at all,” he said to Gerald as they leaned over the taffrail and watched the dim line that was England grow distinct, its gray slowly whitening as they drew near.
But two days later he felt once again, as he leaned against the taffrail to watch the English coast fade into a dim haze, that he was letting drop from his shoulders the accumulated responsibilities of the past six months.
As he leaned over the taffrail of the steamer and felt the deck throb under him he knew that his real life had begun again.
Griffin, who stood on the taffrail of the ship, with Cuffe and the two Italians near by; the first dictating the questions his lieutenant put.
Then he was seen on the taffrail of the felucca, with a spare shank-painter, which had been lying on the forecastle, on his shoulder.
It disposed him to more sobriety of thought than always attended his leisure moments, and he took a seat on the taffrail near Ghita, while her uncle went below to his knees and his prayers.
Cuffe, Griffin, and the two Italians descended from the taffrail and awaited the approach of the supposed lazzarone or boatman of Capri, as he was now believed to be, near the stern of the vessel.
Claudius walked aft, and was going to sit down for a few minutes before turning in, when he was suddenly aware of a muffled female figure leaning against the taffrail only a couple of paces from where he was.
His hand stole along the taffrail till it touched hers, but he did not lift his fingers from the polished wood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "taffrail" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
