The cook rigged up a tarpaulin over his little stove and stood there muttering and frying.
Whereas the others ate from a tarpaulin laid on the ground, I was favored with a small box for a table and a smaller one for a seat.
Before the obstructing tarpaulin could be cut through, the Independencia's course was altered till she pointed bows on to the oncoming yacht.
The tarpaulin was quickly rolled up, and my four companions lifted down on their stretchers and taken away.
It was just a common lorry, such as is used in the district for carting wood, covered with a tarpaulin supported by a longitudinal bar on transverse stays.
One solitary passenger besides himself had sought the deck, and he had rolled himself in a multiplicity of warm wrappers, and lay snugly under the shelter of the binnacle--a capacious tarpaulin cloak surmounting all his other integuments.
Footnote 9: The sheriff of Bristol county, Massachusetts, impressed twelve men and horses and went to Tarpaulin Cove and took the ship into custody.
Footnote 7: Tarpaulin Cove lies on the east side of Naushon, one of the Elizabeth Islands.
So he says, “I resolved at last to see my brother, just as I was in my tarpaulin dress, as sinners ought to come to the Saviour, without any righteousness of their own.
This time it had been old Jerry who cooked his supper over an open fire and old Tom who stretched the tarpaulin over his stove.
Poleon saw that a canvas sled-cover had been used to curtain the door opening, and during the instant following the alarm he brushed the tarpaulin aside and stepped into the pitch-black interior.
He and Bridges had not taken the trouble to acquaint themselves with the canon, but immediately upon landing had begun to stow away their freight and to lash a tarpaulin over it.
Brion made sure the tarpaulin was well wrapped around the body before they pushed the sand car slowly through the growing crowd.
He unwrapped thetarpaulin and the sightless eyes stared accusingly up into his.
Tom got out the bedding, consisting of a blanket apiece, and a tarpaulin for a cover, while Woo busied himself with cutting browse which he placed on the ground and laid blankets on it.
Woo, chuckling to himself and muttering, crept cautiously to the men's side of the fire, surveyed the layout, then crawled in under the tarpaulin beside Stacy Brown.
The boat was soon run ashore, the tarpaulin was quickly stretched and the crew lolled about, glad of a chance to rest their weary muscles.
Lay aft, here, some of you, and get the tarpaulin off this Long Tom, and pass the word for the gunner.
Upon this the great Tamaahmaah deputed his favorite, John Young, the tarpaulin governor of Owyhee, to proceed with a number of royal guards, and take possession of the wreck on behalf of the crown.
Beneath the cage a white man in overalls slumbered audibly upon a tarpaulin folded into a pallet.
He joined a cluster of watchful persons who hopefully had collected before the scrolled and ornamented wooden entrance of a tarpaulin structure larger than any of the rest.
Reflecting on these difficulties, I had decided to seek some retired spot where I could dismount the effigies, cover them with the tarpaulin that was rolled up in the barrow and take a rest, when once more circumstances befriended me.
Close to Spital Square I found a quiet corner where I quickly dismounted the guys, covered them with the tarpaulin and, urged by a new anxiety from the rapidly-growing density of the fog, groped my way into Norton Folgate.
She had found a large tarpaulin spread out as though it covered some hidden boxes, and, calling to me, she had tried to raise the tarpaulin to look beneath it.
Wallace and I stretched tarpaulin by fire and sat long beneath it chatting.
We spread tarpaulin and blankets, and lay on floor; so did Steve.
After lunch Job set up two impromptu wigwams, stringing a tarpaulinover each, and under these shelters the men rested till 4 P.
The tarpaulinand lumber forward had disappeared, and there lay long Tom, ready levelled, grinning on his pivot.
There was a tarpaulin stretched over a quantity of rubbish, old sails, old junk, and hencoops, rather ostentatiously piled up forward, which we conjectured might conceal a long gun.
No, there it was on the staple, the tarpaulin bag stamped with the Imperial Eagle.
II He went to the gable-end and took down a tarpaulin bag hanging on a staple.
Among them was almost every variety of dress which nautical fashions then allowed; but the cloth roundabouts and tarpaulin hats prevailed.
The sloop now continued on her course without anything remarkable occurring, and arrived at Tarpaulin Cove about nine o'clock on the following morning.
Tom descended the ladder cautiously and opened the tarpaulin to see what was inside.
Gently he made Sandy lie down and pillowed her head on a folded tarpaulin provided by the sympathetic boatman.
At the conclusion of a not very luscious repast, Jenks suggested that they should rig up the tarpaulin in such wise as to gain protection from the sun and yet enable him to cast a watchful eye over the valley.
This tarpaulinhas made the place very stuffy, but we must put up with it until sundown.
Four bullets spat into the ledge, of which three pierced the tarpaulin and one flattened itself against the rock.
The tarpaulinwould yield them some degree of uneasy protection, and they both were in perfect physical condition.
He heard the rustling of the tarpaulin as she pulled it.
Oddly enough, the "thawing" of their scorched bodies beneath the tarpaulin brought a certain degree of relief.
He dragged from the beach the smallest tarpaulin he could find, and propped it against the rock in such manner that it effectually screened the mouth of the cave, though admitting light and air.
Gladly would Iris and he have dispensed with the friendly protection of the tarpaulin when the cool evening breeze came from the south.
He might perhaps see some portion of the tarpaulin covering the stores, but at the distance it must resemble a weather-beaten segment of the cliff.
Another tap sounded on the tarpaulin in a different place, and they both concurred in the belief that something had darted in curved flight over the ledge and fallen on top of their protecting shield.
The gale chanted a wild melody in mournful chords, and the noise of the watery downpour on the tarpaulin roof of Belle Vue Castle was such as to render conversation impossible, save in wearying shouts.
In pursuance of his latest idea he sedulously removed from the foot of the cliff all traces of the clearance effected on the ledge, and, although he provided supports for the tarpaulin covering, he did not adjust it.
He sprang up, dragged the huge tarpaulin from its former location, and propped it on the handle of the pickaxe, driven by one mighty stroke deep into a crevice of the rock.
He lifted her in his arms and carried her to a seat where the tarpaulin rested on a broken water-cask.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tarpaulin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: canopy; corduroy; cotton; cover; fabric; mariner; nylon; overcoat; sailor; salt; seaman; tar
