The boat in which they found themselves had a pool of blood in her stern-sheets, and the thwarts and gunwales were smeared with it.
I heard him mutter, as he picked up the lantern and came with heavy booted legs clambering over the thwarts to us.
She made some answer, and I picked up the lantern that had been placed in the bottom of the boat for us to sit round, and, with my companion, went clambering over the thwarts to the hatch.
It was laid along the thwarts in the side, and we went to work to strengthen the mast that had been sprung in the Channel by laying pieces of wood over the fractured part, and securely binding them by turn upon turn of rope.
That was the night we could find camping ground only by building a foundation of reeds and willows, then spreading oilcloth on top; and all night our big tent rocked to the wind; for we had roped it to the thwarts of the canoe.
If the Presidential veto be objected to upon the ground that it checks and thwarts the popular will, upon the same principle the equality of representation of the States in the Senate should be stricken out of the Constitution.
Surely not, yet the boat had to leap forward, and then turn broadside too, as it swept aft toward the main chains, before I succeeded in seeing what remained partially concealed between the thwarts in its bottom.
Occasionally drops stung my cheek and all the thwarts forward were wet with drizzle.
The men nestling under the gunwales clung to the thwarts and maintained their position, although sea after sea broke over them and well nigh washed them out.
The men grasped the thwarts more firmly as a tremendous sea filled the boat to the gunwale.
I told him in French that all we wanted was to walk over his thwarts and step ashore, and asked him what he went away out there for.
Take a half-turn round one of the thwarts with the bight of the halliards, so that it shall not slip.
We strengthened the thwarts with oak knees against the upper side planks.
The disposition of thethwarts in such a boat is matter of much importance.
We ‘middled’ this, and set the centres of the twothwarts 18 in.
It is a singular beauty of the German play of "Iphigenia" that the King of Tauris, the only obstacle who thwarts the wishes of Orestes and of his sister, never loses our esteem, and that we love him to the end.
In consequence, a sublime object, precisely because itthwarts the senses, is suitable with relation to reason, and it gives to us a joy by means of a higher faculty, at the same time that it wounds us in an inferior one.
He begins by overthrowing the superior authority that thwarts his inclination, and before transgressing the law he calls in question the competence of the lawgiver.
Thwarts of pine one and three-quarter inches thick are to be placed in next, with the exception of the one amidships.
Broken oars and floating thwarts entangle them, and the ebbing wave sucks their feet away.
The Fire-god rages with loose rein over thwarts and oars and hulls of painted fir.
The rest repair the thwarts and replace the ships' timbers that the flames had gnawed upon, and fit up oars and rigging, little in number, but alive and valiant for war.
But the boat was nearly up to the thwarts in water before I could reach her, and just as I was nearly alongside she filled and turned over.
Tom went in for the bottle of spirits, while I went for the sculls and carried them down to the boat, which was high and dry, and nearly up to the thwartswith snow.
I recovered my senses, and found that a piece of one of the thwarts of the boat, broken off by the shot, had been forced through the fleshy part of my arm below the elbow, where it still remained.
Is the universal Isis known enough to discriminate between what is assisting her and what thwarts her?
But to speak better still; nothing thwarts her and everything assists her, because nothing exists which does not enter into the functions of her organs and does not follow the numberless attitudes of her body.
These thwarts were not intended to be used as seats, though the sternman, or steersman, often sat on the aftermost one.
Instead, the tenons in the gunwales were cut to slant upward from the inside, so that installation of the thwarts would cause the outboard face to flare outward at the top.
The thwarts were of various designs; a common one had parallel sides in plan.
In the majority of these kayaks short fore-and-aft battens are laid on the thwarts forward of the manhole to support the skin cover in its sweep upward to the manhole.
The thwarts were usually rather heavy amidships and were made in various forms to suit the taste of the builder.
The outwales were probably formed in the same manner, after which the three thwarts were made and the material for ribs and sheathing prepared.
Next, the ends of the gunwales are held and lifted so that a pair of posts can be placed at the thwarts next out from the middle.
Thwarts were parallel-sided in plan and slightly tapered toward the ends in elevation; no shoulders were used.
The four thwarts are located well aft, and between the first and second thwarts is a larger space than between the others, for cargo.
After the chines and floor are fitted to the keelson, the frames at the thwarts are made and set up at the desired flare and height, being held in place by temporary spreaders lashed or braced.
For just then she has other views regarding the pretty pleasure craft, and intends taking seat on its thwarts within less than twenty minutes' time.
Down in the boat-dock, upon the thwarts of his skiff, sits the young waterman awaiting his fare.
As he sets foot upon the thwarts of the pleasure craft, has he a thought of what were his feelings when he first planted it there, after ducking the Forest of Dean fellow?
Nor is it the family Charon who sits solitary on the thwarts of that following.
Charlie sent word to Captain Rhines by Fred that his boat would be done in three days, for he was putting on the last plank, and the thwarts and gunwale were in and kneed off.
He thought knees would look clumsy, and that he could fasten the thwarts with cleats of oak, and make them look neater; and thus he did.
In these intervals Charlie made the rudder, and tiller, and thwarts for the masts.
These arrangements completed, the whole party waited impatiently for the wind and current to set them down towards the reef, the rocks of which by this time were plainly visible, even from the thwarts of the several boats.
Take a peep at the creeping rogue through this night-glass, and you will see his crew seated at their thwarts with their arms folded, like men who eat the king's beef.
Six of the crew were on board, seated on the thwartswith their oars shipped, for Peter had insisted on a certain approximation to man of war manners and discipline for the evening, or at least until they got to the fishing ground.
When he was relieved, he crept over the thwarts to where I sat.
Then the boy saw a boat in the water below, with the doctor and Mr. Temple already in it, Jack climbing over the thwarts and Bob sliding down the rope.
As he made his way across the thwarts toward the stern, the better to trim the boat, Frank glanced up.
Lying under the thwarts during watches below, we tried vainly to avoid them.
There was no squabbling for best places, but it was noticeable that there was something in the nature of a rush for the billets up on the thwarts of the boats.
We had to crawl under the thwarts in order to move along the boat, and our knees suffered considerably.
The allopath travels around a race-track in the opposite direction from the disease, and thwarts it through a head-on collision.
The homeopath travels around the race-track in the same direction as the disease, and thwarts it by pulling at the reins.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thwarts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
