He retook thetiller and changed the Ariel's course toward the spot where they had seen the shark.
His chums drew in the fenders and ran up the sail, while Lester took his place at the tiller and eased the Ariel off, until a space of twenty feet separated the two boats.
As Lester had charge of the tiller and Fred was looking after the sail, the work of watching devolved on Teddy and Bill.
Lester relinquished the tiller to Bill and took a long, steady look through the binoculars.
It's no use," he said as he jammed over thetiller and changed the course of the Ariel.
But the wind freshened and cut some time off their schedule, so that it was only a little over an hour when Lester gave a turn to the tiller that swung the Ariel in toward the coast.
But that uneasiness became consternation, when Lester with a quick twist of the tiller headed the Ariel straight toward two immense rocks that seemed to stand out as sentinels on the coast.
The wind was steady, so that Lester could fasten his tiller while Fred hitched the sail rope round a cleat.
Lester had all he could do to handle the tiller and shape his course, and Fred had to be on the alert in his management of the sheet, which strained and tugged under the force of the wind.
Here's the answer," said Lester briefly, as he gave the tiller a twist and gave Fred directions to pull in the sheet.
A half hour more passed, and then Lester gave a twist to the tiller and turned the Ariel inshore.
The methods are inexpensive, and are within the reach of every tiller of the soil.
The helmsman had been cut nearly to pieces by the hail of bullets, and he now hung dead over the tiller of the little steamer, which was consequently yawing wildly about.
It was enough to make us weep with sorrow, but instead of that we set to work to try and get tackles on to the tiller to steer by.
Putting the tiller into the mate's hand, he sprung up from his seat.
She also had a long mahogany tiller bound with brass, and with a handsomely carved head of a kite which I much admired.
There was also satisfaction in feeling the strain on the tiller when, swayed down by a fiercer gust, she plunged through the combers with the froth swirling, perilously close to the coaming, along her half-submerged deck.
Then while Carroll slipped the moorings, Vane ran up the headsails and springing aft seized the tiller as the boat, slanting over, commenced to forge through the water.
He took the tiller in his hand; the steady north wind, the Etesian wind, kept blowing in the sails, and he steered straight southward for the mouths of the Nile.
He took thetiller of the ship in his hand, and steered for the South and for the noonday sun, which was now at his highest in the heavens.
So he lashed the tiller with a rope, and groped his way with his hands along the deck till he reached the altar of the dwarf-gods, where the embers of the sacrifice still were glowing faintly.
Anthea Merril stood at the tiller outlined against the heave of sea, for the night was warm and she was dressed in white.
In the meanwhile, he got a turn of the weather tillerline round a cleat, and lowered himself further until he sat in the cockpit with several inches of water swishing about him.
Jimmy dropped into the cockpit, and crouched there with the tiller against his shoulder, for nobody could have eaten in the face of that wind.
Indeed, he left Anthea at thetiller while he went into the saloon to look for a piece of spun yarn which Valentine kept in one of the lockers.
The Sorata would not lie-to without somebody at the helm, and he could only leave the tiller lashed for a few minutes now and then while he labored at the little rotary pump.
Well, if you think you could leave the tiller lashed, I have dinner ready.
He came up with her, hot and breathless, and the girl at the tiller rose quietly when he swung himself on deck, though there was a depth of tenderness in her eyes.
The Sorata was carrying a good deal of sail, and running rather wildly, while he knew that a very small blunder at the tiller would bring her big main-boom crashing over, the result of which might be disaster.
And after this, when they were grown to reasonable age, Esau became a ploughman, and a tillerof the earth, and an hunter.
Cain offered fruits, for he was a ploughman and tiller of earth, and Abel offered milk and the first of the lambs, Moses saith, of the fattest of the flock.
I sat, bent forward, the tiller in my hand, and stared at my wife in some consternation.
As I lay back in the stern with half-shut eyes and tiller idle in my hand, our many tribulations and our few joys passed in review before me.
I leaned across the tiller and addressed the favorite.
If your reverence will keep your hand upon the tiller and your eye upon the gentleman whom you have made our traveling companion, I'll put up the sail.
I beckoned to Diccon, and putting the tillerinto his hands went forward to reef the sail.
The veriest urchin steers her, with a little fat hand on the heavy tiller twelve feet long, and a hunch of good rye-bread in his other fist.
No plan that I heard of, or saw, or could devise yet, is entirely satisfactory for enabling thetiller to be set fast in a moment, at any angle, and yet to be perfectly free in ordinary times.
The compass tells you by a glance, and if not, the tiller has a nudge which speaks to the man who knows the meaning of its various pressures, through any part of his body it may happen to touch.
The boys could then be taught to handle the tiller by voyages to the Nore.
Sometimes I would sit low and out of sight, but with a glance now and then at the compass, while the tiller pressed against my neck.
The tiller of iron-wood was well wedged into the rudder-head.
Jack never seed him coming, until he felt his black hands upon his throat, and then he ups with the tiller at his noddle, and sends him floundering across the boat's thwarts like a flat-fish.
Then, pausing an instant to stare into the East with somber eyes, he shipped the tillerand bent to the halyards.
Leaning against the combing, feet braced upon the slippery and treacherous deck, he clung to tiller and mainsheet and peered ahead with anxious eyes, a pucker of daring graven deep between his brows.
The latter, with tarpaulin battened snugly down over the cockpit and the seas dashing over her wash-board until she seemed under water half the time, was forging stodgily Londonwards, her bargee at the tiller smoking a placid pipe.
He was hard aboard when, the sail filling with a bang, Kirkwood pulled the tiller up; and the cat-boat slid away, a dozen feet separating them in a breath.
In silence the man unshipped the tillerand moved toward the cleats.
He took the tillerhimself at times, to relieve me, during the first days.
His arm over the tiller held firm with elastic readiness for all of the Diana's whims, as Shawn himself had patiently taught him it must do.
Ben supposed his right hand could flash away from the tiller to his belt, if it must.
Look on this hand, how firm already, and will it not be all the nobler when its wondrous jointure is acquainted with the rope, and the leap of a tiller and the burning of salt and wind?
He now stood perfectly still, with the tiller in his hand.
He must still hold the tiller with his other hand, must still think of his boat.
The boat wavered, then with a quick firmness his grasp on the tiller and rope strengthened, and the craft gathered herself and darted forward, the water splashing away from her sides, the wind humming.
When I rose up and committed the tiller to the hands of Rames, all my poor follows raised their white faces imploringly to mine.
I dropped down into my old place at the tiller without another word--for the thought went through me like a knife that something had happened to Captain Ravender.
I was now gaining rapidly on the schooner; I could see the brass glisten on the tiller as it banged about; and still no soul appeared upon her decks.
Presently thetiller was put up and, as the brig's head paid off, the yards were braced square; and she ran rapidly along towards the southwest, with the wind nearly dead aft.
The other two passengers and the boatmen had been sitting there since before gunfire, and they were glad enough when Bob came down and took his seat in the stern, taking the tiller ropes.
As the boat got to a little distance from the vessel, Tiller stood erect, and ran his eye complacently over the perfection of her hull and rigging.
Tiller listened intently, and, from that instant, all concern disappeared from his countenance.
Thy Master Tiller is an indiscreet agent; he gave me a fright to-day that exceeds any alarm I have felt since the failure of Van Halt, Balance, and Diddle.
Haul over your head-sheet, and jam the tiller down into the lap of that comfortable-looking old gentleman.
Master Thomas Tiller is a man of rude humor, and he as little likes contumely as another.
It was into one of these that Tiller had descended, like a man who freely entered into his own apartment; but partly above, and nearer to the stern, were a suite of little rooms that were fitted and furnished in a style altogether different.
I leave worthy Tiller to settle balances between us; and so, I take my leave.
A small silver hand-bell lay on a table, and Tiller rung it lightly, like one whose ordinary manner was restrained by respect.
Master Tiller may overhear this threat--and, after all, I do not know whether prudence does not tell us, to let the brigantine depart.
Honest Tiller will carry you all to the land, and, in passing, the book may again be consulted.
That's a very good girl, now," he commented as he settled himself to the tiller again.
But from the frozen pile by the tiller there stuck out a man's arm, ghastly to see.
Mr. Brewster called out from his position at the tiller in the yawl, Easy Action.
He shoved the tiller away, putting the boat to the port, and went forward about twenty feet.
Biff edged the tiller away from him, and the second circle was of a greater circumference.
Biff turned the tiller over to Li and took a look.
Biff took the tiller and pointed the yawl's bow directly out to sea.
Li merely nodded his head in assent, glad to relinquish the wooden tiller handle.
Then he pulled the tiller to him, put the yawl in reverse, and came back.
When it crashed down into a churning trough of water, Biff's grasp on the tiller was torn loose.
I'll take the tiller now, Biff,'" his father said.
To steer was a trick that required learning; and in any sea, the tiller bucked, and the wheel fought the steersman in eccentric and amazing fashion.
The Sally's wheel was so arranged that when it was twirled, it moved to and fro across the deck, dragging the tiller with it.
The Captain, with Annie at the tiller and Dick stretched lazily out beside her, was skimming and bounding along off the Grosse Pointe light.
And the endless night on Black Lake, with Klondike Andrews at the tiller and never a breath of wind, we shall not forget that.
Once the wheel-rope parted, which might have been fatal to us, had not the chief mate sprung instantly with a relieving tackle to windward, and kept the tiller up, till a new rope could be rove.
She got under way with no fuss, and came so near us as to throw a letter on board, Captain Faucon standing at the tiller himself, and steering her as he would a mackerel smack.
