Through stress of weather we had frequently to make a dash for shelter, towing our one whale-boat, to one of the many tidal rivers on the coast between Sydney and Gabo Island.
The boat was towing astern, and the five seamen, seeing that the Venus was now in the absolute possession of the mutineers, and that Kelly would not hesitate to shoot them if they disobeyed him, went into the boat quietly.
While some of the men were engaged at this work, others lowered the second boat, and this, and the one towing behind, were brought round to the side.
As soon as they were on board the sails were sheeted home, and the craft began to steal quietly through the water, towing the boat behind it.
When the country was interesting we would go very slowly, but if the landscape was dreary, the horses would trot quickly along the towing path.
They travelled up the Yukon, sometimes rowing, at others poling or towing against its swift current.
The gunboats then returned to Berber, towing a dozen captured grain-boats.
Faidherbe towing one oblong steel barge and one old steel boat, the other three boats sailing, all full of men.
On the outside, forward, I saw Grantline come rounding the bow, towing a figure and heading for another.
One had picked up two others, found them alive and wastowing them out.
As there was no appearance of wind, Philip permitted a boat to be sent to examine it and after a long pull, the seamen returned on board, towing the small boat astern.
Instead of meekly kow-towing to an evidently pre-arranged doom, the last misfortune aroused this usually resigned story-teller to an ungovernable frenzy.
It's his damned camel towing behind that won't let us come about.
She acts as if she were towing something, were tied to something!
Where towing was most frequently used was probably Russia, all by hand; sometimes as many as three hundred men were being employed at once by Charles II's ambassador for the six barges and one boat between Archangel and Vologda.
A shout from the look-out aloft announced that a whale was killed, and we bore down to meet the boats towing it towards us.
Here the crew, instead of enjoying the rest they expected, were employed in towing off rafts of wood and water through the heavy surf setting on the shore.
Captain Bland then had all the boats manned to assist in towing in the "Eagle" should the wind fall light, as it frequently did towards evening.
We shook him off; but when we returned at sundown across the fields, from a visit to Anne Hathaway's cottage, we met the sidewheeler cheerfully towing along a large party, upon whom he had fastened.
You can not see the rope because it is in the water, but that other tug up ahead is towing the barge.
And the towing tug did just that, apparently without hurrying, and before the noisy tugboat reached the coal barge it drifted safely out of the way.
The wind continued light until 11 at night, and the boats were kept ahead towing and warping to keep out of the reach of the enemy, three of the frigates being very near us.
I sent the bomb vessels, under the protection of the gunboats, to bombard the town; the boats of the squadron were employed in towing them in.
Weibert and de Chamillard that the barge was towing the ship at the time of elopement, and that she had not been sent in pursuit of the prize.
Once Ned and Bob were aboard the motor boat, and the towing of the schooner was resumed, the robbers followed a well-laid-out plan.
Then, as the sun was peeping up over the distant hills, the towing was resumed, the schooner being pulled directly up the lake, and approaching the western shore in a long curve.
He was swimming well, and seemed in no need of assistance so Jerry did not stop the towing of the barge to put over to him.
I guess we'll have a scene now," muttered Paxton, as he lashed the wheel to keep the schooner on a straight course down the lake, in which direction the motor boat was towing it.
The faint throb of the craft towing the schooner could be heard.
Stewart then cut adrift his cutter and gig, towing astern, and set every sail that would draw.
Morris and his first Lieutenant Wadsworth, both of whom were on board the Constitution when first chased by the English fleet, got out their boats and by towing all night, succeeded in gaining two leagues by daylight.
I think we had better keep on towing until daylight.
He had almost decided to lower and man one of the whale-boats and begin towing the brig to the eastward so as to clear the southern horn of the projecting reef, when he heard the sound of oars through the darkness, and then came a loud hail.
Rawlings sauntered up on deck a few minutes later, and stood watching the progress of the brig through the calm and glassy water, for Barry had lowered one of the boats, and the crew were towing her clear of the outlying horn of the reef.
The person towing glances back "ever and anon" to observe the boat's line of travel.
Where but one person, he finds towing almost impossible, and when bottom too muddy for poling and current too swift for rowing, he makes sad progress.
When we got under way, the submarine towing the sloop, we found the going rather hard, owing to cakes of ice floating down the river.
Naturally you ask what would happen if submarine scouts should sight a submarine towing a convoy of this sort.
The general method of operating upon a submerged wreck is as follows: The vessel carrying the tube is brought to the place of operation; it may be carried there either by towing or by its own power.
Yes, and he's towing along our pet aversion Mrs. D.
Just then a passing launch paused and gave the needed assistance, taking the count on board and towing the canoe to shore.
The landing-master's crew succeeded in towing into the creek on the western side of the rock the praam-boat with the balance-crane, which had now been on board of the praam for five days.
There being too much wind for towing the praams in the usual way, they were warped to the rock in the most laborious manner by their windlasses, with successive grapplings and hawsers laid out for this purpose.
Late in September Bost disappeared for three days and came back leading Ole by a rope--at least, he was towing him by an old carpet-bag when we sighted him.
The progress of the fleet was very slow, for the Aleppo, which was said to have a speed of ten knots, did very badly towing two steamers.
As the Bronx came within hailing distance of the steamer towing the schooners, a hearty cheer burst from the crew on the forecastle of the former, for the prizes alongside of the Havana indicated the success of the expedition.
No one remained in the boats, while at the stern of the "Aphrodite" a man stood ready with a sharp axe to sever the towing hawser should any of the lumbering craft become swamped.
This one of the motor launches secured and made fast, while the second slipped half of the boats and transferred them to the care of the first towing craft.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "towing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
