The tugboat moored itself to us fore and aft, and proceeded to think about discharging.
After an interval a small and fussy tugboatsteamed around our stern and drew alongside the gangway.
On the scab tugboat Edison, moored at the north side of the dock, men armed with rifles lay in waiting.
It was the scab tug "Edison," belonging to the American Tugboat Company.
Scotty Fife, the Port Captain of the American Tugboat Company, told Captain Mitten that he had straightened up the things on the "Wanderer!
Forbes, of the scab tugboat Edison, next took the witness chair.
On board the tugboat was a large party, invited by the firm to have a pleasure trip while towing the ship out to sea.
A tugboat took us over the bar, and we let go the anchor.
A tugboat had us near the gate waiting for our chance.
A tugboat was sent to Charleston, and the ship was towed to that port.
Dan stood up, hands in pockets of his duck trousers, and watched the on-coming tugboatwith smiling face.
After a moment of this duel the tugboat captain came to the rescue.
Captain Sander must have known where to look for a weapon, for before the tugboat captain had reached the door he was back again with a formidable revolver in his hand and his face convulsed with passion.
On the forward deck stood the captain of the Henry Nellis, the tugboat captain, and another man, possibly a mate.
The boat containing the captain of the Henry Nellis was returning as fast as oars could send it, and now it was alongside the tugboat and the captain had leaped aboard her.
They chugged in and out of the shipping, read the names on the dozens of fishing schooners which lined the wharves, and finally raced a tugboat out to the breakwater, winning easily.
Back of them, perhaps a little more than a half mile, the tugboat was following doggedly in their wake.
Captain Marsh guided his energetic charge among the logs floating in the stream with the marvellous second instinct of the expert tugboat man.
Yes, and that jam's going out before many minutes," supplemented the tugboat captain grimly.
This is true of sailors, hunters, plainsmen, cowboys, and tugboat captains.
Meantime the tugboat was getting nearer and nearer to the Carpathia, and soon the faces of those leaning over the railing could be distinguished.
A woman who called to a man on the tugboat was asked?
The liner began to slacken her speed, and the tugboat soon was alongside.
We would give the crew of the sailing ship a chance to get aboard the tugboat and so send them home.
As the beast of prey after missing does not attempt another leap, so the tugboat put on full speed in an effort to escape.
I've been out there in the islands, in a tugboat with her engines broken down and she drifting onto a beach where four hundred squatting Moros with Remington rifles were waiting hopefully for us to come ashore.
All the while the whistle on the tug was blowing and I was afraid people would come around and maybe they'd all be on the side of the tugboatman and be mad at Uncle Jimmy.
If you get as careless as that tugboat man, we'll be smashing into something, too.
That tugboat captain looked like he'd a-made me fork over agin, once he had me aboard his craft.
Show me a tugboat skipper that would come out here on a night like this to pick up the S.
He was transferred from the Battery to Governor's Island by a tugboat and subsequently handed over by the deputy marshals to the charge of Major J.
I did not dare to look around or make inquiry as to the location of the wharf from which the tugboat started to convey mail and passengers to the New York steamers, which waited in the outer harbor.
Entering I found the place crowded and the tugboat ready to convey the passengers to the steamer Atlantic.
The little tugboat had only four men and a small boat, which was at once launched, and the mate and the engineer, with one sailor, went to the rescue.
At some time after midnight a steamer came in under the Point, apparently for the purpose of anchoring, as was afterwards reported by the crew of the tugboat which was at anchor.
For that matter, why he should have given up an easy job as the mate of a tugboat to enter the tortuous paths of journalism the young man did not know, and, lacking the introspective faculty, he did not stop to analyze his motives.
He had hoped to enter his chosen field with some financial backing, and to that end, when the desire to try his hand at literature had struck him, he had bought an interest in a smoke-consumer which a fireman on another tugboat had patented.
All too gladly had he recommended Matt Peasley for thattugboat job!
When he left me yesterday he was on his way back to the office of the Red Stack Tugboat Company to tell the port captain he could stick some other skipper on the tug Sea Fox.
Oh, Matt, my boy, why do you want to be a tugboat man when I need a man with your brains?
The general manager of the tugboat company, scanning Matt's application and having a vacancy to fill, called up Mr. Skinner.
However, I have all that fixed up now, so you quit that tugboat job of yours and come to work here as soon as you can.
Cappy had surrendered, and the rowdy Matt, having given up hope of a snug berth as port captain of the Blue Star Navigation Company, had in despair sought a job with a tugboat company.
The tugboat company will libel the ship now, and sue us for fifty thousand dollars' salvage on vessel and cargo," and Cappy groaned, for he owned both.
If you hadn't quarrelled with that tugboat skipper over some girl or other, all this wouldn't have happened.
Meanwhile, the resinous wood flung into the furnace of the tugboatwas doing its work.
General Bambos and I will go aboard the tugboat and steam up the river till we find Yozarro.
You have not forgotten the tugboatwe saw pass down the river last night; I heard it returning to Atlamalco.
In his haste General Yozarro had given no orders to secure the tugboat in place, nor was there need of doing so.
He had aimed at the screw of the tugboat and he struck it so fairly that the stem snapped off and the blades dropped to the bottom of the river.
He waved them farewell, hurried aboard over the plank, which was quickly drawn in, and the screw of the tugboat began churning the muddy water, as she circled slowly about and headed up stream.
General Yozarro's tugboat must have come ashore directly behind the catboat of his predecessors.
There was a rush like that of the Atlamalcan tugboat and an immense alligator surged up from the muddy depths, and kept pace with the craft, as though tied to it.
That would justify him in pursuing the ingrate to the uttermost confines of his dominion, and to make his shelter by General Bambos a casus belli, especially if the message left with the engineer of the tugboat had been delivered.
Thus the moonlit river beyond was in clear view, and the sombre, motionless form of the tugboat could be made out where it snuggled against the southern bank.
All this time the screw of the tugboat was viciously churning, but the prow held fast.
No attempt was made on the tugboat to bring the second piece into action.
The purchase of a tugboat by General Yozarro had unquestionably tipped the scales in his favor.
Sighing and groaning, as if with great reluctance, the tugboat began again its toilful course up the stream.
This keen-eyed young man who had been so heartily indorsed by the tugboat skipper afforded the man in the fur coat an opportunity for a little conversation about himself.
A little abaft her beam a tugboat was blowing one long and two short, indicating her tow.
What do you think of my chances to make a dollar over and above providing I hire a tugboat and try to salvage?
It was on the tip of Mayo's tongue to argue the matter with the tugboat man, but he took second thought and shut his mouth.
First, however, I must build a steam tugboat to tow my schooner in and out over Humboldt Bar.
Also the dream of the schoolhouse and the church came true, as did the steam tugboat and the schooner with three masts.
That boat is going to run into the little flat one," said Sunny Boy positively, pointing an excited little forefinger at a fussy little tugboat making straight for a lazily floating barge loaded with coal.
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.
I'll promise you as good a breakfast as you would find ashore" So the tugboat with her emergency provisions waited, while we enjoyed a hearty breakfast.
Below the Narrows, the tugboatdropped astern, ranging up on the Viking's quarter.
I finished as soon as possible, however, and said good-bye to my guests; for a tugboat from my owners had come alongside in the meanwhile, and I was in a hurry to get ashore.
At daylight, the Santiago's company hurried their biggest tugboat alongside, stocked with emergency provision, if you please, for they expected us to be half starved.
Pausing near the tugboat office, the girls stood for a moment watching waves pound against the docks.
Saying goodbye to Louise, she hastened off to the Star office to write up the interview with the tugboat captain.
The words weren't out of my mouth when a tugboat appeared round the corner of the island, making up the channel.
The bridge was open to let a tugboat through and got stuck so they couldn't shut it, and there was no way back to Westchester except over the railroad trestle, and my father had said that I could go anywhere I pleased except on that trestle.
The pungent tang of the East River tickled our nostrils, and all my old ambition to be a tugboat captain returned.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tugboat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: boat; canoe; cruiser; ferry
