He sold his little havings, and embarked with his wife at Vannes on a merchant vessel bound for Abbeville.
Just as the vessel was ready, and about to sail next day, Slowcoach arrived, slow as usual, and after every one else was ready, and their goods on board.
For, as he was in this island, there came in a large merchant vessel from England, and Grettir and those with him at once went to see the shipmen, and among them was Biorn.
There stood a brazen vessel near the chair, in which were various articles, probably of worth, but it was too dark for Grettir to see what they were.
Presently a ten-oared boat put off from shore, rowed by six men, and approached Onund's vessel, and the men in the boat hailed the vessel and asked whose it was.
After the ship had lost sight of land a heavy sea was encountered, and unfortunately the vessel was rather leaky and hardly seaworthy in dirty weather.
Towards the close of the summer Grettir arrived in a vessel off the mouth of the White-river, an exile from Norway.
And then finally Thorbiorn left the vessel and journeyed overland, and Thorstein lost his traces.
So he got together men, and asked his neighbours to help him; and a large vessel was manned.
The vessel set sail, and reached the south of Norway.
The vessel reached Drontheim before him, and the news of the hostel burning roused universal indignation against Grettir.
He brought the vessel to the rope and fastened the end of the cord to its handle.
The friendly nation is supposed to see to it that no such cargo is shipped from its shores, and the vessel undertaking such a task ranks as a pirate and is called a filibuster.
Then when we sight a vessel we can bend them onto the halliards and have them aloft before anyone can interfere.
Male figure, holding a vessel in right hand covered with a cloth, the end of which was in left hand.
I could not help reflecting how very justly this captain had got his vessel into jeopardy by first allowing a man to be seduced from his allegiance, and then placing confidence in him.
I shall attempt to describe the scene that a succession of Rollers would present, supposing, what has indeed happened, that a vessel is caught on the coast when coming in.
The vessel fell by the head; her stern was out of the water; she steered wild, yawed, and decreased in her rate of sailing in a surprising manner.
Not a vessel dared to show her nose out of port: we had her if she did.
We found here a slave vessel in charge of a naval officer, bound to England; and I thought this a good opportunity to quit, not being over anxious to serve as a lieutenant when I knew I was a commander.
Keeping constantly on deck, almost night and day, I attended to the course of the vessel and the sail she carried, never taking the trouble to consult the lieutenant, who was generally senseless in his cabin.
In case of meeting with any vesselbound to the United States, the admiral had given me permission to send my prisoners home without carrying them to England.
Before it was over I had fainted, and before I regained my senses the vessel was under weigh, and out of gunshot from the batteries.
Eight hundred of the brave, Whose courage well was tried, Had made the vessel heel And laid her on her side.
At the end of a year the blood vessel broke again.
Their plan was to debark from the fishing junk in which they had taken passage, cut across from one headland to another and then rejoin their vessel to repeat the same process farther on.
At the conclusion, the patient hearer responded: "Well, gentlemen, the government has at present no vessel which can sink this Merrimac.
Here a gap had been cut to let the vessel slip through.
Lincoln carried the passengers aboard the vesseland handed up their trunks.
Hence the snorting, puffing, and clangor of the vessel as she surged against the freshet, alarmed all the population in hearing when she ascended the virgin Spoon.
The vessel is wrecked, and all distinctions are at an end.
The chances are that if any vessel had come sufficiently near it would have attracted attention, and led to a boat being lowered, and an exploring party sent thither.
The sails were reefed, and the vessel was prepared for the warfare with the elements which awaited it.
Nor did they encounter any other vessel for several days, so that there was no chance of obtaining the desired assistance.
Granted; but no man, however good a seaman, is fit to manage a vessel when he allows liquor to rob him of his senses.
They were taken on board, and discovered that thevessel was the Phocis, from New York, bound for Melbourne.
It became so rough and difficult to stand on deck, on account of the vessel being tossed about like a cockleshell, that Harry felt constrained to go below.
Gonzalo Vaz called her to account on this subject, when she declared that the vessel was there against her will, as she was not in condition to prevent it, but would be glad that it were taken by the Portuguese.
Next morning the pink joined the fleet, on board of which all the wounded men were put, and those that were fit for service in that vessel were distributed among the others.
At this place he espied a large vessel to which he made signs of peace, but received a rude answer.
The foremost vessel was a Dutch pink, and many of the other vessels were commanded by Hollanders.
Sailing for Xamoy in Liampo, they took another Chinese vessel and went to the island of Luxitay[359], where they remained fifteen days refitting both vessels, and then proceeded on their voyage.
The crew of thisvessel were probably Malays, perhaps the most ferociously desperate people of the whole world.
In this process the chocolate is put in a vessel shaped something like a shell (hence called a conche), and a heavy roller is pushed to and fro in the chocolate.
To make mixing easy one ingenious planter uses a cylindrical vessel which can be turned about on its axis.
The vessel was short handed, and moreover the officers did not wish the stigma to attach to the ship of a serious mutiny among the crew.
They are loaded with round shot to keep a vessel from approaching, though of course they could fire grape into any boats they saw coming in.
Water and a week's rations of food were placed on board the boats; for in that climate there was no saying when a gale might spring up, or how long the vessel might be before she got back to pick up the boats.
Some days elapsed before the story was told, for a few hours later the sky clouded over and the wind rose, and before next morning the vessel was laboring heavily under double reefed topsails.
The next day the gale began to abate, and by evening the wind had nearly died away, although the vessel was rolling as heavily as before among the great masses of water which rolled in from the Atlantic.
Having got a berth on board a foreign bound vessel I made two voyages out to Brazil and back.
There were no foreign bound ships in the port, and he had no wish to ship on board a coaster; he therefore resolved to wait until a vessel sailing for foreign ports should leave.
At six o'clock the leading vesselof the French squadron opened fire, and at the signal her consorts all followed her example.
I intend you to take thisvessel secretly, without authority from me or from any one else.
As my unseen vessel glided softly past the side of one fishing-boat, whose name I could just make as the Crane, I overheard a few scraps of conversation, which threw a pathetic light on the situation.
Every vessel was busily reporting the signals from the flag ship, the launches were dashing to and fro, and there was every sign of bustle and activity.
Though not a seaman, I had always heard that a vessel in motion is bound to avoid one that is at rest.
Still, knowing what I did of the Russian character, I had some hope that the Captain was boasting in order to impress me, and that he would not really dare to run down a British vessel within reach of the shores of England.
We steamed steadily on through the fleet, every vessel of which was probably by this time aware of our presence.
In a room heated by a stove there is frequently a vessel of water placed by or on the top of the stove.
In connection with this we may ask why freezing machines have the inner vessel in which the freezing takes place of zinc, and the outer vessel which contains the ice and salt of wood?
First we knew a British vessel overhauled us, and, not likin' th' looks of things, began to ask questions.
That was th' name of th' vessel where th' mutiny was!
I dreamed we were all at sea, on a vesselin a storm, and, somehow, we became separated.
The British vessel swept away, leaving Jack Jepson still on the schooner, but under threat of arrest.
You were going to pretend the vessel was sinking, before the time set for the pictures, and you were going to get them to abandon the schooner.
But our lives surely are in danger if this vessel is sinking.
I don't know anything about the vessel I have bought, but I doubt if she was ever in a mutiny.
I found a French vessel puttin' t' sea an' as they was short handed I signed on.
In fact there is something queer about this vessel and Captain Brisco.
He has engaged an old vessel for this purpose, and he is going to sink it with all on board.
The moving picture girls, and their friends, had paid several visits to her, and found Captain Brisco, Jack Jepson and the others hard at work making the vessel a semblance of her former self.
Besides, it isn't at all likely that anyone on that vessel had anything to do with your being taken into custody on the mutiny charge.
As I told you, a vessel can't remain stationary on the sea.
The tide was going out, and less of the weight of the vessel was supported by the water, and as the volume of the waves diminished, their power lessened.
You might break adrift, or some vessel might run into you, and then there would be work to do.
At daybreak Mungo was to convey them to the harbour, where they should embark upon the vessel that was to bear them to the lowlands.
He put down the vessel with a startled jolt that betrayed his fright.
I have observed, in relation to this point, that in a number of cases, notably the great salt vessels of Saline River, Illinois, the fabric has been applied after the vessel was finished.
The nets or other fabrics used have generally been removed before the vessel was burned or even dried.
Furthermore, I have no doubt that these textilia were employed as much for the purpose of enhancing the appearance of the vessel as for supporting it during the process of construction.
If the net had been used to suspend the vessel while building, the threads would necessarily have hung in the opposite direction.
Many examples show very irregular markings such as might have been made by rolling the plastic vessel irregularly upon a woven surface, or by molding it in an improvised sack made by tying up the margins of a piece of cloth.
A vessel used by soldiers for carrying water, liquor, or other drink.
Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp.
A familiar for the flagship, or for the principal vessel of a squadron or fleet.
A staff or pole on which a vesselis supported between two persons.
To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh.
A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
Of all meat which may be eaten, that on which such water cometh shall be unclean: and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.
But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken: and if it be sodden in a brasen pot, it shall be both scoured, and rinsed in water.
And thevessel of earth, that he toucheth which hath the issue, shall be broken: and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
It must have been a fine sight to see this elusive vessel jump right across Russia and back again.
At length, on the 14th, the coffin was transferred from the "Dorade" steamer on board the imperial vessel arrived from Paris.
Upon pedestals along the sides of the vessel are tripods in which incense was burned, and underneath them are garlands of flowers called here "immortals.
In the evening, the imperial vesselarrived at Courbevoie, which was the last stage of the journey.
The superheater of a marine boiler is a cylindrical vessel receiving the steam from the boiler, and delivering it to the main steam pipe, whence the steam is delivered to the engines, etc.
Division plates are fitted in some boilers to prevent the water from passing from one side of the boiler to the other when the vessel rolls heavily.
Any number of pieces may be placed together in a suitable furnace, and when at a proper heat plunged into a vessel containing water at the required temperature.
An air vessel or air chamber is a vessel fitted to the delivery and sometimes also to the suction side of a pump.
What is an air vessel or air chamber used on a pump for?
The pressure that propels a vessel is taken by the thrust block in a screw propeller engine.
The only sure method of ascertaining the quantity of water evaporated is by actual measurement with a cistern or vessel whose cubic contents are accurately known.
Why, the flat faces of considerable area, being comparatively weak to resist the interior pressure, would be bulged out, and the vessel would contract considerably in the long directions, increasing in thickness.
An oil cup is either a cavity cast in the piece or a cup shaped vessel or hollow cylinder screwed in.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vessel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
