Now for months together wherries and yachts peculiar to the locality sail by day and anchor at night upon the Broads; and camping-out parties may be encountered at all the villages connected therewith.
There are no Broads, however, near, but the tourists who hire their wherries and make water parties for periods of weeks and months frequently push on to this point.
He has two wherries with apprentices, and from them gains a good livelihood, without working himself.
The Irish Post Office, before the Act of Union, had employed boats called wherries for the despatch of special messengers and expresses to England.
In 1813, Lees, the Secretary of the Irish Office, informed the London Office that these wherrieswould henceforth be employed to carry the Irish mails to Holyhead.
Everybody who knows the build of the wherries knows that on the Thames it is extremely difficult to turn to windward in a small boat.
Nor has the number of lighters and wherries and dumb-barges diminished.
Times have altered, and the keen, ragged men who ply the wherries are only too glad to take a passenger to the Nore and back for a sovereign.
Still the city owed many trading advantages to its river, which is navigable for wherries and packets to the sea.
The harbour at Lowestoft has also been kept open, and the navigation from that port to the city is still carried on by means of wherries and other vessels.
This shows that after the opening of railways the dues were reduced, but not so much as might have been expected; the wherries continued to bring in a large proportion of the heavy goods.
These wherries are peculiar to the rivers of Norfolk and Suffolk, and those used on the Yare carry from fifteen to forty tons, drawing from three to four feet of water.
In the early days of Borrow’s residence at Oulton, the only craft that stirred its sunlit ripples were the punts of the eel-catcher and wildfowl-seeker and the slowly gliding wherries voyaging to and from the coast and inland towns.
Innumerable wherries dart about, rowed by two men each; they are strongly built, for baiting trawls on the banks and in a sea is no child's play.
Glancing astern, I remarked four wherries coming down at a great pace with the ebb.
But these wherries will live in any sea that runs on the New England coast.
Its build was outlandish; so unlike the wherries that were by, yet so like the craft that swim in the turbid Yang Tse.
Instinct guides them to the water from their birth, and they may be seen paddling about the harbor in stray wherriesor clambering up the rigging of some collier, in emulation of their elders.
Innumerable steamboats take the place of the wherries at the present day, and stokers and engineers have superseded the watermen.
A vast amount of the intercommunication and traffic between different portions of the city then, as now, took place upon the river, though in those days it was managed by watermen, who rowed small wherries to and fro.
We ran in among a number of wherries with people embarking from the Point or landing at it.
A row of lamps over the door-portals shed a yellow, uncertain light around, while the lights of barges and wherries were sown like stars along the river.
Late as was the hour, the Thames seemed alive with wherries and barges, and their numerous lights danced along the surface like fire-flies over a marsh.
The barge was used on festive occasions, or for country voyages, as to Hampton or Greenwich; thewherries were in constant requisition.
To these they fastened several towing lines, that the wherries might prevent the rafts drifting down stream, and might drag them forcibly against the current and so get the elephants across on them.
The wherries allowed to ply about London are either scullers worked by one man with two sculls, or by two men, each pulling an oar.
Small boats or wherriesplying for hire at sea-ports.
Vessels or wherriesduly licensed for conveying passengers across a river or creek.
At the head of the stairs, I looked back, and two more wherries with a gentleman in each were just coming in.
They were much amused at the remarks of the people whom they passed, whether on the bank or on board the wherries and yachts.
They sailed at a great rate down to Yarmouth, and brought up just outside a row of wherries which were moored to the quay.
Don't the wherries ever do any damage to the nets?
Dark-sailed wherries with their peaks lowered and their sails half mast high, and yachts with every possible reef taken in, all dashing along at a great pace, notwithstanding the opposing tide, and each with a white lump of foam at its bows.
The Norfolk wherries are of very peculiar build and graceful appearance.
Many of the wherries pressed round her to ascertain the cause of her vociferations, and as soon as it was understood who she was, other voices were added to hers.
Besides the rafts, two or three wherries had been brought up from the river, and several long scaling-ladders provided.
At the hour designated, Raleigh, Captain King, Stukeley and his son Hart, with a page, jumped into two small wherries in order to row to the lugger.
The tide was singing and gurgling in a mad flow, and it became doubtful whether the wherries could reach Gravesend under the protection of darkness, for day was breaking, and the whirling water made progress very slow.
They belong to wherriesslipping along some hidden waterway.
When winter comes, yachts and wherries are laid up, and summer visitants fly away with the swallows; yet the Broads are not deserted.
The wherries shot past each other, and in a few moments more, Ada and Gray stood on the top of the flight of stone steps conducting from the river to Bridge-street.
Still Ada would not speak, and they were rapidly nearing some stairs, at which plied wherries between Battersea and Westminster.
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