In the meantime, Dan Davis was standing up in the little wherry making efforts to attract the attention of the battleship.
We shall have this wherry so heavily loaded that she'll sink if we get in much of a seaway.
The boy's face was pale, but despite the pain in his wrist he smiled bravely as he climbed into the wherry moored alongside.
Sam was in one of the large whaleboats, while Dan occupied the wherry with an ensign and an oarsman.
In the meantime Dan Davis was standing up in the wherrywith his flag ready for signaling.
As soon as this had been done the wherry moved up closer, keeping just far enough away to avoid interfering with the diver when he got at his work on the bottom of the sea.
The ensign and his oarsman had gotten aboard the steamer, trailing their wherry behind it.
Taking the bearing from our present position, a line drawn from the lighthouse to the battleship, crossed by a line from our wherry to that bluff yonder, would mark the location of the mine at the crossing point, sir.
This done, we made our way to the river, and getting into a wherry proceeded in her to the dock, in which my ship lay getting ready for sea.
Alighting from the wherry and ascending some few ragged stone steps, I found myself in the courtyard amid a strange medley of beasts and men.
Still bellowing my loudest, I saw men moving in the courtyard, and presently from the water-gate the wherry shot forth under the strokes of two oarsmen.
Very soon the little party was on its way to the wherry lying by the bridge, eagerly planning the day's pleasuring, and finally settling that the navigation of the Cherwell would afford the most amusement and novelty.
He said yes--Ryde was not far, and a Ryde wherry was a capital craft for sailing.
A Ryde wherry with you in the morning is the perfection of entertainment, but he has an evident relish for sound masculine discourse in the evening: we must not be too exacting.
The two whaleboats and the wherry at once got under way for the target near which Herc had last been seen.
In the stern of the wherry stood Ned, his face set and stern, and in his hand the navy revolver that had done the work.
The only commissioned officer assigned to the comparatively unimportant duty of target placing was, therefore, the ensign in the wherry in which Ned was posted as signalman.
The two gentlemen, attended by Gregory and the page, were soon embarked in a wherry whose prow the watermen headed against the current, the destination being some distance up-stream on the opposite bank.
They rushed on deck to see what was the cause of it, and were relieved to find that it was only a belated wherry beating up to windward, her canvas flapping each time she put about on a fresh tack.
A wherry was being pushed up the stream by its two stalwart boatmen, by the process known in Norfolk as quanting.
The reason is this, the broad is not more than three feet deep all over, save for a narrow channel in the middle, which is marked out by posts at long intervals, and if the wherry forsook this channel she would run aground.
The wherry was hailed, and for a small consideration her crew consented to tow them to Yarmouth.
Cram on as much sail as you could, and yet the clumsiest wherry could beat her in sailing.
Next morning, soon after gunfire, I landed at the Wherry wharf in Port Royal.
It was little past four in the morning when we arrived at the Wherry wharf, where they were already clustered, with their hands pinioned behind their backs, silent and sad, but all of them calm, and evincing no unmanly fear of death.
On a certain occasion I had gone to dine with Mr Isaac Shingle, and extensive American merchant, and a most estimable man, who considerately sent his gig down to the wherry wharf for me.
Then the shouting and yelling began to subside, and the two lads were forced to go with the stream, till an opportunity came for them to dive down a side street and reach the river stairs, where they took a wherry and were rowed east.
We are informed that you have bought a wherry from Mr. Robert Farrell," said the officer.
Along this wharf a few shallow boats were moored, and Pitt caught himself wondering which of these was the wherry in which with a little luck they might have been now at sea.
It will be noticed that the main-entry for the Wherry book is not given under "Koran.
The disuse of the wherry for locomotion destroyed this nursery; we have already shown that our later professionals are as a rule neither London watermen nor Tyne keelmen.
The wherry, when once under way, had more speed than the skiff, but when long row-boat voyages ceased in consequence of the introduction of steamers, the advantage of the skiff over the wherry was recognised by watermen.
The hull of the wherry was constructed as narrow as possible, and the sides flared out just at the greatest beam, so as to allow of sufficient width to carry the rowlocks with the requisite leverage for the sculls.
He was going toward the city, and the sight of the Chelsea Stairs with the waiting boats at once determined him to avoid the irritating inaction of being driven in a cab, by calling a wherry and taking an oar.
Might not some enquiry as to what wherrywas moored in the Cut at that time lead to the detection of the perpetrators of so diabolical an act as that of distressing the distressed.
During these sports a frightful accident had happened in consequence of the hatches of the “Ruby” wherry falling upon two men, who were thereby crushed to death.
But he had barely reached the deck when he heard himself hailed by a stentorian voice from a wherry sweeping by under full sail and the rapid ply of oars.
Sherebiah jumped up so violently that, heavy as the wherry was, he almost upset it.
The wherryslewed round and headed toward the brig.
But the man gave him no answer; only called to the two men rowing the wherry to pull more lustily.
Patience must perforce be exercised as, now against the tide and the stream, the wherry worked its way back.
The wherry swung in the tide, a useless bit of lumber, for no one dreamed of using it, of unknotting its rusty chain.
It was even disagreeable to gaze from the balconies of the long saloon, for the Loire flowed on in silent placidity, its bosom no longer ruffled by the eccentric movements of the wherry propelled by infant hands.
The wherry was there, swinging loosely and idly on its chain.
Then their resolution began to waver, and when the old man hinted that they might thus find time to reconsider the matter of the Wherry Mine, they finally gave in, and made up their minds to stay all night.
After inspectingWherry Mine the two friends walked along the shore together, and Oliver explained the nature of the difficulties in which his uncle was involved.
What his business was nobody knew, and we shall not inquire, but he was the first to express his belief that the turret and bridge of the Wherry Mine would give way.
At the time of our tale another effort had been made to work the Wherry Mine, and great expectations had been raised, but these expectations were being disappointed.
Once again the lightning flashed, and for a moment the American vessel was seen driving away before the wind, but no vestige ofWherry Mine remained.
True to their appointment, young Tregarthen and Oliver Trembath met at the western end of the town of Penzance, close to the sea-beach, where a mass of buildings and a chimney indicated the position of the Wherry Mine.
Although Mr. Doughty successfully towed a wherry behind a steam tug from Yarmouth to Stavoren, another wherry essaying the same feat was lost.
The limit of suitability seems to have been reached by perfection, since of late years no alteration whatever has taken place in the design of the wherry or its sail.
The least rare is that of misjudging the rate at which a wherry is coming, and getting athwart her bows while tacking; but a direct collision is averted, and the yacht's bowsprit or mainsheet is the only thing which suffers.
For choice for a mere cruising holiday, I would take, if middle-aged, a real Norfolk wherry converted into a roomy houseboat as presently to be described.
From Potter Heigham we sail in the wherry down the Thurne, into the Bure, and so on to Acle Bridge, where the mast has to be lowered.
At Oulton, Bullen has a number of craft, ranging from a large pleasure wherry accommodating twelve persons, and let at 12l.
The littlewherry which had fallen behind us had hard work.
We kept near the five herring vessels for some time; but afterwards four of them got before us, and one little wherry fell behind us.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wherry" 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
