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Sentences starting with boats

Boats were charged such heavy wharfage that they could not afford to land for one or two passengers or a light lot of freight. [5]
Boats containing the heavy ammunition and a regiment of conscripts were battered upon the rocks, and hundreds of the invaders found an unquiet grave upon the Banc des Violets. [11]
Boats innumerable were crowded round the little peninsula. [10]
Boats abound--row-boats, sail-boats, and steam-launches for excursion parties. [4]
Boats which screamed, and boats which had a dragon's roar were backing out of the close ranks where they had stood wheel-house to wheel-house, and were dodging and bumping in the channel. [9]

Sentences ending with boats

As the wind was every moment increasing, the skipper sheered away to allow plenty of sea-room between the boats. [4]
In the morning two whale ships arrived on the scene and sent their boats. [5]
Not more than three-fourths of the passengers and crew were got into the boats. [11]
He had found the portion of the shore from which the promontory ran densely crowded with people--from whom he learned that Antony was no longer in the palace--and the sea filled with boats. [10]
To be sure, the poor wretches in the painting were on a raft, but to think of fifty people in one of these open boats! [6]
It is more than a year ago," he continued, seeming not to notice my emotion; "they went by way of New Orleans, in one of Chouteau's boats. [9]
He agreed to supply them with food and send them to Allahabad in boats. [5]
They arrived with slow and impressive solemnity; they returned like a cloud driven before the storm, galloping homewards from the burial-ground along the quay, and then thundering and clattering over the bridge of boats. [10]
He owned the Scimitar and several smaller boats. [9]
These were so plentiful that I gathered a hatful for our friends below, and then I lingered for a last look at the boats. [9]

Short sentences using boats

There are those canvas boats. [11]
On the other boats? [5]
None of the boats missing? [6]
Meet any boats? [5]
We need boats. [11]

Sentences containing boats two or more times

McDowell can reach you by land sooner than he could get aboard of boats, if the boats were ready at Fredericksburg, unless his march shall be resisted, in which case the force resisting him will certainly not be confronting you at Richmond. [7]
Again I saw the green villas on the outskirts, the verdure-dotted expanse of roofs of the city behind the levee bank, the line of Kentucky boats, keel boats and barges which brought our own resistless commerce hither in the teeth of royal mandates. [9]
Those boats will never halt a moment between New Orleans and St. Louis, except for a second or two at large towns, or to hitch thirty-cord wood- boats alongside. [5]
They could have had many boats and low rates; but their policy rendered few boats and high rates compulsory. [5]

More example sentences with the word boats in them

On Saturdays the young men go out in their boats, and sometimes the water is fairly covered with the little sails. [5]
When the boats with their chattering passengers had pushed out into the lake and accomplished a third of the voyage, they were met by a skiff containing the faithful chaperons Mrs. Simpkins and Mr. Meigs. [4]
All the boats will be gone before they can get near one. [9]
Brigond was considering whether it were better, with his scant chart, to attempt the bay, or to take small boats and make for the shore. [11]
Down at the wharf, when the small boats put off for the steamer, one can well entertain himself. [4]
Customs officers who were watching the craft from the shore or from their boats put down their marine glasses contentedly when they saw and heard the salutes. [11]
The three boats were launched--long-boat and two quarter-boats. [5]
Some forty Uhlans were drowned in the river, though boats were sent to their assistance. [2]
Before General Wilkinson went to New Orleans the Spaniards seized our flat boats and cargoes and flung our traders into prison, ay, and sent them to the mines of Brazil. [9]
On my right was the St. Lawrence swelling on its course, hundreds of feet beneath, little boats passing hither and thither on its flood. [11]
When the bridge was repaired and the boats were a second time confined to the draw it was provided that this record should be kept. [7]
Beaver Dam Rock was out in the middle of the river now, and throwing a prodigious 'break;' it used to be close to the shore, and boats went down outside of it. [5]
The dangerous place was on slow, plodding boats, where the engineers drowsed around and allowed chips to get into the 'doctor' and shut off the water supply from the boilers. [5]
The boats were very uncertain in low water in these primitive times. [5]
He could see two little boats, but they lay in a narrow walled canal and this was closed by an iron railing. [10]
A day or two later the cut-off was three-quarters of a mile wide, and boats passed up through it without much difficulty, and so saved ten miles. [5]
The boats had turned the stake, and were coming in rapidly. [6]
He has made Troy his headquarters, and to this point boats come for their supply of feed for cattle. [5]
It stood close to the river bank, and the tiny dwelling belonged to the Prior of Berchtesgaden's fisherman and boatman, who kept the distinguished prelate's gondolas and boats in order, and acted as rower to the occupants of the little Prebrunn castle. [10]
In one expedition to Nansemond, when the Indians refused to trade, Smith fired upon them, and then landed and burned one of their houses; whereupon they submitted and loaded his three boats with corn. [4]
I had expected to find the bustle on shore greater, but what a throng of ships and boats, masts and smoke-stacks I saw! [10]
Mink River runs through the town, navigable for small boats after heavy rains. [6]
The regiments marched through the streets and aboard the boats, and pushed off before a levee of waving handkerchiefs and nags. [9]
The General has three boats chartered, with flats in tow, but the demand for these to tow out stock is greater than they can meet with promptness. [5]
I saw that these successive dwellers on the stream were busy in constructing and setting afloat vessels of various size and form and rig--arks, galleys, galleons, sloops, brigs, boats propelled by oars, by sails, by steam. [4]
The people compared them with what they had seen; and, thus measured, thus judged, the boats were magnificent--the term was the correct one, it was not at all too strong. [5]
The number of their collected enemies was great, but Hermas had hopes of outstripping them, for his prisoner revealed to him the spot where their boats, drawn up on shore, lay hidden under sand and stones. [10]
Powhatan cut off their boats, and refused to trade, so that Captain West set sail for England. [4]
Not far from the spot where it lay nearest to the river was the bridge of boats connecting Memphis with the island of Rodah. [10]
This sound and the sight of the boats are not good for timid people. [6]
Women waved to the other boats flocking after. [9]
At intervals, at the openings of these ravines, are little marinas, where the fishermen have their huts' and where their boats land. [4]
Near it, towards the north, in the open sea, was the anchorage of the larger sea-going ships and the various skiffs and boats of the fisher folk. [10]
It opened in the middle, permitting boats and vessels to go through. [11]
The boats of the Light Infantry swung in to shore. [11]
He heard that the fifty had been set upon by three hundred Indians, and, after a sharp skirmish and the loss of one man, had taken boats and gone to a small island near Hatorask, and afterwards had departed no one knew whither. [4]
I speak of the famous bridge of boats which Xerxes ordered to be built over the narrowest part of the Hellespont (where it is only two or three miles wide. [5]
The touch of the coming day was on the lake, and I made out the two boats dimly, riding on the dead swell and tugging idly at their chains. [9]
If one of the boats has a 'lightning' pilot, whose 'partner' is a trifle his inferior, you can tell which one is on watch by noting whether that boat has gained ground or lost some during each four-hour stretch. [5]
A big island that used to be away out in mid-river, has retired to the Missouri shore, and boats do not go near it any more. [5]
But he commanded that the boats should come on slowly and receive the attack in the river, while he came in from the desert. [11]
In the summer, that season of desolation for Honora, when George Hanbury and Algernon Cartwright and other young gentlemen were at the seashore learning to sail boats and to play tennis, Peter Erwin came to his own. [9]
Jack, an unlucky Tanna recruit, who had been engaged to act as boatman, received an arrow through his forearm, the head of which--apiece of bone seven or eight inches long--was still in the limb, protruding from both sides, when the boats returned. [5]
Fearful of the suck, we crept along the Indian shore until we counted the boats moored in the Bear Grass, and presently above the trees on our right we saw the Stars and Stripes floating from the log bastion of Fort Finney. [9]
One marvels how such boats could live in it. [5]
If the boats struck for Albemarle they would be in the doldrums all the way; and that means a watery perdition, with winds which are wholly crazy, and blow from all points of the compass at once and also perpendicularly. [5]
Mary and the storm, and the sweeping away of the forward boats, were facts--all the rest was fiction. [5]
The white canoe still wandered over the lake, alone, ghostly, always avoiding the near approach of the boats which seemed to be coming in its direction. [6]
Dionikos, Pyrrhus's youngest son, who was still unmarried, built new boats and repaired the old ones. [10]
Other large and small, richly equipped, or unpretending ships and boats were filled with curious spectators. [10]
Yonder, as if slumbering under a blue veil, lay the Calabrian coast, while nearer and more distant, but always noiselessly, ships and boats, with gently swelling sails, glided over the water. [10]
Then many fell silent, until, as the boats neared the line, and still more as they crossed it, the shouts burst forth which showed how a cramp of attention finds its natural relief in a fit of convulsive exclamation. [6]
No moon was shining, but I could see the General plainly; and once, when our boats almost touched, he saw me, and said graciously, "If they get up, Mr. Moray, you are free to serve yourself. [11]
I had scarce set out in a pungy from the dock, when I perceived a dozen boats about the packet; and when I thrust my shoulders through the gangway, there was the company gathered at the mainmast. [9]
It could be seen from her signals that the ship was living throughout the night, but at dawn she foundered before the Sally's boats could be put in the water; one of them was ground to pieces on the falls. [9]
The provisions to save the starving people are here, the boats are below the city, the wind is contrary, they cannot come up hither. [5]
The boats stopped running, my livelihood was gone. [5]
At Red Man's River she delivered her load of contraband to the traders waiting for it, and saw it loaded into the boats and disappear beyond the wooded bend above Dingan's. [11]
Then, for the rest of the night, coal was carried out to the Hornet in boats and barges. [11]
In order to reach the place where boats were to be hired, Bartja had to pass by the temple of Neith. [10]
In a never-ceasing procession they steamed up the river; those calm boats which had been wont to carry the white cargoes of Commerce now bearing the red cargoes of war. [9]
While dinner was preparing, the whole party were on the lake in boats, equipped with fishing apparatus, and if the trout had been in half as willing humor as the fisher, it would have been a bad day for them. [4]
The number of pleasure-boats, on the other hand, was greater than usual; for business was suspended, and many who hated the crowd found pleasure in rowing in their own boats. [10]
Wherefore even the owners and captains of boats furnished exclusively with outsiders, and previously considered to be wholly independent of the association and free to comfort themselves with brag and laughter, began to feel pretty uncomfortable. [5]
Your richer friends own boats of this kind, and they will invite you, and the joys of the trip will make a long day seem short. [5]
The pleasure-seekers went over usually in boats, of which there were said to be four thousand plying between banks; for there was only one bridge, and that was crowded with houses. [4]
The bow is ornamented with a steel comb with a battle-ax attachment which threatens to cut passing boats in two occasionally, but never does. [5]
Then for fifteen or twenty years, these men continued to run their keelboats down-stream, and the steamers did all of the upstream business, the keelboatmen selling their boats in New Orleans, and returning home as deck passengers in the steamers. [5]
As far as one's vision could carry, he might see the myriads of people in the boats rise up, and shade their eyes from the glare of lanterns and torches, and gaze toward the palace. [5]
He had escaped one danger, he had landed half a million dollars' worth of opium in the night, under the very nose of the law, and while Customs boats were patrolling the bay; there was another danger--the inquisitiveness of the Cormorant. [11]
He had charge on the Bear Grass of building the boats for the expedition, and was likewise a prominent member of that august body, the Jacobin Society of Lexington. [9]
Police boats are on patrol duty about us all the time, and it is as much as a sailor's liberty is worth to show himself in a red shirt. [5]
Presently, from an officer who had been captured as he was setting free a fire-raft upon the river to run among the boats of our fleet, I heard that Doltaire had been confined in the Intendance from a wound given by a stupid sentry. [11]
Several boats came off to the ship, bringing citizens. [5]
The royal band of trumpeters blew a shrill and piercing blast of welcome, and the first of the expected boats stopped at the landing-place. [10]
He seized one of their boats and escaped to the ship which contained the provision. [4]
The trim boats of the service convey the guests thither; and there, or on board the flag-ship, they have the duplicate of the hospitalities of Government House. [5]
The dark hulls of the larger ships and the flotilla of boats in the background were afloat in a fiery sea, and the still water under the shore mirrored the illumination in which the whole of Lochias was wrapped. [10]
Yes, on some of the boats, where there are the kind of passengers that want it and can pay for it. [5]
Now a number of the boats slide backward into the stream, leaving wide gaps in the serried rank of steamers. [5]
We supply most of the boats in the West; there's hardly a pound of butter on one of them. [5]
About the middle of the afternoon a couple of little boats come along, but they didn't come from high enough up the river; but at last there was a big one, and they hailed her. [5]
They have plenty of good boats, but no competition--and that is the trouble. [5]
Also, a fleet of covered boats was to be stationed near the boulevard as an additional help in case a retreat should become necessary. [5]
On the bridge of boats the men would stop others, and from thence, too, piercing shrieks came across to her. [10]
A long line of boats lay idle, with noses to the levee. [9]
So the fleet of boats came up and went away loaded with provisions and cattle, and conveyed that welcome succor to the hungry city, managing the matter successfully under protection of a sortie from the walls against the bastille of St. Loup. [5]
But such is not the usual experience: most people would make great sacrifices to avoid the hour and three quarters in one of those loathsome little Channel boats,--they always call them loathsome, though I did n't see but they are as good as any boats. [4]
Jean Jacques was not one of these; but he saw Carmen Dolores and her father safely bestowed, though in different boats. [11]
The two boats nearing each other, Joan stood up, saluting, and Lafarge did the same. [11]
The comfort of most of Philippus's guests was destroyed, and the ladies uttered a sigh of relief when they had descended from the lofty galley and the boats that conveyed them ashore, and their feet once more pressed the solid land. [10]
There were boats moored there, large and small, and Andreas hailed the man who kept them, and who sat eating his supper, to ask him whether he had unmoored the green skiff for Alexander. [10]
She had often met this man when he brought fish for the kitchen, and he had gone with the boats in the water excursions which she had sometimes taken with Gombert and Appenzelder or with Malfalconnet and several pages. [10]
Lights twinkled from many a cottage window and from boats in the bay, and strains of music saluted the travelers. [4]
I did not look upon them with the eye of an expert, but the great number and variety of these beautiful miniature ships and boats excited my admiration. [6]
Then came a line of buoys beyond these, with manned boats moored alongside to protect the fleet from fire rafts, which once already the enemy had unavailingly sent down to ruin and burn our fleet. [11]
It has been like a splendid and richly-dressed trireme sailing, plague-stricken, into a harbor full of ships and boats. [10]
Down on the Levee rich and poor battled for places on the landing-stages, and would have thrown themselves into the flood had there been no boats to save them from the dreaded Dutch. [9]
The sail-boats that lay at anchor on the still silver surface sent down long shadows, and the slim masts seemed driven down into the water to hold the boats in place. [4]
Soon all the laughers that were left were the owners and crews of boats that had two non-association pilots. [5]

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