"Tugboat" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ply his paddle. His objective lay some six miles up-stream. But when he came at last to the upper limit of the tidal reach he found in this deep, slack water new-driven piling and freshly strung boom-sticks and acres of logs confined therein; also a squat motor tugboat and certain lesser craft moored to these timbers. A little back from the bank he could see the roofs ...
— The Hidden Places • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... says he, and in the course of things he further explained that he was a tugboat fireman, out on a strike, givin' me the follerin' information ...
— Pardners • Rex Beach
... wondering why Coach Brannigan had suddenly elected to send him along with the hammer-throwers and shot-putters, on the jog, and not having seen the insane facial contortions of the Brigade, before the Coach gave orders, the gladsome Senior started forth in good spirits, resembling a tugboat convoying a ...
— T. Haviland Hicks Senior • J. Raymond Elderdice |
