"Small boat" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in the afternoon Moran and Wilbur saw a small boat put off from the junk and make a landing by the creek. The beach-combers were taking on water. The boat made three trips before evening, but the beach-combers made no show of molesting the undefended schooner, or in any way interfering ...
— Moran of the Lady Letty • Frank Norris
... a thing or two with YOU," retorted "The Blue Posts," "if you was a-going to cross the Atlantic in a small boat." ...
— Three Men in a Boa • Jerome K. Jerome
... the resting intervals that he had been sent aft to resecure the loosened tackle of the suspended small boat. He had come upon Miss Farnham and her aunt unexpectedly, and so was off his guard. But in any event, he argued, he should have obeyed the instinctive impulse to excuse himself. He knew that the apology was a confession that he was a masquerader in some sort, and ...
— The Price • Francis Lynde
... last outlying crag, and they were all straining their eyes to find the sentinel pillars, they became aware that a small boat was being pulled cautiously toward them from the opposite side of ...
— The Stowaway Girl • Louis Tracy
... Flora, when completed, would be a craft of very respectable dimensions; far too bulky, indeed, to be launched by the simple process of pushing her off the beach into the water, as one would launch a small boat. The method of launching, therefore, was a matter requiring consideration, and would have to be arranged for before a stroke of work was done upon the boat herself. Leslie thought the matter over carefully, and at length arrived at the conclusion that ...
— Dick Leslie's Luck - A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure • Harry Collingwood
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