Hidden behind the horse, I heard enough of their conversation to know that I had narrowly escaped discovery before I went on board the coasting-vessel. ❋ Unknown (2003)
In August, his father took him on a coasting-vessel. ❋ Unknown (2003)
My father was the owner of a small coasting-vessel, and of course was often away from home for weeks and sometimes for months together. ❋ T.P. Wilson (N/A)
The Ella had been a coasting-vessel, carrying dressed lumber to South ❋ Mary Roberts Rinehart (1917)
Many a coasting-vessel was sent to Halifax to swell the coffers of the British prize-courts, or, after being set on fire, was left to lie charred and ruined upon the rocky shore, as a warning to all who violated the blockade. ❋ Willis J. Abbot (1898)
A coasting-vessel drawing five feet of water will anchor off Apalachee Bay in eight feet of water, at the commencement of a "norther," and in four or five hours, unless the crew put to sea, the vessel will be left upon the dry bottom of the ❋ Unknown (1869)
One pleasant morning, six years before the date at which this story commences, a small coasting-vessel drew up at a North River pier in the lower part of the city. ❋ Horatio Alger (1865)
I asked, and I proceeded to explain, that having done my business, I had been drawn back to the harbour by all the attractions shipping has for me, and had there been accosted by the mate of a coasting-vessel bound for New York with salt fish, who was in want of hands both to load and man her. ❋ Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing (1863)
From this time forth my rambles became more frequent and, as I grew older, more distant, until at last I had wandered far and near on the shore and in the woods around our humble dwelling, and did not rest content until my father bound me apprentice to a coasting-vessel and let me go to sea. ❋ Unknown (1859)
There are ships here of every shape and size -- from the little coasting-vessel to the great East Indiaman, which, in its unfinished condition, looks like the skeleton of some dire megatherium of the antediluvian world. ❋ R. [Illustrator] Richardson (1859)
The _Lighter_ is a small, rough, clumsy species of coasting-vessel, usually of the sloop rig. ❋ R. [Illustrator] Richardson (1859)
The money which Clayton had given them enabling them to furnish a respectable outfit, they found no difficulty in taking passage under this character, at Norfolk, on board a small coasting-vessel bound to New York. ❋ Unknown (1856)
I was a handy lad, and I got a cabin-boy's berth on board a coasting-vessel. ❋ Wilkie Collins (1856)
A free colored citizen, of the county of Westchester, in the state of New York, named Gilbert Horton, was employed as a sailor on board a coasting-vessel, which touched at a port in the District of Columbia. ❋ Jabez Delano (1847)
The next day he managed to sell all the remains of his property, and made a bargain with the owner of a small coasting-vessel to convey him and his wife (whom he was compelled to take with him) to Swan ❋ Edward Wilson Landor (1844)
AND DEAR SIR AND EXCELLENT FRIEND, -- I arrived at Cadiz this morning by a small coasting-vessel, after undergoing a quarantine of four days at ❋ George Henry Borrow (1842)
Cain had now to a certain degree recovered, and knowing that they were in the channel of the small traders, he pointed out to the Kroumen that, if supposed to be pirates, they would inevitably be punished, although not guilty, and that they must pass off as the crew of a small coasting-vessel which had been wrecked. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)
'Odyssey' of the barricades and of the hulks which made up Bakounine's history, and which is, nevertheless, the exact truth; about his adventures as chief of the insurgents at Prague and then at Dresden; of his first death sentence; about his imprisonment at Olmutz, in the casemates of the fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul, and in a subterranean dungeon at Schusselburg; about his exile to Siberia and his wonderful escape down the river Amour, on a Japanese coasting-vessel, and about his final arrival, by way of Yokohama and ❋ Guy De Maupassant (1871)
I was a handy lad, and I got a cabin-boy’s berth on board a coasting-vessel. ❋ Unknown (2003)
