The lorcha was a dismasted hull, no more, with a Filipino family and one or two men aboard to steer. ❋ Mary Helen Fee (N/A)
A lorcha, called the Arrow, flying the British flag, had been seized by the Chinese, and the question arose as to the right of the vessel to the protection of England. ❋ Cook, Richard B (1989)
He didn't bother with a small boat, but just dropped over the side and trod water until the second lorcha came by, and he scrambled aboard. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1985)
I said it was, and that we ought to be there tomorrow noon, and after a little more talk he said he'd better take post on the second lorcha for the night, as we had agreed, so that both vessels were under proper control. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1985)
So I growled at her to get her lamp going and bring her pin, and she came panting as I pushed through the chick-screen to the long main hold which ran the full length of the lorcha under its flush deck. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1985)
Mind you, as I leaned on the rail of the lead lorcha bearing up beyond Lintin Island two days after our picnic, with the rising sun rolling the fog-banks up the great estuary, I could honestly say it wasn't either the cash or the lady that had made me turn opium-runner. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1985)
The other lorcha, I was pleased to see, was floundering about with her crew at sixes and sevens. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1985)
By God, the second lorcha was now ahead, and there was Ward at her helm; we were close in by the east bank - it must be the east, for there was the sun gleaming dully through the morning mist, the first rays turning the waters to gold around us. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1985)
She squealed with laughter and plunged in, reached the lorcha in a few fast strokes, and was hauled inboard, all wet and shiny and giggling in her little loin-cloth. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1985)
He sprang away from the tiller of the other lorcha, and I loosed off another shot which struck splinters from his rail; his boat yawed crazily, and in the crisis he behaved with admirable presence of mind: he was over her rail like a porpoise, taking the water clean and striking out like billyho for the bank, not a hundred yards off. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1985)
By God, the second lorcha was now ahead, and there was Ward at her helm; we were close in by the east bank — it must be the east, for there was the sun gleaming dully through the morning mist, the first rays turning the waters to gold around us. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1985)
My lorcha was just completing her turn; I spun round in bewilderment. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1985)
