I always respect a man who's good at his work, and I bore in mind the story (which I heard from more than one good source) that Blowitz had made his start in France by paying court to his employer's wife, and the pair of them had heaved the unfortunate cuckold into Marseilles harbour from a pleasure-boat, left him to drown, and trotted off to the altar. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Meanwhile, officers were still questioning the ferry-and pleasure-boat staff, but as yet no one could identify Felicity as having been a passenger. ❋ Lynda La Plante (2009)
Illinois-based Outboard Marine has scaled back production of boat engines in Brugge, Belgium; recession has sunk the pleasure-boat business in Europe just as it did in the United States. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The National Marine Manufacturers Association said it expects pleasure-boat sales, down 6 percent in 2006, to fall 10 percent more in 2007, largely due to the housing woes. ❋ Unknown (2007)
This moment call me hither thy cousin Paul Wheatly, just come from sea, whom thou wert recommending to my service, if I were to marry, and keep a pleasure-boat. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Goesler, among a crowd of people who were watching the adventurous embarkation of certain daring spirits in a pleasure-boat. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Mr Smollet calls him the admiral, because he insists upon steering his pleasure-boat upon the lake; and he spends most of his time in ranging through the woods, which he declares he enjoys as much as if they were still his own property — I asked him the other day, if he was never sick, and he answered, Yes; he had a slight fever the year before the union. ❋ Unknown (2004)
A landing-place overshadowed by a willow, and a pleasure-boat lying moored there among some stakes, caught his eye as he passed along. ❋ Unknown (2004)
When the captain asked me in what ship I had been wrecked, I said that a party of us had been carried out to sea in a pleasure-boat by a strong current, and that Arowhena (whom I described as a Peruvian lady) and I were alone saved. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The evening had passed pleasantly, and the conversation had turned on many subjects, until, in an evil hour, Mr. Hawbury had dropped a hint which showed that he was fond of sailing, and that he possessed a pleasure-boat of his own in the harbor. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The fellow was an ingenious workman, and by my instructions, in ten days finished a pleasure-boat, with all its tackling, able conveniently to hold eight Europeans. ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)
Since the parties on board a pleasure-boat concentrate all their thoughts to the expected enjoyments they cast aside all irksome forms and strait-laced habitudes, delivering themselves up to the free air to live less conventionally than at home. ❋ Johanna S. Wisthaler (N/A)
'If this is not a pleasure-boat, I do not know what it is,' Ping Wang answered. ❋ Various (N/A)
In the trough of the sea, under the very foot of the immense steamship, lay a delicate pleasure-boat, with its mast broken flush with its deck, and its helpless body the sport of the cruel waves. ❋ John Williams Streeter (N/A)
It may be supposed that two or three such rowers, proud of the new honour of officiating in a pleasure-boat, got us on more quickly than the less athletic boatmen of show lakes, and we soon landed at the small fort which was the object of our pursuit, and which the commandant politely allowed us to explore. ❋ John Hughes (N/A)
They had large tanks of water in different parts of the garden, which served for ornament, as well as for irrigation, when the Nile was low; and on these the master of the house occasionally amused himself and his friends by an excursion in a pleasure-boat towed by his servants. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
He thought of Lelia, and the time they were adrift together in the little pleasure-boat; of their awful landing in the cold, gray dawn of the early morning, on that strange, lonely coast; of their subsequent wanderings, hungry and weary in the swamp -- but this was so different! ❋ Various (N/A)
Near the forefront of these was the pleasure-boat of Mentu. ❋ Elizabeth Miller (N/A)
