Whaleboat

Not from any sailor in whaleboat or launch could he accept, or would he be offered, a bit of biscuit or an invitation to go ashore for a run. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When the whaleboat was alongside, he descended into it first, superiorly, then invited Nau-hau to accompany him. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The whaleboat was my own, and as I thought of her, I felt pleased that my employers, who were as mean as Polish Jews, would not get to windward of me as far as she was concerned. ❋ Louis Becke (1884)

At one o'clock, P.m., therefore, Fox and his comrades set off in the whaleboat, which is represented as small in size, and crazy in condition. ❋ Unknown (1836)

At one o'clock, P.M., therefore, Fox and his comrades set off in the whaleboat, which is represented as small in size, and crazy in condition. ❋ Washington Irving (1821)

He came to rest, his golden muzzle soft-enfolded to the eyes, and was very still, all forgetful of the Ariel showing her copper to the sun under the press of the wind, all forgetful of Michael growing small in the distance as the whaleboat grew small astern. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Huahine women, laughing and giggling, were holding on to the sides of the whaleboat which had done the towing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Michael up, tucked him under an arm, and with him dropped into the, sternsheets of his whaleboat. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The schooner, moving slowly, jerk by jerk, as the men pulled in the whaleboat, was almost directly beneath. ❋ Unknown (2010)

“Say nothing,” Harley muttered to Villa, as they made out, peering over the bow of the shore-coming whaleboat, the rough coat, red-wheaten in colour, of Michael. ❋ Unknown (2010)

By canoe and whaleboat, on foot and donkey-back, the five thousand inhabitants of Fitu-Iva had trooped in. ❋ Unknown (2010)

On that night, the mate, the supercargo, the Polish Jew, and four native divers sneaked away in the large whaleboat. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As before, the captive Fuatino men towed in the whaleboat. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He shut off the electric light, picked up the bundle of books, carefully latched the front door, and went down to the waiting whaleboat. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"You're behaving handsomely, Mr. Hall, I must say," Captain Raffy volunteered, as the whaleboat came alongside the Uncle Toby. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Him the chief of the two chief men, the Big Devil, shot once in his whaleboat, and twice when he tried to crawl up the sand of the beach. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The whaleboat laid alongside the small, coral-stone landing-pier, and ❋ Unknown (2010)

So it was that Brown, thrilling with all the romance and adventure he had read and guessed and never lived, took his place in the sternsheets of a whaleboat, loaded with rifles and cartridges, rowed by four Raiatea sailors, steered by a golden-brown, sea-swimming faun, and directed through the warm tropic darkness toward the half-mythical love island of ❋ Unknown (2010)