"Small ship" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to avoid the open waters, where the small ship upon which I was tossed about considerably, we kept to the smaller channels between the islands, going first through the channel of Limao and after that through the Tajapuru. It was practically the same course as the Itoquara, which was called by different names in different ...
— Across Unknown South America • Arnold Henry Savage Landor
... Vince, "about the tradition of the pirate ship disappearing, because it proves that there is a channel big enough for a small ship." ...
— Cormorant Crag - A Tale of the Smuggling Days • George Manville Fenn
... wild heights rose in view; now the English could see the masts of a small ship anchored in the sound; and now, as they rounded the islands, four white tents were visible on the grassy slope between the water and the woods. They were a gift from the Queen to Madame de Guercheville and her missionaries. Argall's men prepared for fight, while ...
— Pioneers Of France In The New World • Francis Parkman, Jr.
... a female, her countenance flushed and irate, showing by her actions her intention of climbing up the vessel's side. The crew obeyed their commander's call, and from the fore hatchway appeared the small ship's boy, holding a kettle of boiling water in his hand, while the rest had ...
— Voyages and Travels of Count Funnibos and Baron Stilkin • William H. G. Kingston
... Welshman, of the name of Henry Morgan, came sailing up to moorings with half-a-dozen captured merchantmen. But a few weeks before, he had come home from a cruise with a little money in his pockets. He had clubbed together with some shipmates, and had purchased a small ship with the common fund. She was but meanly equipped, yet her first cruise to the westward, on the coast of Campeachy, was singularly lucky. Mansvelt at once saw his opportunity to win recruits. A captain so fortunate as Morgan would be sure to attract followers, ...
— On the Spanish Main - Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. • John Masefield
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