The boat itself was a mere shell, scarcely capable of sustaining safely more than three persons, but with lines of speed, its sharp prow cutting the water like a knife blade.

Swift through the land while Fame transported flies, And shouts triumphant shake th' illumined skies; Britannia, bending o'er her dauntless prows, With laurels thickening round her blazon'd brows, In joy dejected, sees her triumph cross'd, Exults in Victory won, but mourns the Victor lost.

Across the unpathwayed seas, Shot the brave prow that cut on Vinland sands The first rune in the Saga of the West.

They appeared like torpedo boats with a conical prow, dragging along the heavy, thick and long hair of their tentacles.

It has a curious split prow, so made for ease in lifting with one hand, and may have one, two, or three hatches, according to its size.

A gilded crown surmounts the long, curved prow, and a light though superb canopy covers the stern.

Straight to the Dutch he turns his dreadful prow, More fierce the important quarrel to decide: Like swans, in long array his vessels show, Whose crests advancing do the waves divide.

Let me take oar, and turn mine eager prow, Back to the quiet waveless source again, Where no harsh sound breaks on the dreaming brain, And winds steal softly round the careless brow, Swift as a dream my tiny bark hath gone,

I did not tell you she was dead; If you thought so 'twas no fault of mine; At this very moment, while I speak, They are sailing homeward down the Rhine, In a splendid barge, with golden prow, And decked with banners white and red As the colors on your daughter's cheek.

Their galley was unprovided with the defences which protected the sides of the Spanish vessels; and the troops, huddled together on their lofty prow, presented an easy mark to their enemies' balls.

Among the ships abroad on that night was one of strange device with high peaked prow, manned by a crew of fair-skinned and blue-eyed men, which was forging its way from a northern port to some fair city of Southern India; and when the storm struck her, she was not many miles from what we now call the Ratnagiri coast.

Mysterious, couchant, straining, the bulwarked city rode the waves; a mighty ship, her funnels the great buildings beyond, where sullen streamers of smoke trailed motionless and darkling; the indescribable, multitudinous hum of the city's blended voices for purring of monster engines, deep in her hold; bold and high, her restless prow swung seaward in majestic curve, impatient to beat to open main.

A Venetian gondola was also built for her, with silver prow and velvet cushions.

JUNK, a Chinese boat with a flat bottom, a square prow, a high stern, and a pole for mast.

" "Shut up," murmured Bill, "Here's Jim now, and Hal Purvis with him!" Through the door strode a great figure before whom the throng at the bar gave way as water rolls back from the tall prow of a ship.

At the first sight of their unholy prows, rising like water snakes above the waves, all the defenceless inmates and refugees, all the church plate and valuables, and all sickly or aged brothers were hurried into these monastic keeps; the doorsset at a height of from ten to twenty feet above the groundsecurely closed, the ladders drawn up, food supplies having been no doubt already laid in, and a state of siege began.

The high prow, the mast, now bare, and her round midships roof, bright golden-thatched with leaves of the edible bamboo, came moving quiet as some enchanted boat in a calm.

The fjord rowboats, as a rule, are light and pointed, with upright and high prow, and they carry a square sail.

Sylvia and Felix stood together at the blunt prow, watching the spectacle before them.