35 Metaphors for crafts

A consort is no bad thing, when a craft is a-sealin' in a high latitude.

Even after the steel shaft had been brought ashore as tangible evidence that the craft was a thing of metal, they could not be induced to approach it.

I wished to hire a boat at Polangui to cross the lake of Batu, but the only craft I could find were a couple of barotos about eight feet long, hollowed out of the trunks of trees and laden with rice.

Mr. Craft will be your guardian, and I will be his bondsman and lawyer.

You see, Craft and I have been friends for a good many years, we have exchanged confidences, and have matured plans together.

"Aw-dinner-illy," she said, a flag-of-truce craft might be any old tub and would go the short way, from behind the city and across the lakes, not all round by the river and the Chandeleur Islands.

John O. Craft is president of Local 40, International Union of Steam Operating Engineers, of which union he has been a member for the last ten years.

" The Oyster Pond craft was the first clear of the ground.

Craft, cruelty, selfishness, and all the vices needed for success in a gladiatorial contest are often the fruits of such competition.

The Lady of Shalott's boat was no doubt of the latest and neatest trim, fully up to her drowsy date; and as for quaintness, no doubt a couple of hundred years hence, when our river-craft may be cigar-shaped torpedoes of aluminium for all I know, a picture of myself in my homely motor-boat, with antiquated hat and odd grey suit, will appear quaint and old-timed enough.

The strange and mysterious craft was a brigantine of that mixed construction, which is much used, even in the most ancient and classical seas of the other hemisphere, and which is supposed to unite the advantages of both a square and of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel, but which is nowhere seen to display the same beauty of form, and symmetry of equipment, as on the coasts of this Union.

The chief regretted that the craft was not "a serious passenger boat," for we should probably have to spend the night aboard.

As this was a friendly port, we could not suppose the craft to be the le Few-Folly; but, determined to make sure, we beat in, signalling the stranger, until he took advantage of our stretching well over to the eastward to slip round the rocks and get off to windward.

I'm but a cripple, or I think the Vineyard craft wouldn't be many days' run astarn!

Harkee, Master Schipper, you are not the only navigator in this bay, nor is your craft the swiftest that was ever launched.

'I hope you've had a pleasant journeydo you always travel this way?' "Scotty raised up and found his craft was agroundhigh and dryno water within a hundred feet of it.

All river-crafts, sea-crafts, are picturesque, are poetical.

In the case wherein Simon Craft, guardian of the estate of Ralph Burnham, a minor, is plaintiff, and Margaret Burnham, administrator of the estate of Robert Burnham, deceased, is defendant, you say you find for the defendant, and that the boy Ralph is not the son of Robert Burnham.

Amy. Betty had swung the boat's head around, but the craft was now badly water-laden, and did not move quickly.

" "Is your craft, then, a king's vessel; or does she sail with the commission of a corsair?" "Do I look like a corsair, Signor?" demanded le Capitaine Smeet, with an offended air; "I have reason to feel myself injured by so unworthy an imputation!"

John O. Craft is president of Local 40, International Union of Steam Operating Engineers, of which union he has been a member for the last ten years.

"A wholesome craft is yonder, and boldly is she commanded, and stoutly is she manned; but, for my part, having a character to lose, it is more to my taste to sail in a ship that can shew her commission, when properly called on for the same.

Now, if this here old craft was an automobile, how much would I have to pay for tires with a blow-out every minute, huh?"

" The craft occupied by the party was a broad, scow-like float, with low sides, steady, and of considerable capacity.

The Lady of Shalott's boat was no doubt of the latest and neatest trim, fully up to her drowsy date; and as for quaintness, no doubt a couple of hundred years hence, when our river-craft may be cigar-shaped torpedoes of aluminium for all I know, a picture of myself in my homely motor-boat, with antiquated hat and odd grey suit, will appear quaint and old-timed enough.

35 Metaphors for  crafts