"Surely you can have him point out a landing place," said the captain.

At the landing-stage by the boat-house I coiled it up as best I could and threw it in.

The functions of a war vessel were these: Defensively, to attack ships that come to bombard our forts, to attack ships that come to blockade us, to attack ships convoying a landing party, to attack the enemy's fleet, to attack ships interfering with our commerce; offensively, to bombard an enemy's ports, to blockade an enemy, to convoy a landing party, to attack the enemy's fleet, to attack the enemy's commerce.

He was just by the edge of the rock, almost within reach of my landing net, when, with a last desperate effort to escape, he plunged towards the bottom, made a dive under the rock, the line came against its edge, slipped gratingly for a moment, snapped, and the fish was gone.

Some were hovering, others were heading in toward the landing field and a few others were departing.

The squadron consisted of the London, which acted as flagship, the Victory frigate, the Revenge and Defiance grabs, the Hunter galley, two gallivats, a bombketch, a fireship, and a number of fishing-boats for landing troops.

The entrance to the airlock was discernible across the tiny landing area.

He went up the aisle, nodded to the sacristan, entered the treasury, took the turquoise cup, came out with it in his hand, nodded again to the sacristan, went down the steps, crossed the Piazza, ran down the landing-stairs, and jumped into a gondola.

It was too late now, for their landing wheels were almost touching the surface as they glided on.

The well-combined action of the fleet permitted the execution of most hazardous landing operations, and lent the support of its artillery to the troops operating in the coastal region.

" On a beautiful morning in June, 1903, Mary packed her clothes and supplies and marched the six miles down to the landing beach at Ikunetu.

The rude landing wharf along which we lay was already densely crowded with men, their appearance and dress largely proclaiming them to be planters from the interior, either gathered to inspect the consignment of prisoners, or eager to purchase at low prices the stores hidden away in the vessel's hold.

But at last the fleet turned back past Gibraltar, and stood on for the Azores, the last landing point before reaching home.

After a few seconds, the ship touched down and secured itself to the landing pad.

But Titus Manlius Torquatus, who was sent with a Roman army to Sardinia, completely destroyed the Carthaginian landing force, and reassured to the Romans the undisputed possession of the island (539).

There were wired-in entrenchments with strong points here and there, and a series of communication trenches and redoubts behind them for 3000 yards to Sheikh Hasan, which was the port of Gaza, if you can so describe an open roadstead with no landing facilities.

In one instance as many as 120 legionaries fought in each ship on occasion of a great naval battle; in that case however the Roman fleet had at the same time a landing-army on board.

The empty landing lay, as it were, expectant at Hilda's door.

If the horses therefore missed the landing ghat or stage, which was cut sloping into the bank, there was a danger of their being swept away altogether and lost.

It would seem strange to cross the Channel in time of peace; the harbour would not look like itself with civilians not having to show passports, and without the white hospital ships, and the white-bearded landing-officer at the foot of the gangway, and the board held up with lists of names of officers who have telegrams waiting for them.

When they had reached the landing opening into the banquet hall the Senator, turning in the direction of his own apartments, released his son with a motion of his hand toward the great, splendid chamber from which issued ripples of girlish laughter; and Marcantonio stood for a few moments under the arches which opened into it, looking on unobserved, for here it seemed that the fête was already reigning.

One dot, larger, detached itself from the others and indicated the flare on the end of the landing float.

The 13th Captain Warren, in a schooner and other armed sloops and pettiauguas anchored in their harbor, just out of cannon shot, until the 26th, when the sailors were employed in landing ordnance and other stores, within reach of the enemy's cannon.

He couldn't have left by Foggatt's landing door, as we know; and as he was there (I am certain of that), and as the chimney is out of the questionfor there was a good fire in the gratehe must have gone out by the window.

Aunt Victoria made her way up the gang-plank to the landing dock, achieving dignity even there.