Among other things at Ehrenbreitstein is a superb pleasure barge belonging to the Dukes of Nassau for water excursions up and down the Rhine.

A large barge which followed and was towed by the coche d'eau was filled with Austrian soldiers, and on the banks of the river were a number of soldiers of the Army of the Loire returning to their families and homes.

These ropes were then fastened to four bars, to each of which a strong horse was harnessed, as if for towing a barge.

For the involuntary honour paid to death even by the ignorantly busy, and happy, he kept ever a grateful and a jealous eye; and as some funeral cortège passed like a dream, Charon's barge amid all the motley craft of merchandise and pleasure, he would watch sternly to see if the fat and prosperous moment would do honour to the carriages of the king.

* Isak at his sowing; a stump of a man, a barge of a man to look at, nothing more.

But there was one gleam of hope in this weird and dismal scene, for on the farthest verge of the horizon there appeared, as it were, a lakesuch a lake as saw the passing of Arthur, vanishing in mystery and silently floating away upon a barge towards the east.

Her ladies and gentlewomen also, the fairest of them were apparelled like the Nymphs Nereides (which are the Myrmaids of the waters) and like the Graces; some steering the helm, others tending the tackle and ropes of the barge, out of the which there came a wonderful passing sweet savour of perfumes, that perfumed the wharf's side, pestered with innumerable multitudes of people.

Some of them followed the barge all along the river side; others also ran out of the city to see her coming in.

The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were lovesick; with them the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.

From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs.

A barge loaded with coal had sunk in a gale and could not be located with the ordinary means.

My warbling lute, the lute I whilom strung, When to king John of Portugal I sung, Was but the prelude to that glorious day, When thou on silver Thames didst cut thy way, With well-timed oars before the royal barge, Swell'd with the pride of thy celestial charge; 40 And big with hymn, commander of an host, The like was ne'er in Epsom blankets

The instant I know it is in sight I will ride over here, and William Long will start with the barge from the port.

After three-quarters of an hour's hard rowing the barge approached her side.

If he refused, he would be sent with his crew on shore in the barge, and his ship and cargo would alike be lost to him.

As they reached the deck they were passed down into the barge, from which all the oars save four had been removed.

Six of the soldiers had been killed, and the remainder having entered the barge, where they were stowed as thickly as they could pack, the head rope was dropped, and they were allowed to row away.

After lying alongside the barge for a minute or two she turned her head, and made back again with all speed.

At this moment Cowes contains half the world; and every villa, and assembly-room, and tavern, and pot-house, from the superb club-house, with its metamorphosed lords, to the Sun tap, with its boisterous barge-men, are as happy as mortals can be.

"To part with unhacked edges, and bear back our barge undinted.

Don't shoot the bullocks, but I particularly want to kill a blind bloke who may be with 'em, so if we charge, barge in too, and look out for a blinder and don't give him any quartergive him half insteadhalf your sword.

We traversed the town from end to end and studied the barge-boards and punkin-ends of every old house.

Leaving the room, he passed through the corps of light infantry, and walked to Whitehall, where a barge waited to convey him to Powles-hook.

Having entered the barge, he turned to the company, and, waving his hat, bade them a silent adieu.

Barge, for omnibus, 4. Beau, plural of, 21.