47 examples of boat-hook in sentences
"Stand by with the boat-hook, carpenter!"
The God of Dawson and of his Emma is a pitiless giant with a pitchfork, busily thrusting his creatures towards eternal torment; Dawson, in Emma's eyes, is an intrepid salvor with a boat-hook who once a week arduously pulls them out.
I should be compelled to stand at bay until a breeze got up, repelling boarders with the boat-hook!
Almost immediately, there swept up an enormous claw, and grasped the meat, and at that, the bo'sun cried out to me to take an oar and slide the bowline along the boat-hook, so that it should fall over the claw, and this I did, and immediately some of us hauled upon the line, taughtening it about the great claw.
On thrusting a boat-hook down, Roswell ascertained that the bay around him had a skim of ice nearly an inch in thickness.
"The boy pointed, and the skipper stood up in the boat and felt round with a boat-hook.
"He 'ad another go with the boat-hook arter they 'ad gone; then 'e gave it up, and sat in the boat waiting.
"The boy pointed, and the skipper stood up in the boat and felt round with a boat-hook.
"He 'ad another go with the boat-hook arter they 'ad gone; then 'e gave it up, and sat in the boat waiting.
He is just floating along, waiting for some one to thrust out a boat-hook and pull him in.
Boongaree speared a great many fish with his fiz-gig; one that he struck with the boat-hook on the shoals at the entrance of the Eastern River weighed twenty-two pounds and a half, and was three feet and a half long.
In addition to provision and clothes, a gun, a couple of hundred feet of stout line, and a boat-hook were stowed in the bottom.
Engaging the services of one of these water-rats, by a judicious promise of a larger sum as payment than the one intrusted to him for the purchase, I had soon a sufficient supply, and, resting the boat-hook on one of the logs, pushed off.
The mate thrust her out with a boat-hook.
The Falcon's boat pulled alongside, and a man in the bows held on to her with a boat-hook.
This was called a boat-hook.
The only question was as to how the scoundrel should be killed, for he was large and strong, and never far from a shovel, crow-bar, boat-hook or some weapon.
Mr. Fison at once caught up the boat-hook, and, jabbing furiously at the soft tentacles, forced it to desist.
The other workman stood up in the fore part of the boat, with the boat-hook, ready to strike any more tentacles that might appear.
The harpoon never having been sharpened, glanced off without effect; but another sailor succeeded in securing it by the tail with a boat-hook, and passing the bight of a rope behind its fins, we hauled it on shore, under Salrock House, the residence of General Thompson, who, with his family, came down to inspect this strange-looking inhabitant of the sea.
There they hung ready,and a rusty boat-hook, besides.
He jammed the blocks aside with his boat-hook.
Perry Purtett carried round the hat for a contribution to new paint it, new rib it, new gunwale it, give it new sculls and a new boat-hook,indeed, to make a new vessel of the brave little bowl.
The boat-hook caught; the launch, easing to a stop, cradled against the stringpiece.
If we on'y had a boat-hook!" From moment to moment the murmur came nearer and grew louder.