He slipped through the barrier gate, signaled clumsily to a boatman, crawled under the drunken little awning of the dinghy, and steered a landsman's course along the shining Canal toward the black wall of a German mail-boat.

" I hauled in the chain, and then jumped up to attend to the sails, which I had just let down loosely on deck, in my hurry to put off in the dinghy.

" I don't know exactly what the record is for getting off in a dinghy in the dark, but I think I hold it with something to spare.

I know anyhow that that was my chief sensation as I rowed the dinghy towards the wet slimy causeway, lit by its solitary lamp.

With the instincts of a true retainer he promptly removed the latter as soon as he heard my hail, and hoisting himself up on deck put off in the dinghy.

"I reckon I'd better pull the dinghy up on top o' the bank when I done with her.

As I ran I prayed fervently in my heart that Mr. Gow had followed my instructions and left the dinghy within easy reach of the water.

He again shouted out some breathless advice to the effect that it would be "best" for me to surrender, but without waiting to argue the point I scrambled up the bank and cast a hurried, anxious glance round for the dinghy.

It was just a question as to whether I could clear them, and I doubt if any winner of the Diamond Sculls could have shoved that dinghy along much faster than I did for the next few seconds.

You weren't; but there was a dinghy on the shore, which I suppose belonged to a small yacht that was anchored out in the channel.

Outside the ranks of the 'extremists of the dinghy school'whose number is unknown and is almost certainly quite insignificantno one asserts or ever has asserted that raids in moderate strength are not possible even in the face of a strong defending navy.

It is extraordinary that everyone does not perceive that if this were not true the 'dinghy school' would be right.

It was not discovered or alleged till the twentieth century that the crew of a dinghy could not land in this country in the face of the navy.

The dacoits jumped from their dinghy and ran up the bank.

There was a dinghy that belonged to a neighbor of ours where I grew up.

It was a Herreschoff dinghy.

Why can't he abide by that?" Noon of the next day saw the Waterbug heave to a quarter mile abeam of Cougar Point to let off a lone figure in her dinghy, and then bore on, driving straight and fast for Roaring Springs.

Socrates was sent in the dinghy to the prairie, over which the hogs had now been rooting for fully two months, mixing together mud and sea-weed, somewhat loosely it is true, but very extensively; and there he scattered Timothy-seed in tolerable profusion.

Down at the dinghy (up very close).

Down at the dinghy (up very close).

The captain turned and, merely pausing to point out the difference between the lines of a punt and a dinghy, with a digression to sampans which included a criticism of the Chinese as boat-builders, prepared to depart.

Fearing at last that their courage had failed, and that they would not come on board, the dinghy, our smallest boat, was sent towards them, there being only a boy besides myself in it.

At one time the dinghy got between the canoe and the shore, when instantly a gleam of terror flashed across the faces of the young men.

A few days after my interview in the dinghy with the natives, Mr. Fitzmaurice went ashore to compare the compasses.

At the time the vessel was wrecked, she had four boats, the longboat, two cutters, and a dinghy or small jolly boat.