1639 examples of hulls in sentences

Olympus, covered with woods of beech and oak, towered to the clouds that concealed his snowy head; and far in advance, under the last cape he threw out towards the sea, the hundred minarets of Brousa stretched in a white and glittering line, like the masts of a navy, whose hulls were buried in the leafy sea.

In front, three or four large Turkish frigates lay in the Bosphorus, their hulls and spars outlined in fire against the dark hills and distant twinkling lights of Asia.

The hulls of the frigates were now lighted up with intense chemical fires, and an abundance of rockets were spouted from their decks.

The crowd of boats pitching tumultuously around the steamer, jostling against each other, their hulls gleaming with wet, as they rose on the beryl-colored waves, striped with long, curded lines of wind-blown foam, would have made a fine subject for the pencil of Achenbach.

Some six or seven barks were in view, their sails drooping in negligent forms, as if disposed expressly to become models for the artist, their yards inclining as chance had cast them, and their hulls looming large, to complete the picture.

Then the king of the rats called his subjects together and ordered them to gnaw the hulls from the rice.

Well, the drifters and trawlers were feeling it then, And the sea chuckled deep as it washed to and fro On the hulls of the battleships up in the Flow.

Around them the water was black as basalt, only that now and again a spark of light was struck by the faint lifting of the current against the immovable hulls.

Meanwhile the Official Press Bureau has begun its operations, the Prince of Wales's Relief Fund for the relief of those who may suffer distress through the war is started, and in the City Because beneath grey Northern Skies Some grey hulls heave and fall, The merchants sell their merchandise All just as usual.

The governor, himself, or Captain Betts pointed every gun that was fired in the battery, and they seldom failed to make their marks on the hulls of the enemy.

Its speed was insignificant compared with that of a transatlantic steamer, though absurd compared with that of the merchant vessels of great hulls and little machinery that were going around soliciting cargo at any price, from all points.

However, we thought of how differently the watchful buoy-tender would be regarded by the heavy laden freighters that would pass that way, their rusty hulls plowing deep.

The miller's wife doesn't care much for them; they're a bother to feed, she sayshave to have meal-worms, and rice with the hulls on, and all that."

Late in the evening it slipped into the port of Stockholm, and the worthy Finn, winding in and out among the heavy hulls in the harborhe was well used to the joblanded his passengers on the wharf at a lonely spot near a lonely inn, where the customs officers rarely showed their noses.

Boil till the hulls rub off.

To remove the hulls, scrub the corn well with a new stiff brush broom kept for the purpose, changing the water often.

Put through half a dozen or more waters, and then take the corn out by handfuls, rubbing each well between the hands to loosen the remaining hulls, and drop again into clear water.

Pick out all hulls.

" The green legumes which are more like a succulent vegetable are easily digested with the skins on, if the hulls are broken before being swallowed.

PULP SUCCOTASH.Score the kernels of some fresh green corn with a sharp knife blade, then with the back of a knife scrape out all the pulp, leaving the hulls on the cob.

STEWED CORN PULP.Take six ears of green corn or enough to make a pint of raw pulp; with a sharp knife cut a thin shaving from each row of kernels or score each kernel, and with the back of the knife scrape out the pulp, taking care to leave the hulls on the cob.

On no account use the first spoon for the latter operation, as by so doing one is apt to get some of the hulls into the gruel and destroy its smoothness.

I hustled out every man, and they cinched their hulls on those horses rapidly.

Walnut hulls were used to make brown dye and it was lasting in its effects.

As yet it was low water, and vessels lay aground in the mud, showing their hulls, and careening over in a way to rejoice a water-color painter.

1639 examples of  hulls  in sentences