45 examples of nettings in sentences

Some of those found on the Ohio seem to have been modelled in bags or nettings of coarse thread or twisted bark.

In the afternoon nettings are hung around one of the broad decks and games of cricket are played.

Even the camels are draped with long nettings and fringes and tassels that reach from their humps to their heels.

Nettings was pleased to see Hewitt, and invited him to look around the rooms.

" "Well," Nettings concluded with resignation, "I'm afraid one of us is rather thick-headed.

" Nettings stared down the corridor after Hewitt, and continued staring for nearly two minutes after he had disappeared.

" "Very well," Nettings replied, with resignation.

At about three on Tuesday afternoon, as Nettings was in the act of leaving Bow Street Police Station, Hewitt drove up in a four-wheeler.

" "I suppose, then," Nettings remarked slowly, like a man on whose mind something vast was beginning to dawn, "I supposewhy, hang it, you must have just got up while that fool of a girl was screaming and fainting upstairs, and walked out.

"Has not that ship her nettings triced to the rigging?" he demanded, in a voice that was lowered to the tones necessary to escape observation, and which betrayed, at the same time, the interest he took in the reply.

The boarding-nettings, it is true, were triced to the rigging, as on the previous day; but a sufficient apology was to be found for this act of extreme caution, in the war, which exposed her to attacks from the light French cruisers, that so often ranged, from the islands of the West-Indies, along the whole coast of the Continent, and in the position the ship had taken, without the ordinary defences of the harbour.

The usual moments of suspense succeeded and then the torn fragments, which were seen scattered in the air, announced that the shot had passed through the nettings of the "Dolphin."

I had jumped from the nettings, where I was perched, to assist in unbolting one of the carronade slides, when I slipped and capsized against a peg sticking out of one of the scuppers.

The attack by the Whitehead upon the booms and nettings was made shortly before 2 p.m., at the time of high tide.

Hang up your bloody colours in the air, Up with your fights, and your nettings prepare; Your merry mates cheer, with a lusty bold spright.

As the schooner drew nearer, a man leaped on the hammock-nettings, and, putting a trumpet to his mouth, sang out lustily, "Ship ahoy!

The food was good, our quarters were clean, we slept well, below or on deck, usually without our mosquito-nettings, and in daytime the deck was pleasant under the awnings.

Then it was necessary when a ship anchored, that the boarding nettings should be up, and all the arms ready for immediate use.

Captain Gardiner, of the Marianne (the vessel now in the harbour), is the oldest person in that trade; and he informed me, that not longer than twenty years back scarcely any vessel would dare to touch at New Zealand; and when, from particular circumstances, they were obliged so to do, they kept their boarding-nettings up, and kept a strict guard night and day: their fears arose from a want of knowledge of the disposition of the people.

At the precise moment when Strand occupied the position named, between the knight-heads, this personage was holding a discourse with three or four of the forecastle-men, who stood on the heel of the bowsprit, inboardthe etiquette of the ship not permitting these worthies to show their heads above the nettings.

At his appearance, all the "old salts" quitted the heel of the spar, tarpaulins came fairly down to a level with the bag-reefs of the shirts, and even Strand stepped into the nettings, leaving the place between the knight-heads clear.

Capsized as far as the nettings, she heeled so much that it would be almost impossible to stand upon her deck.

Musquito nettings are a necessity all the year round.

This they promised, and seating themselves on the hammock nettings all round the ship, remained the whole time most quiet and attentive spectators of the scene before them, which they seemed to understand and appreciate perfectly.

The enemy's shot passed principally just over our heads, as there were not twenty whole hammocks in the nettings at the close of the action.

45 examples of  nettings  in sentences