Which preposition to use with boat
The boat in which we sat was permitted to float out to a position from which we could see the sportsmen as they approached the game.
" "In case of an attack you will at once send in another boat with a howitzer.
Then the boats of the traders.
We were near by with our two boats when he took to the water, and we thought we would accompany him as an escort to the shore; so we rowed up, and with a boat on each side, and within ten feet of him, as he swam, escorted him towards the forest.
It is a curious fact that one skilled in the art will paddle or scull one of these light boats to within a few rods of a deer while feeding, in plain open sight, provided always that the wind blows from the direction of the animal, and no noise is made by the boatman.
While he was pouring out the words, the steersman sprang from the tiller, and seized Potts' oar just in time to save the boat from capsizing.
But are you one of those persons who, not being under a daily compulsion, rides upon a ferry boat for the love of the trip?
Think of reeling in a twenty-pound pickerel, or a forty-pound muscalunge, on a line three hundred feet in length, playing him for half an hour, and landing him safely in your boat at last!
Then, with an extra vicious blow, he knocked the German clear of the boat into the sea.
All the late boats by both routes had been packed.
As he watched his men hauling the boats up the rapids he "prayed them up as he used to do the troops when they wavered in the breaches in China".
"If he ran his boat across half empty, he'd make good.
The deer may, and probably will look, with a vacant stare, directly at the approaching boat without its curiosity being in the least excited, and then go to feeding again.
After incredible labor we succeeded, at length, in getting the long-boat over the side without material accident, and into this we crowded the whole of the crew and most of the passengers.
They saw him board, neatly running the small boat under the schooner's counter; they saw the foresheet eased off and the ship run up into the wind; then the foresail dropped and the wheel lashed so that she would stand so.
The little column then marched down to the boats through shuttered streets of timid neutrals and scowling rebels.
The deer occasionally raised their heads, looking all around, evidently regarding the boat as a harmless thing floating in from the lake.
Then he fetched an old newspaper, and sitting down on the borders of his lake, fashioned boat after boat out of the paper, and sent them sailing like merchant ships from isle to blooming isle.
My guide uttered some reassuring word in Finnish in a low half-whisper, and then slowly pushed the boat along to the ledge, saying: "Your high nobility may disembark.
Then he fetched an old newspaper, and sitting down on the borders of his lake, fashioned boat after boat out of the paper, and sent them sailing like merchant ships from isle to blooming isle.
It was LeVere's life or mine, and in the balance the fate of those others in the waiting boat alongside.
They knew, in a vague way, that winter would come early, but they had not counted on the big September storm that dashed their heavy-laden boats against the floe-ice, ultimately drove them ashore, and nearly cost the little party their lives.
I was sent to ask if you're man enough to take your life in your hands and to go with me in that boat down yonder at the foot of the garden.
This stream is navigable for small boats like ours, five miles to the Rackett River.
Well, they got the surf-boat off her side; she was pretty full with a load of Kroo boys and three or four white men.