The number of boats, sufficient for a craft of three times the tonnage; the capacity of the forec'stle with its eighteen bunks, enough for a passenger ship,what did it mean?

From the remains of the Golden Horn we could construct some kind of a craft in which to run free to the summer trades.

She was larger than I had thought, a lumping craft for those days, bark rigged, with lower spars the heaviest I had ever seen.

"You would be surprised," said he, "to find how successful they have been in investing their craft with the forms and trappings of science, the parade of classification, and the mystery imparted by technical terms.

I wish I could convey to you the uncanny effect, thisof dropping from the decks of a miniature craft to the internal arrangements of a square-rigged ship.

The work was done by the Hawkwoods, the Sforzas, the Bracciones, and other chiefs of the celebrated free companies, black bands, lance societies, who understood no other profession, but who were as accomplished in the arts of their own guild as were any of the five major and seven minor crafts into which the Florentine burgesses were divided.

Jack did not approach the enemy craft from the front.

For perhaps three hundred yards Frank kept the craft on the water; then sent it soaring into the air above.

You have named Simon Craft as guardian.

At every French and Italian port the yacht's false name and general build was written in the police-books, while at Lloyd's the name Lola was marked down as among the mysterious craft at sea.

No sensible man would think of travellin' that road in a little craft like mine, unless he'd made up his mind to see how it would seem to be drowned, or smashed to pieces agin the rocks.

We shall have to meet their untruth by truth; we shall have to meet their cunning and their craft by openness and simplicity; we shall have to meet their terrorism and frightfulness by bravery.

And Tristan is more cunning and hath more love for his craft than ever had Black Roger.

A wide field of ice, or, it were better to say, a broad belt of bergs, lay between this stationary cloud and the schooner, though the existence of the vapour early caught Roswell's attention; and during the hour he was aloft, conning the craft through a very intricate and ticklish channel, not a minute passed that the young man did not turn a look towards that veiled spot.

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"Look at the crowd on the clubhouse float," gasped Dan as soon as the Naval chums had gotten their craft under way.

Slowly but steadily they moved, the paddle remaining in the water, sculling the little craft along as if it were a log drifting in the water.

Mr. Heatherbloom, with sheet taut, ran his craft toward the sands but the boat grounded some little distance from the shore.

'That comes of meddling with the Craft without warrant!'

"Well, gentlemen," he said, "are you ready to proceed in the case of 'Craft against Burnham'?"

I see there are some small craft about, and we shall get one of them.

Of course it was no great job to make a cradle for a boat, and our boat-builder had 'wedged up,' and got the keel of his craft off the 'blocks,' within eight-and-forty hours after he had begun upon that part of his task.

Now suppose the captain, immersed in the problem of the navigation of his ship over the ocean, to have so absorbed himself in the problem of the direction of the craft over the plane surface of the sea that he forgets himself.

His work was to guide the craft between the perilous boulders.

I'll moor my craft beside your lawn; so up and make good cheer!