We took a sail-boat and glided round Lighthouse Point (a pleasant drive of two miles from the village), out into the lake, and steered for Grenadier Island, five miles distant, on which we tented for the night, and the bass we brought home the next day were something worth looking at.

Being now at a vast distance from Spain, and well assured that such small birds would not go far from land, the admiral now altered his course from due west which had been hitherto, and steered to the southwest.

Again, in getting free from the Earth's influence, I must be able to steer in any direction and at any angle to the surface.

He'll show us how to steer with a pole, and how to make fish-traps andand everything.

I trust in thee, my love, with perfect faith Am I not as the floating gossamer, Steering through ether on thy guiding breath?

Van Trump, desirous of distinguishing himself, at the resumption of his command, by some remarkable action, had assembled eighty ships of war, and ten fireships, and steered towards the Downs, where Blake, with whose condition and strength he was probably acquainted, was then stationed.

Some, who have no religion, steer by them all the voyage.

If he brought her round, he could not paddle to windward, and to steer across the sea that would soon get up might be dangerous.

Apply fomentations of flannels wrung out of boiling water and sprinkled with spirits of turpentine to the part, and give wine and sal-volatile in such quantities as the prostration of strength requires; always bearing in mind the great fact that you have to steer between two quicksandsdeath from present prostration and death from future excitement, which will always be increased in proportion to the amount of stimulants given.

From this place I saw another island to the east, distant from this Juana fifty-four miles, which I called forthwith Hispana, and I sailed to it; and I steered along the northern coast, as at Juana, toward the east, five hundred sixty-four miles.

German submarine commanders, after a short experience of decoy ships, were most careful not to bring their vessels to the surface in proximity to craft that were apparently merchant ships until they had subjected them to the sharpest scrutiny at short range through the periscope, and the usual practice of an experienced submarine commander was to steer round the ship, keeping submerged all the time.

We should be giving an exaggerated and false idea of Roswell Gardiner's character, did we say that he steered into that great void of the southern ocean in a total indifference to his destination and objects.

These came so near, as to fire upon them about three in the afternoon; but the Dutch, instead of tacking about, hoisted their sails, steered toward their own coast, and finding themselves, the next day, followed by the whole English fleet, retired into Goree.

As every gondola, when fully equipped, has its pavilion in the centre, the height of the latter renders it necessary to place him who steers on such an elevation as will enable him to overlook it.

The lads an' lasses, blythely bent To mind baith saul an' body, Sit round the table weel content, An' steer about the toddy.

He says that fifteen steers at $30 a head make $450.

Haste, glittering nations, tenants of the air, Oh, steer from hence your viewless course afar!

The quickness with which it takes on flesh, and the weight which it frequently makes, are well known; but we may mention that it is not uncommon to tee steers of from four to five years old realize a weight of from 800 to 1,000 lbs.

Besides, consider what impetuous force Turns stars and planets in a different course: I steer against their motions; nor am I 89 Born back by all the current of the sky.

In this uncertainty, it would have been madness to steer amid the waste of waters, as likely to go wrong as right, and they limited their efforts to mutual support and encouragement, placing their trust in God.

Von Ludwig referred to his chart occasionally, for he wished to steer as clear of mines as possible.

This brought the mountain for which she was steering within ten leagues, and directly to leeward.

On the 21st at highwater, having completed our object, we left the harbour; and in steering over the bar found eleven feet water at about thirty-five yards from the sunken rocks.

"I says to him, 'What license you got to give a lady a bum steer like that?

They were driving a lot of mavericks toward their ranch down the river, when Budd Hankinson saw a steer among them with our brand.