'Hiram,' sez she, 'ef yeou'll stay to hum, merry some smart girl, an' kerry on the farm, I'll leave yeou the hull er my fortin.

Two more shells struck the wooden hull of the "Franklin" between the fore and mainmasts, tearing a great rent in her side and literally annihilating the crews of four guns.

Well, he couldn't raise the hull on 'em,'t a'n't good to raise more 'n nine,an'

There was no such thing as saving that unfortunate hull.

In a very few minutes, however, the skiff shot under the stern of the other ship, and disappeared, bringing the hull of the vessel in a line with the "Caroline" and its course.

In a jiffy it bunted our own hull and canvas, and again we began to plough the water.

As has been said before, the snow-drift almost buried the hull of the ship, and as snow is a good non-conductor of heat, this further helped to keep up the temperature within.

"Anyhow, I don't reckon on the cargo; I expect to make my profit on buying the hull.

I found that the troop had done a good day's work caulking the hull up and slapping a couple of coats of copper paint on it, while the tide was out.

When the bows felt the restraint, the ship swung head to wind, and fathom after fathom of the enormous ropes were extracted, by surges so violent as to cause the hull to quiver to its centre.

She had been built to hold her own with the hardest slamming seas that ever chased a shattered hull, and it was lucky for us that she was.

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

They would cook walnut hulls and bark and paint them dark with the tea.

But the Christian faith was obscured and enfeebled, it clung to the vessel's rigging instead of defending its powerful hull; the flood was rising meanwhile, and the dikes were breaking one after, another.

Besides, during the night the surf had finished demolishing the ship's hull; there was nothing left

We now discerned through the fog the hull and tackling of a large vessel; and notwithstanding the noise of the waves, we were near enough to hear the whistle of the boatswain at the helm, and the shouts of the mariners.

And when I tell you its contents are valued at eight millions you won't expect me to disscribe the hull on 'em, no, it hain't reasonable.

In a few weeks this ice became several feet thick; and the snow drifted up her hull so much that it seemed as if she were resting on the land, and had taken final leave of her native element.

It was made the more uncertain and distressing by the swaying of the water which had entered the hull.

We stripped her of every stitch and sliver until she floated high, an empty hull, even her spars and running rigging ashore.

So long as the wind did not blow, and the sea did not rise, she was safe enough; but a swell that should force the hull to rise and fall would inevitably cause her to bilge.

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

But there ain't no other place so handy to the mill for us, an' I guess our money's good ez any lawyer's money, o' the hull on 'em any day.

Upon inspecting the hull of the galley, the master calkers beheld a monstrous fish detach itself from its bottom with the tranquility of an upright person who has fulfilled his duty.

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.