He had not sailed more than a few hours on said boundless bosom, before he turned his prow back towards land,towards the far-famed Lime Rocks, on which the intrepid heroine dwells.

My bundle was thrown ashore, I stepped after it, and a seaman pushed the prow off again, springing in as his comrade backed her into deep water.

Her spirit lifted a little courageously, to meet his with defiance, like a ship lifting its prow above the threatening billow.

Swift through the land while Fame transported flies, And shouts triumphant shake th' illumined skies; Britannia, bending o'er her dauntless prows, With laurels thickening round her blazon'd brows, In joy dejected, sees her triumph cross'd, Exults in Victory won, but mourns the Victor lost.

Out upon the wharfs they came, Knight and burgher, lord and dame, And round the prow they read her name The Lady of Shalott.

And one fair girl was pillow'd on her breast; While high in air the golden treasure burns, And Love and Glory guide the prow by turns.

Shut out, at times, by bulk of sparry blue, That, rolling near us, heaves the swaying prow High on its shoulders, to descend again Ploughing a thousand cascades, and around Spreading the frothy foam.

It needed no little reflection and expenditure of art to insert the prow of the boat into the mouth of the cavern.

The wind ahead: day after day These weary words the sailors say; To weeks the days are lengthened now, Still mounts the surge to meet our prow.

They stretch across the locks, and any vessel that does not stop at the moment it should, before reaching this chain, will ram its prow into it.

Captain Hull strode over the netting, and, descending the rope ladder, he reached the prow of the whale-boat.

First the Monongahela struckand reeled; The Lackawana's prow Next crashedcrashed, but not crashing; then The Admiral rammed, and rasping nigh Sloped in a broadside, which glanced by: The Monitors battered at her adamant den.

In a few minutes she ran the prow upon the pebbled beach at my feet, and I took my seat at the other end of the boat.

At the finish not a quarter of a length, not fifteen feet, had separated the two prows; a poor showing for the varsity to have made with the great rowing classic of the season coming on apacea poor showing, that is, assuming the time consumed in the four-mile trip was not especially low.

The Romans, though the enemy was master of the shore, and they saw armed troops lining the whole bank, promptly pursuing the discomfited fleet of the enemy, towed out into the deep all the ships which had not either shattered their prows by the violence with which they struck the shore, or set their keels fast in the shallows.

Across the unpathwayed seas, Shot the brave prow that cut on Vinland sands The first rune in the Saga of the West.

The Norsemen had not yet struck prow on Irish strand, and the period between the Synod of Whitby and their appearance seems to have been really one of steady moral and intellectual growth.

The dows approached, threw their long overhanging prows across the Sylph's beam, and pouring in a shower of stones on her deck, beat down and wounded almost every one who stood on it.

The silence deepened, and was only broken by the ripples of Yann that lightly touched our prow.

As a navigator Ulysses had been most enthusiastic upon beholding its high and sharp prow disposed to confront the worst seas, the slenderness of the swift craft, its machinery, excessively powerful for a freight steamer,all the conditions that had made it a mail packet for so many years.

Haughty and cold her heart had grown, For wealth and glory she lived alone, Yet as oft she watched an out bound ship Its prow in foamy waters dip, The day came back when lip to lip Her heart met his in a sad farewell.

" He turned towards the boat, and as he did so he gave a lurch, and would have fallen had he not caught the prow.

When night on the ocean sinks calmly down, I climb the vessel's prow, Where the foam-wreath glows with its phosphor light, Like a crown on a sea-nymph's brow.

In order to make her approach safe, at any rate, she crowned her prows, as a sign of conquest, with garlands, and had some songs of victory sung by flute-players.

Victory, the constant attendant upon her favourite hero, embellishes the prow.