"boat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Traffic on the canal was never particularly heavy, for even in October 1821, when the canal was most prosperous, there were only about nine laden boats per day using it.
- The crews worked hard through the night, oaring the heavily laden boats back and forth from the ships to the coast, and vice versa.
- One day, on our return from the town of Como, with a laden boat, we expected as usual to be met at the port by Clara and Evelyn, and we were somewhat surprised to see the beach vacant.
- This third experience made it only too clear that we could not hope to go counter to a heavy sea in our deeply laden boat, and we were thankful indeed that we had a refuge at hand.
- The navigation was suitable only for small ships, and during periods of drought, or when strong easterly winds held back the tide in the estuary, there was not always sufficient draft for a fully laden boat.
- As the 14th ferried the heavily laden boats across, they had to contend with ice forming on the gear, and cakes of ice that needed to be wrestled out of the way.
- Women and children were being huddled into laden boats in the market-pool.
- The laden boat ran uneventfully all the way to the southern headland.
- Hogram peered at the laden boat with three eyes, turning another on Fralk.
- Despite Jim's misgivings the wind had not increased in strength and the sea and surf were manageable as the mule teams dragged the heavily laden boats down the sand.
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