lugger

• When we get to the beach we shall probably ascertain what craft she is, as she cannot have got far Headland at once agreed to do as Harry proposed, and leaving Julia with the Miss Pembertons, they rode down to the fisherman's cottage They found Adam at the door, Mad Sal having just before left him; but the information she had given had been in such incoherent language, that not till Harry and his friend arrived did he comprehend what had happened It must be the doing of that scoundrel Miles Gaffin," he exclaimed, "as his lugger is the only vessel lying off the mill. —  Won from the Waves
• "If she were honest, she would not try to avoid us It was soon evident that the lugger was a fast craft. —  Won from the Waves
• She was black hulled, and with a rakish rig that gave her the appearance of being a fast sailer At the critical moment, when it appeared the lugger was about to cut him down, the pilot suddenly ported helm, and ran his boat under the lugger's side. —  Adventures in Many Lands
• So you see, most of these 'longshore chaps like to send their traps on board while the vessel's in the docks, and then to come down here and stop till she comes round In a few minutes the lugger was alongside, the gangway was lowered, and the passengers began to come on board. —  A Final Reckoning A Tale of Bush Life in Australia
• The tramp of the soldiers' feet was scarcely over when the lugger was alongside of us, her masts banging against our main and mizen chains as she rolled with the swell under our lee. —  Poor Jack

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