skiff's

Yet, when we fetched up, through the darkness we could hear the seas breaking on the solid shore astern, and so near was it that we shortened the skiff's painter.

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He stood in the skiff's bow and waved both arms while Sharpe and Harper pulled towards the gunboat that had one high mast, a low waist, and six gunports visible on its port side which faced upstream.

Sharpe's Escape Cornwell, Bernard 2003

Redden Alt Mer had taken a seat on the bench that ran across the skiff's stern, his arm hooked over the tiller, his feet propped up on the rail.

Ilse Witch Brooks, Terry 2000

Gerrard hurled his last bomb, which caromed off the skiff's side and exploded harmlessly in air beyond.

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The quarterstaff lay lengthways over the skiff's thwarts.

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The Rowan refined the contact with Jeff sufficiently to see, through his optics, what he and Mauli were viewing on the skiff's scanners: a darkness that flowed across the backdrop of stars.

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"Clinging for his life to the end of the skiff's line," Raihna said with a wicked grin.

Conan the Valiant Green, Roland 1988

The goodman here is McGilp's man, and his skiff's ready, and the _Gull_ will be close in behind the point at high water.

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Then I saw that we were in calmer water, and the steep shore of the Isle seemed close to, and the light of the white house clear, and in a little time the sail came rattling down, and the skiff's keel grated on the flat gravel, and we sprang ashore and put the anchor on the beach though the tide was going back.

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After a while a wind came swooping down on the quiet water through a dip in the hills, and nearly blew the skiff's bows out of water.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various