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The only times she had been on this water before was when tying up in Sinbara for the first time on a local packet out of Zharvai and when she was with Jorma in a borrowed fishing skiff
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We rowed out in the little skiff that Chloe had left on the beach, and then we climbed
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Bosco’s entire nautical experience rested on fishing in the River Thimble, sometimes from a raft or small skiff
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Now he repeated the inspection on the second skiff
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With a great deal of shouting and physical exertion, the seamen turned the craft and began sailing towards the small skiff bobbing in the waves
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“Now, you will all have to fight your way down through the flies, and whatever, launch all the craft, leaving only a skiff for the two of us to use
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down through the flies, and whatever, launch all the craft, leaving only a skiff for the two of us
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The station currently has a 47’ MLB, 27’ Boston Whaler, 23’ SAFE boat, and a 14’ Ice rescue skiff
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To prevent accidental capsizing and drifting, the powerful skiff that every seiner has and that helped in setting out the big circle of the net, now has a cable attached to the boat at the opposite site of the net and pulls hard to keep the seiner upright
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During this time the skiff of the Fish and Game Department goes around trying to estimate the size of the catch in tons and when they think that the day’s quota will be met, they call for a closure of that day’s opening and another countdown starts to get the nets out of the water at the determined time or risk a fine
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For that man rides like a skiff; in his troughs he wallows in his lowness and at his peaks he soars as high as the gulls
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The rusty trailer with the skiff neatly perched on top
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Within a minute they saw the skiff bobbing up and
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boat bumped lightly into the skiff and the judge stretched out
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The smaller skiff was almost struck in the aft by the falling Ford Focus; the other one nearly capsized by the ensuing splash wake
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I don’t want to think about the skiff
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I don't want to think about the skiff
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Waiting for us was a skiff of oak and pitch patches that Nefer had stolen off an eel-trapper earlier that week
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The river carried our skiff southeast, and we crossed paths with spring
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The marlin is the desire and the skiff is the ray of hope
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As Santiago brings the fish tied to his skiff he wonders whether the
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THE TIN SKIFF bucked in the waves
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He got off the skiff, Nicky close behind him
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JAY MOTORED HIS skiff toward Blaine's boat
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Max hooked Jay’s skiff with a pike pole, pulling it nearer
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They then lay to, and lowering a skiff or boat, as many as a dozen Frenchmen, well armed with match-locks, and their matches burning, got into it and came alongside; and seeing how few we were, and that our vessel was going down, they took us in, telling us that this had come to us through our incivility in not giving them an answer
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So they agreed by common consent to give us the skiff belonging to their ship and all we required for the short voyage that remained to us, and this they did the next day on coming in sight of the Spanish coast, with which, and the joy we felt, all our sufferings and miseries were as completely forgotten as if they had never been endured by us, such is the delight of recovering lost liberty
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A skiff covered with rich carpets and cushions of crimson velvet was immediately lowered into the water, and as Don Quixote stepped on board of it, the leading galley fired her gangway gun, and the other galleys did the same; and as he mounted the starboard ladder the whole crew saluted him (as is the custom when a personage of distinction comes on board a galley) by exclaiming "Hu, hu, hu," three times
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He ordered the skiff to push off to fetch him, and the yard to be lowered for the purpose of hanging
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"It goes to the skiff," he replied
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"What! You have a skiff?" I replied in some astonishment
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Near the middle of the platform, the skiff was half set in the ship's hull, making a slight bulge
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Seated on the ledge furnished by the hull of the skiff, I inhaled the sea's salty aroma with great pleasure
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The skiff handled easily and sped swiftly
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"Coconuts are admirable things, but before we stuff the skiff with them, it would be wise to find out whether this island offers other substances just as useful
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"That's why I propose that we return to the skiff
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We were overloaded when we arrived at the skiff
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"Head for the skiff!" I said, moving toward the sea
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The skiff was aground ten fathoms away from us
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So the skiff didn't leave shipside that day, much to the displeasure of Mr
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"The skiff is in place and the hatches are closed
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Captain Nemo, Conseil, Ned Land, and I found seats in the stern of the skiff
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Coming from well out, a mild swell made the skiff roll gently, and a few cresting billows lapped at its bow
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Instantlythe skiff wheeled around under the ebb tide's outbound thrust
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They were armed in the same fashion, and Ned Land was also brandishing an enormous harpoon he had stowed in the skiff before leaving the Nautilus
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At the captain's signal we returned to the bank of shellfish, and retracing our steps, we walked for half an hour until we encountered the anchor connecting the seafloor with the Nautilus's skiff
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Leaning against the sides of the skiff, we were chatting of one thing and another, when Ned Land stretched his hand toward a point in the water, saying to me:
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The skiff pulled clear, and carried off by its six oars, it headed swiftly toward the dugong, which by then was floating two miles from the Nautilus
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The skiff approached cautiously to within three fathoms of the animal
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We fished up the harpoon, and the skiff started off in pursuit of the animal
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It wheeled on the skiff, to assault us in its turn
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Arriving within twenty feet of the skiff, the dugong stopped, sharply sniffing the air with its huge nostrils, pierced not at the tip of its muzzle but on its topside
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The skiff couldn't avoid the collision
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Our skiff rejoined it, took it in tow, and headed to the Nautilus
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"In that event I'll try to get hold of the skiff
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Swept along at the rate of twelve to thirteen meters per second, he could hardly make use of the skiff
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Since that night when the skiff had left the Nautilus on some mysterious mission, my ideas about him had subtly changed
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The skiff was launched to sea
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A few strokes of the oar brought the skiff to the sand, where it ran
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Since Captain Nemo hadn't yet appeared, only Conseil and I were taken ashore by the skiff
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The beached skiff had brought the captain ashore
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But the wind was blowing a strong gust, and the furious billows would not allow us to face them in a mere skiff
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To face a frequently raging sea in a frail skiff was a race to
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The Maelstrom! Could a more frightening name have rung in our ears under more frightening circumstances? Were we lying in the dangerous waterways off the Norwegian coast? Was the Nautilusbeing dragged into this whirlpool just as the skiff was about to detach from its plating?
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The nuts gave way, and ripped out of its socket, the skiff was hurled like a stone from a sling into the midst of the vortex
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When we got pretty close to the cross-hall door there was the skiff, sure enough! I could just barely see her
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The skiff was half full of plunder which that gang had stole there on the wreck
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I struck for the light, but as soon as he turned the corner I went back and got into my skiff and bailed her out, and then pulled up shore in the easy water about six hundred yards, and
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Pretty soon I found a man out in the river with a skiff, setting a trot-line
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A man up and offered me ten cents to help him pull a skiff over the river and back to fetch a sheep, and so I went along; but when we was dragging him to the boat, and the man left me a-holt of the rope and went behind him to shove him along, he was too strong for me and jerked loose and run, and we after him
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It was a fix, I tell you! I had a couple of patients with the chills, and of course I'd of liked to run up to town and see them, but I dasn't, because the nigger might get away, and then I'd be to blame; and yet never a skiff come close enough for me to hail
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I had everything I needed, and the boy was doing as well there as he would a done at home—better, maybe, because it was so quiet; but there I WAS, with both of 'm on my hands, and there I had to stick till about dawn this morning; then some men in a skiff come by, and as good luck would have it the nigger was setting by the pallet with his head propped on his knees sound asleep; so I motioned them in quiet, and they slipped up on him and grabbed him and tied him before he knowed what he was about, and we never had no trouble
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“Quick! The Boat!” shouts Littlehat, low’ring the Cassandra’s Skiff
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The Skiff hits the Water with a hideous Crash, near breaking into a thousand Pieces, but at once I catch a Glimpse of Belinda, a red and squalling Face crying upon the angry Waters
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They departed on 6 June 1896 in a skiff measuring 5
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He crept down the bank, watching with all his eyes, slipped into the water, swam three or four strokes and climbed into the skiff that did "yawl" duty at the boat's stern
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He untied the skiff at the stern, slipped into it, and was soon rowing cautiously upstream
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He was moved to capture the skiff, arguing that it might be considered a ship and therefore legitimate prey for a pirate, but
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He described how he labored with her and convinced her; and how she almost died for joy when she had groped to where she actually saw the blue speck of daylight; how he pushed his way out at the hole and then helped her out; how they sat there and cried for gladness; how some men came along in a skiff and
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Tom Sawyer was in the skiff that bore Judge Thatcher
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A trifle after noon the boys borrowed a small skiff from a citizen who was absent, and got under way at once
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And Coral sailed away like a great white skiff across the sea of summer afternoon
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The subterranean miner that works in us all, how can one tell whither leads his shaft by the ever shifting, muffled sound of his pick? Who does not feel the irresistible arm drag? What skiff in tow of a seventy-four can stand still? For one, I gave myself up to the abandonment of the time and the place; but while yet all a-rush to encounter the whale, could see naught in that brute but the deadliest ill
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Between two and three in the morning the moon rose; and I then, putting my basket aboard a little skiff, sailed out about four miles from the shore
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The wind was high, and the waves continually threatened the safety of my little skiff
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Saw him laid in the skiff and brought to the bank
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When the body had been carried to the skiff the brother Chechen descended to the bank
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It's always the same,' replied the scout, evidently inventing, and he smiled, showing his white teeth, as he jumped into the skiff
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The scout, standing up at one end of the skiff and dipping his paddle now on one side now on the other, steered skilfully while talking incessantly
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The skiff became smaller and smaller as it moved obliquely across the stream, the voices became scarcely audible, and at last, still within sight, they landed on the opposite bank where their horses stood waiting
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'Well, you had better not meet him again now, mate!' said one of the Cossacks who had seen the skiff off, addressing Lukashka
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The rain scourged the timbers of the skiff incessantly, and its soft patter induced melancholy thoughts, and the wind whistled as it flew down into the boat's battered bottom through a rift, where some loose splinters of wood were rattling together—a disquieting and depressing sound
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Our position beneath the shelter of the skiff was utterly devoid of comfort; it was narrow and damp, tiny cold drops of rain dribbled through the damaged bottom; gusts of wind penetrated it
