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Example sentences for "small schooner"

  • We thought she might be only a small schooner, with not more than five or six men.

  • That will enable me to buy a small schooner to begin trading again; but I shall have to get long terms from the Sydney merchants for my trade goods.

  • Within an hour after receiving her new passenger, the Broncho, under full head of steam, was several miles to the northward of Laughing Fish, and well out to sea, in hot pursuit of a small schooner.

  • He was pointing back from where they had come; and, turning, Peveril saw, apparently gliding from the very shore of the island they had just passed, a small schooner.

  • This morning we saw a small schooner ahead, and thinking from her manoeuvres that she wished to speak us, we made our number and ran towards her.

  • As we reached the landing-place, a small schooner, which we had previously noticed in the distance, came close to the shore, and a canoe put off from the island to meet it.

  • Accordingly he sent a small schooner, the Cumberland, under the charge of Mr. Robbins, to make the examination.

  • He was landed with a party of twelve men at Rockingham Bay, and, striking inland to the north-west, travelled towards Cape York, where a small schooner was to wait for him.

  • What was his surprise to see a neat cottage on the shore, with a small schooner in front of it at anchor in the bay.

  • A small schooner, sir; she has fired a gun, and hoisted an ensign and pennant.

  • We fired a gun, and made the signal for a pilot; upon which a canoe, with three negroes in it, shoved off from a small schooner lying to about a mile to leeward.

  • A small schooner lying--to right ahead, sir," sung out the boatswain from the forecastle.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    often repeated; small animals; small arches; small army; small boys; small class; small deposits; small fish; small fraction; small lake; small lump; small measure; small number; small parcel; small part; small present; small proportion; small public; small river; small round; small scale; small spring; small telescope; small towns; small water; small white