Taking off

Usage examples of bailing.

I can have my cake and eat it too, you know, in regards to not bailing on Ruby.

I think first of bailing out, but who can tell where the wind will carry the parachute?

Low in the water, veiled by flying white-caps, they came--Boreland and Harlan bailing desperately, and in the stern Kayak Bill, his hand still on the tiller, keeping the oarless boat steady a-top the swift, rushing wave that was sweeping them on to the beach!

Vahine is the Tahitian for woman, and Charmian being the only vahine aboard, the bailing fell appropriately to her.

For one awful instant they were suspended above disaster, the keel of the boat riding the force of the torrent like a reversed magnet, unloosed, unmoored, out of control, the sharp spray in their faces, Henry shouting out encouragement to the straining motors, grinning Jalong in the bow with a plastic bucket bailing like mad, the bouncing Copelands trying not to glance too often at one another with the blanched appeal of stricken airline passengers, the fragile longboat, as if responding to psychic entreaty, moved forward an inch, another inch, then, in one sweet dizzying lift, rose up and over the crest of the falls onto a slick moving sheet of unruffled stream, and they looked around at themselves and they laughed.

Water began to run down into the pit and Mikah went to work bailing it out, while the gap between the hood and the baseplate widened.

Glenna threw herself forward, taking back the wheel, and Jenny scrambled aft, to help one-handed Claus with bailing.

WITH THE SKILLFUL HELP of Jehu, they all managed to heave the heavy boat the right way up, frantically bailing out the swilling water.

They dozed fitfully beneath their streaming capes as the storm raged on, bailing out the punts as rainwater accumulated.

Hauling one of the skiffs up alongside, I began bailing with an old can.

Bailing as much of the loose water as they could from the slightly concaved floor of the raft, they had stripped off Mildred's jacket, which was soaked with seawater, keeping her cold and wet.

He owns a four-thousand-acre cattle ranch in Jackson, Mississippi, where he likes to relax by tending to chores, like bailing hay, cowpunching, and raising his nine kids.

Captain Dalen heard the bailings from the Enterprise and the Balboa, but she did not respond.

Coyote didn't relish bailing out this far from the carrier and waiting for a SAR chopper.

Hornblower did not worry now about the effect on the crowd of the sight of the funeral barge bailing out.