Predicament metaphor

Usage examples of boat.

Conversely, the hetmans of the mountain tribes and the landowners of the region who wish to ship their wool and corn to the southern towns bring them to take boat at Thrax, below the cataract that roars through the arched spillway of Acies Castle.

Both these jobs, the mast and the se acock demanded that the boat be taken to a yard, but if I did that I risked some lawyer slapping a lien on her.

After a great deal of worrying, I thought I might have a way to do the se acock without swamping the boat.

In another hour I had the se acock installed, the line freed from the keel and the boat floating upright in her shady berth.

Skin acrawl with urgency, Taverik strode down to the beached boat and muffled the badly mismatched oars.

The city of Mursa, or Essek, celebrated in modern times for a bridge of boats, five miles in length, over the River Drave, and the adjacent morasses, has been always considered as a place of importance in the wars of Hungary.

Ibn and Fyodor in their smaller boat caught sight of the adrift sailors.

For example, if your advertisement is for a boat polish, your quoted source should have a substantial background in boating.

A few moments later Aristarchi had placed her in his boat, the heavy bundle of spoils lay at her feet, and the craft shot swiftly from the door of the house of the Agnus Dei.

Syrinx watched in utter fascination as the two passed within fifty metres of the boat, rocking it alarmingly in their pounding wake.

Next morning we proceeded to Turin, and on Wednesday got here, in the middle of the last night of the Congress Carnival -- rowing up the Canal to our Albergo through a dazzling blaze of lights and throng of boats, -- there being, if we are told truly, 50,000 strangers in the city.

After loading in his few remaining possessions, Alec and Talrien carefully lifted Seregil into the bottom of the boat.

But for anyone walking through streets lined with poinciana, allamanda, frangipani, and coconut palms, or along the most picturesque of waterfronts with its turtle tanks, pelicans, cormorants, and twenty-thousand-dollar boats, death would have seemed a very distant prospect.

Again the swift coureurs de bois, half-savage in their ambassadorship of the woods, follow the traces of the most ancient roadmakers, the buffalo and deer, and the voyageurs carry their boats across the portage places.

Lord Templeton, Amir Bedawi, you do me honor gracing the deck of my boat.