What is "longboats"

Usage examples of "longboats".

The view was layered like a cake, in colors almost rich enough to eat, the sleek brown of the river still several miles wide at this point, dark and thick as gravy, teeming with traffic, the motorized longboats quick and buglike, the coal barges, the rafts heaped with yellowy rods of rattan cane, then the lurid green hills and, above, the sky virtually vibrating with blue fire.

As the two longboats moved slowly against the current into the mouth of the gorge, they startled the flocks of water birds from the shallows into the air.

Along the bank now, emerging gradually out of the thinning mist, were the rows of ramshackle huts on spidery stilts and the houseboats with tattered washcloths for curtains and the hand sawmills and the floating docks, each with its moored semicircle of sleek longboats radiating outward like elliptical wooden petals.

Darting about the river like minnows around an old bass were motorized longboats with neat cannonball piles fore and aft of astonishingly green squash and melons.

Eventually he placed his first mate, Arnold Fowler, in charge of the deck and ordered one of his longboats made ready.

The four longboats from the Golden Bough were crowded with seamen as they rowed ashore in that dark hour before the dawn.

Buzzard bellowed again, and led his crew sprinting down the beach to where the longboats from the Golden Bough were drawn up.

Before Wayne took one of the longboats from the Old Laughing Lady back to the docks, he checked on Rita.

When the longboats began rowing the crews to shore, Steve had found a spot at one end of the docks where they could look down the length of the waterfront.

Other buccaneers filled their longboats with supplies and rowed them out to their ships, then returned for another load.

First the longboats were released from every ship on long lines, each one dropping into the sea with a splash.

Soon he could hear the oars splashing into the water as the longboats pulled away.

Their longboats then headed across the gentle blue waves toward the shore.

Captain Morgan dismissed the captains, who boarded their longboats again to return to their ships.

The foraging crews brought back as many birds and bananas as they could carry on the longboats, along with the kegs refilled with fresh water.