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Usage examples of "scapha".

Armoured and well-armed, the silent men accompanied their dark leader onto the dock and aboard the scapha modified to conceal them.

The scapha, nigh immune to rocks no matter how close they rose to the surface of the water, closed as if naively on that beacon of treachery.

With men running screaming and arm-waving about her deck, the scapha rolled in toward the unearthly craft.

When they rose up from the night-dark water to invade the scapha, their bellies were the dead pasty white of fish.

The scapha was wallowing the way that those aboard must brace their legs and set them well apart.

Behind, the ungainly scapha floundered amid lapping wavelets, a floating marker to the graves of three men, and the monsters of Treachery Bay.