What is "small boat"

Usage examples of "small boat".

By-and-by a small boat came in sight, towed through the water at a tremendous pace by a powerful barge horse, on which sat a very small boy.

So liberal, indeed, was the discipline of our captors, that five days after we were taken I managed to escape alone in a small boat with water and provisions for a good length of time.

It can be reached by paddling up the Thame, if you have a small boat.

I remember taking a small boat out at Eastbourne last summer: I used to do a good deal of sea rowing years ago, and I thought I should be all right.

If I may do so, without appearing boastful, I think I can honestly say that our one small boat, during that week, caused more annoyance and delay and aggravation to the steam launches that we came across than all the other craft on the river put together.

As they were thus proceeding, then, they discovered a small boat, without oars or any other gear, that lay at the water's edge tied to the stem of a tree growing on the bank.

Between the ship and the shore a small boat rocked upon the waves, light flashing from oar-blades as the one man in the boat bent and rose and bent to his work.

Here by good luck they found a small boat floating keel uppermost, for it had been overturned by the number of people who crowded into it.

The seller of the boat had - as by law required since the coming of the rebels-convict - duly reported the sale at the Secretary's office, so that he might obtain the reimbursement of the ten-pound surety into which every keeper of a small boat was compelled to enter.

The Ambreza below looked too much like search parties, even the one out in a small boat.

One end was attached to a small boat at the outer bank, and another end was in the hands of a lovely human woman.

Or perhaps he simply thought that a small boat, laden with passengers and mules and wagon (could he see them in this darkness?

He confronted savages on tropical shores, quelled mutinies on the high seas, and in a small boat upon the ocean kept up the hearts of despairing men—.

But as it happened, there had been a small boat tied up under that bridge, and in the boat had been a young girl, alone, and .

He pushed on the tiller, and the small boat threw up a curl of black water as she turned.