drogher

Example Sentences

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They, at all events, congratulated themselves that they had not been on board the drogher when she was blown away from Saba.

From The Three Lieutenants by Webb, Archibald

Our motto in the little drogher yonder is to keep her afloat with the least possible bother to ourselves.

From The Recipe for Diamonds by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright

In the state of the sea, to get on board the drogher from the dinghy, was an operation too dangerous to be attempted.

From Rattlin the Reefer by Marryat, Frederick

Unlike penguins and human beings, army ants have no rule of the road as to right and left, and there is no lessening of pace or turning aside for a heavily laden drogher.

From Edge of the Jungle by Beebe, William

Away flew the drogher amid the roaring seas into the pitchy darkness, which now settled down over the ocean.

From The Three Lieutenants by Webb, Archibald