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94 examples of Skiff in a sentence

Instantly the skiff wheeled around under the ebb tide's outbound thrust.
They were armed in the same fashion, and Ned Land was also brandishing an enormous harpoon he had stowed in the skiff before leaving the Nautilus.
At the captain's signal we returned to the bank of shellfish, and retracing our steps, we walked for half an hour until we encountered the anchor connecting the seafloor with the Nautilus's skiff.
Leaning against the sides of the skiff, we were chatting of one thing and another, when Ned Land stretched his hand toward a point in the water, saying to me:"See anything out there, professor?"
Its deck paneling opened, the skiff was wrenched from its socket and launched to sea.
The skiff pulled clear, and carried off by its six oars, it headed swiftly toward the dugong, which by then was floating two miles from the Nautilus.
Harpoon in hand, Ned Land went to take his stand in the skiff's bow.
The skiff approached cautiously to within three fathoms of the animal.
We fished up the harpoon, and the skiff started off in pursuit of the animal.
It wheeled on the skiff, to assault us in its turn.
Arriving within twenty feet of the skiff, the dugong stopped, sharply sniffing the air with its huge nostrils, pierced not at the tip of its muzzle but on its topside.
The skiff couldn't avoid the collision.
Our skiff rejoined it, took it in tow, and headed to the Nautilus.
"And in that event?""In that event I'll try to get hold of the skiff.
I realized that the skiff was being detached and launched to sea.
Swept along at the rate of twelve to thirteen meters per second, he could hardly make use of the skiff.
The oars, mast, and sail are in the skiff.
I've gotten hold of a monkey wrench to unscrew the nuts bolting the skiff to the Nautilus's hull.
Since that night when the skiff had left the Nautilus on some mysterious mission, my ideas about him had subtly changed.
The skiff was launched to sea.
A few strokes of the oar brought the skiff to the sand, where it ran aground.
I got out, Conseil at my heels, leaving the two men in the skiff.
Since Captain Nemo hadn't yet appeared, only Conseil and I were taken ashore by the skiff.
The beached skiff had brought the captain ashore.
In addition to me, the skiff carried Captain Nemo, two crewmen, and the instruments--in other words, a chronometer, a spyglass, and a barometer.
But the wind was blowing a strong gust, and the furious billows would not allow us to face them in a mere skiff.
An escape attempt would have been quite feasible, assuming Ned Land managed to seize the skiff without the captain's knowledge.
To face a frequently raging sea in a frail skiff was a race to certain disaster.
Come to the skiff.
I climbed the central companionway, and going along the upper gangway, I arrived at the skiff.
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