Now a skiff would dart away from one of them, and come fighting its laborious way across the desert of water.

The amount of hard swearing which twelve packages of religious literature will command when impartially divided up among twelve raftsmen's crews, who have pulled a heavy skiff two miles on a hot day to get them, is simply incredible.

Taking a skiff with the General, your reporter was pulled up to a little house of two rooms, in which the water was standing two feet on the floors.

Even the mail here is most uncertain, and this I send by skiff to Natchez to get it to you.

The young sailor jumped into the skiff, and sat down in the stern sheets, with the order that he be put ashore at La Canebiere.

They then lay to, and lowering a skiff or boat, as many as a dozen Frenchmen, well armed with match-locks, and their matches burning, got into it and came alongside; and seeing how few we were, and that our vessel was going down, they took us in, telling us that this had come to us through our incivility in not giving them an answer.

So they agreed by common consent to give us the skiff belonging to their ship and all we required for the short voyage that remained to us, and this they did the next day on coming in sight of the Spanish coast, with which, and the joy we felt, all our sufferings and miseries were as completely forgotten as if they had never been endured by us, such is the delight of recovering lost liberty.

A skiff covered with rich carpets and cushions of crimson velvet was immediately lowered into the water, and as Don Quixote stepped on board of it, the leading galley fired her gangway gun, and the other galleys did the same; and as he mounted the starboard ladder the whole crew saluted him (as is the custom when a personage of distinction comes on board a galley) by exclaiming "Hu, hu, hu," three times.

He ordered the skiff to push off to fetch him, and the yard to be lowered for the purpose of hanging forthwith the rais and the rest of the men taken on board the vessel, about six-and-thirty in number, all smart fellows and most of them Turkish musketeers.

So we unhitched a skiff and pulled down the river two mile and a half, to the big scar on the hillside, and went ashore.

So he watched out for me one day in the spring, and catched me, and took me up the river about three mile in a skiff, and crossed over to the Illinois shore where it was woody and there warn't no houses but an old log hut in a place where the timber was so thick you couldn't find it if you didn't know where it was.

The old man made me go to the skiff and fetch the things he had got.

I toted up a load, and went back and set down on the bow of the skiff to rest.

I just expected there'd be somebody laying down in it, because people often done that to fool folks, and when a chap had pulled a skiff out most to it they'd raise up and laugh at him.

So he locked me in and took the skiff, and started off towing the raft about half-past three.

I peeped out through the willow branches, and there it was--a skiff, away across the water.

When we got pretty close to the cross-hall door there was the skiff, sure enough!

So says I to Jim: "The first light we see we'll land a hundred yards below it or above it, in a place where it's a good hiding-place for you and the skiff, and then I'll go and fix up some kind of a yarn, and get somebody to go for that gang and get them out of their scrape, so they can be hung when their time comes."

The skiff was half full of plunder which that gang had stole there on the wreck.

I struck for the light, but as soon as he turned the corner I went back and got into my skiff and bailed her out, and then pulled up shore in the easy water about six hundred yards, and tucked myself in among some woodboats; for I couldn't rest easy till I could see the ferryboat start.

By the time I got there the sky was beginning to get a little gray in the east; so we struck for an island, and hid the raft, and sunk the skiff, and turned in and slept like dead people.

Right then along comes a skiff with two men in it with guns, and they stopped and I stopped.

Pretty soon I found a man out in the river with a skiff, setting a trot-line.

I had to skip around a bit, and jump up and crack my heels a few times--I couldn't help it; but about the third crack I noticed a sound that I knowed mighty well, and held my breath and listened and waited; and sure enough, when the next flash busted out over the water, here they come!--and just a-laying to their oars and making their skiff hum!

A man up and offered me ten cents to help him pull a skiff over the river and back to fetch a sheep, and so I went along; but when we was dragging him to the boat, and the man left me a-holt of the rope and went behind him to shove him along, he was too strong for me and jerked loose and run, and we after him.

And all the while the thick-lipped leviathan is rushing through the deep, leaving tons of tumultuous white curds in his wake, and causing the slight boat to rock in the swells like a skiff caught nigh the paddle-wheels of an ocean steamer.

The best yacht-builders in Ocean County generally fail in modelling a sneak-box, while many second-rate mechanics along the shore, who could not possibly construct a yacht that would sail well, can make a perfect sneak-box, or gunning-skiff.

Also, Eldred has various links to a portrait of Nathaniel Bishop, courtesy of Bishop Memorial Library (Ocean County Library), Toms River, N.J.; photograph of Bishop, courtesy of New York Historical Association; sneak-box pictures from The Sea Bright Skiff, and other Jersey shore boats, by Peter J. Guthorn here.

This "ford" may actually refer to a "scapha" or skiff which was used to disembark goods coming from Constance to move them around the Rhine Falls.

The Skiff Club is the oldest skiff and punting club in existence, having been founded in 1895.

The club uses skiffs for racing at regattas run under the rules of the Skiff Racing Association, and for leisure outings such as Thames meanders.

The Skiff Club colours are chocolate and gold.

The Skiff Club was initially based at the Albany Club in Kingston and in 1897 took the Turk's Albany Boathouse which was vacated by the Royal Canoe Club that year.

In violation of their safe-conduct, Bonfim, his two eldest sons and various political associates were exiled to Moçâmedes in southern Angola. He escaped from there with his sons in a skiff, intending to sail to Saint Helena, but was recaptured; the safe return of the exiles by the British Royal Navy and their honourable reinstatement was a condition of the Peace negotiated by the Four Powers at the Convention of Gramido, 1847.

This type of pram provides a more efficient use of space than does a traditional skiff of the same size.