wherry

How To Use wherry In A Sentence

• Cecil scowls as we take our seats in the wherry; Dee fidgets; only Walsingham appears unconcerned, but I see him looking back toward the High Street and catch the calculation in his gaze. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
• And He spake to His disciples, that a small ship "-- or" wherry "--" should wait on Him because of the multitude, lest they should throng Him. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
• Scarcely does the wherry bump against the water steps than I am on my feet, stepping over Dee and Walsingham before they can rise. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
• Successive displays chronicle the Greek trireme, perhaps the ultimate statement of rowing power, the Venetian gondola, the Thames wherry, wooden-hulled lifeboats and arctic whaleboats.
• Two more similar canoes — “dugouts,” as they were technically termed — were found about the same time in drain-cutting, in the same vicinity; and one of these was presented to the British Museum. {115b} The Fen men used to call their boats “shouts,” from the Dutch “schuyt,” a wherry. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter
• Dee faces me in the wherry, his cloak drawn close against the chill, his ruddy face alight with excitement. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
• Some sounded convincing, and might well have once had unions, such as wherrymen, wharfingers, wainscotters, wainwrights and whippers-in.
• On Sunday 2 June, the wherry Albion will carry the original Millennium flame from where it has been carefully kept alight, in Great Yarmouth's St Nicholas Church.
• The wherryman, it is true, possessed a ripe vocabulary, but the fact that it embraced only a single dialect seriously handicapped him in his race with the keelman, who had no less than three to draw upon, all equally prolific. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
• Raleigh re-entered in a few minutes, but was silent, and pressing many an honest hand as he passed, went out to call a wherry, beckoning Amyas to follow him. Westward Ho!