How To Use Wherry In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Some sounded convincing, and might well have once had unions, such as wherrymen, wharfingers, wainscotters, wainwrights and whippers-in.
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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.
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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
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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!
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This erection was connected with the shore by a stage or "wherry" erected on piles.
Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines
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We saw it would be some days yet before the ship would reach the city, and therefore determined to go up in a wherry, that is a row-boat, from Gravesend.
Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680
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How do you do it? cheeped the Gripes in a wherry whiggy maudelenian woice and the jack - asses all within bawl laughed and brayed for his intentions for they knew their sly toad lowry now.
Finnegans Wake
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He was going toward the city, and the sight of the Chelsea Stairs with the waiting boats at once determined him to avoid the irritating inaction of being driven in a cab, by calling a wherry and taking an oar.
Daniel Deronda
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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.
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They call it Portawherry, from the wherry in which Columba came; though, when they shew the length of his vessel, as marked on the beach by two heaps of stones, they say, ‘Here is the length of the currach,’ using the Erse word.
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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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.
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The twins, picking up their knapsacks, ran along the staithe to meet him, and then walked with the wherry, explaining as she drifted down.
Coot Club
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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.
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Jo Wherry, on violin and treble viol, played an excellent descant solo, and Jonathan Burr, who is able to produce music on the difficult mediaeval cornett, also has a pleasant singing voice.
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A channel was cut to the north of the mill and a staithe with warehousing was built to house the goods transported in and out by wherry.
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Half an hour perhaps to secure a wherry and make his way to Southwark.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
