| 单词 | coracle |
| 例句 | Their boats were coracles woven of reed, and it was a brave sailor who would go as far as Gosk or Kornay in such a craft. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z This interest in linking past and present filtered into her research: she went on archaeological digs and hand-made a coracle of the type her characters would have used. Top 10 books on the ancient world 2010-09-29T12:08:00Z Jeep and boat safaris are available, or try a traditional coracle ride, from which you might spot a crocodile. Safari: Where the Wild Things Are 2010-12-09T14:05:00Z “A kayak is not a galleon, ark, coracle or speedboat,” read the motto printed with each issue. George Hitchcock, Kayak Magazine Founder, Dies at 96 2010-09-04T05:04:00Z He writes: “On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.” Story time: the five children’s books every adult should read 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z The last coracle shed in England, where the circular boats were made for use along the River Severn, is to be restored and opened to the public. 'Last' coracle shed in England saved by Ironbridge charity - BBC News 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z Tibetans don’t spend any time on rivers, they don’t fish, and they look down on the boatmen who ply traditional yak-skin coracles at river crossings. Raft Ride on Tibet’s Powerful Rivers Reveals Regional Meltdown 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Coracles had plied the Mesopotamian waterways since time immemorial, transporting man and animal in perfect safety, for whatever happened in a coracle it would never sink. The Big Flood on the Big Screen 2014-03-27T14:54:07Z With the number of coracle fishermen now dwindling, those that remain are determined to see the tradition continue. VIDEO: Coracle fishermen keep it in the family 2012-07-19T23:13:53Z Being on an island, about fifteen miles from the Beagle, their plan was as necessary as it was ingenious: though certainly something more like a canoe than a coracle could have been paddled faster. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z She spent her time in daydreams, drifting about in her coracle for hours, to return dripping wet, but, in a hazy way, more than half content. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z And when I find that tattooed and nearly naked people used coracles, and do not find that they used anything grander, I am led to suspect they did not. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 101, October 4, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-30T03:00:13.383Z It is like a circular coracle, eight to ten feet across and about four feet deep, and is propelled with a single paddle. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z Using boats known as coracles, a net is used to catch salmon and sea trout from the dark waters. VIDEO: Coracle fishermen keep it in the family 2012-07-19T23:13:53Z He soon became keenly alive to the necessity for better communication with his property on the other side of the Taff than that of ferry, or ford, or coracle. The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty 2011-12-07T03:00:17.867Z Accordingly, he built a coracle of wattle covered with hides tanned in oak bark and softened with butter. Minor Poems Little Classics, Vol. 15 2011-09-29T02:00:16.533Z My answer to the Query, whether it be probable that British warriors went over to Gaul in coracles is, "Yes, highly so." Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 101, October 4, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-30T03:00:13.383Z All the craft, hundreds and hundreds, large and small, barges and coracles, square rafts and canoes, pressed gently forward towards the entrance of the Canopian Canal. The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z The marshes were not fordable, but Denewulf brought from the rushes a little coracle, capable of bearing four, and soon the entire party stood on the island itself and examined it. A Maid at King Alfred?s Court 2011-09-13T02:00:30.520Z Silence was between them as they neared the cove where a large coracle lay, with three men in it. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z Antonio laid down his weapons and saddle-bags, and rode into the river with the cord in his hand, which was fastened to the coracle. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z And the coracle rendered the Scots of Erin formidable to the Roman shores of Gaul and Britain. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 101, October 4, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-30T03:00:13.383Z The coracles are a sort of basket made of willow twigs, covered with pitched canvass or raw hide, and resembling in form the section of a walnut-shell. The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble 2011-06-12T02:00:06.820Z A few tribes, the Mandans among others, had the light but awkward “bull-boat,” or coracle, nearly circular, consisting of a light framework covered with skin: such were chiefly used in ferrying across rivers. American Indians 2011-04-21T02:00:55.200Z "Is it likely that God would come here in a coracle?" he asked, with scornful eyes. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z The coracle was put to sea, The sail was hoisted to it; And the second morrow they arrived On the white shores of Erin. Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales 2011-04-15T02:00:15.367Z Yes; a coracle!" he continues; "must 'a been the plash o' a paddle. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z The early ships of Britain are described by Cæsar and Pliny as being merely larger coracles—clumsy frames of rough timber, ribbed with hurdles and lined with hides. The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble 2011-06-12T02:00:06.820Z Why called “coracle” is a matter of doubt and dispute; by most admitted as a derivative from the Latin corum—a skin; this being its original covering. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z For sure, God would not come in a coracle, just as he himself might come. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z “Alec has had an attack of the fidgets ever since he saw that empty coracle,” said Nina. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z For he will be looking at a "coracle." Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z ‘And he put forth the coracle, and travelled the sea from one isle to another until he came to a fair, strange island,’ the Otherworld. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z For he will be looking at a “coracle.” Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z With that Colum kissed him and bade farewell, and Artân sat down in the coracle, and covered his head with his mantle, and wept and prayed. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z He sank two more coracles, and had killed or wounded three men, when a flint pebble struck him on the head, finding the exact spot where he was injured during the wreck. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z Why called "coracle" is a matter of doubt and dispute; by most admitted as a derivative from the Latin corum—a skin; this being its original covering. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z Some floated over on their altar-stones—a poetical way of saying they brought the said stones with them—others on a miraculous leaf, i.e., a coracle, while yet others appear to have walked! Nooks and Corners of Cornwall 2010-12-30T03:00:24.033Z The priest in his peregrinations, often nocturnal, accustomed to take a lamp along, had it with him on that night, having lit it before entering the coracle. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z When he unfolded his mantle, he saw that the coracle was already far from Iona. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z When an Indian with a spit lip got you with a stone at about five yards there were two coracles on each side of us. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z The most valuable movable inside was not worth carrying away; and outside is but the coracle standing in a lean-to shed, propped up by its paddle. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z A few days after, some men were about crossing the river near there in a coracle, when one of them expressed his fear at venturing, as the river was flooded, and he remained behind. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z No labour and not much more difficulty than transporting your coracle five or six miles across the meadows.” Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z The sun was already among the outer isles when the coracle passed near the Isle of Columns. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z From around a point not a mile distant, and directly in front, appeared a number of coracles, eight all told, and each containing two men, or a man and a woman. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z They did their task by means of leathern bags; but at last, growing weary of the oppression, they made boats or coracles out of their bags, and set sail in them for Ireland. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race The inhabitants cross the river in gufahs—the large round coracles which are used all down the Tigris. A Kut Prisoner “Yes; a coracle!” he continues; “must ’a been the plash o’ a paddle. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z Beyond, out of sight behind these craggy steeps, is Port-na-Churaich, where, a thousand years ago, Columba landed in his coracle. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z The coracles were strung out in an irregular line, covering a width of about four hundred yards, and, in laying his plans, Maseden recalled the strategy of a certain great admiral. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z He was a foundling, discovered in his infancy lying in a coracle on a salmon weir, in the domain of Elphin, a prince of North Wales, who became his patron. The Welsh and Their Literature from The London Quarterly Review, January 1861, American Edition To this class belonged the coracle of the Ancient Britons, which is even now in common use on the Atlantic seaboard of Ireland. Ancient and Modern Ships. Part 1. Wooden Sailing Ships The most valuable moveable inside were not worth carrying away; and outside is but the coracle standing in a lean-to shed, propped up by its paddle. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z The coracle swerved, and the four men were wet with the heavy spray. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z The battle opened at a range of one hundred yards, and Maseden’s first shot buckled the framework of the nearest coracle, so that it sank like a stone. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z At that part of the river the Britons had, if not a ford, at least a ferry, and finally a rough bridge—perhaps of coracles or boats—the progenitor of the noble structure now existing. The Towns of Roman Britain The ebb was just beginning to make round the point, and sent us all ways at once like a coracle.’ Rewards and Fairies They resembled the Welsh coracle in shape, being quite square, but were a great deal larger, and capable of holding several people at a time. To Lhassa at Last There was nothing between that dim wilderness and the vast sweeping blackness filled with quivering stars, but the coracle, that a wave could crush. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z It looks like one of the native coracles Alec has told us of. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z Coracle-fishing is performed by two men, each seated in his coracle and with one hand holding the net while with the other he plies his paddle. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" Great is the speed of my coracle, And its stern turned upon Derry: Grievous is my errand over the main, Travelling to Alba of the beetling brows. Ancient Irish Poetry And coracles have not discovered the place of hatching. The Triads of Ireland One day as they stood on the seashore waiting for the dragon a sail hove in sight, and soon a large coracle made of wicker-work covered with skins appeared. Legends & Romances of Brittany The coracle, left to herself, turning from side to side, threaded, so to speak, her way through these lower parts, and avoided the steep slopes and higher, toppling summits of the wave. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) When a fish is caught, each hauls up his end of the net until the two coracles are brought to touch and the fish is then secured. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" My foot in my tuneful coracle, My sad heart tearful: A man without guidance is weak, Blind are all the ignorant. Ancient Irish Poetry Indeed the craft looked like the pictures of an ancient British coracle, and was so light and unseaworthy that every wave washed into it. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' These coraghs are practically the same boat as the Welsh coracle, but much larger. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule I sprang to my feet, and leaped, stamping the coracle under water. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) The concealed man looked after her, prepared to follow, when some belated salmon fisher, his dark coracle, strapped to his back, nodding over his head, appeared. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Along the top of a wood Thy coracle has swum across ridges, There is a wood laden with beautiful fruit Under the prow of thy little skiff. Ancient Irish Poetry In Ireland they are called curach, in England coracles, from the British cwrwgl, a word signifying a boat of that structure. Delineations of the Ox Tribe The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos. I was drenched and terrified, and fell instantly back into my old position, whereupon the coracle seemed to find her head again, and led me softly as before among the billows. Treasure Island Petrock was a Celtic saint, probably a Welshman, who went to Ireland for his religious education; he crossed to Cornwall in a coracle, and landed in this estuary of the Camel. The Cornwall Coast On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. Peter and Wendy To Bran in his coracle it seems A marvellous beauty across the clear sea: To me in my chariot from afar It is a flowery plain on which he rides. Ancient Irish Poetry You see, Lewis had the skin-boat coracle in mind before he left Washington. The Young Alaskans on the Missouri The coracle, left to herself, turning from side to side, threaded, so to speak, her way through these lower parts, and avoided the steep slopes and higher toppling summits of the wave. Treasure Island St. Ia is said to have floated to the Island, anciently named Pendinas, on a miraculous leaf, by which is clearly meant a coracle of the kind still to be seen in parts of Wales. The Cornwall Coast A clough; also, a sort of boat used in Ireland, a coracle. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. A vision that appeared to me, An apparition wonderful I tell to all: There was a coracle all of lard Within a port of New-milk Lake Upon the world's smooth sea. Ancient Irish Poetry “Fuegia Basket,” as the girl was called, was named from the wickerwork craft—a sort of coracle—that the crew of the stolen boat had improvised to carry them back to their ship. The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure No doubt the hollowed tree trunk, and the coracle of osiers and skins, had long before this made their trial trips on river and lake. Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima The firmament was regarded as a kind of extinguisher or as the upturned hull of one of the round coracles that plied on the Euphrates. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs Seventeen priests set sail in the coracle, or boat of basket work covered with leather. Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate Shall I launch my dusky little coracle On the broad-bosomed glorious ocean? Ancient Irish Poetry Primitive caulking consisted in plastering a wicker coracle with clay. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) The coracle, left to herself, turning from side to side, threaded, so to speak, her way through these lower parts, and avoided the steep slopes and higher, toppling summits of the waves. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Midstream, making slow way to the island, a round clumsy coracle, such as were used by fishermen, was paddling, the only vessel abroad. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain The boat was a rough affair, as he remembered it, something like an ancient coracle, but it had been water-tight, at least. The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men There was the voyage of Maeldun, who had set out in his coracle, and visited strange islands. The Wind Bloweth The skiff, although primitive and rude in its construction, was comparatively large, and a considerable advance on the dug-outs, or wooden canoes, and the skin coracles of the period. The Hot Swamp The coracle, a basket-boat of the most primitive description, is still occasionally met with in South Wales. Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships She sat huddled forlornly in the coracle's bottom, shivering in her long black cloak. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain Except in shape, it was very similar to the coracles still in use, as I have read, on the Wye and other rivers in England. Snow Shoes and Canoes The Early Days of a Fur-Trader in the Hudson Bay Territory “By the way, talking of that, though I don’t mean to say it’s made like the old Britons’ coracles,” observed Mrs Gilmour silly, “when is that yacht of yours going to be ready, Captain?” Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel Mingling with the crowd they went to the river’s edge, where numerous wooden canoes and coracles were busily engaged in ferrying the people over. The Hot Swamp The cattle slept in the fields, the fishermen slept in their coracles. My New Curate The coracle grounded gently on the beach, almost at the moment that the carts entered the ford on the opposite side of the island. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain Thus the ancient Britons had coracles, which were simply very open basket-work covered with skins. Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas An observer will readily recognise that the quaint craft which the fishermen still use in the vicinity of Moher, as indeed elsewhere in Clare, is the ancient coracle. The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway It was, he noticed, something like one of the coracles of which he had made mention in the preface to "Underground England." Tales from Many Sources Vol. V They feared it, for they had no chance on it, as their vessels were often merely hides stretched on wattles, resembling enlarged coracles. Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns For fishing he gave pre-eminence to Kingsley, and together they carried up their coracles to waters higher than ordinary boats could reach. The Life of Froude Their Celtic descendants still use canvas coracles in parts of Wales and Ireland, just as the Eskimos still use skin-covered kayaks and oomiaks. Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas S. Columba's stone altar floated on the waves, and on it a leper had crossed in the wake of the saint's coracle to Erin. The Religion of the Ancient Celts The Romans made long journeys In the coracle. Tales from Many Sources Vol. V I accomplished my task without the slightest difficulty, selected a light craft,—they did not use canoes, but rowed boats like coracles,—and was lying at anchor, moored with a heavy stone, in the bay. In the Wrong Paradise The public bellams plied to and fro, rowed by the swart owners, while against them jostled the gufas—built like the coracles of ancient Britain—a round basket coated with pitch. War in the Garden of Eden In getting out of their canoes, as well as into them, great care is required to preserve the balance of these frail and unsteady coracles, and in this they generally assist each other. Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1 They returned in a few minutes, bearing a light boat, almost like a British coracle, on which they instantly embarked, and a push or two with the pole sent them noiselessly across the moat. Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune The canoes of the Mandans of the upper Missouri basin were like coracles, of circular form, made of a framework of bent willow branches over which was stretched a raw bison-hide with the hair inside. Pioneers in Canada It was easy now to understand how she had recognized that rock tunnel through which the little coracle had been paddled. The Thirsty Sword Or he introduces us to a Spanish hidalgo, "tall, wry-necked, and awkwardly built, with a nose like a lamprey and feet like coracles." Old and New Masters Here they made preparation for their melancholy journey, setting out on the great stream in every species of craft, from rafts and coracles to steam barges. Through the Mackenzie Basin A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899 The coracle touched the further bank; a dozen willing hands assisted them up the slope. Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune He was very far indeed from guessing that in the knot of the lariat which was fast to the bow of his coracle there was a fatal gash. Overland In half-an-hour's time the two had arrived at another sheet of water which is called Loch Tarbert, and here launching the coracle again, they seated themselves and sailed down the narrow loch. The Thirsty Sword So, I should fancy, of ships—that is, galleys, not private "coracles," the earliest British boats. Popular Law-making There is a promenade here, called the Parade, which commands a fine and extensive view of the surrounding picturesque scenery and of the Towy, where the coracles may be seen plying about. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 351, January 10, 1829 You are sitting, perhaps, in your coracle, upon some mountain tarn, waiting for a wind, and waiting in vain. Glaucus, or the Wonders of the Shore Glover, working hard with his paddle, and just barely keeping the coracle bows on, peered and grinned as if he were facing a hurricane. Overland "There is a fishing coracle coming alongside of us, my master," said he, "with two fishermen in her." The Thirsty Sword The ebb was just beginning to make round the point, and sent us all ways at once like a coracle.' Rewards and Fairies Their smaller boats, or coracles, were made of osiers interwoven, covered with hides, and rigged with leathern sails and thong tackle. Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers And all the river down to Staines is dotted with small craft and boats and tiny coracles—which last are growing out of favour now, and are used only by the poorer folk. Three Men in a Boat Thurstane, thinking that he might have rivers to cross in his explorations, had brought one of these coracles. Overland Have ready a fishing coracle with some fish, and dress you as a fisher maid. The Thirsty Sword I was just thinking how busy drink and the devil were at that very moment in the cabin of the HISPANIOLA, when I was surprised by a sudden lurch of the coracle. Treasure Island It was a funny sight to see these coracles, which they named after their own round bodies. Welsh Fairy Tales Then Columba, with twelve comrades, sails in a coracle for the coast of Argyleshire; and on the eve of Pentecost, A.D. The Hermits It rocked and tumbled like a coracle, and spat and fumed and snorted like a veritable devil composed of an engine, a couple of paddle-wheels, and a few boards. Two Summers in Guyenne “Back to the coracle stage again,” said he. Darkness and Dawn I was drenched and terrified, and fell instantly back into my old position, whereupon the coracle seemed to find her head again and led me as softly as before among the billows. Treasure Island The coracle was made strong by a wooden frame fixed inside round the edge, and by two cross boards, which also served as seats. Welsh Fairy Tales No flocking coracles surrounded our steamer, with crews eager to plunge into the hissing brine for shillings or equivalent quarters. Roman Holidays, and Others Everything had to be abandoned, and the explorers escaped from their critical position by resorting to the construction of coracles of horse hide, by means of which they managed to save their lives. The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 They built for themselves therefore a curragh or coracle, covered with hides three deep. Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic The breeze had but little action on the coracle, and I was almost instantly swept against the bows of the HISPANIOLA. Treasure Island At first the coracle spun round and round, but by and by each daddy could, by rowing or paddling, make the thing go straight ahead. Welsh Fairy Tales The men took their places in the coracle, pushed out into the stream, and using their poles vigorously were soon lost to sight among the thick grove of rush and bushes. Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion The whole party would have been destroyed but for the resourcefulness displayed by the leader, who made coracles of horse-hides stretched on frames of saplings, by which means they escaped. The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work Ever since the Welshman paddled his coracle across Caernarvon Bay, and Saxon Alfred mused over the Danish galley wrecked upon his shore, each century has been adding new names of fame to the Vikings' bead-roll. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 The coracle, left to herself, turning from side to side, threaded, so to speak, her way through these lower parts and avoided the steep slopes and higher, toppling summits of the wave. Treasure Island This great benefactor taught his people to make coracles, and on these the whole tribe of thousands of Cymric folk crossed over into Britain, landing in Cornwall. Welsh Fairy Tales He spent the next two days in traversing the swamps in a coracle, ascertaining where there was firm ground, and where the morasses were impassable. Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion A lonely fisher in his coracle Came round a headland, lifted on a wave That bore him through the shallows to his cave, Nor other being he saw. Elves and Heroes The children are told about the writings of Julius Caesar, and pictures of Roman ships and houses are shown, beside pictures of coracles and bee-hive dwellings, etc. The Child under Eight And when, at last, I shouldered the coracle and groped my way stumblingly out of the hollow where I had supped, there were but two points visible on the whole anchorage. Treasure Island Ages ago, before the Cymry rowed in their coracles across the sea, there was a race of men already in the Land of Honey, as Great Britain was then called. Welsh Fairy Tales Each party must provide itself with coracles; I will send up a boat load of hides. Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion Surely it must linger in all of us, for no man who dwells in an island but had an ancestor in longship or in coracle. Through the Magic Door Bending the yielding osiers aside, he drew out the ducks one by one, wrung their necks, and passing their heads through his girdle, made his way again to the coracle. The Dragon and the Raven Marching in this pathetically ridiculous fashion across the sand, they halted at the coracle. For the Term of His Natural Life Art stepped into his coracle, and then, wringing her hands, she made yet an attempt to dissuade him from that drear journey. Irish Fairy Tales Some took to the water, but coracles had been sent down to the point the evening before, and they were speedily slain. Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion Scarcely a vessel was on the river except those rude coracles of wickerwork covered with the skins of horses, in which the Celtic peasantry fished for trout and salmon. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 Beyond moving slowly away as the coracle approached them, the water-fowl paid but little heed to its appearance. The Dragon and the Raven But Rufus Dawes, with his eyes fixed on some object visible alone to him, hugged the child in his arms, and drove the quivering coracle into the black waste of night and sea. For the Term of His Natural Life He was thus gazing and brooding when one day he observed a coracle drawing to the shore. Irish Fairy Tales The native nodded, and at once he and his companions took their places in their coracles, leaving the native who was to act as guide behind them. Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion Day after day he haunted the spot, but never saw again either the damsel or the coracle. Crotchet Castle This narrowed rapidly and the lad got out from his boat into the water, as the coracle could proceed no further between the lines of rushes. The Dragon and the Raven Taking out his knife, he cut two nicks in the wicker gunwale of the coracle. For the Term of His Natural Life He gathered the things which pleased him best from among the treasures of its grisly king, and with Delvcaem by his side they stepped into the coracle. Irish Fairy Tales There must be here many men from the eastern coast, where they have much larger and stronger craft than these coracles. Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion But the ingenious Kanaka, not content with his coracles, had gone one better, and copied them in dugouts of solid timber. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales My father gave me a coracle on my tenth birthday. Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger To make a coracle of skins seemed sufficiently easy, but how to obtain the skins! For the Term of His Natural Life He stepped into a coracle and pushed out to the deep, and he permitted the coracle to go as the winds and the waves directed it. Irish Fairy Tales "Mr. Bates," said she, pushing the hair out of her blue eyes, "what's a coracle?" For the Term of His Natural Life The proud possessors of the coracles, both wicker and wood, must have been poor indeed, for they did not even own a paddle, propelling their basins through the water with their hands. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales The goats, with whose hides he hoped to cover the coracle, were sufficiently numerous and tame to encourage him to use every exertion. For the Term of His Natural Life The coracle began to leak, and required constant bailing. For the Term of His Natural Life |
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