| 单词 | lateen |
| 例句 | When she and Robert stepped into Tonie’s boat, with the red lateen sail, misty spirit forms were prowling in the shadows and among the reeds, and upon the water were phantom ships, speeding to cover. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z They were high and graceful canoes with curving bow and stern and a braced section midships where a mast could be stepped to carry a small lateen sail. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Afterward he helped Duck to raise the Shy Maid's big lateen sail. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In the first millennium CE, Arab sailors in the Middle East had created the lateen sail, a triangular sail that allowed ships to travel against the wind. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Crew members from the USS Normandy seized a huge cache of weapons from a dhow – a small vessel with lateen sails – on Sunday while conducting maritime security operations in the U.S. US warship seizes Iranian weapons, including surface-to-air missiles, Navy says 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Unlike the lumbering tall ships of the 1800s, the Iskatel runs on a combination of two outboard engines and four lateen sails. Russian retraces historic route to Sitka 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z By the Late Roman Period advances in sailing technology, such as lateen sails that ran from fore to aft, reduced crews to as few as five to seven people. Stunned Archaeologists Find 22 Ancient Greek Shipwrecks 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z The mountains were never for two hours the same; the sea in the evenings was mother-of-pearl; and the rising moon seemed to stand up on it, like the lateen of a felucca of gold. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z The square European sail gave ships power, but the lateen sail increased their ability to maneuver. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Our ordnance had wrought havoc on the corsair, her huge lateen yards lying athwart her decks, while heaps of dead and dying men encumbered her slippery planks. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z Observe the lateen yard on the mizen mast. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z Felucca, fe-luk′a, n. a class of small merchant-vessels, used in the Mediterranean, with two masts, lateen sails, and often a rudder at each end. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z We had promised ourselves to lie basking in the gentle warmth and count the lateen sails as they went drifting by. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z An early twentieth-century postage stamp from Aden, a city of the Arabian Peninsula, shows a dhow with lateen sails. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Here were no Algerian hulks with their lateen sails, no evil-smelling fishing fleets, or docks or warehouses, or city cloacas. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z With a smartness that would have evoked admiration from the most exacting seaman, the lateen yards were lowered and squared fore and aft, while the dhow, still carrying way, ranged alongside the West Barbican's boat. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z Dhow, dow, n. a native vessel on the eastern African and western Indian coasts, with lateen sails: an Arab slaver. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z The foremast and the mizen carried lateen sails. Boating 2011-09-21T02:00:35.453Z But despite this service and the railways along each shore, the red lateen sails of minor craft still brighten the landscape. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z The schooners, ranged in an arcade, were rigged for lateen sails, very like Mediterranean craft. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z By this time the dhow had run up into the wind and was gathering sternway with her lateen foresail aback. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z She had a hull like the half of an egg cut lengthways, and was propelled by an enormous white sail of lateen shape, or almost like one of our jibs. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z When he looked out again, the frigate was hoisting her lateen sail, ready to run for open sea. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z “No, but we can get to Ludham Bridge, and there I have arranged for an old lateener to be waiting for us.” The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk 2011-04-27T02:00:21.617Z In place of her original mizzen-mast there was the trunk of a forest tree, with the bark still upon it; and the lateen yard was made of spliced bamboo. The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR 2011-04-25T02:00:10.333Z Then, the lateen sails rehoisted, the dhow resumed her course, hauling close to the wind on the starboard tack, her head pointing practically nor'-west-by-north. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z They were usually 20-30 metres long, 6-8 metres in breadth; were equipped with three masts, without rigging-tops, or yards; and had lateen sails stretched upon long oblique poles, hanging suspended from the masthead. The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea Vol. II 2011-04-05T02:00:10.813Z Already there were white-winged feluccas gliding upon its surface, their lateen sails spread out, enjoying the cool of the morning. Glories of Spain We woke very early in the morning, and found that a brisk breeze had sprung up, and that the lateener had dragged her moorings and drifted into the reeds. The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk 2011-04-27T02:00:21.617Z The fisher again spreads his nets and the sailor his peaked lateen sail. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 End-on it was impossible to see that the masts raked at different angles, but the well-drawing lateen sails and the "bone in her teeth" indicated that she was a swift craft ably managed. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z On the 31st we found ourselves approaching the castle of Alexandria, and were soon hailed by some people in a curious-looking pilot-boat with a lateen sail. Visits To Monasteries in the Levant The light breeze was just enough to move the little lateen sail, and gradually it filled out, and the skiff stole quietly away from shore, without even a ripple on the water. A Rent In A Cloud Being tired of fishing, we had a swim, and then dinner; and, late in the afternoon, we hoisted sail, to a stiff breeze, Wynne and the man in the cutter, and I in the lateener. The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk 2011-04-27T02:00:21.617Z The Swift Arrow was close enough now, so he could see the triangular masts and the booms of the lateen sails. The Pirates of Shan The cool breeze thrummed tunefully through the scanty rigging, gently filling the huge, triangular, lateen sails. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z On the opposite bank of the canal, on a roofed stage, an ancient gentleman slept publicly, sole 227 visible inhabitant; and beyond on the lagoon a canoe spread a striped lateen, the sole thing moving. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) Rigged with two lateen sails and two jibs, the ship sailed either end first. Fulton's "Steam Battery": Blockship and Catamaran In our light-draught lateener, we ignored the channels, and sped about all over, often, however, finding our speed diminished, as the keel cut through the soft mud, and turned up yellow volumes of mud behind. The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk 2011-04-27T02:00:21.617Z The boat now went to grapple for the cable some way from shore, while the Elba towed a small lateen craft which was to take back the consul to Cagliari some distance on its way. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 From one corner of the lateen sail, Storms now noticed that a large crimson handkerchief was fluttering in the wind. Adrift on the Pacific A Boys [sic] Story of the Sea and its Perils The biggest of them had a mast stepped right forward, a mast which raked steeply aft, across which lay the yard of a lateen sail. The Island Mystery The sail and rigging plan is likewise a Danish copy and shows the two-masted lateen rig employed. Fulton's "Steam Battery": Blockship and Catamaran She had an enormous lateen foresail, and a mizen, and she subsequently formed a picturesque object in Wynne’s sketches. The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk 2011-04-27T02:00:21.617Z The great lateen sail was flat on the sea like a sheet. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore The same lateens serve for this double object, unbending the sails half way and hoisting them like yards by means of top ropes. Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose The wind is strange and variable, now sweeping down in violent gusts that bend the long arm of the lateen sail, now dying away to a dead calm through which we row lazily home. Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit Apparently the jibstays also could be slacked off so that the lateen yards would not have to be dipped under them. Fulton's "Steam Battery": Blockship and Catamaran There is a charming little Broad there, called Womack Broad, and a picture ready composed, so bring your paint-box, and we will beat back in the lateen.” The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk 2011-04-27T02:00:21.617Z The swelling lateen sail, as the boat heeled, described a saucy curve on the tilted mast The prow went merrily up and down, throwing a lively spray from the chop. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore And there was an old launch, with a torn lateen sail, which Columbus might have been proud to command; and, in this fine weather, he might sail back to Port Palos in her. Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life A few strokes shoved the boat from under the lee of the island; the oars were shipped, and the lateen sail run up by all hands. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. A tug fussed about the quarantine wharf; the lateen fisher-boats were slipping out towards the Sacramento. The Readjustment These were for the most part rowing-galleys carrying one large lateen sail. By Conduct and Courage A Story of the Days of Nelson The lateen masts, gracefully tilted forward, with their points blunt and fat, looked like a forest of headless lances. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore She had four masts, of which two were fitted with square and two with lateen sails, and her crew consisted of sixty-six men. Harper's Young People, February 3, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Near the top of each appeared a triangular piece of skin, projecting outward from the slope of the side, and braced, so as to resemble an inverted sail of the kind known as lateen. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness If the craft had been anywhere within the distance of a league or two, the large lateen sail should have been sufficiently conspicuous to have caught the eye of the girl. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea But we must haste on our way past the Tunisian Coast, past Galita, onward through fleets of lateen rigged piratical looking crafts, with snowy sails and bird-like movements, dashing their white wings in the surge. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 The little boats, with folded lateen sails, near the pier had coloured lanterns slung from the mast to the bowsprit. The Spirit of Rome Its sweeps were shipped, its great lateen sails furled on the yards. The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt The scene suggests a regatta on a gigantic scale, and from a distance the leaning lug and lateen sails of the East give the idea of craft traveling at terrific speed. East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan It was all more like Italy than anything in the Italian quarter of New York and Chicago—the very climate and surroundings, wine country close at hand, the bay for their lateen boats, helped them. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror There were no royal masts, but she had two sprit-sail yards under the bowsprit and jib boom, and a huge lateen yard on the mizzen that took the place of the cro'-jack. The Grain Ship They are termed square, lateen, or lug: the first are suspended across the masts at right angles, and the two latter obliquely. 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. The rowers began to feel the strain, and the captain ordered the broad, lateen sails to be set on both masts. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea It was rigged, as all the boats on the Lake of Geneva are, with what are called lateen sails. Rollo in Geneva At midday November 9 they set sail for Patras in a galliot of Ali's, "a vessel of about fifty tons burden, with three short masts and a large lateen sail." The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 Santa Cruz and Doria pursued for a while, but a wind sprang up from the south-east, and the fugitives set their long lateen sails. Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima A long triangular sail, bent by its foremost leech to a lateen yard, which hoists obliquely to the mast; it is mostly used by xebecs, feluccas, &c., in the Mediterranean. 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. I can see the tops of her lateen sails above the mist. The Three Midshipmen There can be no doubt that the lateen sail, which goes back at least to the early Egyptians, had the germ of a fore-and-after in it. All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways The dromon had two masts, lateen rigged, and between thirty and forty oars to a side. A History of Sea Power They were rigged with one mast, which could be easily lowered, and had a lateen sail of matting, stretched on a long, slightly-bent yard, which could be quickly shifted round when beating to windward. Captain Cook His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries A gaff-topsail, if triangular and set on a yard, is lateen. 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. They dashed on board, cut the ropes through, and the sailor, swarming up the rigging, cut the lashings, and the foot of the lateen sail dropped down on deck. Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess None being found, the lateen sails of the Pinta were altered into square sails. Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold There were two or three masts, lateen rigged, adorned in peace or war with the greatest profusion of banners and streamers. A History of Sea Power They had sometimes one, and sometimes two, lateen sails, composed of pieces of matting, the ropes being made of the coarse filaments of the plantain tree. Captain Cook His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries To raise a gaff or lateen yard more obliquely to the mast. 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. We pass through a whole squadron of fishing-boats, hovering on their long lateen sails, and seeming like butterflies balanced upon the waves, which are blue as the petal of the iris. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 The bark which carried me and all my fortunes was only a common boat with four oars and a lateen sail. Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I But in the excitement of victory no one thought to haul down the Tripolitan flag, which-still flaunted defiant at the end of the long lateen mast. The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 I expect that off the wind with those big lateen sails of theirs they are very fast, but on the wind they would have no chance with us. At Aboukir and Acre A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt They have generally one mast and a lateen sail. 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. The most graceful of them, perhaps, are those which carry lateen sails—enormous triangular sails, of which kind each boat usually carries only one. Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships A few steps further and they came out on a sort of natural basin formed by the creek, in which floated a large boat of a peculiar construction, with very piratical-looking lateen sails. Black Ivory It was very true; a galliot and four lateen vessels had just made their appearance round the easternmost point, and, as soon as they observed the frigate, had hauled their wind. Mr. Midshipman Easy Look at these two native craft; they have both let their lateen sails run down. At Aboukir and Acre A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt Also, a narrow decked galley-built vessel in great use there, of one or two masts, and some have a small mizen; they carry lateen sails. 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. She is rigged with two stout masts, each of which supports a large lateen yard and sails. Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships A little midshipman, named Midgley, differed from both, and said it was a large dhow, for he could make out the top of its lateen sail. Black Ivory The sail, which was composed of matting, was stretched on a lateen yard, the foot being extended to a boom. Twice Lost The larger number had lateen sails and long tapering yards. Paddy Finn They were long, low vessels, entirely decked over, and fitted to pull some twenty oars; they had thick stumpy masts, and long tapering yards, for lateen sails, now stowed fore and aft in the boats. The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea These boats carry a lateen sail, sail very fast, and are much used on the waters of the Tagus as fishing-boats and trawlers. Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships The morrow came, and three dhows left the harbour of Kilwa, hoisted their lateen sails, and steered northwards. Black Ivory The felucca on seeing this, and apprehending danger, rigged out her tall tapering lateen sails, wing-a-wing, as it is called, one on each side. Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War There was a constant succession of fresh sights, from the Turkish man-of-war that was of British build, to the low fishing-boat with its long graceful lateen sail, spread out upon its curved and tapering spar. Yussuf the Guide The Mountain Bandits; Strange Adventure in Asia Minor But the most picturesque objects are the lateen sails with their long tapering yards either wing and wing when skimming along before the wind, or heeling over when close-hauled upon it. The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea “Yonder, sir,” said the boatswain, pointing to about fifty yards away, where a something that looked like a thick miniature lateen sail was gliding through the water. Syd Belton The Boy who would not go to Sea I will take the simplest, the most natural, the most beautiful of sails,—the lateen sail of the Mediterranean. Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds The breeze was now dying away, the wind blowing off shore; and the Somalis, seeing this, triced up their lateen sails, turning round like rats driven up into a corner and facing us, at bay. Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy They’re good sea-boats, too, and can sail almost up into the wind’s eye, with their large lateen sails, which are cut something like an old-fashioned leg of mutton, or short tack lug. The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace The breeze was fair to carry her close to the harbour’s mouth, and then, having sufficient way on her, down came her two tapering lateen sails, and she glided up to her well-known anchorage. The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea The first thing was to get sail upon the felucca again; and to masthead the long, heavy lateen yard, with its big sail, was no easy task for one man. A Pirate of the Caribbees At the same instant our great lateen sail swelled heavily out, wavered, jerked the sheet taut, and collapsed again. The Rover's Secret A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba No sooner was it light enough for them to fairly make us out, than they shifted their sails, substituting single-reefed lateens for the lugs, and taking in their storm-jib out of the way. Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War The lateen sail was furled, however, and the galley was propelled at a fairly good gait by seven pairs of long sweeps. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Her tapering lateen sails now, as seen in one, appeared like the summit of a lofty pyramid of dark hue, surrounded by the waves. The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea For, as I have already mentioned, the deck had been swept of every movable thing, including the big lateen yard, which had doubtless gone overboard when the bulwarks were carried away. A Pirate of the Caribbees There drifted presently into sight from around the little promontory that hid the village, a blue and white boat with yellow lateen sails. Jerry Junior Finding that we were as yet out of range, the lateener once more kept away upon her former course, evidently recognising the possibility that, if she did not, we might still slip past her. Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War There drifted presently into sight from around the little promontory that hid the village a blue and white boat with yellow lateen sails. Jerry The broad lateen sails were spread, and the slaves sat quietly before their oars, ready to row, though for hour after hour there was no need of rowing. The Blue Pavilions Shortly afterwards Johnson and ten of his English officers contrived to run away from their master, the Sultan, in his best and fastest lateen vessel, with an enormous booty. The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers To these rapier-like masts were fastened sails of quaint square shape and dingy hues, or of sharp triangular form, which they learned afterwards were the lateen sails they had read of, but never seen. All Aboard A Story for Girls Master Harold slung it over his shoulder, and in another minute was perched on the long tapering yard of the lateen mainsail. Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War Under the albatross wings of our lateen sails we scud across the freshening waves. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series It is curious to see in many directions the white lateen sails of boats which appear to be sailing over the fields. Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt A blue sea, the mountains of Crete, the iron ridges of Zante, and at last a laughing harbour, boats with bellying lateen sails manned by dark men in turbans, white houses, flat roofs, palm-trees! Bella Donna A Novel A sloop with a lateen sail lay at anchor in the rude harbor. The Adventures of Kathlyn The snow was a bark with a lateen mizzen, or rather a brig with the "driver," a lateen one, on a jigger mast, just a little abaft the mainmast. Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 All these canoes carry a lateen, or sprit-sail, which is made of a mat of grass or leaves, extremely well woven. Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific I have already spoken of the high lateen sail of the Nile boats, a form of sail which, though beautiful, has not been devised for pictorial purposes. Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt No more did Mrs. Armine see, at the end of the long and narrow alley, behind the fretwork of shining, pointed leaves, the lateen sails go by. Bella Donna A Novel When night had fallen we hoisted our lateen again and worked up towards them. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 When this jigger was abolished the sail retained its lateen shape, got on to the mainmast, and became what we may call a main crossjack, thereby rendering a square mainsail impossible. Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 She carries two very large lateen sails, uncommonly high at the peak, and one jib. The Children of the King But out here in mid-ocean a little boat with lateen sails wouldn't have much show. The Port of Missing Men The sailors set the great lateen sails of the felucca, which bellied out like things leaping into life. Bella Donna A Novel Their sails are made of straw mats in the shape of a lateen sail. John Rutherford, the White Chief They are of little use, because of the lack of men skilled in managing and sailing with lateen sails, and the scarcity of rowers. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 07 of 55 1588-1591 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century The great yards, with their lateen sails, were got down on deck, and, oar in hand, the Moslems awaited their prey. Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean These praus were furnished with lateen sails of palm mats and were as light as the wind; this is a kind of boat that sails with remarkable speed, either with the wind or at random. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 02 of 55 1521-1569 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century The great boats, with their lateen sails and their grave groups of silent brown men, crept noiselessly by like the vessels that pass in a dream. Bella Donna A Novel The idea was to bring together sailors of all nations—English, French, Italian, and Yankee—on the Mediterranean and aboard a French water-craft of peculiar Italian rig—the lateen sail. James Fenimore Cooper Henry's pinnaces still had lateen sails copied from Italian models. Elizabethan Sea Dogs There was nothing for it but immediate flight, and Uruj put his helm up and scudded before the breeze; but the great galley "goose-winged" her two mighty lateen sails, and turned in pursuit. Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean We need commanders of galleys who know how to manage the lateen sail. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 04 of 55 1576-1582 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century Italian fishing boats with lateen sails go by, To cast their lines outside the Golden Gate; And ferryboats their ceaseless traffic ply, From mole to mole, from early morn till late. Byways Around San Francisco Bay There is still a suggestion of menace, a hint of piracy, in the blood whenever the lateen goes by, fishing or fruiting or coasting. Letters of Travel (1892-1913) The lateen sail hung motionless from the mast. Without Dogma Carrying with them a favourable breeze from the south-east, the galleys spread their huge lateen sails, and the straining rowers had rest awhile. Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean The craft is propelled by graceful crescent-shaped lateen sails of pandanus matting and steered by sweeps from the stern. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 His crew sullenly tailed on to the halyards, and the strange, outlandish sail, lateen in rig and dyed a warm brown, rose in the air. Tales of the Fish Patrol But the East is wherever one sees the lateen sail—that shark's fin of a rig which for hundreds of years has dogged all white bathers round the Mediterranean. Letters of Travel (1892-1913) A light wind blew from the shore, and covered the deck and the great lateen sail with a fine red dust. A House of Pomegranates It had two or three masts rigged with lateen sails, carried guns at prow and stern, and a complement of one thousand to twelve hundred men, and was very efficient in mediaeval warfare. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section F, G and H When I looked I saw a pennant fluttering from the peak of the forward lateen yard—a red, white, and blue pennant, with a single great white star in a field of blue. Pellucidar With nightfall they set sail; the great lateen swinging lazily under the pressure of those light airs that flit to and fro over the islands at evening and sunrise. The Isle of Unrest Hence the puffs of vapour seen from below against the sparkling blue sky, and disappearing like huge birds upon the wings of the wind: hence, too, the tradition of the mast and the lateen sail. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Stretching on each little finger a lateen sail that would have served to waft a skiff across the Thames, it kept the rest of its hands for other uses. Concerning Animals and Other Matters The wind upon our quarter lies, And on before the freshening gale, That fills the snow-white lateen sail, Swiftly our light felucca flies. The Golden Legend They look as if they were gliding backwards, and one might mistake for wings the strangely shaped, long lateen sails, their narrow angles fastened upwards to a yard. From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan It was very true; a galliot and four lateen vessels had just made their appearance round the easternmost point, and as soon as they observed the frigate, had hauled their wind. Mr. Midshipman Easy The hills were covered with woodland and verdure; the deep blue Adriatic was in the foreground, dotted with lateen sails; and the town filled the valley and straggled up the slopes. The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II There appeared to be no way of reefing the lateen sail, which was made of no better material than calico, and I was entirely unfamiliar with the rigging. The Ivory Trail The boats, with their sharp bows, preposterous sterns, and lateen sails, might have belonged to the Indus. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 They all looked up, and there was the lateen coming tearing down on them under all her canvas, both her broad sails spread out to the full, one on each side. Love Me Little, Love Me Long The tartane was a beautiful object, a one-decked, single-masted vessel, with a long bowsprit, and a huge lateen sail like a wing, and the children fell in love with her at first sight. A Modern Telemachus Isabel took up a pencil, and was lost in sketching wayside crosses, and vessels with lateen sails, only throwing in a word or two here and there when necessary. Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1 Masts and sails—lateen spars particularly—always get me by the throat and make me happy for a while. The Ivory Trail It had three masts with lateen sails stretched on the oblique yards which were swung from the masthead, and was steered, at least partly, by the turning of these great, swinging sails. American Nation: a history — Volume 1: European Background of American History, 1300-1600 By taking in so many reefs the lateen had lowered her rate of sailing, and she now followed in their wake, keeping a quarter of a mile to windward. Love Me Little, Love Me Long They were not, however, out of the bay when the wind suddenly veered, and before the great lateen sail could be reefed, it had almost caused the vessel to be blown over. A Modern Telemachus In the distance the lateen sails of boats glided, sometimes behind the palms, coming into view, vanishing and mysteriously reappearing among their narrow trunks. The Spell of Egypt So the lateen sail was hoisted on the mast of the pirogue. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon That was a proud saying, Count, which we used to hear as we cruised under lateen sails about the glorious bay that reflects from its waters the fires of Vesuvius. The Golden Dog "I don't know; I have seen wonders done with this lateen rig in the Pacific." Love Me Little, Love Me Long It was after ten before his lateen sail flapped in the little cove. Sally Dows The quaint lateen sails of dull red, or yellow, showing against the sparkling waters, and the red caps or handkerchiefs of the fishermen, might have attracted even a more abstracted man. Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation The lateen sails of the Italian fishing boats were like shreds of cloud, too, blown over the blue and distant bay. Trent's Trust, and Other Stories As alternative, there was the tartane, a sailing vessel with a lateen sail. Travels through France and Italy And the lateen spread both her great wings like an albatross, and leaped and plunged, and flew before the mighty gale. Love Me Little, Love Me Long The village was on an in-lying island, and its headmen must have sent word across to the mainland; for one morning three big two-masted junks with lateens of rice-matting dropped anchor off the beach. The Jacket (Star-Rover) The sea was deserted save for a couple of little lateen craft with suns painted on their gaudy sails, sea butterflies that hung motionless as if unawakened close inshore.... The Research Magnificent This was soon done, and she took that opportunity of looking about for the lateen, for her mind had taken another turn, and she doubted the report that David had gone to intercept the East-Indiaman. Love Me Little, Love Me Long |
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