| 单词 | lateen sail |
| 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 Afterward he helped Duck to raise the Shy Maid's big lateen sail. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Rigged with two lateen sails and two jibs, the ship sailed either end first. Fulton's "Steam Battery": Blockship and Catamaran 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 great lateen sail was flat on the sea like a sheet. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 The morrow came, and three dhows left the harbour of Kilwa, hoisted their lateen sails, and steered northwards. Black Ivory 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 sailors set the great lateen sails of the felucca, which bellied out like things leaping into life. 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 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 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 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) 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 lateen sail hung motionless from the mast. Without Dogma 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 |
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