fisher-boat

As soon as they had saluted each other, and were going by the sea-side, they saw some scorpions fighting, which Marius took for an ill omen, whereupon they immediately went on board a little fisher-boat, and made toward Cercina, an island not far distant from the continent.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Then seeking up and down about the sands, at last he found some rotten planks of a little fisher-boat, not much, but yet enough to make up a funeral pile for a naked body, and that not quite entire.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

He replied that he was come a-fishing, but Annikki said: 'Thy boat is not rigged like a fisher-boat, nor hast thou lines or nets with thee.

Finnish Legends for English Children R. Eivind

Yet, among them, the fisher-boat, corresponding to the cottage on the land (only far more sublime than a cottage ever can be), is on the whole the thing most venerable.

A Book of English Prose Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools Percy Lubbock 1922

It was by the sea that he found her, sitting in one of the shelters on the parade, with her hands clasped in her lap, looking listlessly at a fisher-boat putting out from the yellow sands below.

The Shrieking Pit 1907

The deep herbage and multitudinous roadside plants all wet and glistening, the twinkle of a hundred burns that crossed the road at every step, the sound of the oars upon the rowlocks of a fisher-boat upon the loch, the shadows that flew over the hills in swift, instantaneous succession added their charm to the spell of the morning, the freshest and most rapturous of all the aspects of nature.

Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago Margaret 1891

The King went down to a miserable fisher-boat that Hales had provided for carrying them over to France.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

Thames, might fitly be compared; but the pomp of the Venetian fisher-boat is like neither.

The Harbours of England John Ruskin 1859

Yet, among them, the fisher-boat, corresponding to the cottage on the land (only far more sublime than a cottage ever can be), is on the whole the thing most venerable.

The Harbours of England John Ruskin 1859

To return to the Christian navy: Before they could get to Tenasserim, their want of fresh water forced them to seek it nearer hand, at Queda, in the river of Parlez; where being entered, they perceived by night a fisher-boat, going by their ships.

The Works of John Dryden Dryden, John, 1631-1700 1808