How To Use pinnace In A Sentence
- At anchoring, we saluted the king with nine guns, and the general sent Mr Femell ashore handsomely attended in the pinnace, with a fine crimson awning, to present the king a fair gilt cup of ten ounces weight, a sword-blade, and three yards of _stammel_ [red] broad-cloth. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08
- In the middle the open water of the fairway is crowded with pinnaces, jolly-boats, cutters, and pleasure steamers.
- _Fatima_, the first swab, as I told you, got an ugly scrape in the leg that prevented him from moving; so when the second lieutenant was put in charge of the dhow to take her up to Zanzibar, I was the only responsible man the captain could think of to send cruising with the pinnace, as the middy was a harum-scarum youngster, who hadn't got thought enough, and neither the boatswain nor Chips could be taken away from their duties without perhaps the ship suffering. The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace
- The Macaw's cannons unleashed a salvo that pummeled the pinnace.
- On June 9, 1873, Wyville Thomson and a party of the Scientifics and officers left the ship early in the morning aboard the steam pinnace.
- The weather faired, and our general caused our great pinnace to be made ready, and to row along the coast,
- Skane's Edge Of the seven sailhands who manned the pinnace from the foun'dering of the galleass Crow only four reached the beaches of Skane's Edge alive. Stormwarden
- That our pinnace was a vessel able to withstand such waves as would be met with in the ocean, can be believed when you remember that she was one half the size of the Goodspeed, which we counted a ship. Richard of Jamestown : a Story of the Virginia Colony
- ‘The frigate and the pinnaces might be able to outmaneuver us,’ Brenner said, ‘but not the galleon.’
- Thither we went in a fine boat they call a pinnace, with six oars; his servants, and horses, and baggage going in the ferry-boat. Moll Flanders
