But the sampan was already by us and wasn't stopping. From Wordnik.com. [Tour of Duty] Reference
The surf, through which it is carried in an open boat, called a sampan lonchore, renders such accidents unavoidable. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants] Reference
The sampan has a similar faulty arrangement of stern. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
Singapore sampan and one of the Dido's cutters in chase. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
I said, "That sampan-this evening-was it doing any harm?". From Wordnik.com. [The Quiet American]
He felt the new motion of the sampan being sculled again. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
“I seed thee snuck down in that there sampan yesterday.”. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
She was in the middle of the sampan village, almost upright. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
The sampan owner and his family did not appear to notice him. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
A sampan darted in to help Lady Joanna, Havergill and his wife. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
Chinese falls off his sampan, his neighbor does not try to save him. From Wordnik.com. [The Log of the Empire State] Reference
Wu continued on his way and was bowed into his personal ferry sampan. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
The sampan shoved the bow around, then scuttled neatly to the other side. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
He could see that there were four adults and eight children in the sampan. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
Patches and I swam like hetl, dragging the sampan, and made it to the bank. From Wordnik.com. [Rogue Warrior]
The meal was scarcely ended before the light sampan was back with good news. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Haydon's Quest] Reference
He remembered a story in The Advertiser about a sampan that sank in the Pacific. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Burke's Last Stand] Reference
His ferry sampan was waiting and he saw them get into it and head for the shore. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
We were dragging at the sampan when the water around my head started kicking up. From Wordnik.com. [Rogue Warrior]
I know you don't, Tom, 'cos you were blind drunk an' snoring in the bottom of a sampan. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman and the Dragon]
Not a hair on any of my guys moved, even though four weapons were following the sampan. From Wordnik.com. [Rogue Warrior]
As the sampan darted away on her new course, the skiff was left floundering on the water. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Haydon's Quest] Reference
She saw his lorchas sail from Macao, and followed in a sampan manned by other of our agents. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman and the Dragon]
It was eerie riding down canals in a sampan with men I had once hunted and who had hunted me. From Wordnik.com. [The War Without End] Reference
After crossing the creek in a crazy sampan the party separated, each taking his own line of country. From Wordnik.com. [Life and sport in China Second Edition] Reference
She followed the hermit to the river side, where his small and leaky sampan was drawn up on the mud. From Wordnik.com. [Life and sport in China Second Edition] Reference
Dent, when they were once more in the sampan, and the big Shan was pulling strongly across the stream. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Haydon's Quest] Reference
In the sampan the Shan was still pulling with undiminished energy, but Jim Dent was beginning to pant. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Haydon's Quest] Reference
Every muscle in his body was tingling to put its strength against the smooth current and the weight of the sampan. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Haydon's Quest] Reference
In such weather it is impossible to allow Yves to return down hill, and wander along the shore in quest of a sampan. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Mr. Brooke as a companion, who was likewise attended by a sampan and crew he had taken with him to Sarawak from Singapore. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
"We understood," she said, "how impossible it was, in such dreadful weather, to undertake so lengthy a crossing in a sampan.". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He dipped this into the water and added a strong dexterous stroke to the efforts of the boatman; now the sampan began to fly. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Haydon's Quest] Reference
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