And He spake to His disciples, that a small ship "-- or" wherry "--" should wait on Him because of the multitude, lest they should throng Him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

We saw it would be some days yet before the ship would reach the city, and therefore determined to go up in a wherry, that is a row-boat, from Gravesend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680] Reference

Raleigh re-entered in a few minutes, but was silent, and pressing many an honest hand as he passed, went out to call a wherry, beckoning Amyas to follow him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth] Reference

This erection was connected with the shore by a stage or "wherry" erected on piles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines] Reference

What sights of fine folks he oft row'd in his wherry!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Ballads] Reference

I would have taken a wherry but no waterman came near.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference

Dresser, when their wherry ultimately glided up to the ruins of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference

“Or to leap a flea — run a snail — match a wherry, eh?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference

A wherry chained beside them Vivia rocked lightly with her foot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864] Reference

He could smell roast wherry, succulent, and dripping with juices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragon Drums]

It should more than pay for the wine and the wherry to Spring Gardens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference

Now, look sharp, my joker, or I'll chuck the duds back into the wherry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference

There's a waterman just shoving down his wherry as will put us off to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference

"Farewell, my trim-built wherry" -- he is in the same boat only to capsise you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841] Reference

You cannot embark care in your wherry; there is no room for the odious freight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859] Reference

Well, the next afternoon, lying off Gravesend, out comes a wherry with young master.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art.] Reference

I jalouse ye came roond in a wherry frae the toon, and it's droll I never saw ye land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doom Castle] Reference

From the Tower steps the knight took a wherry and went up the river as far as Blackfriars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference

Tyne, a "sort of wherry, constructed for rowing fast," was the favourite vehicle of pursuit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference

He'd seen the other three secreting bread, fruit and a thick wherry slice to smuggle out to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragon Drums]

Argile, who had slept in a galley all night, came ashore in a wherry with his left arm in a sling.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference

She shrieked in protest as he broke into a full run just as the wherry leader made its first pass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragon Drums]

When the platter of roast wherry slices came to him, he heaved another sigh and fumbled for a slice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragon Drums]

Mr. Samuel Briggs, Mrs. Briggs, and the Misses Briggs, made their appearance in a smart private wherry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches by Boz] Reference

The wherry made its way through a crowd of boats bound for the Gardens, though the season had hardly begun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference

"He returned in a spare wherry, some time since," he replied; and thereon they made a few paces in silence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860] Reference

Up river or down, she trafficked in a wherry, and took the waterman's tender glances as part receipt for his hire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference

She looked more than once at the wherry in which the young adventurer was seated, spoke to those around her, and seemed to laugh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenilworth] Reference

He sliced upward with his knife, but the wherry was clever and, adding its piercing scream to the fire lizard's, veered away from him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragon Drums]

The old sailor only chuckled in response; and, giving the necessary orders to the boatmen, the wherry, which had come down rapidly from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference

I waved my hand in reply as he sculled away, all alone now in the wherry, towards the flagship to try and pick up some stray passenger for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy] Reference

A day or two before these events, some friends of theirs, a Mr. and Mrs. Small, had brought their wherry up the river to visit them, whilst on a cruise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference

Julia in her canoe, the landlord in his wherry, were close alongside, and holding on by the gunwale of the houseboat; so that not a word was lost on Gideon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wrong Box] Reference

“Why, whether do you manage the wherry, or we, master?” asked Green-jacket, in a tone betwixt jest and earnest; “I take it she will go the way we row her.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference

He now took possession of a wherry, folded his arms within his ample cloak, and sitting down in the stern with an air of importance, commanded them to row to Whitehall Stairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference