Old Pigtown had a son, a little dark or so, which proved that his mother wasn't quite as fair as a lily, and this son was employed in a drogher, that is, a small craft which goes round to the bays of the island, and takes off the sugars to the West India traders. From Wordnik.com. [Jacob Faithful] Reference
To get to the drogher statue, continue along the hilltop from Heritage Park for about two blocks, keeping to the ocean side in front of the houses and condominiums that now fill the neighborhood. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Henry Dana] Reference
"The drogher is drifting -- we must veer out more cable!". From Wordnik.com. [The Three Lieutenants] Reference
Still the drogher lay over on her side and gave no signs of righting. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Lieutenants] Reference
The drogher spun round like a top, and off she flew before the hurricane. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Lieutenants] Reference
One fine day the drogher was driven out to sea, and never heard of a'terwards. From Wordnik.com. [Jacob Faithful] Reference
The drogher was hired by the day, and the longer she was out the more he pocketed. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Lieutenants] Reference
Away flew the drogher amid the roaring seas into the pitchy darkness, which now settled down over the ocean. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Lieutenants] Reference
Two other big fellows arrived in quick succession, one with a load which he relinquished to a drogher-in-waiting. From Wordnik.com. [Edge of the Jungle] Reference
In the state of the sea, to get on board the drogher from the dinghy, was an operation too dangerous to be attempted. From Wordnik.com. [Rattlin the Reefer] Reference
"It proves, however, that the crew of the drogher must have been sober, or they could not have found their way clear of it.". From Wordnik.com. [The Three Lieutenants] Reference
They, at all events, congratulated themselves that they had not been on board the drogher when she was blown away from Saba. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Lieutenants] Reference
Gathered in by General Vallejo, the "pernicious foreigners" have been held at Monterey, until a "hide drogher" comes into the port. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance] Reference
They were both, too, very anxious about Tom and Gerald, and they could only hope that if the drogher had not returned she was safe in some other port. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Lieutenants] Reference
Upon one occasion, I had the curiosity to go on board a salt-drogher, and fall into conversation with its skipper, a bachelor, who kept house all alone. From Wordnik.com. [Redburn. His First Voyage] Reference
The wonder was that the drogher still kept afloat; but she was tight and light as a cork -- now she was on the top of one sea, now climbing up the side of another. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Lieutenants] Reference
The same afternoon the adventurers got back to their drogher, the overseer having liberally supplied them with as much venison and fish as they could possibly consume. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Lieutenants] Reference
Unlike penguins and human beings, army ants have no rule of the road as to right and left, and there is no lessening of pace or turning aside for a heavily laden drogher. From Wordnik.com. [Edge of the Jungle] Reference
Alick knew that Captain Hemming would not sail before the return of the drogher with his midshipmen, or should she not appear until he had endeavoured to ascertain their fate. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Lieutenants] Reference
The next day and the next passed -- the drogher did not appear, and the two captains became as anxious as were the three lieutenants to ascertain the fate of their midshipmen. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Lieutenants] Reference
Space does not permit of any examination but the following groups are examples in order - drogher, gilder, koker, stelling, pratash, bacalao, vamoose (vamos) no canoca (no conozco). From Wordnik.com. [Stabroek News] Reference
We had the choice of three things, to try and right the drogher, to make a raft out of her spars and upper works, or to sit quietly where we were till some vessel should come by and take us off. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Lieutenants] Reference
The schooner at length came to an anchor, and a messenger was sent off to the overseer, who kindly came down at once and told them that he had seen the drogher outside the reefs, and standing to the westward. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Lieutenants] Reference
A time a sea came tumbling over first one quarter, then the other; and, though it was but just the top of it, we should all of us have been swept overboard, and if the hatches hadn't been battened down, the old drogher would have gone to the bottom. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Lieutenants] Reference
She is far better fitted for cruising among the islands than the corvette, and will be more likely to find the drogher. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Three Lieutenants] Reference
Still not a sign of the drogher. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Lieutenants] Reference
Harbour the day we sailed in the drogher. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Lieutenants] Reference
"A Rimouski drogher on the look-out for a tow.". From Wordnik.com. [Actions and Reactions] Reference
"Very kind of the Rimouski drogher. From Wordnik.com. [Actions and Reactions] Reference
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