The lorcha was still tied up at the company wharf. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
Struan adroitly conned the lorcha alongside Resting Cloud. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
“I forgot something,” he said, and tore for the lorcha. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
The lorcha held its course and headed into the north channel. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
Every lorcha had two eyes carved into the teak of their prows. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
From there a fast lorcha could hare for the fleet at Hong Kong. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
“Maybe the lorcha is south,” May-may said, stifling a yawn. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
Brock stretched again and shouted to his lorcha for a longboat. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
I snuck three of my men onto our lorcha and put her in midstream. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
Ahead the river curled and Struan eased the lorcha into the channel. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
Brock slipped over the side of the lorcha and stood in the longboat. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
When Brock swung aboard his own lorcha, he glared into the darkness. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
My lorcha was just completing her turn; I spun round in bewilderment. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman and the Dragon]
The lorcha was sailing gently but was sluggish and slow in the water. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
The hawsers were cast off and the lorcha slipped away from the wharf. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
He would allow you to stay, secretly if you wish, until lorcha arrived. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
When they were all aboard and the lorcha in midstream, they looked back. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
Almost at the hour he saw the two lanterns on a lorcha coming downstream. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
Struan aimed carefully and when the lorcha was fifteen yards away he shot. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
The Tai-Pan sent you word about Mary and gave you a lorcha to come to Macao. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
In two nights the lorcha was to be brought secretly to the Settlement wharf. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
Mauss was waiting on the dock beside the lorcha, the strange Chinese convert nearby. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
The fleet was silently at anchor and his lorcha had been the first home from Canton. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
Struan could see Gorth clearly now, conning the lorcha, his crew at action stations. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
Down in the bowels of the lorcha a weird, gentle commotion was going on, a multitudinous. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
And he called to his men in the surrounding darkness: “Fall back on the lorcha, lads!”. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
The heavy wind caught them without warning almost, and its impact soon pressed the lorcha over. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Impression of the Philippines] Reference
He swung the tiller hard to starboard and prayed that the lorcha would answer the helm quickly. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
The other lorcha, I was pleased to see, was floundering about with her crew at sixes and sevens. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman and the Dragon]
Some of the traders had already left, and he waved cheerily to a lorcha as it headed downstream. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
The wind freshened slightly, and the lorcha increased speed as they moved into the south channel. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
Our lorcha was about sixty feet long, and, according to one of the teachers who had once seen Lake. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Impression of the Philippines] Reference
When he made sure it was right lorcha, he would let you go abroad secretly and intercept downriver. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
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