The coracle is a circular basket boat, covered with buffalo hide or black plastic sheets. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
I also happen to feel, or rather, I did, that "coracle" was an especially lovely old word. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 4] Reference
The coracle began to leak, and required constant bailing. From Wordnik.com. [For the term of his natural life] Reference
He clung to his oar, keeping the coracle pointed forward. From Wordnik.com. [Anywhen]
I and the coracle would be knocked clean out of the water. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
The fishermen, who were cast away in a two-man coracle in the. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
If the passage is safe, we will follow in the second coracle. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-06-01] Reference
I sprang to my feet and leaped, stamping the coracle under water. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
Immensely tall she looked to me from my low station in the coracle. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
There was silence for a moment as they bobbed together in the coracle. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-06-01] Reference
The current was bearing coracle and schooner southward at an equal rate. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
Then the coracle went skidding around a long bend and light burst over him. From Wordnik.com. [Anywhen]
Taking out his knife, he cut two nicks in the wicker gunwale of the coracle. From Wordnik.com. [For the term of his natural life] Reference
White sparks sprayed hugely on both sides and my stair coracle slowed rapidly. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
"Mr. Bates," said she, pushing the hair out of her blue eyes, "what's a coracle?". From Wordnik.com. [For the term of his natural life] Reference
To make a coracle of skins seemed sufficiently easy, but how to obtain the skins!. From Wordnik.com. [For the term of his natural life] Reference
The coracle went more and more quickly, and beautifully it rushed up the wave's side. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Dawn Treader]
There was no overturned coracle sighted down the Severn during the day - either day. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Sanctuary Sparrow]
Or should she tell him that she was dreaming him, complete with harp, coracle and dog. From Wordnik.com. [Moonheart]
The only other thing they found there was a little skin boat, or coracle, on the sands. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Dawn Treader]
Mr Rees also insists that he and the other coracle fishermen are keen conservationists. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
At nightfall, Vincus found the coracle Vaananen had left tied to a willow by the lakeside. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Queen]
Marching in this pathetically ridiculous fashion across the sand, they halted at the coracle. From Wordnik.com. [For the term of his natural life] Reference
Nearby was a leather coracle like the kind she'd seen in old picture books of historical heland. From Wordnik.com. [Moonheart]
As Quirk looked on, another big wave rolled in, slipping around Sheerwater and on to the coracle. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-06-01] Reference
They let themselves down a swaying rope to the water, and stepped precariously into the tethered coracle. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-06-01] Reference
"Hear, hear," said a sailor, "I'll say the same, barring the bit about the coracle, which wouldn't bear me.". From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Dawn Treader]
He had his little coracle lowered and paddled himself about in it till the Monopods were thoroughly interested. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Dawn Treader]
But even a small change in the disposition of the weight will produce violent changes in the behavior of a coracle. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
Men who looked like they stepped from a history book can cross the ocean in a coracle with nothing but a harp and a dog. From Wordnik.com. [Moonheart]
He half-jumped, half-fell out of the skipping coracle, landing back in the water a good yard away from where McBride sat. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-06-01] Reference
He donned the space suit again, and began the descent, lowering his tick-shell coracle before him on a short, taut tether. From Wordnik.com. [Anywhen]
It was a fining fate, he thought-for from the sea in a coracle Taliesin was cast up on those same shores many years before. From Wordnik.com. [Moonheart]
One of them, a gangling, smudge-faced boy, turned from the coracle and started toward Conan, clutching a broken-bladed knife. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Warlord]
SPRING'S FIRST DAY WAS A WARM SWEET SONG, a time of companionable silences and comfortably shared labor in Mahon O'Dere's coracle. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: Lion's Blood by Steven Barnes] Reference
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