"Lugger" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I will, dear. Now take me up the gang-plank and into the cabin. Once aboard the lugger and the maid is—and I am free, ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling
... which his father swore As true to the silvery queen— That tide is breaking with sullen roar, And Hector no more is seen. They may search, they may drag—the search is vain, No Hector they'll ever find; A lugger is yonder, away to the main, ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. • Revised by Alexander Leighton
... plentiful, and he thought he could make some money by it, and he often made secret passages over to Scotland for no one knew what trade. But it was for none of these purposes that the new boat was required, for it had been built with a deep keel and a lugger rig, with a view to being a ...
— The Pilots of Pomona • Robert Leighton
... the pier-head, a large lugger under a press of canvass was seen coming down the wind, with the galley in close pursuit. From the freshness of the wind and the quantity of sail she was able to carry, it was evident that the king's boat had little ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 579 - Volume 20, No. 579, December 8, 1832 • Various
... had taken the greatest pleasure in conferring with them in regard to the commerce of Havre with the colonies. In the evening, there was a fete prepared by the merchants, at which the First Consul remained for half an hour; and on Monday, at five o'clock in the morning, he embarked on a lugger for Honfleur. At the time of his departure the weather was a little threatening, and the First Consul was advised not to embark. Madame Bonaparte, whose ears this rumor reached, ran after her husband, begging ...
— The Private Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete • Constant
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