"Bunt" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... trapped, but the glare of the torches blinds them to their situation, and they would scarcely escape if they could. One side of the net is taken up on the schooner's deck, and there clamped firmly, the fish thus lying in the bunt, or pocket between the schooners, and the two boats which lie off eight or ten feet, rising and falling with the sea. There, huddled together in the shallow water, growing ever shallower as the net is raised, the shining fish, hundreds and thousands of them, bushels, barrels, ...
— American Merchant Ships and Sailors • Willis J. Abbot
... faced the plate, swung valiantly or wildly at balls and essayed bunts. Few hit the ball out and none made a creditable bunt. After their turn at bat they were ordered to the other end of the cage, where they fell over one another trying to stop the balls that were hit. Every few moments the coach would yell for one of them, any one, to take a turn at pitching. Ken noticed that Arthurs ...
— The Young Pitcher • Zane Grey
... whole haul of 'em nor myself. So many a yarn we had together of a dark night, and for a couple of years we saw no small service in the Pandora. But if ye'd seen Ned the smartest reefer aboard, and the best liked by the men, in the fore-taups'l bunt in a gale, or over the maindeck hatch, with an enemy's frigate to leeward, or on a spree ashore at Lisbon or Naples, you wouldn't ha' said there was anything green in his eye, I warrant ye! He was made acting lieutenant of a prize ...
— The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 - of Literature, Science and Art. • Various
... be lost,— no "sogering,'' or hanging back, then. If one is not quick enough, another runs over him. The first on the yard goes to the weather earing, the second to the lee, and the next two to the "dog's ears''; while the others lay along into the bunt, just giving each other elbow-room. In reefing, the yard-arms (the extremes of the yards) are the posts of honor; but in furling, the strongest and most experienced stand in the slings (or middle of the yard) to make up the bunt. If the second mate is a smart fellow, he will never let any one ...
— Two Years Before the Mast • Richard Henry Dana
... however, that my fast would hold, I ran forward to look down on the top, that the strain of the hawser had brought directly under the very bow, over which it had fallen. It was empty! The object I had mistaken for Marble, dead or asleep, was a part of the bunt of the main-top-sail, that had been hauled down over the top-rim, and secured there, either to form a sort of shelter against the breaking seas, or a bed. Whatever may have been the intention of this nest, it ...
— Miles Wallingford - Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" • James Fenimore Cooper
... and one operation only, viz. bunting up the foresail or mainsail in furling. In this operation the canvas of the sail was folded intensively until it formed a smooth conical bundle. This was called a bunt, and a strong collective effort (at the word 'boots') was required to get ...
— The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties • Richard Runciman Terry
... game with a rush. With Dorr up, the Star infield played for a bunt. Like clockwork Dorr dumped the first ball as Blake got his flying start for second base. Morrissey tore in for the ball, got it on the run and snapped it underhand to Healy, beating the runner by an inch. The fast Blake, with a long slide, made third base. The stands stamped. The bleachers ...
— The Redheaded Outfield and Other Baseball Stories • Zane Grey
... Mglichkeit, Der Knabe sei schon auf dem Wege, Nahm sie den Ritter in die Pflege,[1] Wie Gott allein sie lohnen kann. Mit schnster Bitte ging sie dran. 2190 Es lagen Kleider da bereit In dreifacher Vortrefflichkeit, Grau, hermelin und bunt; Ging doch der Wirt zu jeder Stund' Gekleidet wie ein Hofgalan, 2195 Der viel auf Leibespflege sann Und nie am Prunk es fehlen liess. Das schnste sie ihn whlen hiess Und kleidete ihn damit an. Am nchsten ...
— An anthology of German literature • Calvin Thomas
... we'll bunt into something," Thede said, as they clambered up the slope. "I wonder what he'd think if he should be called out of his bed by a blooming magician from ...
— Boy Scouts in Northern Wilds • Archibald Lee Fletcher
... that she will be run down with a push, or, as they said, 'What do these feeble Jews? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they make an end in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are bunt?' Alas! 'if a fox go up he shall even break down their stone wall' ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan
... the wind blew much at Northeast, so that we could beare but onely a bunt of our foresaile, and the Barkes were not able to cary ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. • Richard Hakluyt
... of Greece. Those of the crew who chose to come on board did so; the rest remained on shore, and came off as it suited their convenience. When it became necessary to make sail, the men loosed the sails, but shortly found that no sheets were rove, and the bow-lines bent to the bunt line cringles. At last sheets were rove. But as the ships were getting clear of the harbour, a squall came on; then every man on board shouted to take in sail; but there were no clue-lines bent, and the men were obliged ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 • Various
... the lee side of the sail was adrift, from the bunt gasket outwards. Lower, I saw Tom; he was just hoisting himself ...
— The Ghost Pirates • William Hope Hodgson |
