Sentence Examples

1. By means of the rudder, the machine was readily turned in any direction.
2. And let us now trace the boat picked up by the bargeman on the morning of Monday the twenty-third of June, and which was removed from the barge-office, without the cognizance of the officer in attendance, and without the rudder, at some period prior to the discovery of the corpse.
3. With a proper caution and perseverance we shall infallibly trace this boat for not only can the bargeman who picked it up identify it, but the rudder is at hand.
4. Mudge, who was at the rudder, kept in a straight line, and by a turn of his hand checked the lurches which the vehicle had a tendency to make.
5. Behind, a sort of rudder served to guide the vehicle.
6. In less than an hour he left the rudder and furled his sails, whilst the sledge, carried forward by the great impetus the wind had given it, went on half a mile further with its sails unspread.
7. Using his long tail like a rudder, he turned sharply through the trees and disappeared with a burst of speed.
8. The rudder of a sail-boat would not have been abandoned, without inquiry, by one altogether at ease in heart.
9. The rudder was a light frame of cane covered with silk, shaped somewhat like a battle-door, and was about three feet long, and at the widest, one foot.
10. The next night, without daring to ask for the rudder, he removes it.