![]() ![]() The officers and crew were all this while-some two hours-standing at their guns, at quarters, and I could, now and then, overhear quite an audible titter from some of the sober men, as the drunken ones who were undergoing the shower-bath would now defy my authority, and now beg for mercy. It took me some time to get through with this operation, for I had the delinquents-about a dozen of the most noisy-soused one at a time. When their irons were taken off, they were sober enough to go below to their hammocks, without another word, and ‘turn in’ like good boys! I held off a little while, as if inexorable to their prayers and entreaties, the better to impress upon them the lesson I was teaching them, and then ordered them to be released. If I would only let them go this time, I should never have cause to complain of them again. They now turned to me, and begged me, for God's sake, to spare them. Was this the way he designed to punish them for mutiny, instead of hanging them at the yard-arm? These synonyms for the word afloat are provided for your information only.Descending upon them as rapidly as ever, with half-sobered brain, and frames shivering with the cold, they would now become seriously alarmed. is more than 70,800 synonyms and 47,200 antonyms available. This site allows you to find in one place, all the synonyms and antonyms of the English language. In your daily life, for writing an email, a text, an essay, if you want to avoid repetitions or find the opposite meaning of a word. The words blockage, encumbrance, handicap are antonyms for "help". The words acknowledge, enjoy, welcome are synonyms for "appreciate". Antonyms are used to express the opposite of a word. Antonym definitionĪn antonym is a word, adjective, verb or expression whose meaning is opposite to that of a word. This avoids repetitions in a sentence without changing its meaning. Synonyms are other words that mean the same thing. Extract from : « Fair Harbor » by Joseph Crosby LincolnĪ synonym is a word, adjective, verb or expression that has the same meaning as another, or almost the same meaning.She'll keep him afloat and hard at work earnin' more for her to spend.Extract from : « The Night Riders » by Ridgwell Cullum.These things brought it into existence and kept it afloat for some years.Extract from : « The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII) » by Various.Afloat the Allies continued to maintain the supremacy which had been theirs. ![]() Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings.From the quiet swaying of the floor beneath me I soon sensed that we were afloat.Extract from : « The Channings » by Mrs.Pierce senior set it afloat that is, he and Mark Galloway together.I could not swim a stroke, and it crossed my mind to get one of the sweeps to keep me afloat.Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper.I never was more completely adrift, in my life, ashore or afloat.Extract from : « The Foolish Lovers » by St.He had been sea-sick, but she had seemed unaware of the fact that she was afloat on a rough sea.Extract from : « The Three Golden Apples » by Nathaniel Hawthorne.How it had got afloat upon the sea, is more than I can tell you. ![]() ![]()
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