I recollect distinctly saying to myself, "Cesar must go down, of course," and then, as I was scrambling on all fours, the swinging
tiller I had let go caught me a crack under the ear, and knocked me over senseless.
He conquered a mad desire to let go sheet and
tiller and to clasp her in his arms.
I put the
tiller up, filled away before it, and with dizzy eyes checked and steadied the boat on her course and waved farewell.
George was the veriest of landlubbers, so I was forced to give over bailing and take the tiller. The wind was blowing directly off Point Pedro and the high mountains behind, and because of this was squally and uncertain, half the time bellying the canvas out and the other half flapping it idly.
I hauled in the main-sheet a foot or two, took a turn with it, and bracing my feet, put my back against the tiller. This left me one hand for the sheet and one for the revolver.
"And another man to the
tiller," cried the master-shipman.
'What the deuce are you doing with that tiller?' he inquired.
'My gentle somnambulist,' said Mr Mifflin, aggrieved, 'I was doing nothing with this tiller. We will now form a commission to inquire into what you were doing with that sheet.
The man at the wheel never vexed the old lady with any superfluous steering, but comfortably adjusting his limbs at the
tiller, would doze away by the hour.
It is likely enough that in the rough outhouses of some
tillers of the heavy lands adjacent to Paris, there were sheltered from the weather that very day, rude carts, bespattered with rustic mire, snuffed about by pigs, and roosted in by poultry, which the Farmer, Death, had already set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revolution.
You, peaceful inhabitants of Moscow, artisans and workmen whom misfortune has driven from the city, and you scattered
tillers of the soil, still kept out in the fields by groundless fear, listen!
Patna: A 33-year-old man in India's Jharkhand state has modified a scrapped motorcycle into a low-cost tractor
tiller, using his experience as a two-wheeler mechanic.