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Louis shook his head, looked wise, and made that sort of astounding success which members of that craft usually achieve.

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 Meanings and Examples of CRAFT
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craft
 n.  something made by people; vessel
Classic Sentence: (45 in 4 pages)
1  For my mind was made up to sail in no other than a Nantucket craft, because there was a fine, boisterous something about everything connected with that famous old island, which amazingly pleased me.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag.
2  It stood on a sharp bleak corner, where that tempestuous wind Euroclydon kept up a worse howling than ever it did about poor Paul's tossed craft.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag.
3  Entering that gable-ended Spouter-Inn, you found yourself in a wide, low, straggling entry with old-fashioned wainscots, reminding one of the bulwarks of some condemned old craft.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
4  For it is particularly written, shipmates, as if it were a thing not to be overlooked in this history, 'that he paid the fare thereof' ere the craft did sail.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
5  Now, this plan of Queequeg's, or rather Yojo's, touching the selection of our craft; I did not like that plan at all.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
6  A cannibal of a craft, tricking herself forth in the chased bones of her enemies.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
7  During these days of preparation, Queequeg and I often visited the craft, and as often I asked about Captain Ahab, and how he was, and when he was going to come on board his ship.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20. All Astir.
8  Aye, he was dismasted off Japan," said the old Gay-Head Indian once; "but like his dismasted craft, he shipped another mast without coming home for it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Ahab.
9  Some weeks after, the Commodore set sail in this impregnable craft for Valparaiso.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
10  That business consisted in fetching the Commodore's craft such a thwack, that with all his pumps going he made straight for the nearest port to heave down and repair.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
11  The ship, however, was by no means a large one: a Russian craft built on the Siberian coast, and purchased by my uncle after bartering away the vessel in which he sailed from home.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
12  Then, with every mast-head manned, the piled-up craft rolled down before the wind.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout.
13  As if the waves had been fullers, this craft was bleached like the skeleton of a stranded walrus.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 52. The Albatross.
14  He steered away from it; but the savage craft bore down on him; and soon the voice of Steelkilt hailed him to heave to, or he would run him under water.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
15  It is then they change places; and the headsman, the chief officer of the little craft, takes his proper station in the bows of the boat.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 62. The Dart.
Example Sentence:
1  Space craft is a vessel to travel out air.
2  An outburst of relief as Stardust finally landed in the Utah desert after a four and a half billion kilometre journey that had taken the craft half way out to Jupiter and through the tail of a comet.
3  The Show is Canada's largest three day hobby and craft exhibition.
4  His desk was cluttered with paper, pen, ink, dictionary and other paraphernalia of the writing craft.
5  The steamer was a well-found craft compared with any others that had navigated the river before.
6  Louis, moused around, shook his head, looked wise, and made that sort of astounding success which members of that craft usually achieve.
7  Louis shook his head, looked wise, and made that sort of astounding success which members of that craft usually achieve.
8  They try to craft a new boat as exactly same as the lost one.
9  The threat to a craft of deep space is that its electronics might be wrecked; radiation slowly displaces atoms in solids, to the detriment of any electronic components those atoms are part of.
10  He acquired the craft of wood carving in his native town.