Of those three varieties of fore-and-aft rig, the cutter - the racing rig PAR EXCELLENCE - is of an appearance the most imposing, from the fact that practically all her canvas is in one piece.
For racing, a cutter; for a long pleasure voyage, a schooner; for cruising in home waters, the yawl; and the handling of them all is indeed a fine art.
When the lieutenant learned of the recent disappearance of the man he sought, he expressed his determination to push on at once in pursuit; and as Professor Maxon feared again to remain unprotected in the heart of the Bornean wilderness his entire party was taken aboard the cutter.
Virginia and Bulan remained in the cutter, as the latter was still too weak to attempt the hard march through the jungle.
Bunster fled away in a cutter to Guvutu, where he signalized himself by beating up a young Englishman already crippled by a Boer bullet through both hips.
Then there were the boat boys, with minds fully made up to drown him by accident at the first opportunity to capsize the cutter. Only Bunster saw to it that the boat did not capsize.
He ordered the boys to beach the cutter, scrub her bottom, and give her a general overhauling.
Frome heard the girl's voice, gaily incredulous: "What on earth's your father's cutter doin' down there?"
She let Denis Eady lead out the horse, climb into the cutter and fling back the bearskin to make room for her at his side; then, with a swift motion of flight, she turned about and darted up the slope toward the front of the church.
He saw Eady, after a moment, jump from the cutter and go toward the girl with the reins over one arm.
A groom took the cutter to the stables, and Archer struck through the park to the high-road.
van der Luyden had not yet returned; and Archer took his leave and walked off to fetch the cutter, while Beaufort followed the Countess Olenska indoors.
Then the vessel resumed its course, still escorted by the little
cutter, which sailed side by side with it, menacing it with the mouths of its six cannon.
Against the low streak of light in the sky I could see the mast of Powell's cutter moored to the bank some twenty yards, no more, beyond that black barn or whatever it was.
His cutter has a very neat little cabin, quite big enough for two men not only to sleep but to sit and smoke in.
