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seafaring
1. There are several boats moored against the harbourside, the walkway strewn with ropes and other seafaring sorts of things … most of which I couldn’t put a name to if I tried
2. Firing a cannon in a storm is an old and honored tradition among seafaring men
3. “Certainly, you are not a seafaring lad—your clothes and shoes are worn and dusty, meaning you’re from the country
4. “Your nephew may have the makings of a seafaring
5. “I’m glad,” he said, and returned to his book on seafaring
6. you destroyed, what was inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, which was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which
7. That so few accidents happen in those conditions is a tribute to the leadership and seafaring skills of the service
8. When errors do occur, personnel are held accountable in foul or fair weather, whether the crews have been overworked or understaffed, whatever the seafaring conditions, which, in the case of the Mesquite, were significant (Stonehouse, pp
9. The sun rose over the ochreous fortress city of Ibiza floating above a turquoise sea, looking much the same as it had for thousands of years to Phoenicians and Romans and all the other seafaring marauders who used it as a base for pirating or defence
10. [The Wedding-Guest is spellbound by the eye of the old seafaring man, and constrained to hear his tale
11. In the distant past there was much trade and seafaring
12. In the increasingly troubled years which marked off the middle of a progressively unhappy century, the beautiful country of Korea, in which, in my seafaring youth, I had spent some pleasure filled times, smouldered into hate and war
13. We talked for hours, and some of the stories told might have been true, but for the most part, I think they were designed for entertainment, as this port served as his refuge and his deposit of seafaring rubbish that wasn’t heard, or couldn’t tell to the ones he sailed with
14. Rango came from a seafaring family
15. “I think, under the circumstances we will give her a seafaring name,” smiled
16. He continues his history class by explaining the seafaring myths surrounding this magnificent monolith
17. our contact with other seafaring people
18. There is strong Biblical evidence to suggest that the tribe of Dan picked up on seafaring from the Phoenicians and started settling elsewhere before the northern tribes were taken into captivity
19. Robert had written of in his seafaring novel
20. There I dressed in sturdy seafaring clothes
21. As he was at present dressed in a seafaring slop suit, in which he looked as if he had some parrots and cigars to dispose of, I next discussed with him what dress he should wear
22. It remarkably characterized the incomplete morality of the age, rigid as we call it, that a license was allowed the seafaring class, not merely for their freaks on shore, but for far more desperate deeds on their proper element
23. Thus, the Puritan elders, in their black cloaks, starched bands, and steeple-crowned hats, smiled not unbenignantly at the clamor and rude deportment of these jolly seafaring men; and it excited neither surprise nor animadversion, when so reputable a citizen as old Roger Chillingworth, the physician, was seen to enter the market-place, in close and familiar talk with the commander of the questionable vessel
24. One of these seafaring men—the shipmaster, indeed, who had spoken to Hester Prynne—was so smitten with Pearl's aspect, that he attempted to lay hands upon her, with purpose to snatch a kiss
25. There, sooner or later, the ships of all seafaring nations arrive; and there, at its destined hour, the ship of my choice will let go its anchor
26. His squadron had passed through the Nearpalm Passage, between Nearpalm Island and the mainland coast, then turned almost due west to steam through the sixty-mile-wide mouth of the magnificent Geyra Bay, at the northern end of a twenty-three-hundred-mile stretch of coastline which ought, by rights, to have made the Desnairian Empire one of the great seafaring nations of Safehold
27. Kraken oil—originally, oil extracted from kraken and used as fuel, primarily for lamps, in coastal and seafaring realms
28. Her former consort, I understand, was a seafaring man and, presumably, the less exacting, but how my son, at the ripe age of thirty-eight, with, unless things have changed very much, a very free choice among the women of England, can have settled on - I suppose
29. Then, without haste, but without making a useless movement, with firm and curt precision, the more remarkable at a moment when the patrol and Javert might come upon him at any moment, he undid his cravat, passed it round Cosette's body under the armpits, taking care that it should not hurt the child, fastened this cravat to one end of the rope, by means of that knot which seafaring men call a "swallow knot," took the other end of the rope in his teeth, pulled off his shoes and stockings, which he threw over the wall, stepped upon the mass of masonry, and began to raise himself in the angle of the wall and the gable with as much solidity and certainty as though he had the rounds of a ladder under his feet and elbows
30. When I finished my first script of Leviathan ’99, about spaceships instead of sailing ships, mad astronaut captains instead of seafaring captains, and the blinding white comet replacing the great white whale, I turned in the script to Norman, who then sent it on to NBC
31. "A stowaway in the hold, Sir," said he in a very business-like seafaring voice
32. And when he stopped to look at the scenery or polish his nose some more, I could hear Polynesia behind me letting out the most dreadful seafaring swear-words you ever heard
33. Clouds thicken upon us; our wrongs are still increased; during the sensibility of this nation, and without atonement for the attack upon the Chesapeake, on the 16th October, 1807, a proclamation issues from the British Cabinet respecting seafaring persons, enlarging the principles of former encroachments upon the practice of impressment
34. The hands were good—too good for a seafaring man, and with feminine precipitance I jumped to the conclusion that this beautiful, fair-haired Viking was the owner of the yacht, and no sooner had this idea entered my mind than romance was busy weaving a web round my heart
35. Suppose France in possession of the British naval power—and to her the trident must pass should England be unable to wield it—what would be your condition? What would be the situation of your seaports and their seafaring inhabitants? Ask Hamburg, Lubec
36. had heard much, on former occasions, about the encouragement of our manufactories, and, although he never was himself for encouraging them at the expense of the farmer, or the depression of our commerce, yet he could but lament that, after the commercial spirit of the country was almost broken down, and many of our commercial and seafaring citizens had been compelled to quit their former employment and resort to manufacturing for the support of their families, that the labor of that valuable class of citizens were next to be assailed; for, in examining the bill on our tables, in consequence of the letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, recommending the partial importation, what will be the effect upon the cotton factories? All cotton cloth under fifteen pence and over three shillings per square yard, prime cost, is to be prohibited, and all between these two prices are to be imported, so that the quality almost exclusively manufactured, and in general use in this country, is to be permitted
37. We behold our seafaring citizens still the daily victims of lawless violence, committed on the great common and highway of nations, even within sight of the country which owes them protection
38. She claims the service of her seafaring subjects in time of danger
39. It will probably be urged that the British practice under this claim, in its application to us, was sufficient to prove that the reclamation of their seamen was not so much the object of the British Government, as the seizure of our seafaring citizens: that it had become so outrageous as not only to justify, but to require war
40. These propositions went completely to secure to Great Britain the services of all her seafaring subjects, except such as were naturalized under our laws, which amounted to but few, indeed; thirteen hundred British seamen only having been naturalized since the commencement of our Government, and, in all probability, an equal number of our seamen have been naturalized by Great Britain during the same period
