Sebastien Carmenon piled up on the rocks with a silk-laden galleon from the Philippines. From Wordnik.com. [FOUR HORSES AND A SAILOR] Reference
Drake, Sebastien Carmenon piled up on the rocks with a silk-laden galleon from the Philippines. From Wordnik.com. [Four Horses and a Sailor] Reference
Here, less than two decades after Drake, Sebastien Carmenon piled up on the rocks with a silk-laden galleon from the Philippines. From Wordnik.com. [Four Horses and a Sailor] Reference
The galleon is a very fine one, and it will be very useful when occasion arises. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.] Reference
A galleon is a multi-deck wooden sailing ship that dates to the 16th to 18th centuries. From Wordnik.com. [TCPalm Stories] Reference
The galleon was a long slender ship of extremely low freeboard, rakish rigged as a single-master, both sails and oars being used as. From Wordnik.com. [The Stamps of Canada] Reference
By the way, is 'galleon' related to 'galley' at all?. From Wordnik.com. [Archaic terminology in historical fiction] Reference
The galleon was a veritable treasure ship. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest] Reference
But the galleon looked larger than she really was. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
We sailed no master-galleon, but wrought in cockboats all. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
Century Spanish galleon was built for atmospheric navigation. From Wordnik.com. [Despoilers of the Golden Empire] Reference
An island was discovered by one of the Spanish galleon pilots in. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
The only misadventure they had to fear was the loss of the galleon. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
(Michael Jackson's listing galleon "HIStory" is at No. 8 and sinking.). From Wordnik.com. [You Oughta Know Her] Reference
Build a Spanish galleon and put it in the trees, as he did in "Aguirre"?. From Wordnik.com. [The Holy Mythmaker] Reference
That only one galleon was to be sent each year (instead of two) as formerly. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Above, in the branches of a towering tree rested a full-size Spanish galleon. From Wordnik.com. [The Holy Mythmaker] Reference
The St. Philip came to the like end; so did the galleon of Biscay, and divers others. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
In Acapulco the galleon lay at anchor until March, 1653, when the newly-appointed Gov. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
The next day they went out to meet the galleon, which, however, had delayed her sailing. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
It was first brought from Acapulco (Mexico) in 1626 in the State galleon, by Juan Niño de. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
When the last galleon had struggled into harbour, fifty-five great ships were still missing. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
So, to the surprise of the crew of the galleon, the men were transhipped a day's sail from harbour. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
The British then proposed to accept one million at once and draw the rest from the cargo of the galleon. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
A galleon arrived at Cavite, and being unable to go into port, the commander anchored off at a distance. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
The last State galleon left Manila for Mexico in 1811, and the last sailing from Acapulco for Manila was in 1815. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
But Anson had harried the coast of Chile and Peru and had captured a Spanish galleon of immense value near the Philippines. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
Or compare a good modern yacht, swift, lithe, and plain, with a lumbering heavily gilded sixteenth-century galleon, or even with a. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
It was a sort of transition-ship, between the galley and the galleon, and as time went on it became more and more of a sailing ship. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference
Her mother was an overwhelming force, deeply self-centered, bearing down on her children like a galleon in full sail, all guns firing. From Wordnik.com. [The Kay We Loved] Reference
European ship-builders in Barbary, 226 -- The galley superseded by the galleon or ship, 229 -- Depredations of the Algerine sailing-ships. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference
Spain and Venice, a sort of compromise between the rowed galley and the sailing galleon; for it was too heavy to depend wholly on its oars. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference
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