One day the lookout called a merchantman bearing to the west. From Wordnik.com. [Spice and the Devil's Cave] Reference
"Aboard the merchantman was another like myself who speaks the tentacle-claw-finger language of the sea. From Wordnik.com. [A Triumph of Souls]
The brig was bearing down upon a French merchantman. From Wordnik.com. [Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854)] Reference
Should the more humble merchantman be entering the small port of. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc] Reference
On the fourth day she sighted a merchantman, to whom she gave chase. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Caliph] Reference
But throughout a long career as master of a merchantman the Stars and. From Wordnik.com. [How the Flag Became Old Glory] Reference
The adjective contrasts the shape of the man-of-war with that of the merchantman. From Wordnik.com. [Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader] Reference
You have no right to search the hold of a respectable merchantman and disturb her cargo. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by English Authors: the Sea] Reference
Glossary the meaning of: keep; human; engines; bandages; turret; carriages; merchantman. From Wordnik.com. [The Elson Readers, Book 5] Reference
Admiral Sir David Mitchell, pressed as the master of a merchantman, is a notable example. From Wordnik.com. [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference
United States, including the burning of an English merchantman in the harbor of Charleston. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
They arrived in mid-summer, on a merchantman that plied between Marseilles and Monday Port. From Wordnik.com. [The Inn at the Red Oak] Reference
There they found a large merchantman, the Æolus, laden with timber for government, on shore. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference
Audunn said: He gave me a merchantman with a cargo of wares most profitable for the Norway trade. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Icelandic Short Stories] Reference
Accordingly, leaving his master, he went away again on board of a merchantman bound for the Straits. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
It took but a short time to have all on the merchantman in fetters, and the vessel manned by the pirates. From Wordnik.com. [Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854)] Reference
He passed the Danish straits with his ships partly cleared for action, fired on a Swedish merchantman and a. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
British merchantman, which was sunk outside the Bosphorus, while another had a narrow escape in the Dardanelles. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
You will have heard of Captain Waldgrave's success with the two Dutch ships, and the French merchantman, if I am right. From Wordnik.com. [George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life] Reference
Irishman, captain of a merchantman, who, of his own accord, had left St Louis with the intention of assisting the sufferers. From Wordnik.com. [Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.] Reference
West Indies, bearing in her rigging the marks of conflict with a French privateer, whom the merchantman had bravely repulsed. From Wordnik.com. [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference
The rowboat Fox, of the port of New York, manned by George Harbo, thirty-one years of age, captain of a merchantman, and Frank. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896] Reference
"Yes," added Slim, "and imagine being aboard that merchantman, with a shell hole torn in her side before the destroyer arrives!". From Wordnik.com. [The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service] Reference
We had disguised the ship so much that she took us for a merchantman, and before she discovered her mistake was within pistol-shot. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
The warship was a merchantman, on board of which a number of fighting-men, knights, men-at-arms, archers and billmen were embarked. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
After staying there for five months, (Fa-hien) again embarked in another large merchantman, which also had on board more than 200 men. From Wordnik.com. [A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms: being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline] Reference
With a full thousand swift ships they scoured the waters of the Mediterranean, so that no merchantman could spread her sails in safety. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
In the beginning of the year 1748, a small French merchantman, which was bound from Rochelle to Martinique, was so closely chased by the. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton] Reference
Not far from the same place, the Golden Grove, another merchantman, was stranded, and in her Dr. St.vens and Mr. Burrows of St. Kitts, were lost. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference
Previous to the voyage, while waiting in the harbor of Havana for a crew, our vessel was anchored near the wharves, next to an English merchantman. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Ito had signalled to her, and to the armed merchantman, "Saikio Maru," that they might keep out of the fight, but Japanese courage would not allow of this. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
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