seafaring vessels. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - It ought to be a proud milestone in Dutch seafaring heritage - the construction of a new ship its owner claims will be the world's largest. From Wordnik.com. [Macleans.ca] Reference
"Well," said Pash, fiddling with his sharp chin, "what you might call a seafaring man. From Wordnik.com. [The Opal Serpent] Reference
I was glad the keepers were there, for I did not have on my "seafaring" clothes, and I was what is called a "mark" for the creatures of prey that prowled up and down. From Wordnik.com. [The People of the Abyss] Reference
I wanna say "seafaring" - like. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
"seafaring" clothes, and I was what is called a "mark" for the creatures of prey that prowled up and down. From Wordnik.com. [A VISION OF THE NIGHT] Reference
The Webbs had been seafaring folk, time out of mind. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
Garfield's bright visions of the charm of a seafaring life. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Garfield Farm-boy, Soldier, and President] Reference
House; but he rarely spoke about his seafaring life to our hero. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
The older commercial and seafaring interests, which had given the. From Wordnik.com. [Expansion and Conflict] Reference
He looked like a seafaring man, and was not a prepossessing person. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
Listening to a number of quaint seafaring expressions from old Captain. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope] Reference
And for a seafaring nation such as England, these were important things. From Wordnik.com. [Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America] Reference
But at last he grew tired of seafaring, which was never congenial to Arabs. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Ours is a seafaring culture and we know how to jump ship as quickly as anyone. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: Same Old Red Sox] Reference
Colonel Glover, can your regiment of seafaring men handle our boats in that river?. From Wordnik.com. [Washington Crossing the Delaware] Reference
"Oh, he rescued you!" said Fritz, looking at the seafaring man with some interest. From Wordnik.com. [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference
Game to seafaring land dwellers whose existence upon my munificence rely immensely. From Wordnik.com. [NATURAE] Reference
The youngsters receive their first seafaring garb in a large, well-ventilated room. From Wordnik.com. [Some Naval Yarns] Reference
We have always been a seafaring nation with adventurous traders and smart businessmen. From Wordnik.com. [Gucharam Das, Business Historian] Reference
If you go there for a fishing holiday you are entitled to talk about seafaring matters. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
The seafaring people who looked on, not knowing whether to venerate or laugh, did both. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference
But then, the girls had never dreamed of seeing such a fascinating seafaring old mariner. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Victory] Reference
In 1851, he moved to Charleston, worked as a rigger, and thereafter led a seafaring life. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference
Needless to say, it is a scarce work, as are all these Elizabethan volumes upon seafaring. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
The shape was undoubtedly a seafaring vessel and the first thing Charlotte said was, “Papa!”. From Wordnik.com. [Charlotte and the Avalanche of Hope] Reference
Then he tried to startle her by suddenly shouting within her hearing a few seafaring expressions he knew. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Toyland What the Marionette Told Molly] Reference
The Athenian historian tells of days when it was no offence to ask a seafaring man, "Are you a pirate, sir?". From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
While living in Barton's house, he read a number of books on seafaring life and the doings of famous pirates. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Garfield Farm-boy, Soldier, and President] Reference
Not that he thirsted for a pirate's life, but a seafaring man's adventures he longed for and decided he must have. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman who went to Alaska] Reference
In 1789 he quitted the seafaring life, and commenced to itinerate for subscribers to enable him to publish his poems. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
"A Voyage in the Sunbeam" is her diary of the journey, a combination family seafaring adventure and geographical tour. From Wordnik.com. [Five Best] Reference
"I do, mother," answered the boy gravely; "still, all sailors are not drowned, nor is a seafaring life always dangerous.". From Wordnik.com. [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference
The practiced eye of the seafaring man saw something that caused him suddenly to turn and breast his way back to the ship. From Wordnik.com. [And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses] Reference
Phoenician Hercules, and the north coast of Africa was the principal scene of the enterprises of those seafaring conquerors. From Wordnik.com. [C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino] Reference
He was a civil old gentleman, of the seafaring sort, who appeared to be cruising about in the evening breeze for his pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
In the second dream of the meetings the married musician suggested that I read seafaring novels to help the alcoholic I had next met. From Wordnik.com. [Dreams-in-progress] Reference
He, too, seems a seafaring man; and no felucca-rigged vessels in the Mediterranean are smarter, finer-looking craft than the Spanish. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference
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