SHE WAS a xebec, low in the water and narrow at the waist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Urth of the New Sun]

She was a xebec and looked handy enough -- I have always been lucky in my ships.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Urth of the New Sun]

He had received a wound in the right hand, when on board the xebec 'Cerf'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Napoleon — Volume 03] Reference

While it lasted, no boat could push out from the xebec without our perceiving it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756] Reference

Imagine someone saying: "He's a nice guy, but that company he works for is a xebec.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Seth's Blog] Reference

"Essex" as they passed the xebec, and not scrupling to use abusive language to Capt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

The small cannon of the xebec had been dismounted, but they hastily tied them with ropes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan] Reference

The shallowness of the river near Cairo obliged us to leave the xebec and get on board a djerm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memoirs of Napoleon]

That big fellow has got twelve on a side, the polacre has eight, and the xebec six, so between them they have fifty-two guns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83)] Reference

"One is a polacre, another a xebec, and the third looks like a full-rigged craft; but as she is end on, I can't say for certain.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83)] Reference

The boat took in a dozen or so, and then, being dangerously overcrowded, left the rest to their fate, and headed back for the xebec.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756] Reference

"That fellow, Morganic, has got a better excuse for his xebec-rig than I had supposed, Greenly," he said, after a minute of observation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Admirals] Reference

• Balancing: Overall ship balancing (schooner, xebec, brig, carrack, cutter) • Balancing: AI has now the possibility to select upgrades to ships.    From Wordnik.com.  [2BakSa.Net] Reference

The cruise of the "Essex" was uneventful, save for a dispute between the officers of the American man-of-war and a Spanish xebec in the roads of Barcelona.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

"Aye, sir; but you were not ordered to send as after a jack-o-lantern, or to mistake some xebec or other, from one of the Greek islands, for a light, handy French lugger".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet] Reference

"I thank you for my own part," replied I; "but in conscience could you have abandoned us, after taking away our horses, and making us go on board the xebec, whether we would or not?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memoirs of Napoleon]

Within ten minutes our booms were swinging uselessly; the sea spread calm for miles around us; and we saw no fewer than three boats being lowered from the xebec, now about four miles away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756] Reference

The Moors, whether they came from the xebec or, as we agreed later, more probably from shore, in answer to the xebec's signal-lights -- must have dropped down on us without stroke of oars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756] Reference

The poor xebec looked like an insect beside the great vessel manned by the wildest and most reckless crew ever gathered on the wharves of Gibraltar -- Maltese, Englishmen, Romans, Venetians.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan] Reference

"'Tis a xebec," growled the master, who was one of the grumblers of the day -- "a fellow with his hold crammed with a wine that would cover the handsomest woman's face in Lunnun with wrinkles.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet] Reference

Pomery) as a lateen-sailed craft some four or five miles astern of us -- a craft which he announced to be a Moorish xebec.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756] Reference

During twenty minutes of this time, the xebec, having picked up with the stronger breeze, had been shortening her distance (as Captain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756] Reference

"The xebec and polacre are gaining on us, but we are going as fast through the water as the three master.    From Wordnik.com.  [Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83)] Reference

Perree was on board the xebec 'Cerf'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memoirs of Napoleon]

The xebec, no doubt, is a coast trader.    From Wordnik.com.  [Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83)] Reference

Spaniards on the xebec lying in the same port.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

In The Navy Alphabet X is for xebec.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alphabet Ahoy!] Reference

A xebec is a three-masted schooner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seth's Blog] Reference

"I fancy the xebec is the fastest, sir.    From Wordnik.com.  [Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83)] Reference