Use fleet in a sentence
Sentences starting with fleet
- Fleet Street, which he loved so warmly, was close by. [6]
Sentences ending with fleet
- Newspapers reported, one with apprehension, another with tyrannous comment, mutinous troubles in the fleet. [11]
- And then: "I wish I could see Mister Moultrie in his fort, and the fleet. [9]
- They think he went to the fleet. [9]
- His record, therefore, was fairly clean until two days after the escape from the Thames and the sighting of the Portsmouth fleet. [11]
- It was the treasure-galley of the Ottoman fleet. [10]
- And I shame to say it, my own daughter prevents me from obtaining the money to keep us out of the Fleet. [9]
- Both were reluctant to quit Alexandria ere decisive news had arrived from the army and the fleet. [10]
- Jersey was not to be conquered without opposition--no army of defence was abroad, but the elements roused themselves and furiously attacked the fleet. [11]
- At length, when they were come to some Indian mounds, they found a picket of three, companies of the force which had reached the flat the day before, and had been sent down to prevent the enemy from obstructing further the stream below the fleet. [9]
- That was when they passed Portsmouth, and had seen in the far distance, to the right of them, the mastheads of Admiral Gardner's fleet. [11]
Sentences containing fleet two or more times
- Then came a line of buoys beyond these, with manned boats moored alongside to protect the fleet from fire rafts, which once already the enemy had unavailingly sent down to ruin and burn our fleet. [11]
- Two men whom I had served under, in my river days, took part in that fight: Mr. Bixby, head pilot of the Union fleet, and Montgomery, Commodore of the Confederate fleet. [5]
- At Messina he chronicles the brilliant spectacle of Lord Nelson's fleet passing through the straits in search of the French fleet that had lately got out of Toulon. [4]
More example sentences with the word fleet in them
- A fleet of white clouds, like ships pressed with sail, hurried across the sky as though racing for some determined port; and the shadows they cast along the hillsides accentuated the high brightness of the day, emphasized the vivid and hateful beauty of the landscape. [9]
- In a little while the queen beheld a body of Moorish cavalry pouring into the vega, the riders managing their fleet and fiery steeds with admirable address. [4]
- In a little while all interest was taken up in stretching our necks and watching for the "pony-rider"--the fleet messenger who sped across the continent from St. Joe to Sacramento, carrying letters nineteen hundred miles in eight days! [5]
- The enemy's fleet, which subsequently did not let a single boat pass, allows his entire army to elude it. [2]
- Their first act was to declare that the fleet should not leave port until the men's demands were satisfied. [11]
- Britain, because she was separated from the continent and protected by her fleet, virtually withdrew from European affairs in the latter part of the nineteenth century, and, as a result, made great strides in democracy. [9]
- When the fleet was first espied, the President thought it was Spaniards, and prepared to defend himself, the Indians promptly coming to his assistance. [4]
- The whole fleet was awaiting the signal for departure. [10]
- The preparations for war required large sums; all vessels suitable for the purpose were seized for the fleet, and all residents of the city and country shared the same fate as Pyrrhus. [10]
- The scene was very animated, for the most contradictory messages were constantly arriving from the fleet and the army. [10]
- There is no use in a man having a whole fleet for a pleasure excursion. [5]
- They had passed us as we came down, for we had sailed inside some islands of the coast, getting shelter and better passage, and the fleet had, no doubt, passed outside. [11]
- Boyne had said truly that the French fleet meant to come soon. [11]
- We can go to the West Indian Islands, to the British fleet there. [11]
- Leostaf without him, to proceed up the river stealthily with the rest of the fleet to Cap Rouge, from whence the last great effort of the heroic Wolfe to effect a landing was to be made. [11]
- If the opportunity to make an attack arrived, a powerful fleet would be at her disposal, for which smaller ships also should now be built at Klysma, on the basis of the experience gained at Actium. [10]
- We have forests to build an hundred armadas, and I will command a fleet and it is given me. [9]
- One thing appeared to be certain--the fleet had been vanquished and dispersed on the 2d or 3d of September. [10]
- I took it to be a fleet from France bearing re-enforcements and supplies--as indeed afterwards I found was so; but the re-enforcements were so small and the supplies so limited that it is said Montcalm, when he knew, cried out, "Now is all lost! [11]
- Day after day Tinoir, as he watched for the coming fleet, saw the fire lit at sundown, and then put out. [11]
- I will say this: that as the sure victory of our fleet has come through you, you shall not suffer in my report. [11]
- Just after sundown there was a great noise, and the ringing of bells and sound of singing came over the water to the idle fleet. [11]
- The British contented themselves with holding their position till Walley returned bearing the admiral's orders to embark again for the fleet. [11]
- He had informed them that, whatever happened, they should not be in danger; that the ship should not join the West Indian fleet unless every man except himself received amnesty. [11]
- That half of them succeeded in doing so was because the British fleet had been heavily handled in the fight, and would have been defeated had it not been for the arrival of the Ariadne. [11]
- The report of the successful issue of the first naval battle was believed, and many desired to greet the victorious fleet and hail their sovereign as she entered the harbour. [10]
- The first of the scattered fleet of Gates and Somers came in on the 11th, and the rest straggled along during the three or four days following. [4]
- The case of the Samian fleet was a remarkable one. [10]
- All belonged to the royal war fleet, and the deck of every one was crowded with armed soldiers. [10]
- He rowed across the river when the Yankee fleet was going down, and set fire to De Soto so that they could see to shoot. [9]
- Bias pointed to the poop, where the commander Eumedes was standing directing the course of the fleet. [10]
- It swept across the island, levelled forests of cocoa palms, battered villages to pieces, caught that little fleet in the harbour, and played with it in a horrible madness. [11]
- The terrors of the hurricane which dispersed the fleet, and this shipwreck, were much dwelt upon by the writers of the time, and the Bermudas became a sort of enchanted islands, or realms of the imagination. [4]
- The fleet hasn't the food to sail. [11]
- There, indeed, was the fleet, but far away, like toy ships on the water, and the bit of a fort perched on the sandy edge of an island. [9]
- As soon as the fleet had gained the victory I would have the prow of my galley turned southward and, without a farewell, exclaiming only, 'We will meet in Alexandria! [10]
- Here she watched the fleet draw nearer and nearer. [11]
- Five steamers carrying the Egyptian flag were bearing around the point where the river curved below the town, and converging upon David's small fleet. [11]
- British cruisers sailed the Channel: now a squadron under Barrington, again under Bridport, hovered upon the coast, hoping that a French fleet might venture near. [11]
- In their midst the central steeple towers proudly up like the mainmast of some great Indiaman among a fleet of coasters. [5]
- Do--do you think that's a French fleet, Maitre Jean? [11]
- The Rhodian said that the fleet was scattered. [10]
- Meantime Raleigh, knowing that the colony would probably need aid, was preparing a fleet of three well appointed ships to accompany Sir Richard Grenville, and an "advice ship," plentifully freighted, to send in advance to give intelligence of his coming. [4]
- All by itself that ship is the American fleet. [5]
- At the interview that followed, while apologizing to the admiral for his discourtesy, Parker wore his hat as quasi-admiral of the fleet. [11]
- Iberville was apprehensive that a fleet of the kind could only be hostile, for merchant-ships would hardly sail together so, and it was not possible that they were French. [11]
- Didn't the admiral tell the story at the dinner we gave him of how this ex-convict and mutineer, by sheer genius, broke the power of the French at the critical moment and saved our fleet, though it was only three-fourths that of the French? [11]
- The admiral would take his fleet to the Sebennytic mouth of the Nile. [10]
- The sea fairly swarmed with ships, some belonging to the royal fleet, some to curious Alexandrians, who had sailed out to take a survey. [10]
- If the fleet succeeded in reaching the Zoetermere Lake and from thence. [10]
- I found Fleet Street a good deal like Washington Street as I remember it in former years. [6]
- Sometimes a magnificent state galley appeared, on whose deck was Antony, who inspected the hastily equipped fleet to make the newly recruited sailors one of those kindling speeches in which he was a master hard to surpass. [10]
- As I did so, I could see the lights of our fleet in the Basin, and the camp-fires of our army on the Levis shore, on Isle Orleans, and even at Montmorenci, and the myriad lights in the French encampment at Beauport. [11]
- Then came a silence, and it seemed to me that all our army and fleet, and that at Beauport, and the garrison of Quebec, were watching us; for the ramparts and shore were crowded. [11]
- I'm taking this ship straight to his majesty's West Indian fleet, in thorough discipline, and I'll hand it over well-found, well- manned, well-officered, on condition that all go free except myself. [11]
- The day before she had welcomed her returning son before the entry of the fleet into the canal, and to-day had remained from the beginning to the end of his reception by the King, without being unduly wearied. [10]
- A fleet of seven vessels, with one hundred householders, and many things necessary to begin a new state, departed from Plymouth in April, 1585. [4]
- His heavy silver service came from Fleet Street, and his claret and Champagne and Lisbon and Madeira were the best that could be bought or smuggled. [9]
- But I has seen many stripes o' men in my time, my masters, and I know them to trust, and them whose silver I must feel or send to the Fleet. [9]
- The storm had saved them from the hostile fleet, which had fared ill. [11]
- The canal will save the fleet. [10]
- Before the fleet sailed into the Mareotic harbor of Alexandria, Pontius revealed his happy secret to the Emperor. [10]
- A large ship sailed in the midst of this little fleet. [10]
- They know how safe we are, and to-day orders have come to yield our provisions to the rest of the fleet. [11]
- The day after Richard Parker visited the Ariadne the fleet had been put under the control of the seamen's Delegates, who were men of standing in the ships, and of personal popularity. [11]
- Yet my courage remained steadfast, even when a squadron--it was commanded by Aruntius--pressed upon the fleet. [10]
- If it proved practicable, the rescued ships of the fleet, with others lying in the roadstead of Alexandria, could be conveyed across the isthmus into the Red Sea, and thus saved to Egypt and withdrawn from the foe. [10]
- Was not the plan of bringing the fleet across the isthmus bold and full of promise? [10]
- Our sentries already patrolled the streets, and our bugles were calling on the heights, with answering calls from the fleet in the basin. [11]
- One of a pair of fleet bloodhounds which were ever leashed together was named Nich, and the other Syn, in memory that he had been betrothed on the festival of Saint Nicodemus and wedded on Saint Synesius' day. [10]
- Back to Vicksburg paddled the fleet and transports. [9]
- We were driving over the spot where, eighteen centuries ago, the Roman fleet used to ride at anchor. [4]
- If we change our last simile to that very old and familiar one of a fleet leaving the harbor and sailing in company for some distant region, we can get what we want out of it. [6]
- The canal abandoned, one red night fleet and transports swept around the bend and passed the city's heights, on a red river. [9]
- My present fleet on the river Charles consists of three row-boats. [6]
- Several years ago, on a memorable trip to England, he was designated by the admiral of the fleet to be present at a banquet given our sailors in the Guildhall. [9]
- Presently, from an officer who had been captured as he was setting free a fire-raft upon the river to run among the boats of our fleet, I heard that Doltaire had been confined in the Intendance from a wound given by a stupid sentry. [11]
- He had heard of the treachery of the fleet while entering a hired boat with the freedman in the harbour of Eunostus, Pyrrhus's having been detained with the other craft before the Temple of Poseidon. [10]
- Sir Erasmus Gower, of the Neptune, has a fleet of warships, gunboats, and amateur armed vessels getting ready to attack us. [11]
- In the harbour of the neighbouring seaport Tanis they went aboard of the commandant's state galley, one of the largest and finest in the royal fleet, where a banquet awaited them. [10]
- Eumedes, the commander of the fleet, often visited him, and while exchanging tales of their experiences they became friends. [10]
- Well, the rest of the fleet know what our food and drink fitment is. [11]
- The left wing of the fleet advanced. [10]
- The old church of St. Sepulcher's, formerly at the confluence of Snow Hill and the Old Bailey, now lifts its head far above the pompous viaduct which spans the valley along which the Fleet Ditch once flowed. [4]
- He brought word of murmuring among the more brutish of the crew, that some of them wished to join Gardner's fleet. [11]
- Also, a fleet of covered boats was to be stationed near the boulevard as an additional help in case a retreat should become necessary. [5]
- So the fleet of boats came up and went away loaded with provisions and cattle, and conveyed that welcome succor to the hungry city, managing the matter successfully under protection of a sortie from the walls against the bastille of St. Loup. [5]
- This strange fleet of battle-ships, drifted by the shifting currents, was maneuvering for an engagement. [4]
- The fleet was now in motion, and apart from the havoc which the bursting fire-organ might make, the light from the explosion would reveal the fact that the English men-o'-war were now moving towards Cap Rouge. [11]
- The fleet could not sail now if it wished; but one ship can sail, and it is ours. [11]
- I give you my word there's no French agent in the fleet, and if there were, it wouldn't have any effect. [11]
- I fumbled in my waistcoat for the repeater I had bought that morning over against Temple Bar, in Fleet Street, and I thrust it into John Paul's hand as he came up. [9]
- The French fleet, my commission in the French army, and my story about the landlord are all bosh. [11]
- As for the mutiny, he had done what any honest man of spirit would do; also, he had by great bravery and skill brought victory to the king's fleet in West Indian waters. [11]
- I read this morning that a Chinese fleet was sunk, but I did n't think half so much about it as I did about losing my sleeve button, confound it! [6]
- Were these anything more than royal pleasure galleries, where one could sit in coolness in the heat of summer and look on the bay and its shipping, in the days when the great Roman fleet used to lie opposite, above the point of Misenum? [4]
- The fleet of merchantmen might with the greatest ease be destroyed, a contribution levied, and Ireland's coal cut off for a winter. [9]
- So, as my men rowed back towards our fleet, I faced my enemies, and looked towards them without moving. [11]
- Don't think we mean harm to the fleet. [11]
- Admiral Saunders received me with great cordiality, thanked me for the dispatches, heard with applause of my adventures with the convoy, and at once, with dry humour, said he would be glad, if General Wolfe consented, to make my captured schooner one of his fleet. [11]
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