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Sentences ending with navy

Charles, here, is to give him a commission in his Majesty's Navy. [9]
However, I made the remark that Congress had as yet no army, let alone a navy. [9]
I am resigning the navy. [11]
The details of the enlistment and organization will be made known through the Department of the Navy. [7]
He was in the army, I the navy. [11]
But there was surely no comparison between the situations of the master of the Belle of the Wye and an officer in the Royal Navy. [9]
If you make such order, notify me of it, giving a copy, so that I can give corresponding direction to the Navy. [7]
Here he was--at sea, a common sailor in the navy. [11]
It did not require much self-denial, perhaps, to decline the candidacy for mayor of New York, or the honor of standing for Congress; but he put aside also the distinction of a seat in Mr. Van Buren's cabinet as Secretary of the Navy. [4]
Nothing one sees, perhaps, is so eloquent of the change that has taken place in the life and fabric of our navy. [9]

Sentences containing navy two or more times

The navy, then, is the most general in its benefits of all this class of objects; and yet even the navy is of some peculiar advantage to Charleston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, beyond what it is to the interior towns of Illinois. [7]
States Navy, was dismissed from the service under a misapprehension in regard to his loyalty to the Government, from the circumstance that several oaths were transmitted to him and the Navy Department failed to receive any recognition of them. [7]
This basin is almost large enough to float the navy of Great Britain, and it could lie here, with the narrows fortified, secure from the attacks of the American navy, hovering outside in the fog. [4]

More example sentences with the word navy in them

I commend to your consideration the suggestions of the Secretary of the Navy in regard to the policy of fostering and training seamen and also the education of officers and engineers for the naval service. [7]
That each of you will, in his sphere, do all he can to have the officers, soldiers, and seamen of the army and navy, while engaged in the effort to suppress the rebellion, paid, fed, clad, and otherwise well provided for and supported. [7]
And listen-- before you and I are two months older, the French navy will be in the harbours of Ireland, and the French army will land here. [11]
Half our navy would have anchored under the guns of these suddenly alienated fortresses, with the flag of the rebellion flying at their peaks. [6]
To acknowledge it would be ruin, for all the world knows that Captain Philip d'Avranche of the King's navy is now the adopted son of the Duc de Bercy. [11]
Here is the world of the press and of letters; here are institutions, an army, a navy, commerce, glimpses of great ships going to and fro on distant seas, of India, of Australia. [4]
Subsequently his brother William wrote him that Commodore Decatur was keeping open for him the office of Chief Clerk in the Navy Department. [4]
The Secretary of War will make such general orders or regulations as will insure the proper observance and execution of,, this order, and the Secretary of the Navy will give instructions to officers commanding fleets, flotillas, and gunboats in conformity therewith. [7]
The Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy will issue the necessary directions in their respective departments for the execution of this order. [7]
We had General Todtleben (the famous defender of Sebastopol, during the siege,) and many inferior army and also navy officers, and a number of unofficial Russian ladies and gentlemen. [5]
Through this concession to the navy, that arm is able to do us credit in foreign parts; and certainly that is well and politic. [5]
We are out to make the navy better--to get the men their rights. [11]
Who were they to fight the bone and sinew of the King's navy in a rotten ship of an age gone by? [9]
I proposed rifles; then double-barreled shotguns; then Colt's navy revolvers. [5]
The events of the war give an increased interest and importance to the Navy which will probably extend beyond the war itself. [7]
The slight resistance the vessel might have offered was relinquished when Archibius's helmsman shouted that the Epicurus did not belong to the royal navy, and had come in search of news. [10]
The best-educated of the ship's hands approached him on the grievances with which the whole navy was stirring. [11]
We coasted past the sharp bows of a navy of great steamships and stopped at last at a government building on a stone pier. [5]
I have called the Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of War, and General-in-Chief together, and submitted it to them, who promise to do their very best in the case. [7]
The report of the Secretary of the Navy presents a comprehensive and satisfactory exhibit of the affairs of that Department and of the naval service. [7]
The reports of the Secretaries of War and of the Navy are herewith transmitted. [7]
She always had the reputation of being one of the best-trained ships in the navy, and she has splendidly upheld that reputation. [11]
And as for the navy, it is folly. [9]
I intend visiting the Navy Yard, Mint, etc., before I write again. [5]
A minister of the navy was appointed, and the whale-boat put in commission. [5]
Monsieur Gering entered the navy of the English king, and went to England also. [11]
I'm out of the Navy now, and it doesn't make any difference what I say, so I'll have my preachment out. [11]
These instances of the navy and the Mississippi River show clearly that there is something of local advantage in the most general objects. [7]
Also I knew the king's navy needed me, for men are hard to get. [11]
Yet by saving the king's navy from defeat out here I did a good turn for my country and the empire. [11]
Never, perhaps, in the history of the navy had British ships clamped the enemy as the Aquitaine was clamped by the Beatitude and the Ariadne. [11]
As soon as the fact was ascertained, seven of them had seceded and had seized upon the forts, arsenals, navy yards, and other public property of the United States within their boundaries, and were making every preparation for war. [7]
Dornburg is in the English service, and four weeks ago I met him as a member of her British Majesty's navy in London. [10]
I went, with the best intentions in the world, to the Secretary of the Navy, and said: "Sir, I cannot see that Admiral Farragut is doing anything but skirmishing around there in Europe, having a sort of picnic. [5]
Everybody is in the army, everybody is in the navy, everybody is in the public service, standing around in a uniform, with nothing whatever to do, nothing to eat, and nobody to till the fields--" "Look at Germany; look at Italy. [5]
All officers of the army and navy to whom this order may be exhibited will aid by every means in their power the expedition under the command of Colonel Harvey Brown, supplying him with men and material, and co-operating with him as he may desire. [7]
Captain Jones was the admiration of all the young officers in the navy, and was immediately flooded with requests to sail with him. [9]
Dicky thereupon suggested that Kingsley Bey was a government, and that the kourbash was not yet abolished in the English navy, for instance; also that men had to be shot sometimes. [11]
I cannot say that I was greatly surprised, for I had known a few, and had heard of many, men who had exchanged the navy for the Church. [11]
The necessity of such a navy-yard, so furnished, at some suitable place upon the Atlantic seaboard has on repeated occasions been brought to the attention of Congress by the Navy Department, and is again presented in the report of the Secretary which accompanies this communication. [7]
It is a subject of congratulation and laudable pride to our countrymen that a Navy of such vast proportions has been organized in so brief a period and conducted with so much efficiency and success. [7]
On this general subject I respectfully refer Mr.________ to the Secretaries of War and Navy for conference and consultation. [7]
I would invite special attention to the recommendation of the Secretary for a more perfect organization of the navy by introducing additional grades in the service. [7]
I was a soldier in the Southern war for two weeks, and when gentlemen get up to speak of the great deeds our army and navy have recently done, why, it goes all through me and fires up the old war spirit. [5]
Of all the ships in the navy the Ariadne was the best that Dyck Calhoun could have entered. [11]
Clerk of the Senate Committee on Conchology, Dr. To consultation with Secretary of War ............ $50 To consultation with Secretary of Navy ........... $50 To consultation with Secretary of the Treasury ... $50 Cabinet consultation ...................No charge. [5]
The navy was scattered in distant seas, leaving but a very small part of it within the immediate reach of the government. [7]
Governor Hamilton had said, indeed, that only a navy could take Vincennes this year. [9]
I was a rusty looking city editor, I am free to confess--coatless, slouch hat, blue woolen shirt, pantaloons stuffed into boot-tops, whiskered half down to the waist, and the universal navy revolver slung to my belt. [5]
I was in prison for four years, and when freed I enlisted in the king's navy, a quota man, with my servant-friend, Michael Clones. [11]
All sorts of people were coming and going, army officers and navy officers and citizens of states and territories, driving up and driving away. [9]
They said the pay of the army and of the navy and of the whole governmental machine was far in arrears, and unless something was done, and done immediately, national bankruptcy must ensue, and possibly insurrection and revolution. [5]
No sooner was our war with England over than our navy began to make a reputation for itself in the Mediterranean. [4]
It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, our army and our navy. [7]
But he put on a woollen shirt and strapped a navy revolver to his person, took to the bacon and beans of the country, and determined to do in Nevada as Nevada did. [5]
And I have often thought, in the event of war with France, how easy 'twould be for Louis's cruisers to harry the place, and an hundred like it, and raise such a terror as to keep the British navy at home. [9]
That no one of you will do anything which, in his own judgment, will tend to hinder the increase, or favor the decrease, or lessen the efficiency of the army or navy while engaged in the effort to suppress that rebellion; and 3. [7]
The obvious outcome of the situation was that George with his Navy would get Louisiana, or else help his relations to get it. [9]
The total expenditure of the Navy Department of every description, including the cost of the immense squadrons that have been called into existence from the fourth of March, 1861, to the first of November, 1864, is $238,647,262.35. [7]
Then the Secretary of the Navy asked me who I was; and when I told him I was connected with the government, he wanted to know in what capacity. [5]
The President, Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, desires and enjoins the orderly observance of the Sabbath by the officers and men in the military and naval service. [7]
Not until October of that year, 1775, was the infant navy born. [9]
Without the advantage of public works, the resources of the nation have been developed and its power displayed in the construction of a Navy of such magnitude, which has at the very period of its creation rendered signal service to the Union. [7]
She squandered millions of francs on a navy which she did not need, and the first time she took her new toy into action she got it knocked higher than Gilderoy's kite--to use the language of the Pilgrims. [5]
The present number of army pensioners of this class is 25,433 and of navy pensioners 793. [7]
There are great numbers of people who love his courage, what he did for the King's navy, and for his commercial success here, and they would resent harsh treatment of him. [11]
That there is now a rebellion in the United States, the object and tendency of which is to destroy the National Union; and that, in your opinion, an army and navy are constitutional means for suppressing that rebellion; 2. [7]
He would have no more navy regulations on a merchant brigantine, he promised them, nor banyan days, for the matter o' that. [9]
Jersey, England, the Navy, seemed very far away. [11]
Armies, ships, fortifications, navy yards, arsenals, military posts, and garrisons one after another were betrayed or abandoned to the insurgents. [7]
It's the best navy in the world, the freest and the greatest, and with Bonaparte going at us, England will have enough to do--too much, I'm thinking. [11]
Why, sir, I myself threw him on a saddle before he could well-nigh walk, and 'twere a waste of material to put him in the navy. [9]
There 's where my bones shall lie, Sir, and rattle away when the big guns go off at the Navy Yard opposite! [6]
You may quarter me if wasn't knocked off my feet when I recognized the identical peacock of a sea-captain we had pulled out of Castle Yard along with you, and offered a commission in the Royal Navy. [9]
I thought the matter all over and finally, the following day, I visited the Secretary of the Navy, who said, "Speak quickly, sir; do not keep me waiting. [5]
Slade was a matchless marksman with a navy revolver. [5]
They looked up many institutions and monument, they even had time to go to the Navy Yard, and they saved the contemplation of the White House till the last. [9]
He was a man whose temper and vagaries had failed to get him a command in his own navy. [9]
But"--and here the man drew himself up with a flush--"but there's none of us that wouldn't fight to the last gasp of breath for the navy that since the days of Elizabeth has sailed at the head of all the world. [11]
Other calls were made for volunteers to serve for three years, unless sooner discharged, and also for large additions to the regular army and navy. [7]
As I stood lookin' at you, wonderin' what to do, though, I had twelve shillin's in my pocket from the watch I'd pawned, there came four men, and I knew from their looks they were recruitin' officers of the navy. [11]
I have thrown it over, sir, with a right good will, and am now on my way to Philadelphia to obtain a commission in the navy soon to be born. [9]
When the "division-agent" issued an order to one of these parties he did it with the full understanding that he might have to enforce it with a navy six-shooter, and so he always went "fixed" to make things go along smoothly. [5]
Hereafter Captain Porter is relieved from that special service and placed under the direction of the Navy Department, from which he will receive instructions and to which he will report. [7]
The present organization is defective and unsatisfactory, and the suggestions submitted by the department will, it is believed, if adopted, obviate the difficulties alluded to, promote harmony, and increase the efficiency of the navy. [7]
The Italians are industrious; they are compelled to be in order to pay their taxes for the army and navy and get macaroni enough to live on. [4]
While I remained in the navy I could not, as you know, marry her. [11]
By such measures, in my opinion, will payment be most certainly secured, not only to the army and navy, but to all honest creditors of the government, and satisfactory provision made for future demands on the treasury. [7]
The ironclads, followed in hot haste by General Sherman in a navy tug, had gone ahead, and were even then shoving with their noses great trunks of trees in their eagerness to get behind the Rebels. [9]
General Dix's despatch in full is going to you by Captain Fox of the navy. [7]
I do therefore, in conformity to the seventh section of the act approved 16th July, 1862, nominate Commander D. D. Porter to be a rear-admiral in the Navy on the active list from the 4th July, 1863, to fill an existing vacancy. [7]
He was dressed in an old navy uniform with dirty lace. [9]
Philip argued that if it was his duty, as a captain in the English navy, to fight against the revolutionaries from without, he would be beyond criticism if, as the Duc de Bercy, he also fought against them from within. [11]
For the rest, I would simultaneously defend and reinforce all the ports in the gulf, and have the navy recalled from foreign stations to be prepared for a blockade. [7]
The navy, as I understand it, was established, and is maintained at a great annual expense, partly to be ready for war when war shall come, and partly also, and perhaps chiefly, for the protection of our commerce on the high seas. [7]
It had taken him just a day to institute his navy discipline. [9]
The papers he held were sheets of a letter he was writing to one from whom he had heard nothing since the night he enlisted in the navy, and that was nearly three years before. [11]
I had oftentimes heard of the notorious press-gang which supplied the need of the King's navy, and my first thought was that I had fallen in their clutches. [9]
On reflection, however, he took full time, consulting with other officers, both of the army and the navy, and at the end of four days came reluctantly but decidedly to the same conclusion as before. [7]
This last commission, having been issued during the recess of the Senate, expired at the end of the succeeding session, 17th July, 1862, from which date, not having been nominated to the Senate, he ceased to be a commander in the navy. [7]

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