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Sentences starting with sailors

Sailors for whom Phips had whistled crowded the cabin. [11]
Sailors were aloft on watch, Captain Ascott was on the bridge, sweeping the sea with his glass; order was restored. [11]
Sailors stood motionless on the shore. [11]

Sentences ending with sailors

I got the whole story from the third mate and two of the sailors. [5]
And everybody envied the fortunate sailors. [4]
There were some seafaring men among the passengers, and conversation drifted into matter concerning ships and sailors. [5]
It was the rider's task, to make up for the time lost by the sailors. [10]
Second, third, fourth officers, first-rate chaps, but so-so sailors. [11]
Yet he could not instantly get speech with him, so he collected his thoughts, and recovered his breath, while watching the men whom he sought talking eagerly with some gaily-clad Phoenician sailors. [10]
We learn, for in stance, that it was he who drafted the ship address to the Emperor--the opening lines of which became so wearisome when repeated by the sailors. [5]
The next time I saw these gentlemen officiate was at a ball given for the purpose of procuring money and medicines for the sick and wounded soldiers and sailors. [5]
Near the dock I saw many people gathered in the street in front of the "Ship" tavern, a time-honoured resort much patronized by sailors. [9]
My approval is given in order that every possible facility may be afforded for the prompt discharge of all arrears of pay due to our soldiers and our sailors. [7]

Sentences containing sailors two or more times

The first night the sailors of a British ship, being happy with grog, came down on the pier and challenged our sailors to a free fight. [5]

More example sentences with the word sailors in them

Ordering the sailors who were preparing to accompany him to remain on shore, he stretched the sail with a practised hand, and ran out towards the mouth of the harbour. [10]
Do you know what brought tears to the eyes of the guards?--What made the captain and the sailors turn their heads away from us, lest we should see that their faces were wet? [11]
Fortunately the sailors were friendly and saved his life, and a considerable number of the better sort, seeing the malice of Ratcliffe and Archer, took Smith's part. [4]
The steps are well worn, and must have been trodden for ages, by nobles and robbers, peasants and sailors, priests of more than one religion, and traders of many seas, who have gone, and left no record. [4]
That seemed no weighty matter, for many sailors had made love to Carterette in her time, and knowing it was here to-day and away to-morrow with them, her heart had remained untouched. [11]
In appearance he was not now like the "Seigneur" who sang to the sailors on the Antoine when she was fighting for the shore of Gaspe; nevertheless there was that in him which would keep him much the same man to the end. [11]
Among the sailors was a Portuguese who knew no English. [5]
Phips had picked up his sailors in English ports, and nearly all of them were brutal adventurers. [11]
By this time two of the shipwrights and five sailors had fallen. [10]
She is about twelve miles away, and so we cannot see her hull, but the sailors think it is the Comet because of some peculiarity about her fore-top-gallant sails. [5]
And he would try to get the idleness and sloth out of the sailors of that ship by compelling, them to take invigorating exercise and a bath. [5]
And he would try to get the idleness and sloth out of the sailors of that ship by compelling them to take invigorating exercise and a bath. [5]
We shall have to flee, or stop our ears with wax, like the sailors of Ulysses. [4]
They had come to fight, even if the boat had been defended by fifty Egyptian soldiers instead of carrying a score or so of sailors and artisans. [10]
But when trying to descend the rope-ladder from the high ship into the skiff in which sailors had rowed from the land, he made a misstep with his stiff leg and fell into the boat. [10]
The Jurats in their red robes, the officers, sailors, and marines, added colour to the pageant. [11]
The sailors of the vessel fled, and alone De la Foret set sail for the Ecrehos. [11]
The captain and the two passengers did not eat strips and chips, as the sailors did, but scraped the boot-leather and the wood, and made a pulp of the scrapings by moistening them with water. [5]
He listened to the songs of the sailors, and the music of the flute-players, to the measured beat of the oars, which came up from the triremes in the private harbor of the Emperor as they went out to sea. [10]
He spoke of the smell of the sea, of the rollicking sailors who surged through the narrow street to embark on his Majesty's men-of-war, and of the King's white soldiers in ranks of four going to foreign lands. [9]
For many of the sailors were captured and carried bodily to the "Rose and Crown" and the "Three Blue Balls," where they became properly drunk on Jamaica rum; others made good their escape on board. [9]
Holgate was below, the sailors were at the cables. [11]
Under his system the sailors had good coffee for breakfast, instead of a horrible mixture made of burnt biscuits cooked in foul water. [11]
This is what the sailors believe. [5]
They had seen the kegs of pickled meat, and they had been told of the evil rations given to the sailors at sea. [11]
The nature of the expedition was not known in Quebec, for the sailors were not engaged till the eve of starting, and Perrot's men were ready at his bidding without why or wherefore. [11]
This shortness of the arms is apparently due to their greater use, and is an unexpected result: but sailors chiefly use their arms in pulling, and not in supporting weights. [1]
The agitation on the Ariadne in support of the grievances of the sailors was so moderate that, from the first, Dyck threw in his lot with it. [11]
I may add, that in this purpose to save the country and its liberties, no classes of people seem so nearly unanimous as the soldiers in the field and the sailors afloat. [7]
I tell you, that if, instead of raw Boston sailors, ploughmen and merchant captains, and fishing craft and trading vessels, I had three English war-ships and one thousand men, I would level your town from the citadel to the altar of St. Joseph's. [11]
All sailors are superstitious, you know. [11]
Soldiers and sailors stood in groups in the centre, awaiting the orders of the old general and his subordinate officers. [10]
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]
It swarmed with soldiers, adventurers, sailors who were familiar with all seas and every port, men with projects, men with marvelous tales. [4]
I never was so tired of any one phrase as the sailors made me of the opening sentence of the Address to the Emperor of Russia. [5]
It is a singular and unexpected fact that sailors are inferior to landsmen in their mean distance of distinct vision. [1]
We know, we sailors, that now-to-day-is our time; that to-morrow may be Fate's, and Fate is a fickle jade: she beckons you up with one hand to-day, and waves you down with the other to-morrow. [11]
Of the common sailors, on the whole, Dyck had little doubt. [11]
Strange how these sailors to-day seemed so different to her from ever before--she felt as if they all belonged to her. [11]
Leaving a half-dozen sailors on guard till the town corps should arrive, d'Avranche prepared to march, and turned to Delagarde. [11]
At last the sailors drew in the ropes; Paulus turned once more to the youth. [10]
There were four sailors down sick when the ship was burned. [5]
You know that sailors don't fly around worth a cent unless you swear at them--so the mate that can do the best job of swearing is the most valuable man. [5]
Our soldiers and sailors are being cared for and entertained in England just as they would be cared for and entertained at home. [9]
Even as they rounded the point, up ran the tricolour to the brig's mizzen-mast, and the militant shouts of the French sailors came over the water. [11]
There was the roar of the great guns, the screaming of the carronade slides, the rattle of musketry, the groans of the dying, the shouts of his victorious sailors, the crash of the main-mast as it fell upon the bulwarks. [11]
I neglected to remark, in the proper place, that the soldiers and sailors in whose aid the ball was given had just been sent in from Boston--this was during the war of 1812. [5]
Farmers, sailors, astronomers, poets, lovers, condemned criminals, all find it different, according to the eyes with which they severally look. [6]
It has also pleased our Heavenly Father to favor as well our citizens in their homes as our soldiers in their camps, and our sailors on the rivers and seas, with unusual health. [7]
He is the patron saint of the good town of Sorrento; he is the good genius of all sailors and fishermen; and he has a humbler office,--that of protector of the pigs. [4]
Nature gets us out of youth into manhood, as sailors are hurried on board of vessels,--in a state of intoxication. [6]
Hitherto he had only been allowed to go on the lake in a well manned, safe boat, and then the sailors were under orders to keep to the southern half of the lake. [10]
They had at once set sail, and got away even before the sailors had reached the shore. [11]
We were fired on by the other mutiny ships, and that will help our sailors, but it won't help me. [11]
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]
But I am off my course again, as we sailors say, captain. [9]
At all hours of the day and night the sailors in the forecastle amused themselves and aggravated us by burlesquing our visit to royalty. [5]
The funeral cortege of Admiral Prince Philip d'Avranche was about to leave the Cohue Royale, and every eye was turned to the marines and sailors lining the road from the court-house to the church. [11]
The officers did not notice that one of these sailors winked an eye at another, and that both then grinned, and were promptly ordered aft by the second lieutenant. [11]
If he had not come back the captain and the two young passengers might have been slain, now, by these sailors, who were becoming crazed through their sufferings. [5]
When sleep would not come at night he rose and worked in his laboratory; and the sailors of many a passing vessel saw the light of his lamp in the dim hours before dawn, and spoke of fever in the port of Rahway. [11]
At first the neighbours gave out sinister suspicions as to Jean's intentions, for sea-going with your own wife was uncommon among the sailors of the coast. [11]
In the hotel Mr. Gasgoyne arranged for rooms, while Gaston got some sailors together, and, in Mr. Gasgoyne's name, offered a price for the recovery of the yacht or of certain things in her. [11]
The minds of most of the sailors broke down in the fourth week and went to temporary ruin, but physically the endurance exhibited was astonishing. [5]
I urged my men to their task, and as we were passing some of Admiral Saunders's ships, their sailors cheered us. [11]
Sailors, even as low as the pig-sty men, had some idea of fair play; and as the weeks that had passed since they left the Thames had given them better food and drink, and lessened the severity of those above them, real obedience had come. [11]
She would have lost many more were it not that her onset demoralized the French gunners, while the cheers of the British sailors aboard the Beatitude gave confidence to their mutineer comrades. [11]
Even the sailors lose the vivacity of the first of the voyage. [4]
Near by, some loitering sailors watched the yawl- rigged fishing craft from Holland, and the codfish-smelling cul-de-poule schooners of the great fishing company which exploited the far-off fields of Gaspe in Canada. [11]
The traveler who lodges near cannot sleep, but no more can the sailors, who steal away in the dawn, wafted by painted sails. [4]
Such is the life of our officers and sailors in these strange times that have descended upon us. [9]
The sailors call it the nastiest bit of water in the world. [4]
So keen was interest in the story told by the home- coming sailors, that the great event which had brought them to the Vier Marchi was, for the moment, almost neglected. [11]
George sprang forward instantly to help the sailors right her, but a second gust tore away the flapping sail, and capsized the gondola, which was caught and carried to the bottom by a rushing eddy. [10]
It seemed as if life were extinct on the huge galley usually swarming with a numerous crew; as if a vessel were about to cast anchor whose sailors had fallen victims to the plague. [10]
I, answering for him, told her that it was an old sentimental sea-song of common sailors, often sung by officers at their jovial gatherings. [11]
She would find her sweetheart among the sailors, and would have nothing to say to the gentlemen. [4]
As the sailors hauled it up, I noticed that the initials upon the portmanteaus were G. R. The owner was evidently an officer going home on leave, or invalided. [11]
By dint of hard words, and as hearty encouragement and promises, he got a half-dozen strong sailors to man the boat. [11]
They induced also half a dozen sailors, "expert thieves," to accompany them to live with Powhatan; and altogether they stole, besides powder and shot, fifty swords, eight pieces, eight pistols, and three hundred hatchets. [4]
The captured sailors had said that the fleet of Octavianus had defeated Cleopatra's, and the Queen had fled, but that the land forces were still untouched, and might yet decide the conflict in Antony's favour. [10]
If these sailors had been watched closely, however, it would have been seen that they visited but few saloons on shore, and drank little, and then evidently as a blind. [11]
With the little guard of ten sailors he marched the mile and a half to General Weitzel's headquarters,--the presidential mansion of the Confederacy. [9]
With sailors, the girth of the neck and the depth of the instep are greater, whilst the circumference of the chest, waist, and hips is less, than in soldiers. [1]
The streets were full of people, and thousands of excited peasants, laborers, and sailors were shouting, "Down with the palace! [11]
They had crowded forwards--Iberville, Sainte-Helene, Perrot, Maurice Joval, and the staring sailors. [11]
The main staple for the present would be fish, and he shows how Holland has become powerful by her fisheries and the training of hardy sailors. [4]
The room was filled with a motley gang of sailors, mostly from the bark Mr. [9]
I shared the feelings of the sailors who mutinied. [11]
Every pillar and every statue was built round with a scaffolding reaching to the ceiling on which men were climbing and crowding each other just as the sailors climb into the enemy's ships in the Naumachia. [10]
Did you ever even ask yourself whether the Greek is not differently constituted from the sons of the Biamite sailors and fishermen, with whom you grew up, and to whom he is an abomination? [10]
The sailors of England knew Philip d'Avranche as a fighter, even as the Royal Court knew him as a famous and dominant Jerseyman. [11]
He was, in effect, what the sailors called a "rogue," or a "taut one"--seldom smiling, gaunt of face but fearless of eye, and with a body free from fatigue. [11]
Great honor is due to those officers who remained true, despite the example of their treacherous associates; but the greatest honor, and most important fact of all, is the unanimous firmness of the common soldiers and common sailors. [7]
Grimy sailors came down out of the foretop placidly announcing themselves as "a handful of private citizens of America, traveling simply for recreation and unostentatiously," etc. [5]
I have no doubt that the farmers began to farm, and the traders to trade, and the sailors to sail; but the tourist felt that he had come into a place of rest. [4]
The Regent was doing everything in his power to ascertain the truth; but he (Archibius) was aware of the distrust of the government, and everything connected with it, felt by the sailors and all the seafaring folk at the harbour. [10]
Among the few dissatisfied sailors was one Nick Swaine, who had been the cause of more trouble on the Ariadne than any other. [11]
This accident so discouraged the sailors that they could hardly be persuaded to enter on the search for the colony. [4]
He had almost determined to get Delia on Gaston's boat, and himself take the chances with the Kismet; but his sailors dissuaded him, declaring that the chances were against succour. [11]

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