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Sentences starting with ship

Ship goes through that storm perfectly serene--she's just as safe as she'd be on shore. [5]
Ship up to back! [5]

Sentences ending with ship

According to Smith, who is probably correct in this, the fire did not occur till five or six days after the arrival of the ship. [4]
Before his master went to rest, the freedman--whom he had sent out to look for a vessel bound to Pelusium and Alexandria the next day or the following one--returned to the ship. [10]
In the morning we were all a-tiptoe to witness the intricate ceremony of inspecting the ship. [5]
I made my way across the glistening deck to the saloon where, my newspapers and periodicals neglected, I sat all the morning beside a window gazing out at the limited, vignetted zone of waters around the ship. [9]
This faithful man was so ill and weak that it was thought he could not recover, yet notwithstanding the stormy weather, the factions on board, and although his home was almost in sight, only twelve miles across the Downs, he refused to quit the ship. [4]
He said there was only one creature more fickle than a wooden ship's compass, and that was the compass of an iron ship. [5]
The incipient mutineer was more outraged than ever, then, at what he denounced as the partiality shown the captain's table over the other tables in the ship. [5]
Another said there was a vast fortune waiting for the genius who should invent a compass that would not be affected by the local influences of an iron ship. [5]
The next day was 'a good day for seeing a ship. [5]
The date is uncertain, and some doubt is also thrown upon the date of the arrival of the ship. [4]

Short sentences using ship

The ship signal us. [11]
I'm superstitious about this ship. [11]
To return to the ship. [5]
Never give up the ship! [5]
This ship is suspected. [11]
Now the ship struck. [11]
I launch the ship. [11]
He's deserted the ship. [11]
He signalled the ship. [11]
The ship moved on. [11]

Sentences containing ship two or more times

Nearly a hundred years ago the crew of the British ship Bounty mutinied, set the captain and his officers adrift upon the open sea, took possession of the ship, and sailed southward. [5]
How great is their chance of infection, how easily they will carry it from ship to ship, and from the ships on to the shore, till the pestilence has spread from the harbor to the city! [10]
I understand that the ship is made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo; and so long as the ship is safe with the cargo, it shall not be abandoned. [7]
These policemen follow the executive officer's boat from shore to ship and from ship to shore and watch his dark maneuvres with a vigilant eye. [5]
On board the ship they were betting on the run of the ship, betting a couple of shillings, or half a crown, and they proposed that this youth from the oil regions should bet on the run of the ship. [5]
From ship to ship the long-boat goes, and the punishment of floggin' is repeated. [11]
He finished the ship in a single day, while his brethren stood by and made fun of it--and of him, too--"saying, our brother is a fool, for he thinketh that he can build a ship. [5]
The way lay open for the Ariadne to bear down upon the French ship, engaged with the admiral's smaller ship, and help to end the struggle successfully for the British cause. [11]
While the sea of history remains calm the ruler-administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to. [2]
But a ship is a large thing, and he can't be everywhere at once; so there have been times when one mate has lost a ship which could have been saved if they had had a hundred. [5]

More example sentences with the word ship in them

Every officer of your ship was the Church's picked servant, and so was every man of the crew. [5]
You shall have your Buonespoir, good Rozel; but if he plays pirate any more--tell him this from his Queen--upon an English ship, I will have his head, if I must needs send Drake of Devon to overhaul him. [11]
It is not you who can look ahead two short years and see the ship of Democracy splitting on the rocks at Charleston and at Baltimore, when the power of your name might have steered her safely. [9]
And what do you think it was that saved the ship, and Captain Coram, and so in due time gave to London that Foundling Hospital which he endowed, and under the floor of which he lies buried? [6]
He said: "Do you see that ship there at the dock? [5]
What ship did you say you came over in? [5]
What ship did you come over in? [5]
He had arrived wounded on the pirate ship with his master's friend, the returned bondman began. [10]
The Fates were with them: no alarm came from the ship, and they reached the bank in safety. [11]
This he did with skill, and the crew of the ship even cheered them as they left. [11]
He was received with rapturous enthusiasm; his road led to the harbor, past the tents in which lay the wounded, who had been brought home to Egypt by ship, and he greeted them graciously from his chariot. [10]
A ship wreathed with flowers was sent to fetch the honored old man, and at the head of the deputation was his own brave, strong son, now crowned with glory and fame. [10]
Then to bed, with drowsy brains harassed with a mad panorama that mixes up pictures of France, of Italy, of the ship, of the ocean, of home, in grotesque and bewildering disorder. [5]
Once he came with a ship to find, but there was trouble and he did not go on. [11]
I do not wish to hurry you, but you can't get aboard a ship at sea. [9]
The "immoral" room-mate whose conduct was to be an "eloquent example" was Dan Slote, immortalized in the Innocents as "Dan" --a favorite on the ship, and later beloved by countless readers. [5]
We would spend whole days on the wharves, all bustle and excitement, sometimes seated on the capstan of the Sprightly Bess or perched in the nettings of the Oriole, of which ship old Stanwix was now captain. [9]
But this, Martin, who was only intent upon loading the return ship with "his phantastical gold," opposed, and Nelson did not think he had authority to allow it, unless they would bind themselves to pay the hire of the ships. [4]
No one's: for who should say what ship it was, or what people were robbed by Brigond and those others? [11]
The young captain, who on board ship was so bashful and retiring, as soon as he was on land altered his time. [10]
It was Matthew who first perceived the ship, and identified it, by the card, as his property. [9]
The boatswain's pipe whistled, and the big ship was already sliding in the water as I leaped into my pungy, which Hugo was holding to the ladder. [9]
Immigrants got rich while the ship unloaded and reloaded--and went back home for good in the same cabin they had come out in! [5]
There are days when the steam ship on the Atlantic glides calmly along under a full canvas, but its central fires must always be ready to make steam against head-winds and antagonistic waves. [4]
The two brothers were taken on board ship, and Master John Rolfe and Master Sparkes were sent to negotiate with the King. [4]
As the cases were standing finished at the cabinetmaker's, the statue had been packed immediately, under his own direction, and carried on board his ship, which would convey it with him to the capital the next day. [10]
All the flags were sent aloft except half a dozen that were needed to decorate portions of the ship below, and in a short time the vessel assumed a holiday appearance. [5]
Even if that were not possible, there was plenty of gold on the ship, and every piece of it was good money. [11]
His two sons were in Thessalonica, and a ship, just arrived from thence, brought the news-only too well substantiated, that fifteen thousand of the inhabitants of that town had been treacherously assassinated in the Circus there. [10]
So the ship went on out into the ocean with us. [11]
After some three weeks of this life, Powhatan sent this guileless youth down to decoy the English into his hands, promising to freight a ship with corn if they would visit him. [4]
From your ship we had not provision in victuals worth twenty pound, and we are more than two hundred to live upon this, the one halfe sicke, the other little better. [4]
Nearly all were watching the rescue boat, though a few looked over the sides of the ship as if they expected to find bodies floating about. [11]
It was my watch till midnight, and then it was Jim's; but Tom stayed up, because he said ship captains done that when they was making the land, and didn't stand no regular watch. [5]
The ship which was to bear the loyal companion of her youth to Spain was wrecked just before the end of the voyage, and Wolf went down with it. [10]
My greatest apprehension was that we might be derailed and the despatches captured; for as fast as our army had advanced, the track of it had closed again, like the wake of a ship at sea. [9]
If the amnesty was not granted, then one of two things should happen--the ship must make for a South American port, or she must fight. [11]
At times he was drunk for forty hours at a stretch, when he would shut himself in his cabin and leave his ship to the care of Cockle, who navigated with the sober portion of the crew. [9]
At noon Hanno was about to get into a boat to go to her father's ship, and she insisted upon accompanying him. [10]
The pleasure ship was a synagogue, and the pleasure trip was a funeral excursion without a corpse. [5]
For instance, I was a pilot once, but I gave it up, and I do not believe the captain of the Minneapolis would let me navigate his ship to London. [5]
If the ship was "down by the head," and would not steer, he would go and move his "trunk" further aft, and then watch the effect. [5]
If the ship was "down by the head," and would got steer, he would go and move his "trunk" farther aft, and then watch the effect. [5]
If the ship was "by the stern," he would suggest to Columbus to detail some men to "shift that baggage. [5]
The ship could wait only a little while because of the quarantine. [5]
Ulrich did not wait for the end of the dispute, for Farnese was now springing into the hostile ship, and the former, with a bold leap, followed. [10]
Argall lost his voyage; his ship was revictualed and sent back to England, but one may be sure that this event was so represented as to increase the fostered dissatisfaction with Smith in London. [4]
This was a vessel and a force, truly, with which to conquer a fifty-gun ship of the latest type, and with a picked crew. [9]
I did the very same thing, when we left the ship that time at Naukratis. [10]
No pilot ever ventured to a ship on such rough seas as Gaspard ventured for small profit or glory. [11]
She has the usual defect, the common defect, the universal defect, the defect that has never been missing from any ship that ever sailed--she has imperfect beds. [5]
It isn't any use for me to talk about the voyage, because I can have no faith in that voyage till the ship is under way. [5]
We'll not give up the ship yet. [5]
Samuel Clemens, coming up the river on the A. T. Lacey, two days behind the Pennsylvania, heard a voice shout as they approached the Greenville, Mississippi, landing: "The Pennsylvania is blown up just below Memphis, at Ship Island! [5]
He looked me up and down in a flash, like a searchlight playin' on an enemy ship, and then he smiled. [11]
Mrs. Clemens picked up a dreadful cold and sore throat on board ship and still keeps them in stock--so she could only travel 4 hours a day. [5]
The abbess would undertake to give them all a passage on board the ship that was awaiting her, and to set them on shore wherever he might choose. [10]
Now I easily understand that the old man couldn't go, because you have a purpose in sending Lyddy by herself: but you could send the old man over in another ship, and we particularly want him along. [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]
He proposed to travel after sunset, with a few faithful servants on swift horses as far as Keft, and from thence ride fast across the desert to the Red Sea, where they could take a Phoenician ship, and sail to Aila. [10]
Sometimes all gazed toward the mouth of the harbour, where the expected ship must soon pass the recently completed masterpiece of Sostratus, the towering lighthouse, still shining in its marble purity. [10]
The day after to-morrow my ship is going to Portsmouth for two months. [11]
They had been told that the Queen was expected that night, because it was possible that the strong north wind would bear her ship home with unexpected speed after the victory. [10]
A mountain seemed to weigh upon the watchers' breasts, for the wooden monster which now entered the little harbour moved forward as slowly and silently as a spectral ship. [10]
He never seemed to tire of looking down the gulf, as though expecting some ship. [11]
When we got to the last place where the pilot could land, the waves were running like hills to the shore, and no boat could live between the ship and the point. [11]
So he had to take the other boat, and go to the other ship. [5]
My idea was to take ship, at New Orleans, for Para. [5]
The ship had to stay a week or more at Gibraltar to take in coal for the home voyage. [5]
I was going to ship these through by express; but at the last moment an order went throughout Germany forbidding the moving of any parcels by train unless the owner went with them. [5]
Then I resolved to send a ship to Cadiz. [5]
All must work to save the ship. [9]
Do you happen to recollect," he went on, turning to Demetrius, "our conversation on board ship about a dirge for Pytho? [10]
Hermon had ceased to notice her; he had just gone to his gray-haired host with the entreaty that he would give him a ship for the voyage to Tennis, where Myrtilus would need his assistance. [10]
Duty summons me to my ship. [10]
I should have to lie in the undertaker's cellar until the ship would remove me and it is dark down there and unpleasant. [5]
A steward came to him officiously, and patronisingly too,--which is the bearing of servants to shabbily-dressed people,--but he shook his head, caught his bag smartly away from the steward's fingers, and moved towards the after part of the ship, reserved for intermediate passengers. [11]
Then Melissa turned to her brother and begged him earnestly: "Then you take me to the ship Alexander; take charge of me yourself! [10]
It was good to hear Dan and the doctor laugh--such natural and such enjoyable laughter had not been heard among our excursionists since our ship sailed away from America. [5]
Besides, I've got to go to the ship to get a rope, anyway. [5]
Smith's ship happening to go aground half a league below, they sent off to him, and were glad to submit on any terms to his mercy. [4]
Who were they to fight the bone and sinew of the King's navy in a rotten ship of an age gone by? [9]
Will he remain to fall fighting for his ship? [9]
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]
I'll learn you to come aboard this ship without an invite. [5]
He was moved to capture the skiff, arguing that it might be considered a ship and therefore legitimate prey for a pirate, but he knew a thorough search would be made for it and that might end in revelations. [5]
The name applied to both shows that each has long been compared to a ship, as you may see more fully in Webster's Dictionary, or the "Encyclopedia," to which he refers. [6]
Half a dozen times I have wished I had sailed long ago in some ship that wasn't going to keep me chained here to chafe for lagging ages while she got ready to go. [5]
This was the time that Philip's ship was to go. [11]
In my free time and at night I could work at my frame, and when I have scraped enough together I shall soon find a ship that will carry me to Gaul, to my own people. [10]
An' jabberin to th'other Frenchmen as was there that this here butter-cask was er King's ship, an' that the commodore weren't no commodore nohow. [9]
He got all those pebbles on the sea shore, abreast the ship, but professes to have gathered them from one of our party. [5]
Well, Pamela, after thinking it over for a day or so, I came near inquiring about a state-room in our ship for Sam, to please you, but my wiser former resolution came back to me. [5]
Phips did not think that any ship would venture against them so near Boston, and could not believe the Maid of Provence an enemy. [11]
Twenty-four hours afterward these bottles would be still lying on the glassy water under our noses, showing that the ship had not moved out of her place in all that time. [5]
The ship could therefore only get out to sea at sunrise; the chain that closed the harbor would not be opened till then. [10]
The ship conveying them was stranded at the mouth of the Elbe and my precious manuscript perished miserably in the wreck. [10]
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]
They went to their regular meals in the English ship, and pretty soon they were nibbling again--nibbling, appetiteless, disgusted with the food, moody, miserable, half hungry, their outraged stomachs cursing and swearing and whining and supplicating all day long. [5]

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