Use vessel in a sentence
Sentences ending with vessel
- Though the waves were running high, even in the sheltered harbour, they scarcely rocked the massive vessel. [10]
- D. D. Porter was placed in command of the steamer Powhatan, and Captain Samuel Mercer was detached therefrom, by my special order, and neither of them is responsible for any apparent or real irregularity on their part or in connection with that vessel. [7]
- We got back to the schooner in good time, and then sailed down to Kau, where we disembarked and took final leave of the vessel. [5]
- The nimbus round the head was a crown of lamps, and large lanterns shone both at the bows and stern of the vessel. [10]
- I could have taken a fast tug, and should have stood a chance of catching that vessel. [5]
- It was a sound that none of them had ever heard before or could expect ever to hear again, unless he should be one of the last boat-load rescued from a sinking vessel. [6]
- The "old gospel ship," as the Methodist song calls it, carries many who would steer by the wake of their vessel. [6]
- What does the reader suppose was the source of the most ominous thought which forced itself upon my mind, as I walked the decks of the mighty vessel? [6]
- It's the word o' the Pentytook--in pieces you go, like a potter's vessel. [11]
- That evening Captain Newport gave a farewell supper on board his vessel. [4]
Short sentences using vessel
- Balass----Earthen vessel for carrying water. [11]
Sentences containing vessel two or more times
- You will not in any case detain the crew of a captured neutral vessel or any other subject of a neutral power on board such vessel, as prisoners of war or otherwise, except the small number necessary as witnesses in the prize court. [7]
More example sentences with the word vessel in them
- No doubt, however, you are, as I am, prepared for critical severity; but I have good hopes that the vessel is sufficiently sound of construction to weather a gale or two, and to make a prosperous voyage for you in the end. [14]
- He it was who, like a brimful vessel, overflowed with the quintessence of what we call divine; and from this effluence emanated the divine Mind, the pure intelligence which is to the One what light is to the sun. [10]
- He knew that, whether he was to blame or not, the company owning the vessel would discharge him and make a devotion--to--passengers' safety advertisement out of it, and his chance to make a livelihood would be permanently gone. [5]
- These, no doubt, were to ride round the morass, and ford the river at a favorable spot so as to attack the vessel from the west, while the others tried to reach it from the east with the aid of the palm-trunks. [10]
- In the harbour were the men-of-war of all nations, and Arab dhows sailed slowly in, laden with pilgrims for Mecca--masses of picturesque sloth and dirt--and disease also; for more than one vessel flew the yellow flag. [11]
- 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]
- 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]
- Soon after Hermon went on board Archon's splendidly equipped vessel and, instead of a tiresome journey, began a new and riotous period of festivity. [10]
- By and by we took boat and went ashore at Kailua, designing to ride horseback through the pleasant orange and coffee region of Kona, and rejoin the vessel at a point some leagues distant. [5]
- Then a handkerchief waved a greeting from the vessel to the men on shore, but the hand that held it was a woman's. [10]
- His tall figure was now resplendent with rich ornaments, and a priest, who walked before him, held the vessel high above his head. [10]
- While the metal was melting he eagerly told the Queen how easily she could dispense with the vessel which owed its magic power to the mighty Isis. [10]
- Such a vessel was I, but the Deity, which can fashion better and more quickly than a goldsmith, has made me your king. [10]
- While her heart was daily growing more bitter against him, he had been fighting his vessel against great odds, and at last had been shipwrecked and carried off a prisoner. [11]
- A wan glimmer was already beginning to brighten the distant east when the Epicurus approached the vessel with the light, but it seemed to wish to avoid the Alexandrian, and turned suddenly towards the northeast. [10]
- The tried Spanish warriors, with whom Don Juan had manned his vessel, hesitated. [10]
- Did he merely want to tempt her from the vessel so as to clear the way for his young master? [10]
- He remembered all vividly until the hour, a year later, when London journals announced that Hester Orval and her husband had gone down with a vessel wrecked upon the Alaskan and Canadian coast. [11]
- Presently a large vessel, with new sails, beautiful white hull, and gracious form, came slowly round a point. [11]
- In releasing the vessel, the ragamuffins seem to have had a touch of humor, for they gave the captain a "receipt" for what they had taken, and an order on the British consul at Messina to pay for the same. [4]
- Arrived at the vessel, the body was passed up to me. [11]
- It's a huge vessel, moved by wheels, by which the water is thrust aside. [10]
- He recognized the vessel, flew aboard, surprised the wedding party at the altar and exclaimed: "Stop the proceedings--I'm here! [5]
- You're a weak vessel, cracked, perhaps. [11]
- A very large vessel with a particularly high cabin on the after deck and having the head of a she-wolf on the lofty and boldly-carved prow excited the utmost attention. [10]
- You send that vessel to sea, and what's the result? [5]
- Here was a vessel to disseminate. [9]
- At sixty, the vessel still floats, and you are in the cabin. [6]
- With the other vessel Smith had trouble. [4]
- But a swift vessel should presently be sent to overtake it and bring them back. [10]
- Just such another vessel Philip would command. [11]
- I am a vessel of wrath," replied Paulus, with a deep, rich; sonorous voice, and his peculiarly kind blue eyes were raised to heaven as if to attest how greatly men were deceived in him. [10]
- At fifty, your vessel is stanch, and you are on deck with the rest, in all weathers. [6]
- He is a vessel full of beautiful gifts, but he has forfeited all that was good and noble in him--all! [10]
- He brought his vessel down the coast a little distance, put a rope about him and in the wild surf made for the shore. [11]
- When such a vessel appeared there was sure to arise great dispute about it, and from time to time expeditions were organized to ascend the river and discover the place and circumstances of its origin. [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]
- At length Miss Treherne came to us and said that Justine insisted she was well enough to go back to the vessel alone, and wished not to be accompanied. [11]
- Arrived at the tree, or fence, or other henroost (your own if you are an idiot), you warm the end of your plank in your friend's fire vessel, and then raise it aloft and ease it up gently against a slumbering chicken's foot. [5]
- This group also--soldiers, travelling artisans, peasants, and tradesfolk with their wives, who, like most of those present, were waiting for the vessel which was to sail down the Main early the next morning--gazed toward the door. [10]
- Besides, the two transports that had followed the magnificent vessel appeared to belong to it. [10]
- Then came reference to the well known fact that an experienced mariner can look at the compass of a new iron vessel, thousands of mile from her birthplace, and tell which way her head was pointing when she was in process of building. [5]
- We bow down to the noble vessel of the soul of Alexander. [10]
- He had been to the harbor to inquire as to the return of the vessel with the prisoners on board; to the Serapeum to inquire for her; to Dido, to give her the news. [10]
- It is needless to say that he refrained from making use of Mr. Wetherell politically, although no poorer vessel for political purposes was ever constructed. [9]
- So I hastened to pass the vessel to Davis. [5]
- They came over to Massachusetts Bay in another vessel, and thus escaped the onus of that brevet nobility under which the successors of the Mayflower Pilgrims have descended. [5]
- He had written to Lorenzo Dow and her grandfather, he said, but had heard afterwards that the vessel carrying the letters had been taken by a French privateer; and so they had not arrived in Jersey. [11]
- I am sorry to know that we shall soon have to quit the vessel and go ashore if she keeps up this speed. [5]
- It usually intends to have 'repairs' and the vessel in the same navy-yard. [4]
- She was soon to become the wife of the captain of the Epicurus, Archibius's swift galley, whose acquaintance she had made when the vessel, on several occasions, brought Charmian's Nubian maid to the island. [10]
- Then they were to be powdered, triturated, and again exposed to the sun, again reduced to a very fine powder, and secured in a vessel, while hot, from the sunshine. [6]
- Murray Bradshaw called to a boatman near by and ordered the man to row him over as fast as he could to the vessel lying in the stream. [6]
- Now she dreaded this newly recognised sinful part of her own nature, which she had imagined a pure vessel that had room only for what was noble, sacred, and innocent. [10]
- No one preceded them to clear the river, no other vessel made way for them; on the contrary, all tried to take place ahead of them, and to reach the opposite shore before them. [10]
- He visited all the wharves, inquiring on every vessel where it seemed possible she might have been looking about. [6]
- The heart is the vessel of that effluence of the universal soul, which lives in us. [10]
- 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]
- Once, twice, thrice, the vessel heaved, then went suddenly still. [11]
- As Paaker took the vessel from her looked at the laurel leaf, she said: "This indeed binds hearts; three is the husband, four is the wife, seven is the chachach, charcharachacha. [10]
- Make haste, for the vessel for which you are to watch bears your happiness. [10]
- The sailors of the vessel fled, and alone De la Foret set sail for the Ecrehos. [11]
- The seats for the priests were of ivory, and garlands of lilies and roses hung round the vessel, from its masts and ropes. [10]
- Jack replied that the only object of the voyage was to relieve the tedium of Bar Harbor, and, having accomplished this, he would present the vessel to Miss Tavish if she would navigate it back to the city. [4]
- Georg was like the magnetic mountain, that attracted her, and which she must avoid to save the vessel from sinking. [10]
- He now convulsed the idlers in the smoking-room with laughter, and soon deftly drew off the discussion to the speed of the vessel, arranging a sweep-stake immediately, upon the possibilities of the run. [11]
- They were at the house, no doubt, for some men were in the very act of drawing up the wooden gangway which connected the vessel with the land. [10]
- I had inspected the goods brought from Arabia and India by way of Berenice and Coptos, and had selected those I needed before the vessel that brought them had moored in the Mariotic harbor, and other goods will have reached Alexandria before me. [10]
- The thought of the goblet and its evil influences had by no means passed from her memory with the destruction of the vessel caused by one of those outbursts of passion to which, in these days of disaster, she yielded more frequently than usual. [10]
- Argutis would await the fugitives in a tavern by the harbor, and conduct them on board the vessel which would be in readiness. [10]
- The next day the French plundered Smith's vessel and distributed his crew among their ships, and for a week employed his boat in chasing all the ships that came in sight. [4]
- As soon as the cold latitudes were left behind and the vessel entered summer weather, the voyage became a holiday picnic. [5]
- Burrowing continually amongst the bowels of the vessel, Mr. Tooting knew the weak timbers better than the Honourable Hilary Vanes who thought the ship as sound as the day Augustus Flint had launched her. [9]
- We are in that part of the vessel always reserved for my countrymen. [5]
- Thus you may take him into the secret, but not till my vessel is in sight. [10]
- There was a sudden shock; the vessel stood still and shivered; lurched, swung shoulder downwards, reeled and struggled. [11]
- There is no such thing as keeping a vessel in elegant condition, when she carries molasses and Kanakas. [5]
- It is a steam ram, built so as to sacrifice nearly all capacity for carrying to those of speed and strength, so as to be able to split any vessel having hollow enough in her to carry supplies for a voyage of any distance. [7]
- The captain could stand upon the hurricane deck, in the pomp of a very brief authority, and give him five or six orders while the vessel backed into the stream, and then that skipper's reign was over. [5]
- There is a sly look about that young Doctor's eyes, which might imply that he knows something about what the silver vessel holds, or is going to hold. [6]
- She was a sinking vessel, with no freight in her to throw over lighten ship withal. [5]
- A man can shake it so that the movement shall be shown in a vessel of water nearly seventy feet below the summit, and higher up the vibration is like that of an earthquake. [6]
- The pursuers had set out at noon of the previous day, and had overtaken the vessel about two hours before daylight. [10]
- And in all seriousness they have set a gun-boat to watch the vessel night and day, with orders to close down on any revolutionary movement in a twinkling! [5]
- In fancy she saw the vessel which the lady Berenike had in readiness. [10]
- Just then I saw the lights of a vessel far off. [11]
- After an hour's sail they reached a beautifully-built and fast-sailing vessel, the Hygieia, which belonged to Kallias. [10]
- Any violations of said conditions will involve the forfeiture and condemnation of the vessel and cargo, and the exclusion of all parties concerned from any further privilege of entering the United States during the war for any purpose whatever. [7]
- As the vessel rode up the harbour the body was dropped into the deep. [11]
- A few ships rode at anchor in it--one of them a sailing vessel flying the American flag; and they said she came from Duluth! [5]
- And then I remembered that a pyx is a sacred vessel, and quartz is a hard stone, as hard as the heart of a religious foe-curser. [6]
- The telegram I received was so urgent, that I suspected some rupture of a blood- vessel in the brain, and that I should hardly reach him alive; and this was the case. [6]
- They had scarce reached the deserted chapel where their dinner was to be cooked by Maitresse Aimable, when Ranulph called them to note a vessel bearing in their direction. [11]
- When the prefect reached the appointed spot, no vessel with a silver star was to be seen. [10]
- It was a rather long, richly-gilded vessel, and bore a silver sparrow-hawk as figure-head. [10]
- The pirates thoroughly ransacked the vessel, opened all the trunks and portmanteaus, but found little that they wanted except brandy and provisions. [4]
- In his wild rage he had burst a blood vessel on the brain. [11]
- He had been placed upon Phips's vessel because he knew the entrance to the harbour; but try as he would for a kind of comradeship, he failed: he had an ugly vanity and a bad heart. [11]
- The Duke and party made the best of an awkward situation; the voyage progressed, and the vessel neared America. [5]
- Some of our party have gone to England, intending to take a roundabout course and rejoin the vessel at Leghorn or Naples several weeks hence. [5]
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