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Example sentences for "both vessels"

  • More than that, should we be able, by the united work of both vessels, to capture any buccaneering craft who think to molest us, their cargoes will be equally divided betwixt all hands.

  • This arrangement would also benefit the health of the crews of both vessels, for in their somewhat overcrowded state the greatest care had to be exercised to ward off an epidemic of scurvy.

  • All night we kept the Golden Hope's poop lanterns in view, both vessels being of about the same turn of speed; nor was it possible to return to our own craft until late in the afternoon of the following day.

  • Master Hammond, will you go and warn the crews of both vessels to muster ashore to-night?

  • The broadsides of the two vessels again thundered over the bay, telling with frightful effect on both vessels.

  • It was doubtless a ruse practiced to decoy the Essex into a chase till she could be assailed by both vessels at once.

  • I went up and reported it at the admiral's office, and the admiral went on board of both vessels to examine them himself, and he ordered a dock-yard survey.

  • There was a death-like silence on board of both vessels, and his voice pierced sonorously through the night wind.

  • This last misfortune, unluckily, was common to both vessels, and in their present situation admitted no remedy.

  • The origins of both vessels being at the fore part of the chest, it is in this situation, of course, that the state of their valves is to be examined.

  • As both vessels correspond in form and relative position, the description of one will serve for the other.

  • The omo-hyoid relates to both vessels, the anterior division to the carotid, the posterior to the subclavian.

  • Unless this were done, both vessels would be compelled to ware, and run for the southern passage, which would carry them many miles to leeward, and might place them a long distance on the wrong side of the group.

  • Hatteras was no longer terrible, for the wind still stood at north-west, and they kept in view of those very breakers which, only the day before, they would have given the value of both vessels to be certain of never seeing again.

  • She continued shut in by the mist until night closed around both vessels.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being thus; both ancient and modern; both because; both chief; both classes; both clauses; both coasts; both faces; both forms; both gold and silver; both horse and foot; both instances; both jaws; both legs; both male and female; both numbers; both parents; both parties; both ships; both shores; both universities; both were; both wings; northwest passage; quite right; unconditional surrender