A brigantineof ten tons was building simultaneously with Fort Frontenac, and in the fall of the year (1678) was ready for its cargo of material for a sister-ship to be built above the great falls.
Knowing, however, that she had a closely-packed cargo of slaves on board, he refrained from firing for fear of injuring them, although the brigantine was cutting his rigging to pieces with her shot.
In 1851 they captured thebrigantine Violet and the schooner Amelia, killing the masters and several men among their crews, while the survivors were carried into slavery.
I had seen it more than once on board the brigantine John, and knew what was coming.
Solway, and the brigantine sliding smoothly along in the lee of the Galloway Rhinns.
And yet this commodore was not greatly removed from him I had first beheld on the brigantine John.
Captain Paul had conned thebrigantine hither with a master's hand; but now that the anchor was on the ground, he became palpably nervous.
What feeling can compare with that I tasted when the brigantine lay on her side, the silver spray hurling over the bulwarks and stinging me to life!
On a dazzling morning in March, with the brigantine running like a beagle in full cry before a heaping sea that swayed her body,--so I beheld for the first time the misty green of the high shores of Ireland.
But he brought Captain Paul before the vice-admiralty court of that place, charging him with gross cruelty, and this proceeding had delayed the brigantine six months from her homeward voyage, to the great loss of her owners.
And I was commanded to show her a schooner like the Black Moll, and a brigantine like the John.
The latter hero actually made a voyage in the brigantine 'John' about the time he picked up Richard Carvel from the Black Moll, after the episode with Mungo Maxwell at Tobago.
The brigantine slid down the slope of a wave and hoisted her stern.
The brigantine passed for a tramp out from Tarifa with a cargo of fruit.
Then on board the brigantine men gathered at the windlass, a chain clinked musically as the anchor was hove short, the gaff of her mainsail creaked up the mast, and the festoons of her canvas were unfolded.
The brigantine dipped her head into a roller, lifted it, and shook the water off her decks in a cascade of snow.
Off Ushant she picked up a brigantine which Charnock watched from the hurricane deck without premonition, and indeed without more than a passing curiosity.
For that brigantine caught fire and burned her papers just about the date when the Ten Brothers went ashore on Rosevear.
The brigantinewas doing only a leisurely five knots--she was waiting for the dark, I conjectured.
I looked them up in the sailing-lists and I proved beyond a shadow of doubt, from their dates of sailing and arrival at various ports, that not one of those eight schooners could have been the brigantine we passed off Ushant.
These little accidents," said he, "a brigantine sighted off Ushant; a man going out for a walk!
At the attack of Onore, he sailed in a brigantine sitting in a chair, having a famous musician beside him playing on the harp.
Some relief was received however from Cananor, and Simon de Sousa being driven in his brigantine on shore, was blown up while bravely defending himself against the Moors.
One night off Cape Comorin he surprised a Portuguese brigantine at anchor, in which were twenty-one Portuguese, all so fast asleep that they were bound before they waked.
Being born within sight and sound of the sea, the youthful Dragut naturally graduated in the school of the brigantine and completed his education on board of a galley.
At dead of night Dragut assembled his forces, and before morning every galley, galeasse, and brigantine had been dragged across the island and launched in the sea on the opposite side.
Cleared out of York river, the brigantine Priscilla of Virginia, John Langland, for Bristol with 126 hhd.
The brigantine John and Mary, Richard Tillidge, now lies at Mr. Littlepage's wharf on Pamunkey river ready to take in tobacco on freight at the usual rate for Bristol.
Entered the Upper District of James river, the brigantine Robert and John of Virginia, John Cooke, from the Lower District in ballast.
John Bowdoin built a brigantinewhich he named Northampton.
Entered Upper District of James river, the brigantine Little Molly of Virginia, Thomas Hamlin, from Jamaica with 7 hhd.
April next, the brigantine Fair Virginian, only one year old, just sheathed and now ready for to take a cargo on board, burthen about 100 tons.
Looking into every bay and harbour, he at length discovered a brigantine which had been sent out by Nicuesa in search of provisions.
Leaving nearly half his men at Coyba to guard his brigantine and canoes, he set out upon his march, having previously caused mass to be performed for the success of his expedition.
The small brigantine contained all that was left of the colony that had been founded with such high hopes.
On entering the harbour his vessel struck on a rock, and he and his crew escaped with difficulty to the brigantine of Pizarro, their vessel going down, together with the whole of the live-stock and supplies destined for the colony.
Four days later I arrived at the mouth of the river, without further adventure, and was fortunate enough to find a fine slashing brigantine flying French colours riding at anchor there.
But I had a duty to perform before I cast off from the buoy at which the brigantine was straining; therefore, while the other vessels got under way, I and my boat's crew stood on the wharf and quietly watched them go.
From that fine brigantine that has just come in, I imagine, since I see that the boat which brought you is returning to her; but I mean before that.
The ensign had been hoisted as the brigantine fired; but while watching the Greek vessel she had not observed it.
We sailed, you must know, on board a Neapolitan brigantine from Athens, bound to Syracuse.
The brigantine burned fiercely--there must have been some inflammable substance which had formed part of her cargo remaining in her hold.
We hastened to our former position, reaching it just in time to see the brigantine again rounding the headland.
While this explanation was being made, the brigantine had already got steerage way upon her, aided by the steady application of the sweeps, and her sharp bow was headed off shore.
The brigantine had cast off her moorings and was now standing seaward, with her sails filled.
Presently there arose a shower of blazing matter heavenward, while a confused shock and a dull rumbling report filled the atmosphere, as the guilty brigantine was blown to atoms!
The brigantine steers due south," said our friend, rubbing his hands together eagerly.
Her tactics could not have been anticipated by the cruiser, yet had an armed party been left behind in boats, the brigantine might have been captured on her return.
As we have before intimated, it required no interpreter to indicate what business the brigantine was engaged in.
At the same time a bright blaze sprang up on board the slaver just amidships, and in a moment more it crept, like a living serpent, from shroud to shroud and from spar to spar, until the graceful brigantine was one sheet of flame!
They had just endured such horrors packed beneath the deck of the brigantine that the present change must have been welcome to them, lame as they were.
It would seem to the uninitiated to be the easiest thing possible to cripple the brigantine by a few well directed shots, but when sailing in the wake of an enemy this is by no means so easily done.
The brigantine can hardly escape, at any rate," we suggested.
There were no lights on the brigantine and the men swung precariously up her sides to the deck which was already occupied by a babbling multitude.
However it was true that upon the brigantine the previous night he had unaccountably wetted all his available matches.
They announced that there was a brigantine about to sail with a load of soldiers for a little port near Arta, and if Coleman hurried he could catch it, permission from an officer having already been obtained.
French influence is attested by the corselet and by the brigantine or hauberk of metal discs which was in very general use and esteem in France at that time.
It did not last long however; for the first galley, without paying the least regard to the flag of peace, or to what was due to a community in religion, bore down upon his brigantine with such fury as nearly to send it to the bottom.
Animated with the hope of plunder the soldiers proceeded with the utmost alacrity to execute the pasha's orders, which seemed the more easy as the crew of the brigantine were unarmed, not anticipating any such encounter.
Even then he never took his eyes off the brigantine until it was out of sight.
Who was taken prisoner in the Brigantine Dolton, Dec.
Being very much in want of provisions, they got to the West Indies, May 1722, and near the Island of Descada took a Brigantine stored with provisions and necessaries, which put them in better temper.
The next Day they took another Vessel coming out, and two Pinks going in, and a Brigantine with negroes, in the Face of the Town; which put the Inhabitants into a sad fright, being in no condition to help themselves.
So they sailed with the ship and Brigantine to the Southward, where they ran the Morning Star upon the Grand Carmanes, and wrecked her; the next Day Anstis went ashore to fetch the men off, who were all safe.
Bidding the chorister to be seated, the captain of the brigantine placed himself at one of the tables, and called for wine for all the company.
There was company in the barber's shop of the Rue de la Trouille, when little John and the captain of the brigantine raised the curtain of checked linen which served as a door.
It was a most desperate conflict, and, remembering how short-handed the brigantine was, it reflected the highest honor on the American captain and his crew.
And one fine day the brigantine shook out her wealth of canvas and skimmed away westward, over the track of such brave vessels as the Pelican, the little Discovery, and the Puritan Mayflower.
There was a momentary danger lest the brigantine should be crushed between the floes, but this peril was averted by the regularity of the current.
The brigantine was locked within a sheet of ice, and that mysterious silence which had so terrified Cabot the pioneer held all the land in thrall.
Their shelter was well hidden among the pines; the snowed-up brigantine resembled nothing so much as a rock bearing a few dead and stripped firs.
Morning dawned, and the brigantine was well away, running with a fresh breeze from the colony of France, all hearts aboard as light as the frosty waves which kissed her sides.
The brigantine righted herself with a flutter and a plunge, casting the snow from her yards, and the grinding of her keel made joyful music.
There were traders in the port, to-day, from the Bay Shore and the Isle of Kent, and some from the country back, to hear whether the brigantine had arrived.
As soon as we realised that the crew of the brigantine had no intention of heaving-to and picking us up we again brought the gig to the wind.
Four Spaniards fled to the brigantine that was nearest to the canoes; and only these escaped of those that came among the Indians.
The Indians came no nearer than a bowshot, from whence they offended and were not offended, receiving no hurt: for in every brigantine was but one crossbow, and those which we had were very much out of order.
Having left this brigantine they went to another, and fought with it half an hour; and so from one to another they fought with them all.
Those which came after, as soon as they saw Calderan come to an anchor with his brigantine in the river, presently went thither, and came into the haven.
And those of the brigantine sought not to land, but put themselves to sea, and returned to the Island of Cuba.
Every brigantinetowed a canoe fastened to their sterns for their particular service.
At the time wherein they sought to depart from thence, the cable of the anchor of the Governor's brigantine brake, and the anchor remained in the river.
Those that were unarmed, seeing how they hurt them, left their oars and went under the deck: whereupon the brigantine began to cross, and to go where the current of the stream carried it.
They came first to that brigantine wherein Calderon went for captain, and was in the rearward: and at the first volley of arrows they wounded twenty-five men.
And albeit he was very weak, and could not labor, yet fifteen days before they departed, he made for everybrigantine two half hogsheads, which the mariners call quarterets, because four of them hold a pipe of water.
At the end of two months a brigantine was completed, rudely put together, but strong and of sufficient burden to carry half the company, - the first European vessel that ever floated on these inland waters.
Those who were coming astern, when they saw that Calderon with his brigantine had anchored in the river, directly steered to enter the port.
They sprang on board a brigantine of the rear-guard, by the canoe that floated at the stern, whence they took out an Indian woman, and wounded from thence some men in the brigantines.
He chose for himself the brigantine he liked best.
After the brigantine left, the same party, with some persons more, returned to enter the land.
Into each canoe, for every brigantine was towing one at the stern for its service, directly entered some men, who, causing the Indians to take flight, burned the town.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brigantine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
