In half an hour the vessel of the admiral was visible from the Ozema's deck, and ere the sun had reached the meridian, the little felucca was gliding into the centre of the fleet, holding her course toward the carrack of Columbus.
The battle waxed so fell that the carrack also might have been worked by men who had all to win and naught to lose, and captained by one who bared his brow to the thunder-stone.
He took one richcarrack near the Island of Flores, and destroyed another.
In the naval expedition undertaken by Raleigh and Frobisher against the Spaniards, in the year 1592, a very rich carrack was taken, worth two hundred thousand pounds.
Besides all these vessels another was there, the great three-decked carrack or galleon from Yndia, which the Dutch had captured from the Portuguese at the bar of Goa.
Having fully effected this object, he made sail for the Azores, where the capture of a bulky carrack returning from India amply indemnified the merchants for all the expenses of the expedition, and enriched the admiral and his crews.
Meanwhile his ships returned from their cruise, and the profits from the sale of the captured carrack were to be divided among the queen, the admiral, the sailors, and the several contributors to the outfit.
There is a carrack sailing for the port of Rome this very night, and we can all be aboard of it, and save ourselves, if thou wilt do what we have made a plan of.
I shall have everything ready, and mules waiting, so that we may go straight to the muelle--the wharf to which the carrack is tied.
After 8 leagues he came to a very deep but narrow river, though a carrack might easily enter it, and the mouth without bar or rocks.
Here, under a height of rock and stone like a cape, there was depth enough for the largest carrack in the world close in shore, and there was a corner where six ships might lie without anchors as in a room.
In the sixteenth century the carrack often attained the size of 1,600 tons.
In the year 1587 Drake, in his famous marauding expedition in the Spanish seas, captured a great carrack called the San Felipe, which was returning home from the East Indies.
Towards the latter half of this century a Portuguese carrackcaptured by the English was, in length, from the beakhead to the stern, 165 ft.
In 1592 a Portuguese carrack called the Madre de Dios was captured and brought home.
Raleigh was more fortunate in securing another carrack laden with cochineal from Cuba.
While Raleigh lay here, a great Indian carrack of sixteen hundred tons, laden with spices, knowing nothing of the English invasion, blundered into the middle of what she took to be a friendly Spanish fleet.
Cumberland's ships, after harassing the carrack on all sides, ranged up against her; twice was she boarded, and twice were the assailants driven out.
The carrack created great astonishment at Dartmouth by her dimensions, which for those days were enormous.
The merchandise coming and found in the said carrack of the said John Mantell and James Ryche and James Dohonour-- First, 14 butts of sweet wine.
In 1592 the earl's ships were at the taking of the great carrack Madre de Dios, which fell into the hands of a squadron of English privateers belonging, some to Cumberland, some to the Hawkins family, and some to Sir Walter Raleigh.
You captured my daughter--my son--in the Margarita carrack three years agone.
Towards evening the carrack ran herself ashore on the rocks of Angazesia.
The Globe fetched her to windward, and after the usual salutations of the sea, the carrack commanded her to leeward, and seconded this order with five shots through her hull, to which the Globe replied with eighteen, and then luffed off.
But about midnight the carrack was set on fire, and continued to burn all next morning.
The carrack was set on fire, and had it not been for the courage of Captain Norton, both the plundered and the plunderers would have been blown together into the air.
Supposing the carrack to have earned sixty men, and the carvels thirty each, how could all the necessary stores, provisions, and water have been stowed away for those thirty, unless in a vessel of good size?
One carrack especially, commanded by Lawrence Foglietta resisted the attacks of seven English ships.
He halted a moment, took breath, quieted all clamour with a sweep of the hand, plunged on again like a great carrack buffeting tall billows.
Aurelius climbed the broad stairway, and sailed like a stately carrack into my lady's chamber.
If I send a single carrack from Genoa, and the King and Queen give her a convoy of four barks, she will come safe enough.
They sent a little carrack further down, and it had to come back because the water fell to boiling!
It was the summer of 1498 when Juan Lepe was sent as physician with two ships put forth from San Domingo by the Adelantado upon a rumor that the Portuguese had trespassed, landing from a great carrack upon Guadaloupe.
Committee for sale of the Carrack goods appointed (174).
I hadn't time for much, for there was news of a carrack coming from India, and it was only courtesy to sail out and give her a greeting.
Off St. Helena an immense Portuguese carrack richly laden and powerfully armed, was met, attacked, and overpowered by the little merchantmen with their usual audacity and skill.
For Mrs. Carrackand her son:) And what are pomp and fashion, but the painted signs of good living where there is no life?
Her sudden appearance in their midst, compelled another consultation to be taken as to the disposal of the great Mrs. Carrack for the night.
The picture of thecarrack opposite to page 300 was a gift from him.
Monson thought differently, and it was at length agreed that he and the admiral should anchor as near the carrack as they could, while the other and smaller vessels should ply up and down, holding themselves in readiness for any emergency.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carrack" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
