It was usual, therefore, for every cargo of any value to be convoyed by an armed vessel.
In pursuance of the agreement, the Dutch convoyed the Mecca pilgrims and patrolled the entrance to the Red Sea, besides making a payment of Rs.
The few armed vessels belonging to Bombay convoyedthe more valuable vessels along the coast.
Oquendo made no attempt to capture the Reciff and Olinda, but, after landing the troops he convoyed at a favourable spot, sailed northwards, followed by Thijssen.
Admiral Herbert was in command of the naval force, which convoyedsafely through the Channel without opposition the long lines of transports.
De With retained his old command of a detached squadron, with which he safely convoyed a large fleet of East Indiamen round the north of Scotland into harbour.
The family had supped before he came, and so the servants convoyed the friar to his chamber, and after they had made his supper, they left him to his rest.
However he got out; and, by this time the women of the town, who were assembled at the gate to the rescue of the prisoners, convoyed him out of town.
The Dutch admiral, with all his ships, however, remained in company, and safely convoyed him to Plymouth, where they arrived only a day or two later than Howard and his fleet.
The fact that an airship carrying gold was on the way to Los Angeles convoyed by armed airplanes had been kept inside of the office.
It was convoyed by two new war ships, the Serapis and the Countess of Scarborough.
For several months Captain Perry's vessel convoyed ships between Cuba and the United States.
On the way up the ship fell in with four merchant vessels, which she convoyed as far as Booby Island, she herself pursuing her way down the Gulf of Carpentaria.
He and his people convoyed them to the ship, giving them provisions, besides many beautiful feathers and other rarities, in order to present to the King of France.
Matt finished his chapter of Sinful Peck just as All Hands And Feet, followed by a Cape Town gentleman and two Kru boys, bearing respectively a brown canvas telescope basket and a sea chest, bore down upon him, convoyed by Mr. Murphy.
The Retriever was lying in the stream fully loaded when the crew arrived, convoyed by the crimp's runner.
Baldwin Burr and Buckley convoyed them a day's journey on the way.
It is necessary that all the disposable forces of France be available for sending everywhere where the English flag, and other flags, denationalized or convoyed by English ships of war, may seek to enter.
Through the hours of the long night the King Edward was convoyed across the channel at a speed nearing 25 knots an hour.
Admiral Van Dorp, who had in the middle of August convoyed Joachimi to England, also had his instructions.
Armed with instructions, Joachimi accordingly left Holland, August 18, convoyed by a fleet under Lieutenant-Admiral Van Dorp.
Randolph says, that the day after the tumult, both the Duke and Bothwell were sent for to the Court, the former being "convoyed with all the Protestants that were in this town; the other with the Papists.
Whairat the Quene, heghlie offended, committed him to preasone, with the other two, first in the Castell of Sanctandrois, and thairafter caused thame to be convoyed to the Castell of Edinburgh.
Betwix thame two was the Preast convoyed to his chalmer.
Half an hour later, leading his mascot goat and closely convoyed by the Backslid Baptist, the Wildcat walked down the platform in the dark trainshed of the station in Chicago.
Convoyed by the swinging muzzle of the Sheriff's gun, the Wildcat dived again into the open hatch and returned presently with the jingling wheat sack swung about his shoulders.
Then I gathered up all the troops at Cairo and Fort Holt, except suitable guards, and moved them down the river on steamers convoyed by two gunboats, accompanying them myself.
After some mishap the Firefly, convoyed by the Victoria, reached the mouth of the Albert River, where the party was safely landed.
He had started from Sydney in the barque Tam o' Shanter, which was convoyed by Captain Owen Stanley in the Alligator.
Then one of his assistants marshalled us all together like a flock of sheep, and convoyed us to the office of the American Consul-General in the city, where, in wholesale fashion, we were made citizens of the United States of America.
The transports, on board of which they embarked, were convoyed by the Admiral in person.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "convoyed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
