He used to speak of these things in the smoking-room of the King's Hotel here, which is where every destroyer officer comes at least once between cruises to get a--cup of coffee.
In twocruises his only cases were one quartermaster, who got hove across the bridge and broke his nose, and a gunner's mate who broke his leg by being bounced out of his bunk one windy night.
Ships still make long cruises from home, but they do not keep the sea as they used to.
In the second period their cruisesassume a more regular character, and indicate some definite plan, as they take possession of certain points, where they winter, and from where they command the surrounding country.
The viking cruises commenced, and for a long time the Norwegians continued to harry the coasts of Europe.
One of the luckiest cruises of the war, so far as rich returns are concerned, was made by a little squadron of four vessels that sailed from Boston on October 8th under the command of Commodore Rogers.
For the cruises of Grogniet we are indebted to the pages of Ravenau de Lussan, a young soldier, as brave and as sagacious as Xenophon.
He is interesting to us as the latest known Buccaneer, and in strict parlance he can scarcely be classed as a Buccaneer at all, attacking the English as he did more than the Spanish, and not confining his cruises to the Spanish main.
You could take people out on cruises who would never get out if you didn't take them!
I joined a privateer brig, and after three cruises I had plenty of money, and determined to have another spell on shore, that I might get rid of it.
The consequence was, that his cruises were more successful than ever; and Mustapha, who was not content with pillaging the pacha's subjects on dry land, was amassing a large fortune at their expense by his maritime speculations.
Occasionally they threatened the coasts of Virginia and New England, and some combined with their West Indian cruises a foray along the coasts of Guinea and into the Red Sea.
When the buccaneers returned from their cruises they generally squandered in a few days, in the taverns of the towns which they frequented, the wealth which had cost them such peril and labour.
The Northmen had also a great resort to Hjaltland (Shetland Isles) and many men left Norway, flying the country on account of King Harald, and went on viking cruises into the West sea.
Eirik's sons subdued these islands and Hjaltland, took scat for themselves, and staid there all the winter; but went on viking cruises in summer to the West, and plundered in Scotland and Ireland.
It appears wonderful to me that ye go every summer upon viking cruises against other lands, and allow an earl within the country to take your father's heritage from you.
One thatcruises or roves the sea for plunder; a sea robber; a pirate; also, a piratical vessel.
A pirate; one who cruises about without authorization from any government, to seize booty on sea or land.
An intimacy was established with the natives, which lasted until we bade farewell to the group in the following year; and the return of the "Lark" from her cruises was always a cause of rejoicing amongst the natives.
Such were the words of command which were almost daily issued during our cruisesin these islands.
When Dumont D'Urville was in London, shortly before he started on his last voyage, he was asked his opinion of Morrell with reference to his cruises in the high southern latitudes.
From the whole review of the "situation," I was very apprehensive that the cruises of the Alabama were drawing to a close.
One of the earliest cruises of the war of 1776, was made by Captain, afterward Commodore, John Paul Jones.
Four winters did Olaf Tryggvason fare on viking cruises from the time of his leaving Wendland even until his coming to the Isles of Scilly.
Guthorm sailed often on viking cruises to the lands in the west, and had disposition over many men.
Cruises by nature-hungry but sometimes environmentally illiterate tourists are beginning to be a local problem.
The birds collected and observed during the cruises of the United States Fisheries Steamer "Albatross" in the North Pacific Ocean and in the Bering, Okhotsk, Japan, and Eastern seas from April to December 1906.
Bering Sea Little is known about bird distribution in the Bering Sea during ice formation because cruises in rapidly forming ice are potentially hazardous.
There are not so many in commission, as to permit them to take pleasure cruises along the coast.
Well, I have then, and it's about one of them cruises that I'm going to tell you.
But the whale fishery in vessels fitted for cruises of moderate length had its origin in Europe, where the Basques during the Middle Ages fairly drove the animals from the Bay of Biscay, which had long swarmed with them.
Its implements and the relics of old-time cruises fill niches in museums as memorials of a practically extinct calling.
There was a very tragic incident during one of the Ariadne's cruises early in 1872.
All naval officers who have visited Scotland in their cruises carry away pleasing recollections of much kindness and hospitality, and the experience of the officers and cadets on board the Isis formed no exception to the rule.
Those inspection cruises were very bad things for him.
He used to make short yachting cruises until last year, but that is all over now.
His vivid recollections, given below, of this entry into the scientific arena are taken from a journal he kept for his fiancee during his absence from Sydney on the cruises of the "Rattlesnake.
Heard of his daring deeds in the China seas; of a wild career in the Pacific Islands; of his bold defiance of law and order; besides strange tales of mysterious cruises in the north-west among the Caroline and Pellew Islands.
It remains still to consider the employment and effects of the one offensive maritime measure left open by the exigencies of the war; the cruises directed against the enemy's commerce, and the characteristic incidents to which they gave rise.
The United States naval officer at Charleston found it necessary also to extend the alongshore cruises of his schooners as far as Cape Fear, for the protection of this trade on its way to his district.
While the making of prizes was the primary concern of the American privateers, their cruises in the West Indies, as elsewhere, gave rise to a certain amount of hard fighting.
These cruises were primarily commerce-destroying, and were pursued in that spirit, although with the full purpose of fighting should occasion arise.
The limited success of the frigates in their attempts against British trade has been noted, and attributed to the general fact that their cruises were confined to the more open sea, upon the highways of commerce.
It soon became apparent that either they must risk surface attacks and so save their torpedoes, or else curtail their cruises to meet the rapid expenditure of their only submarine weapon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cruises" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
