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Example sentences for "eighteen guns"

  • In com{079}pany with her sailed the brig Hornet, of eighteen guns, commanded by Captain James Lawrence.

  • Once, flight was impossible, and we found ourselves brought to action in the chops of the Channel by a French sloop-of-war of eighteen guns.

  • She proved to be the "Reindeer," a British brig-sloop of eighteen guns, carrying a crew of one hundred and eighteen men.

  • In 1799, he again sailed to the West Indies in the brig Norfolk, eighteen guns, with the commission of master commandant.

  • She mounted, as was afterwards learned, eighteen guns, and had a crew of one hundred and twenty men.

  • The British fleet consisted of a ship of eighteen guns, a brig of sixteen, and three privateer schooners.

  • After a short time spent in refitting, Bainbridge sailed from Boston, accompanied by the "Hornet," eighteen guns.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    but whether; came alongside; compound sentence; eighteen centuries; eighteen dollars; eighteen feet; eighteen guns; eighteen hours; eighteen hundred and fifty; eighteen hundred and sixty; eighteen miles; eighteen months; eighteen shillings; eighteen thousand; eighteenth century; found plenty; last came; nouveau continent; outer space; paternal authority; peach orchard; relatively speaking; said pleasantly; strong breeze; treasury notes; voice rose