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Example sentences for "former voyage"

  • The flattering requisitions of those readers who found amusement in the narrative of my former voyage, independently of its scientific details, form an incentive to my present publication.

  • I myself, on my former voyage in the Rurik, should have infallibly suffered this fate, had the day dawned only half an hour later.

  • It was my intention now, to ascertain exactly the geographical position of the islands which I had discovered on my former voyage.

  • Accordingly, several of my officers and myself rode the next day to the mission of St. Francisco, which I have described in the account of my former voyage, and which has remained pretty much in the same state ever since.

  • When he came on board, I recognised him for the Englishman, Alexander Adams, who on my former voyage in the Rurik had commanded the ship Kahumanna, belonging to King Tameamea; he was now chief pilot.

  • Upon the whole, I am firmly of opinion, that no ships are so proper for discoveries in distant unknown parts, as those constructed as was the Endeavour, in which I performed my former voyage.

  • For in this bay we were all strangers; in my former voyage, having done no more than discover and name it.

  • This part of the coast I did not see, but at a great distance, in my former voyage; and we now saw it under so many disadvantageous circumstances, that the less I say about it, the fewer mistakes I shall make.

  • In the account given of St Helena in the narrative of my former voyage, I find two mistakes.

  • For, notwithstanding what I had been told, finding he was not the man whom I remembered to have seen under that character during my former voyage, I began to entertain doubts.

  • The chart will very accurately shew the direction, extent, and position of the coast, along which I have sailed, either in this or my former voyage.

  • The next was Saat, who had received that name in memory of my good boy who died during my former voyage.

  • These people, who had behaved well on my former voyage, confided all the news, and were willing to serve the government.

  • There was a scarcity of women in our station, and the grinding of the corn would have given rise to much discontent had I not experienced this difficulty in a former voyage, and provided myself with steel corn-mills.

  • The current is very powerful, and when I sounded in various places during my former voyage, I found a depth of twenty-six to twenty-eight feet.

  • January The annexed chart will very accurately shew the direction, extent, and position of the coast, along which I have sailed, either in this or my former voyage.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    brave deeds; brilliantly lighted; but this; former chapter; former existence; former experience; former lecture; former letter; former life; former paper; former part; former period; former slave; former state; former time; former visit; former years; formerly mentioned; formerly used; formerly written; future events; last arrived; often been; rapid glance; thou then; violin concerto