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Example sentences for "large ship"

  • While at dinner a large ship appeared in the offing, and soon afterwards we saw a light whale-boat pulling into the harbor.

  • This latter sail was a large ship, standing, close-hauled, to the N.

  • Later in the same afternoon, we chased a large ship, looming up almost like a frigate, in the northwest, with which we came up about sunset.

  • Harry and David could see in the far distance a large ship, which from her narrow yards and the cut of her sails Harry said he thought was really a merchantman, which of course the Frenchman took her to be.

  • As he did so he observed in the horizon a sail--he judged a large ship.

  • Off Xael he captured several Turkish vessels, among which, was a large ship, named Cufturca, which was sent to Muscat.

  • The Portuguese now attempted to carry a large ship belonging to Malek Azz by boarding, but being unable to succeed, the ship commanded by the viceroy in person sunk her by repeated broadsides.

  • Captain Brand had no spy-glass, and there was a good deal of rain falling, but yet he thought he saw a large ship, a brig, and a small schooner in the offing.

  • There, within half a cable's length to windward, loomed up the dark hull of a large ship.

  • Morn gave chase to a large Ship to windward as far as we could see them from Top of mast head 7 in the Evening, came very near them but night coming on lost sight of them.

  • A second glance convinced him that she was a large ship.

  • As the Menager was a large ship, she required a good many people to man her, thus leaving the Foxhound with a greatly diminished crew.

  • Tom did not know how little sleep the captain of a large ship, with the lives of some hundred men confided to him, ventures to take.

  • There is a large ship," he said to his son, "driving on towards the banks, and totally dismasted.

  • We were talking about it this morning," said Ella; "and he said it would be more dangerous for me to go home in the Water Lily than in a large ship.

  • It looked, of course, worse to us than it would to those on the deck of a large ship; but even allowing for that, it was unquestionably running far higher than anything I had ever seen before.

  • Half an hour afterwards the reason for this extraordinary conduct on the part of the schooner became apparent, the upper canvas of a large ship under a heavy press of sail appearing in the south-east quarter.

  • The fog lasted a couple of hours, and when it cleared up the Aurora was discovered about two miles astern of the brig, and a large ship was at the same moment made out directly ahead.

  • When Peter and his men were almost on the point of despair, they perceived, far away upon the still waters, a large ship.

  • I was standing by him, urging him to get up and go below, when what was my dismay to see towering above us the dark hull and wide-spreading canvas of a large ship.

  • He at one time had a large ship as his yacht, on board which he maintained regular naval discipline, with a commander, and officers who did duty as lieutenants.

  • The only want in his seamanship I noticed, he evidently wasn't used to handle a large ship; but craft of some kind I was pretty sure he had commanded in the course of his life.

  • She was a large ship, under full canvas; and at last she rose her hull to the white streak below the bulwarks, till I began to think they intended passing the island to eastward to make the channel.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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