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Example sentences for "leviathans"

Lexicographically close words:
levers; leves; leveth; levez; leviable; levied; levies; levigated; leving; levirate
  1. But when the world's New Deluge boils From the New Noah's vine, Our souls shall be Leviathans In sanguine seas of wine.

  2. The monsters who roamed the earth in ancient times, as their fossil bones attest, are still to be seen in those regions hitherto unvisited by white men, and in the fathomless depths of uncharted seas leviathans find a home.

  3. The seaweed, in itself so harmless that it becomes the sport of children when washed ashore upon the beaches at home, here, in its original and monstrous growth became more terrifying than all the Leviathans of the deep.

  4. I had read that such leviathans existed, and had been seen by early Phoenician mariners, though I had always regarded their existence more in the light of fable titan fact.

  5. The leviathans pressed together along the path that Psyche trod.

  6. I asked for the Jewel; the leviathans roared 'Vanity!

  7. With all the inclination in the world, it is impossible to stand in close enough to verify this massacre of Leviathans with our own eyes, as we do not care to run the risk of being drawn ashore ourselves among the party.

  8. I meet double-runners on the hills sometimes now-a-days, but not the leviathans of old.

  9. It is leviathans of the deep like these that Jason Theseus and their companion Greeks bear in mind as the Argo drifts and the catch steadily grows.

  10. It is quite possible that one of these Jonah-swallowing leviathans rules the pickerel in each pond kingdom; like a Morgan among millionaires.

  11. Whether this whale belonged to the pod in advance, seemed questionable; for it is not customary for such venerable leviathans to be at all social.

  12. Above, you have all the Leviathans of note.

  13. Had these Leviathans been but a flock of simple sheep, pursued over the pasture by three fierce wolves, they could not possibly have evinced such excessive dismay.

  14. For a Khan of the plank, and a king of the sea and a great lord of Leviathans was Ahab.

  15. Castellan, pointing ahead to where huge shapes, enveloped in a mist of flame and smoke, were circling round each other, vomiting their thunderbolts, like leviathans engaged in a veritable dance of death.

  16. Her consorts follow in the curve of her foaming wake, and with every big gun trained forward the lithe grey leviathans tear over the watery plain in search of their quarry.

  17. After them ploughed the British leviathans and their satellites, but it was not till nine minutes after nine that the Lion got in her first hit on the Bluecher at something like 10 miles distance!

  18. For a Khan of the plank, and a king of the sea, and a great lord of Leviathans was Ahab.

  19. These huge joint-stock leviathans swallowing them up like pike among the troutlings.

  20. The private banks were tumbling in because they stood rooted in the old, solid, stolid banking business and the leviathans came along and pounced while they dozed.

  21. Jack and Mark, however, found time to help the whalemen secure the oil from the carcasses of the stranded leviathans which surrounded the Orion.

  22. Being no longer hunted, the whales gradually became tame and increased in numbers, so that to-day there are probably as many in the usual haunts of these leviathans in either hemisphere as there ever were.

  23. But it is certainly futile to anticipate similar results on the Mississippi or its tributaries,--huge and inconstant leviathans as they are, traversing a great alluvial plain devoid of solid foundations of any sort.

  24. Instead of a few huge slow-moving leviathans blocking other trains, the line may perhaps better be kept full of many smaller trains moving more nearly together.

  25. Campbell in his fine ballad has pictured the scene:-- "Like leviathans afloat Lay their bulwarks on the brine, While the sign of battle flew On the lofty British line.

  26. He had persuaded or bullied Spain into placing under the French flag a squadron of six line-of-battle ships, including two leviathans of 112 guns each, lying in the harbour of Cadiz.

  27. How had the leviathans of the ring made their money?

  28. He's one of the leviathans now--had a fifty thousand book on the Derby.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leviathans" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.