They went in two vessels, Thore in a great longship with eighty men, and the brothers in a smaller longship with about five-and-twenty.
Even the Frisian sailors had ceased to cower, and were lined along the bulwarks forward, full of eager hope that the approaching longship might bring them a change of masters.
A bowshot away they saw their second longship surging at full speed up the estuary.
I did not know the handiness of the longship under oars.
Too wise to linger long in that unfriendly air after the death of his friend the great King, he kept the seas as a free trader, and far and wide roamed the longship which he commanded.
But no braver sight the vik ever saw than the one when out through the black wolf's-mouth of massive cliffs one morning a swift longship sped, with the early wind rounding the great sail and helping the rowers with their oars.
Then thou art as my son, and in days to come a longship will I give thee to command.
Every one of them was fit to command a longship if the captain was laid low.
The time came when he knew better what a longship was, and the difference between legs and oars.
After that of course there was not much left to say; but all the same, Ulf looked more carefully into the strength of his longship that week than even he or Sigurd ever had before a voyage.
One of them alone was missing: it was the longship of Egbert of Britain.
But Egbert of Britain and Kolbiorn Stallare, after their quarrel over the game of chess, had not been friendly towards each other, so Egbert was placed in command over one of the other vessels of the fleet--a Longship named the Snake.
Again the lashings were cut and the conquered longship was withdrawn.
Very soon the decks of the first longship were completely cleared of defenders.
Many of the disabled Dane ships barred his way, but he at last brought his own longship under the poop of the Long Serpent.
The royal flagship was the Bison, a longship that had been built the winter before, the prow of which bore the head of a bison adorned with gold.
The longship rushed over the waves with the foam dashing on her bows, a long white track in her wake, and a dense black cloud curling overhead.
Haste thee, carle, and lead them to my longship the Swan.
It is likely that she was drawn under the longship at once.
Ten more minutes passed while we exchanged arrow flights, and then the longship had so gained on us that she struck sail and waited for us with her long oars run out and ready.
Now the longship held on her course steadily, never shifting her helm for so much as a point.
There seemed every chance that we should be upon the longship before they knew what we were about, for we had the weather gauge.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "longship" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
