All the boatmen, all the marinersfar and near, thronged to him, with sail and shield, with sword and with oar.
At first these mariners said they would not sail to such a coast of danger and death; but afterward they said they would, and they did do so.
There he found some mariners in haven with a large boat, and to these he paid ten pieces of silver money to bear him across the sea to that island where Sir Nabon le Noir abided.
He even proffered the services of ten mariners who were hiding in the neighbourhood, and Monson, of course, pretended heartily to accept their services, promising a reward.
Thus, in the year 1254 some Winchelsea marinersattacked a Yarmouth vessel, and killed some of her crew.
There are no fierce gales to encounter, and therefore there are no weather-beaten mariners aloft.
The Thames certainly might remind the village population that there were merchants and mariners among mankind; but what were those passing phantoms to them?
M40) If Galelareese marinersare sailing past certain rocks or come to a river where they never were before, they must wash their faces, for otherwise the spirits of the rocks or the river would snatch away their souls.
The Revival stirred these men as the voyages of Da Gama and Columbus stirred the mariners of the Mediterranean.
The hardy mariners of Zeeland were ready to fight on their own element, and asked nothing better than to meet the Spaniards at sea.
The Etruscans knew how to turn their fertile soil to some account, but they were for the most part mariners and traders.
At the very extremity of this island a tower of marble was erected, on the summit of which was maintained a fire always burning to guide the mariners who wished to enter the port.
The Phœnicians did not care to havemariners of other peoples come into competition with them.
England as he found there he also burnt, and hanged the mariners by the necke, diuiding the graine and other victuals which were found in the same ships amongst his owne souldiors.
The ancients of Gebal, and the wise men thereof furnished mariners for the service of thy various furniture: all the ships of the sea, and their mariners were thy factors.
The employment of Phoenician mariners by Necho, to circumnavigate Africa, bespeaks a monarch bent on maritime and commercial enterprise; and there are other transactions of his reign which confirm this character.
We have already stated that the astrolobe, which had been previously applied only to astronomical purposes, was accommodated to the use of mariners by Martin Behaim, towards the end of the fifteenth century.
It is a capital practical school of moral discipline, just as the hardiest marinersare nurtured in the roughest seas.
Our mate was a Hydriot, a native of that island rock which grows nothing but mariners and mariners’ wives.
When the Rock was hid by the surge's swell, The mariners heard the warning bell; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And bless'd the Abbot of Aberbrothock.
Ino, after she had slain herself and her son Melicertes, by leaping with him into the sea, became a protecting deity of mariners under the name Leucothea, or the white goddess.
Sirens dwelt on an island near Sicily, and by their sweet song allured mariners to destruction.
After the Tuscan mariners transformed; a Latinism, meaning, after the transformation of the Tuscan mariners.
English mariners penetrated among the Esquimaux, or settled in Virginia.
Now is the hour," he said, "when mariners far away behold for a little while the dome of this temple.
And then, in that improper way, He spoke about his eyes, That mariners are wont to use, In anger or surprise.
Mariners bound for Troas received them into their vessel, and the voyage began.
During Elizabeth's the proportion was entirely reversed, and at the date of her death the mariners were almost twice as numerous as the soldiers in her sea service.
Sir William Monson pumped this clever fellow, of whom he was making a dupe, and in particular got a letter from him to certain mariners in the county who were the regular associates of pirates.
No sooner had the knights and gentlemen leapt on to the Frenchman's deck than their mariners left them to shift for themselves.
The crews of war vessels were divided into marinersand soldiers in unequal proportions.
From the fact that the marinersare given as a separate class, we may confidently conclude that the retinue consisted of soldiers, whom the captain brought with him.
The mariners and "grometes" are the able seamen and ordinary seamen.
The steersmen and marinersof the Middle Ages, and the prime seamen of the eighteenth century, were highly trained men, whom it would have been folly to employ on such work as could be sufficiently well done by less skilful hands.
But there lies the spot--and there will the mariners come.
Where did you direct our mariners to meet us, with the boat?
And to Isis in her later character of patroness of mariners the Virgin Mary perhaps owes her beautiful epithet of Stella Maris, "Star of the Sea," under which she is adored by tempest-tossed sailors.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mariners" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
