Over the placid sea patches of genuine sea-fog were stealing, as if Nature was bent upon showing man that, after all, his efforts at maritime camouflage were puny compared with hers.
This act of maritime felo-de-se was to be accomplished by exploding charges in their holds.
However, his zeal never led him beyond the maritime parts of America, through which he travelled, spreading what he called the true evangelical faith among the most populous towns and villages.
Musk and water melons thrive exceedingly well even on the sandy maritime islands, and arrive at a degree of perfection unknown in many parts of Europe.
Others imagine that it must have remained every where among the sand since that time the sea left these maritime parts of the continent.
The maritime islands, however, which are commonly sandy, are not unfavourable for this production, especially those that contain spots of land covered with oak, and hickory trees.
The Presbyterians had already erected churches at Charlestown, Wiltown, and in three of the maritime islands, for the use of the people adhering to that form of religious worship.
The climate of Georgia, like that of Carolina, is more mild and pleasant in the inland than maritime parts.
It is not improbable that the maritime parts of Carolina have been forsaken by the sea.
The fortifications and wharfs were almost entirely demolished: the provisions in the field, in the maritime parts, were destroyed, and numbers of cattle and hogs perished in the waters.
The maritime resources of the Union were so large that the navy was rapidly expanded.
But the progress of the Americans was arrested by the difficulties inherent in all maritime expeditions.
The fleet of the United States was strong, their maritime resources ample, and to land an army on a shorter route to the distant capital was no difficult undertaking.
Among the incidents to the measures of the war I am constrained to advert to the refusal of the governors of Maine and Connecticut to furnish the required detachments of militia toward the defense of the maritime frontier.
The fortifications for the defense of our maritime frontier have been prosecuted according to the plan laid down in 1808.
In his pride of maritime dominion and in his thirst of commercial monopoly he strikes with peculiar animosity at the progress of our navigation and of our manufactures.
The Aeginetans had obtained the first prize for valour displayed in the battle of Salamis, and for many years they had pressed the Athenians hard in the race for maritime supremacy.
The last event which we have to record, before entering into the main current of our narrative, is the secession of Samos, the most important member of the maritime allies of Athens.
The field was thus left open to the Athenians, who willingly assumed the command offered them by the maritime cities of Greece, with the object of prosecuting the war vigorously against Persia.
Have we not seen how the confederacy of maritime cities formed against Persia was gradually converted into an Athenian empire?
The natives whom they now encountered (belonging to the maritime tribes) were comely in appearance, and far more cleanly than the tribes of the north-west.
There is no prongbuck, and many other creatures characteristic of the United States and British Columbia are not found in Upper and Lower Canada or in the maritime provinces.
Such expeditions were probably responsible for introducing into Polynesia its first colonists, a mixture of people of Brown and Maritime Central races, mingled with other elements in the course of their easterly wanderings.
Several circumstances concur to give Europe a climate peculiarly genial, such as its position almost wholly within the temperate zone, and the great extent of its maritime boundaries.
On the outbreak of the Franco-German War in 1870 he was appointed military governor of the maritime provinces.
Another branch of the Central race preceded these two in making their way to the sea-coasts of the Levant and the Persian Gulf--this may be called the Maritime branch of the Central race.
In the course of their maritime expeditions the Malay Archipelago gave to Japan a not inconsiderable contribution both of people and culture.
This reminiscence spurred him on to a vivid relation of his maritime adventures, telling of his younger days when he had been a supernumerary aboard a frigate which sailed to the coasts of the Pacific.
The modern French naval officer is master of his business, fit to compete with the best skill of the best maritime races.
Silently and steadily she has been laying the foundations of maritime greatness.
Richlieu sent d'Estrades to London, in 1637, according to Pere Orleans, to secure the neutrality of England in case of his attacking the maritime towns of Flanders conjointly with the Dutch.
It bestowed on him, moreover, and perhaps with more special application to maritime purposes, the customs on importation of merchandise.
Agricultural people and shepherds, forming ayllus, or tribes of the Chancas and Huancas, occupied the ravines of the maritime cordillera, and extended their settlements into several valleys of the seacoast, between the Rimac and Nasca.
Cooley, in his History of Maritime and Inland Discovery,[623] thought it impossible to shake the authenticity of the sagas.
There was a maritime flavour about him which at once enlisted Mr. Chalk's sympathies and made him overlook the small, steely-grey eyes and large and somewhat brutal mouth.
The Gulf Stream is a river which can boast everything maritime but whales.
This led to ill-will between the English and Dutch governments, and to a renewal of the old grievances about maritime and commercial rights, and war broke out in 1665.
He found in 1653 his country brought to the brink of ruin through the war with England, which had been caused by the keen commercial rivalry of the two maritime states.
A great portion of the South held out against the foreign government for many years, especially the maritime province of Fo-keen.
The loss of her maritime department has left Bolivia with no other ports than those of Lake Titicaca (especially Guaqui, or Huaqui, which trades with the Peruvian port of Puno), and those of the Madeira and Paraguay rivers and their affluents.
Farther round the island, beyond the fort, is Mazagon Bay, commanding the harbour, and the centre ofmaritime activity.
Florence now acquired a great seaport and was at last able to develop a direct maritime trade.
Thus ended a voyage that, for adventure and discovery, deserves a high place in the history of maritime enterprise in the Pacific.
Though the story of the mutiny is too well known to need repeating in detail, it is necessary to set forth as briefly as possible its relation to the history of maritime discovery in the Pacific.
There followed an open boat voyage that is unexampled inmaritime history.
Our interest, our twofold interest, was not to have a war with England, and to let Germany see that it was to her interest that we should not be deprived of our maritime power which protects the free development of German expansion.
If the Seven Years War made the maritime and colonial greatness of England, it also raised Prussia to the rank of a first-class Power.
If Pitt had been in office he would have demanded terms that must ruin past redemption the maritime and colonial power of France; but Bute was less exacting.
Now, for the first time, she was beyond dispute the greatest of maritime and colonial Powers.
France under Colbert had embarked on a grand course of maritime and colonial enterprise, and followed it with an activity and vigor that promised to make her a great and formidable ocean power.
For the safety of her colonies and her trade Spain felt it her interest to join her sister nation in putting a check on the vast expansion of British maritime power.
It was a contest for maritime and colonial ascendency; and England saw herself confronted by both her great rivals at once.
He highly commended the retention of Canada, but denounced the leaving to France a share in the fisheries, as well as other advantages tending to a possible revival of her maritime power.
Should it be crowned with success, the advantages will not be confined to the United States, but, as in the case of China, will be equally enjoyed by all the other maritime powers.
The maritime rights of the United States are founded on a firm, secure, and well-defined basis; they stand upon the ground of national independence and public law, and will be maintained in all their full and just extent.
We were also influenced by a desire that those islands should not pass under the control of any other great maritime state, but should remain in an independent condition, and so be accessible and useful to the commerce of all nations.
An agreement fixing the distance from the shore within which belligerent maritime operations shall not be carried on.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maritime" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: marine; maritime; nautical; navigational; oceanic; pelagic; salty; seafaring
