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Example sentences for "naval stores"

  • Benefit of Clergy, to steal or embezzle any of his Majesty's Military or Naval Stores or Provisions, above the value of Twenty Shillings.

  • Acadia, which was ceded to Britain by the treaty of peace, changed its name to Nova Scotia, and was capable of producing every species of naval stores.

  • The bounties on naval stores, indigo, hemp, and raw silk, while they proved an encouragement to industry, all terminated in favour of the plantations.

  • This is the centre of the railway system of Florida and of most of the business of the State, having a large export trade in timber, naval stores, phosphates, oranges and other Florida products.

  • It has fifty thousand people and a large export trade in naval stores, rice, timber and cotton, in the latter export being second only to New Orleans.

  • Besides, I could not reconcile it to the wisdom of France long to leave their fleet here destitute of naval stores, or to disgust their allies by a conduct neither just nor politic.

  • That the ship might remain long at Martinique without being made ready for sea, for want of naval stores, provisions, &c.

  • We left abundance of goods in the town, besides liquors of all sorts, and a variety of naval stores, and several warehouses full of cacao.

  • After selling their wines and other goods, they purchased provisions, naval stores, and every thing else that might be wanted during a long voyage, and fitted out their prize ship as a privateer, naming her the Revenge.

  • The island of Malta will prove a great acquisition to the French; as well for its excellent harbour as for the immense wealth it contains: they will also get a few ships of war and a considerable quantity of naval stores.

  • His cruise will prove a great disappointment to the enemy, having deprived them of a great quantity of naval stores, upon which they depended.

  • And when they are in America, they have not such advantages for supplies of provisions, naval stores, &c.

  • He marched behind the hills, in rear of the Grand Battery, to the northeast arm of the harbor, where there were extensive magazines of naval stores.

  • The hatches were taken off and the tackle hooked on to a barrel of naval stores, when the schooner blew up.

  • Some machinery was attached to the powder by a string, which was also fastened to a barrel of naval stores, and when it was raised had caused the explosion, as related by the lieutenant.


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