How could they have suspected that the polaccaout there was our friend?
Mrs Mizen and her daughter seemed to think the affair a very good joke, only they could not understand why the cutter should not go in chase of the polacca as well as the brig-of-war.
While cruising about in the Mediterranean, on the lookout for pirates, she chanced upon a Tripolitan polacca called the "Tripoli," of about the same force and size.
As the polacca could not be made a prize, the Americans cut away her masts, threw overboard her guns, and left her with the surviving fragment of her crew to make the best of her way back to Tripoli.
But what does this paper mean about the polacca brig, think you?
After three hours a large polaccabrig was seen from her deck a couple of points on her larboard bow.
A boat shoving off from the polacca brig, sir," said the mate.
As the speronara sailed almost two feet to one of the Zodiac, he was soon able to pass her and to reach the polacca brig before she was discernible through the darkness.
The polaccabrig had now not only set her foresail and mainsail, but had also shaken another reef out of her topsails.
Basilia came home without news, and learned that during her absence a council of war had been held, and that Polacca was imprisoned in the kitchen.
And why did you lock up Polacca in the kitchen till my return?
The pensioner and the maid Polaccawere laying the table-cloth.
Polacca had followed me; I sent her in to call out Accoulina secretly.
Meantime Polaccahad carried off our swords to the garret.
The schooner was brought alongside the polacca and lashed there.
He knows that we are friends of the prisoners, and he, no doubt, guesses that we belong to the craft that captured the polacca that was wrecked.
I may have my ideas as to whether harm are come to that polacca or not, but if every seaman on board the ship was to dream of a black tom-cat and his wife and family, it wouldn't make not so much as a shade of difference, in my opinion.
There is the island, but there is no sign of the polacca yet.
On the day after they took up their place on their cruising ground they fell in with a large polacca brig.
I told him then that my brother was on board the polacca that was wrecked, and that I should endeavour to get the ear of some person of importance at Adalia.
The concert was advertised, and the Polacca was in the programme; still it had no existence, except in the musician’s soul.
It was at this time that Ole Bull completed his “Polacca Guerriera.
On his entrance he was warmly received, and the “Polacca Guerriera” created the greatest enthusiasm.
Finally, the “Polacca Guerriera,” which we had twice heard before, seemed to us more and more to merit the enthusiastic reception the public is everywhere giving it.
From Prague Ole Bull went via Breslau to Warsaw, where he played the “Polacca Guerriera.
In the “Polacca Guerriera,” one of his own compositions, burst forth the exciting and powerful notes of war.
In the midst of the finale of the “Polacca Guerriera,” the A string snapped.
The “Polacca Guerriera” was first conceived at Naples, alone at midnight, gazing on Mount Vesuvius flaming through the darkness.
This was the motive to the “Polacca Guerriera,” which had occurred to him while looking at Vesuvius, and which he now wrote out for the monks on the spot, giving it an introduction and accompaniment for the organ.
The “Polacca Guerriera” so moved the old warrior king, to whose ears martial music was ever the sweetest, that he rose from his seat, and remained standing until the piece was finished.
The Polacca brought its composer a brilliant reputation at once; and musical critics were obliged to content themselves with saying that it was not written in the right measure for a Polacca.
In reality this polacca is thin, a tentative groping after a form that later was mastered so magnificently by the composer.
Then it pleased GOD to abate us ten of the Turks, who were sent with the Polacca before recited.
It is the main-cabin they have entered; not a large one, for the polacca has not been constructed to carry passengers.
Old sailors shake their heads, refusing to make answer; while young ones, less cautious of speech, boldly pronounce the polacca to be a spectre!
Her colours might be accepted as surety of this, without regard to the relative position of the vessels; which show the frigate astern, the polacca leading.
And just thus has the polacca been behaving--still is; sailing on down the wind, without slacking haulyards, or lessening her spread of canvas by a single inch!
For, to their intense astonishment, the polaccahas disappeared!
Besides these conjectures of the common kind, there are those on the frigate's fore-deck who, in very truth, fancy the polacca to be a spectre.
At seven years of age he scored a polacca of his own for a band.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "polacca" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
