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Example sentences for "rigged ship"

  • They controlled the ship, it was true; but what were three men to do with a full-rigged ship on the stormy Atlantic?

  • While the work was progressing, a square-rigged ship hove in sight, and was soon made out to be one of the enemy's twenty-gun ships.

  • It was simply child's play compared with the complicated manoeuvres that attend the working of a full-rigged ship, and Henderson laughed aloud in his delight at the simplicity of it.

  • The `Dawn,' a full-rigged ship I spoke in the latitude of Cape St Andre, had some difficulty in getting away from her.

  • The sun shone brightly on the white canvas of a full-rigged ship, which was coming bows on towards them.

  • A large full-rigged ship requires a crew of thirty to thirty-six men; a schooner-rigged vessel needs from sixteen to twenty.

  • A third time he appeared with the model of a full-rigged ship in his hand.

  • It may have been animal magnetism or what you like, but the little man could pull the big one along like a sixty-foot tug in front of a full-rigged ship.

  • One might say that with a square-rigged ship it would always be so.

  • The next step toward the goal of happiness found me before the mast in a full-rigged ship bound on a foreign voyage.

  • For three days I saw a full-rigged ship on the horizon, also becalmed.

  • The vessel which was expected to come on shore was a full-rigged ship, apparently of about eight hundred or a thousand tons, and evidently a foreigner, by her build and rig.

  • The vessel herself too--a full-rigged ship of about fourteen hundred tons--struck us as being unusually deep in the water.

  • The vessel I saw on Friday night was a full-rigged ship, with her sails knocked about and had her ensign hoisted half-mast high at the peak, and this one seemed the same in every particular.

  • The full-rigged ship “Humboldt,” with 349 emigrants on board, ran on to Winterton Beach.

  • They need the heavy work of a full-rigged ship.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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