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Example sentences for "seafarers"

Lexicographically close words:
seaboards; seaborne; seabreeze; seacoast; seafarer; seafaring; seafood; seafowl; seagoing; seagull
  1. In the case of India and China it is an established and accepted truth that an active communication existed between these countries and Asia Minor, which was carried on by a race of seafarers and colonists.

  2. Seafarers say how stands this hall, of buildings best, for your band of thanes empty and idle, when evening sun in the harbor of heaven is hidden away.

  3. Shoals of whales of a small species afforded our little seafarers great delight to watch.

  4. As a rule seafarers are not orators, though what they do say is generally to the point.

  5. And there are, perhaps, few seafarers who have more inducements to stay at home than I, Charlie Halcott, have.

  6. They licensed and supplied seafarers of all classes to the 'King's Ships,' tested their ordnance and examined the ammunition.

  7. Our ranks are evidence of a world-wide league of seafarers against German brutality.

  8. Our pride was this--that, in our action, we would be followed by the seafarers of the world.

  9. They would have been stupefied with shame if any one had seen them walking even with a girl, although the enterprising seafarers had done their best to assure them that it was the only true style of showing genuine goodwill.

  10. Things were kept moving in such a lively way when these young seafarers were about, that a feeling of desolation depressed the whole village for many days after they had left it.

  11. A yet more notable monument to those gallant seafarers are the so-called "Capitulations.

  12. I will trust Jasper against all the seafarers of the coast, up here on the lakes; but I do not say he has any gift for the ocean, for there he has never been tried.

  13. The Eastern seafarers must have visited Northern Europe to exploit its virgin riches.

  14. The oak-god protected seafarers by making their vessels sea-worthy.

  15. The island of Crete was reached long before the introduction of copper-working by seafarers who visited the island of Melos, and there obtained obsidian (natural glass) from which sharp implements were fashioned.

  16. The ancient seafarers who found their way northward may have included searchers for gold and silver.

  17. Agriculturists would, no doubt, select areas suitable for their mode of life and favour river valleys, while seafarers and fishermen would cling to the coasts.

  18. The religious beliefs of seafarers from Syria were likely therefore to bear traces of the Egyptian and Babylonian religious systems.

  19. There are a number of dolmens on this island and traces of ancient mine-workings, indicating that it had been occupied by the early seafarers who colonized Britain and Ireland and worked metals.

  20. Agriculturists, for instance, must have shown preference for those areas which were capable of agricultural development, while pastoral folks sought grassy steppes and valleys, and seafarers the shores of alien seas.

  21. But the movements of seafarers must have followed a different route.

  22. Awed to the heart, it was some time before the superstitious seafarers could make up their minds to investigate further.

  23. Vera Historia" about the seafarers who came to a lofty wooded island.

  24. They live in a similar fashion to the Icelanders, except that they are more cruel and trouble seafarers by predatory attacks.

  25. Of the important questions however as to the region from which, and as to the period at which, the Greek seafarers came thither, only the former admits of being answered with some degree of precision and fulness.

  26. Those be seafarers coming up from their ships which lie at the quays at the city's edge.

  27. Remember the days of the glory of the seafarers of Lothar.

  28. After dinner, the seafarers would retire to the drawing-room and, with pipes or cigars alight and seated before the grate fire, the talk would inevitably drift to ships and shipping.

  29. Truly, seafarers live lives of contrasts not alone in the element they live part of their lives, but in the nature of their work and the herding of men with men far from refining influences.

  30. A signal honor it was at a time when no love was lost between British and American seafarers who had so recently fought each other afloat.

  31. American seafarers were safe against kidnapping on their own decks, and they had won this security by virtue of their own double-shotted guns.

  32. You must remember, too, that they were seafarers and Americans who had few of the advantages you and your friends enjoy in England.

  33. It was not, he knew, seafarers of unexceptional character who usually ventured into the still little known creeks of Western Africa, which the coast mailboats' skippers left alone.

  34. As for the crew of six men and the boy, they were "Icelanders," the valiant race of seafarers whose homes are at Paimpol and Treguier, and who from father to son are destined for the cod fisheries.

  35. Ramsgate of late years has in a measure come to the front as a holiday resort, but to most seafarers along the coast it will always be the past of the town rather than the present that will possess abiding interest.

  36. Seafarers should not forget that it was at Lyme that Sir George Summers, who is called the discoverer of the Island to which he gave his name, now known as the Bermudas, was born.

  37. His fame has come hither before him; seafarers have told me that he has the might of thirty men in his hand-grip.

  38. They are indescribably lovely, but the seafarers of these parts of the Mediterranean dread them in a storm as do Channel sailors the Casquets in a fog.

  39. Toulon has among its great men of the past the name of the Chevalier Paul, perhaps first and foremost of all the seafarers of France since the day of Dougay-Trouin.

  40. There were Jews among the owners, and the seafarers were furnished with letters in Hebrew, because it was believed that they would come in contact with some of the lost tribes of Israel.

  41. Finally after his return he made Barents and other distinguished seafarers in the Arctic Regions answerable for all the skipper tales collected from quite other quarters, which he before his departure held to be proved undoubtedly true.

  42. Oh, happy seafarers are ye And surely all your ills are past, And toil upon the land and sea, Since ye are brought to us at last; chanted the Sirens, promising long rest and the kingdoms of sleep.

  43. The Sirens, muses of the sea and of death, who by their sweet singing enticed seafarers to destruction.

  44. Not always does the stranger to St. Malo hear exactly this offhand, but invariably he is met with a singsong of sailors' chanteys which at once call up memories of seafarers of other days.

  45. The seafarers dined and drank, then went to sleep.

  46. On one island the seafarers found three magic apples, and each apple gave sufficient food for forty nights; again, on another island, they found the same apples.

  47. Seafarers may use what gear they find (the "remis" of the text may include boat or tackle).

  48. Frode also enacted that seafarers should freely use oars wherever they found them; while to those who wished to cross a river he granted free use of the horse which they found nearest to the ford.


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