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Example sentences for "seafaring life"

  • Having chosen a seafaring life, he was appointed second mate of a vessel going to Santa Cruz.

  • I suppose, Captain, that if a man were overburdened with wealth he would scarcely follow a seafaring life, eh?

  • He may be born to greater things than a seafaring life, Captain.

  • A seafaring life, more than any other, teaches a man quickness in action.

  • He received such an education as could be obtained at the common schools until he was eighteen years of age, when he left home to engage for a few years in a seafaring life.

  • At the age of sixteen he embarked in a seafaring life in which he continued nine years.

  • From the age of fourteen till his retirement in 1861, Mr. Ames devoted himself to a seafaring life.

  • He was bred to a seafaring life, and the early part of his life was well spiced with adventure.

  • When Mrs. Garfield found that James had become unsettled and restless, she decided to give way, and allow him to obtain some experience of a seafaring life.

  • No pleasant dream was ever more rudely dispelled than were James Garfield's bright visions of the charm of a seafaring life.

  • At the age of twelve years, having made known his determination to lead a seafaring life, it was deemed proper to yield to it by his reluctant parents.

  • Having lost his father at an early age, he was placed under the care of a guardian who superintended his education, and upon learning the determination of his young charge to lead a seafaring life, he directed his studies accordingly.


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