I have said that Ratcliffe Highway was the rendezvous of seafaring men.
It is very odd that even one man, especially a shipmaster, should have been found disagreeing with a reform that was to be of so much benefit to all classes of seafaring men.
I was walking down the main street of a seafaring town some years ago, when I saw a group of people standing at a window looking at an oil-painting of a large, square-rigged ship which had been caught in a squall.
We now come to close quarters with the seafaring smugglers, in a few biographical sketches: premising them with some striking testimony to their qualities as seamen.
The settlers at the mouth of the Hudson were merchants andseafaring men.
Born on the shores of the Bay of Biscay, the adventurous son of a seafaring father, Champlain fought for the King in Brittany, and was given by him a retainer in the shape of a small pension.
I have been told by seafaring men that the French have never taken it, though they tried.
Talk with seafaring men, and learn the points of shipping and of the manner of all fights at sea.
Jack of London was made the sailing master of the Golden Horn, and a seafaring man from Hull was in like manner put in charge of La Belle Calaise.
That the Navigation Laws have been a great advantage to our shipowners and seafaring interests is self-evident.
Looks like a seafaring man, a sea captain, I should say--but he won't give his name.
There's rain astern," observed Captain Zeb, with the air of authority which belongs to seafaring men when speaking of the weather.
He was born in the village and, when a youngster, had, like every other boy of good family in the community, cherished ambitions for a seafaring life.
After the train is started a gleam of peculiar significance is observable in the eyes of one of the Seafaring Men, who is reclining in an easy attitude on the seat.
In the second carriage are two Men of seafaring appearance, and a young Man who is parting from his Fiancee as the L.
On the already mentioned island of Dioscorides there was a joint trading settlement of the three great seafaring nations of these seas, the Hellenes, that is, the Egyptians, the Arabians, and the Indians.
When his last descendants exchanged the Numidian crown for the Mauretanian, the capital, which changed its name Iol into Caesarea, became the residence of a cultivated and luxurious court, and a seat of seafaring and of traffic.
They heard the footsteps of the servant climbing the stairs, and in ten seconds my Lord Gore had the first news of his seafaring and unshaven son.
We rose early that Sunday morning to the sound of a fleet unloading cargoes of wrought-iron, and of the hard swearing of all nations of seafaring men.
I think he has a desire to follow a definite calling, though now his taste seems to draw him towards a seafaring life.
I say again, if you will abandon all thoughts of a seafaring life, I will try to find you a situation to learn some trade you may choose for yourself.
Every great seafaring nation in the world meekly paying tribute to a few thousand Arab cutthroats for the privilege of using one of the seven seas, and humbly apologizing if the payment happened to become overdue!
Coming from New England seafaring stock, it was only to be expected that a passion for adventure should course through his veins.
They were fitted with warm clothes supplied by the American sailors, and in other ways made to feel that, pirates though they were, and murderers as well, the American seafaring man knew how to be magnanimous.
Any seafaring man will tell you that this implies seamanly ability.
Hundreds of sailors, fishermen, seafaring men generally, and yachtsmen joined the Naval Coast Defense Reserve, which proved to be an extremely popular branch of the service with college men.
Naval Auxiliary Reserve, made up of seafaring men who had had experience on merchant ships.
By dawn of the fourth day the gale had spent its greatest strength; what was left of it subsided steadily till, as the seafaring phrase has it, the wind went down with the sun.
The instinct of the seafaring man uppermost, Monk stiffened, grew rigid from head to foot.
Yet fishing and seafaring ranked as the main national industries (Busch, England unter den Tudors, i, 251).
The one direction in which the Act seems to have been successful was in stimulating shipbuilding and seafaring in the American colonies.
It depended mainly on the wool of England; and on the basis of the ancient seafaring there thus arose a sea-going commerce.
Our road led through Charlestown, where the seafaring population chiefly live close to the harbour.
He was a retired jeweller who had been led by an inordinate love of seafaring and fishing to fly from the shop as soon as he had made enough money to live in modest comfort on the interest of his savings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seafaring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
