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Example sentences for "seaway"

Lexicographically close words:
seaventh; seawall; seaward; seawards; seawater; seaweed; seaweeds; seaworthiness; seaworthy; seax
  1. Both nations now need the St. Lawrence Seaway for security as well as for economic reasons.

  2. I again recommend action be taken by the Congress to approve the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power project.

  3. Even if there were a seaway in the Pliocene or Miocene (the dating of this possible seaway is open to question), its presence is not necessary to explain the present patterns of distribution in the isthmus.

  4. Many authors dealing with the herpetofauna of Middle America have followed Schuchert's (1935) suggestion of a seaway in the isthmus during the Cenozoic.

  5. We had to take up belaying pins to knock the frozen snow and ice off the sail before we could do anything, and the ship was labouring so heavily in the seaway that our task was most difficult.

  6. Finding an ordinary "Rob Roy" was too small and very wet in a seaway I designed and built a sailing canoe with a centre board, which was a great success and was the pioneer of sailing canoes.

  7. For some miles the seaway is narrow, but it broadens out again before the end is reached.

  8. Such a king's howe was heaped up long ago at Gogstad on Sandefjord, where to-day is a prosperous little watering-place, hard by the mouth of the seaway by which Christiania is gained.

  9. He asked why the Nequasset was loafing there in the seaway without steering headway on her!

  10. But it's a card compass and spins so bad in a seaway there ain't no telling, anyway.

  11. The seaway over by the mainland shore is scored and lined by passage of the inward-bound vessels, all pressing on at their best speed to make their ports before nightfall.

  12. The seaway is foul with wrecks, foundered on beach and sandbar--the tide vexed by under-water obstructions.

  13. Reefing on a bowsprit in a seaway is a difficult and dangerous job.

  14. For instance, I tell you, that when a vessel gets sternway on in a seaway to keep your helm amidships, and cast her with the headsails, and not to put your helm hard over.

  15. There was so much seaway that we were unable to get the boat in.

  16. At that time she was six or seven years old; at the time of writing, although she is no more than twenty, she has been sold for old iron; and when they took her away to break her up, she got adrift in a seaway off the Isle of Wight.

  17. The steward's confession, aided by circumstantial evidence of various kinds, was the means of freeing both Anne Seaway and Miss Aldclyffe from all suspicion of complicity with the murderer.

  18. Anne Seaway then began her duties in the house.

  19. As an object of passion, you did not desire the company of this Anne Seaway at all, and certainly not so much as to madly risk your reputation by bringing her here in the way you have done.

  20. Anne Seaway was about to run away likewise, when she turned and looked at the fallen man.

  21. I could scarcely believe my ears; but, as I looked up in surprise and wonder I caught sight of Jake's ebony face all aglow with delight, his eyes rolling about like a vessel in a heavy seaway and his mouth expanded from ear to ear.


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