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Example sentences for "second voyage"

  • We find a strange example of this tendency of the age, in the narrative of Cook's second voyage.

  • A second voyage made by the same explorers the following year was without results.

  • Then it would be easy enough to get ships and men for a second voyage.

  • To be sure Columbus had not as yet seen the evidences of this Oriental splendour, and had been puzzled at not finding them, but he felt confident that he had come very near them and would come full upon them in a second voyage.

  • It was easy enough now to get men and money for the second voyage.

  • In a second voyage, his own immediate vessel was lost, and the other came home.

  • Next year Cartier made a second voyage to the same regions, and found the country pervaded by many large rivers, and abounding in provisions.

  • Second Voyage I had resolved, as you know, on my return from my first voyage, to spend the rest of my days quietly in Bagdad, but very soon I grew tired of such an idle life and longed once more to find myself upon the sea.

  • At this I was greatly surprised, but looking carefully at him I recognised him to be the captain of the ship upon which I had made my second voyage, though he had altered much since that time.

  • On a second voyage he extended his discoveries, and he sailed a third time to conquer and convert the natives.

  • Second Voyage to Barbary, in 1552, by Captain Thomas Windham.

  • He soon afterwards went out on a second voyage, to prosecute his discoveries in this strait; but in this he perished.

  • Such, your highness, were the adventures attending my Second Voyage," concluded the renegade, with an inclination of his head.

  • From a Drawing in ROSS'S Second Voyage for a North-West Passage, 1835.

  • From a Drawing in PARRY'S Second Voyage for a North-West Passage, 1824.

  • Footnote 51: Messrs Hodges and Webber, whose drawings have ornamented and illustrated this and Captain Cook's second voyage.

  • But to Columbus, the most satisfactory consideration accorded to him by his sovereigns at this time, was the request to attempt a second voyage of discovery.

  • During the following year, he was invested with the command of three ships of larger size, and well equipped with all sorts of supplies; and making a second voyage to Newfoundland, he entered the gulf on the day of St. Lawrence.

  • The subsequent year Cabot made a second voyage, inspecting the American coast northward till icebergs were met, southward to the vicinity of Albemarle Sound.

  • He made a second voyage, was attacked by the natives and mortally wounded, and returned to Cuba to die.

  • In the following year he made a second voyage, going up as far as the mouth of a small river which the year before he had named St. John's.

  • Thus terminated, by the favor of God, my second voyage.

  • Take heed," I warned him, "that I do not have you put in irons, or sent adrift upon a second voyage.

  • In 1644 Tasman made a second voyage to effect a fuller discovery of New Guinea.

  • The most striking peculiarity of the variant is the loss of the burial, for which appears rather awkwardly the ransoming of some peasants on the hero's second voyage.

  • An odd inconsistency appears in the statement of the Latin that after the hero's second voyage "pater suus et mater" were angry with him.

  • On a second voyage he ransoms two peasants, who have been imprisoned for not paying their taxes to the emperor.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    continued until; second ballot; second base; second best; second century; second chance; second child; second concert; second crop; second husband; second letter; second line; second look; second only; second period; second person; second place; second shot; second thought; second time; second trial; second week; secondary education; secondary importance; secondary school; strange country