The ship the Trinity was left to seven of the gang who had diced away all their money.
Within seven days the pinnaces had been set up, and launched, and stored with all things necessary.
But after six or seven Months" Dampier "left that Employ," for he had heard strange tales of the logwood cutters in Campeachy Bay, and longed to see something of them.
The captain received three shares, sometimes six orseven shares, according to his fortune.
The remainder of the buccaneers, numbering 331 able-bodied men (seven of whom were French), were to march with the colours the next morning.
When they had marched some seven or eight miles they were shot at from some Indian ambush.
To the west, in a crook of the land, was the little port of Chagres, where ships might anchor in seven or eight fathoms, "being very fit for small vessels.
They were strung out over several miles of sea, with five light canoas, containing six or seven men apiece, a mile or two in advance.
They set forward silently, through the cane-brakes and lush undergrowth, upon the long, seven leagues march to the town of Nombre de Dios.
Notwithstanding this report, John Oxenham with a company of twenty-seven men, marched west to view the place.
But before any parrot could have lost his Spanish accent, the pirates were called from their lessons by the sight of seven Spanish warships, under all sail, coming up to the river-bar from La Vera Cruz.
They had thirty-seven ships, carrying at least 500 cannon.
He was several times mentioned in despatches, was promoted Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, and received the Queen's medal with seven clasps, and the D.
For his work in these expeditions he was mentioned in despatches five times, won the Egyptian Medal and seven clasps, as well as the D.
When our father died about seven years ago, he left three thousand pounds.
That includes the Magdalena Lodestar, our lucky nugget, a lump weighing just under seven pounds of pure gold.
I have put my hand on seven doubtful callers on Monday and Tuesday last.
She is twenty-seven and has kicked hats off tall men's heads in every capital from Petersburg to Buenos Ayres!
It is plain, however, that at least seven men must latterly have been kept under close observation.
Mr. Carlyle, sir, wears patent leather boots of about size seven and very little used.
The train you were driving at the time of the accident was the six-twenty-seven from Notcliff.
This wonderful performance lasted from seven in the morning until noon.
George Bowring had been seven years with me at the fine old school of Shrewsbury, and trod on my heels from form to form so closely that, when I became at last the captain of the school, he was second to me.
And when she heard, on the following day, that he was gone for the lofty purpose of selling his seven ricks of hay, she said not a word, but only felt her cold heart so much colder.
One of the first recommendations made by me in my report of seven years ago was that the Government build a railroad from Seward to Fairbanks in Alaska.
In spite of the strike order, effective the last day of the week, the production of soft coal during the seven days Oct.
Seven maids with seven mops sweeping for half a year could never get it clear.
The barn man turned over a bale of hay last week and disclosed no less than twenty-seven rats young and old, fat and lean, though chiefly fat.
For seven weeks the Maryland yellow throat sang just at the turn of the old woods road, where his mate had her nest in a low bush.
Long before the Eternal City was founded your ancestors adorned the seven hills and beautified the grass beneath with the flickering shadows cast by their sunlit leaves.
His chief argument was that, unless it passed, the country might be let in for an additional expenditure of seven or eight hundred millions in settling the claims of persons whose goods had been commandeered.
There were here seven Indians, who, notwithstanding the frequent visits that had been paid them, in the course of the winter, by the people of the lower posts, had still upwards of forty packs of beaver.
After settling accounts with him, together with payment of the sum he owed, seven of the eleven packs were placed in my possession, with which I started on my return, as proud as if I had been advanced to a share in the Company.
I was given to understand that three men additional would join me as soon as they could, and that I must not expect any more; thus our number would be seven against twenty-two.
A party of sevenor eight Indians having been drowned on their way to Alexandria, in autumn, their relatives imputed the misfortune to the whites.
Ailsa Mowbray had aged in the seven months since her husband's death.
Seven months since the mutilated body of Allan Mowbray had been packed home by dog-train to its last resting place within the storm-swept Fort he had labored so hard to serve.
The soft charm, the peace of the Mission, which had been the outward and visible sign of her understanding of home all her years, settled once more, and with it fell the bitter, haunting memory of the tragedy of seven months ago.
The change in her wrought by the last seven months must have been heart-breaking to those who had not seen her since that dreadful night of tragedy.
The thoughts of both had drifted back over a space of seven months.
These seven gentes still exist, or did exist as late as 1880.
The Seven Tsiɔu fireplaces occupy the left or peace side of the circle.
When this occurred, the seven Hañʞa gentes were reckoned as five, and the seven Osage gentes as two, in order to have not more than seven gentes on the right side of the tribal circle.
The Seven Hañʞa fireplaces were the last to join the nation, according to the tradition of the Tsiɔu wactaʞe people.
The tribe is divided into seven phratries, or, as the Kansa style each, wayunmindan, (i.
He is up seven flights of stairs, in a hot room that smells of old clothes and neglected thoughts.
This morning a space forty-seven feet wide, where but yesterday all was joy and prosperity and beauty, is covered over with blackened ruins.
The following pages contain results of the author's work along the path thus opened up by Goethe and Rudolf Steiner - a work begun twenty-seven years ago, soon after he had made the acquaintance of Rudolf Steiner.
I'd get as close as I could, my boy, but I'd fire at six or seven hundred yards sooner than miss a shot.
Once more he threw open the breech and loaded--and fired, though by this time the bok were seven or eight hundred yards away.
It was nearly seven now, and Miss Perkins was due in half an hour.
The train and George went off soon after seven without any further excitement than the frantic barking of a dog, that had been left behind.
He returned in seven days, and in the midst of the plain there were three houses and a mill and many people.
Resisting the proposition to enter then and there into an elaborate calculation of the value of his time and the expenses of the trip, Renshaw found himself at seven o'clock on the San Rafael boat.
Romsey is sevenmiles Northwest of Southampton by the London and Southwest railway, but the 311th did not take the L.
After, what seemed like hours to the recruits lined-up, roll of the seven hundred was called, divisions made, and the first quota of Battery D was marched to 019.
Now, there we are; two hundred and fifty-seven dollars from four hundred.
Standing in the waist with bared heads, Hayes and most of the crew waited till the bodies of the sevenmurdered men were brought from aft, and laid side by side on the deck.
One boat, with chief mate and seven men, still a-missin'.
They drifted about all night, and about seven o'clock in the morning found themselves quite close to Elizabeth Reef.
Just before sunset on the following day a tug came alongside the Malolo, and by seven o'clock the beautiful vessel had gained an offing, and was heading eastward on her quest.
Then the beggars there would most likely give him seven years' detention for running away "while under sentence.
Two hundred and fifty-seven dollars,' said Tom, counting his pebbles.
My one brother, who was seven years older than me, also went to sea.
The hill no doubt owed its designation to the coke ovens at work upon it, and which had been in operation there for some six or seven years before Goethe's visit, i.
Go round and tell the hands to roll up in the shed at half-past seven to-night.
He served a sentence for horse-stealing of seven years; but he's wanted again, and there's a warrant out for him.
No less than—let me see, my mind’s so full of business, I have seven cases ready to come on.
If the measure of its girth would be interesting to the reader to know, it was just twenty-seven feet: not the largest in England certainly, notwithstanding which the tree was one of the grandest and most beautiful.
Take Aylesbury; well now, if a Judge went there once in seven years he’d find about every other assize enough work to last him till lunch.
These people were the last progeny of this illustrious Chichester, and numbered in all eleven—seven sons and four daughters—honourables all.
I once heard a counsel, who was prosecuting a man for passing bad money, interrupt a recorder in his summing up, and ask him to tell the jury there was evidence of seven bad florins having been found in the prisoner’s boot.
The old Market Town was aboutseven miles off, and the road lay through the most picturesque scenery of the county.
Tell him also that I shall be at home and alone on every evening during the week, from the hour of seven till the hour of ten.
From seven till ten on the two following nights, he paced his little saloon with a degree of anxiety which he had hardly ever felt before.
His countenance was florid, his eye was clear, and he appeared a hale healthy man, though looking six or seven years older than he really was.
Not I; The Danger's yet but in Imagination, I hope oneSeven Years more to save the Nation.
The figures on the chemist's bottles are the signs denoting the seven planets, which the alchemist formerly employed in common with the astrologer.
Twenty scholars in seven years might retrieve the worst losses we experience from the bigotry of popes and califs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seven" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
