Even therewith the shipmen cast abroad a banner, whereon was done in a green field a grim wolf ramping up against a maiden, and so went the ship upon her way.
Upon the white floor of snow all the shipmen of Shoreby came clustering in an inky mass, and tailing out rearward in isolated clumps.
And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
Straightway they went aboard: the shipmen cast The hawsers loose, and heaved the anchor-stones, The strength and stay of ships in time of need.
Then shivered the shields; the shipmen advanced, Raving with rage; they ran their spears Through their fated foes.
And when the trumpet sang they stretched themselves upon the hills, shipmen within their tents.
And the prince of shipmen knew that comfort was at hand, and a requital of their toilsome voyage.
But when the cloud-barred east brought back the day, And turned the western mountain-tops to gold, Fresh fear the shipmen in their bark did hold.
In this sort the perils of shipmen are not over even when they reach the shore, and are advancing to tread upon what seemeth like terra firma.
But tell theshipmen not to hurt a hair of their heads.
The envoy from the Camp of Refuge was allowed to speak at great length before the council, and the shipmen of Lynn were more privately examined touching the present situation of affairs in the fen country.
But now the rowers ceased rowing and lay on their oars, and the shipmen cast anchor; for they were but a bowshot from the shore, and the ship swung with the tide and lay side-long to the shore.
Said the Sea-eagle: "Why now do the shipmen tarry and have not made ready the skiff?
But the shipmen rowed back again to their ship, and presently Hallblithe heard the hale and how, as they got up their anchor.
As need arose the shipmen drew upon the cords and bowlines, or let the canvas fall upon the deck, that the vessel might be the less beaten of the waves.
Here the shipmen raised the mast, and bent the sail.
So long as Mordred kept the shipmen from the sand, he wrought them much mischief.
But after the fourteenth night was come, as we were sailing in Adria, about midnight, the shipmen deemed that they discovered some country.
But as the shipmen sought to fly out of the ship, having let down the boat into the sea, under colour, as though they would have cast anchors out of the forepart of the ship, 27:31.
The foe they crushed, the Scottish people and the shipmen fated fell.
In this wise was formed our Alma Mater, the ancient guild of shipmen and mariners of England.
The authorities were unwilling to expose their men to a danger that could not be evaded, however gallant the shipmen or skilled their seamanship.
No less ironic is the account of the shipmen and pilgrymes With scrippes bret-ful of lesinges Entremedled with tydinges,[110] whom the poet meets in the house of Rumour.
Shipmen and pilgrims, pardoners and messengers, crowd into the house with boxes crammed with marvellous stories.
And if shipmen go but a little way into it they are carried rapidly downward, and never return again.
It then came to my mind that this was the current I had read of which ran into the earth, and along which shipmen had been carried, never to be heard of again.
Sir Piers ordered his troops ashore, leaving but a few shipmen to watch the galleys.
So, when the five galleys with their armed shipmen were driven ashore, Sir Piers de Currie and the men of Bute rushed down from the heights and attacked the stranded vessels.
Also, they got all their shipmen and fishers, farm workers and shepherds, to build up the devastated cottages and farmsteads, and one by one these dwellings again received their wonted inmates.
In that bay there was a ship, and the shipmen were unloading her of a cargo of English salt and other commodities of the far south.
And if it so be that you get drowsy, why, sing yourself a song as do the shipmen in their night watches.
Brihtric left the rest to their own devices, and the shipmen brought them back into the Thames.
The shipmen fought well, and were all slain--sixty ships' crews.
Upon the white floor of snow, all the shipmen of Shoreby came clustering in an inky mass, and tailing out rearward in isolated clumps.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shipmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
