A great deal of damage was done, but fortunately the ships were so close to the shore that their shot passed over the housetops, otherwise the whole of Antwerp might have been destroyed.
The English fleet anchored off the coast between Blankenberghe and Heyst on the evening of June 23, and from the top of the dunes the English scouts saw in the distance the masts of the French ships in the Zwijn.
The famous archers of England, who six years later were to do such execution at Crecy, lined the bulwarks, and poured in a tempest of arrows so thick that men fell from the tops of the French ships like leaves before a storm.
The forts and ramparts were armed with nearly 300 heavy guns, and in the Scheldt, close to the town, were nine ships of war.
Surely it was not greed which sent our men and ships to Cuba.
For this reason, or because there were at that time many ships in the river, it happened that none in authority noted her return, or if they did, neglected to report the matter as one of no moment.
Peter, I tell you now, lest I should forget it, that the list of all my moneys and other possessions in chattels or lands or ships or merchandise is buried beneath the floor of my office, just under where my chair stands.
Then the wind dropped altogether, and there the two ships lay.
The relevant portion of Madox's account is as follows: In shipsland wh is ye back syde of Labradore and as Mr. Haul [Christopher Hall] supposeth nye thereunto Syr Frances Drake graved and bremd his ship at 48 degrees to ye north.
Richard Madox refers to the California anchorage as "Ships Land," perhaps the name given to the place by the sailors themselves.
They drew near the ships and were given food and beads, with which they went away without fear.
All thy trees mayhap are fruitless; All thy hopes be ships afar, All thy plans mayhap are bootless,-- Still thou hast the eastern star.
We perceived, through the mists of history, phantoms and huge ships laden with riches and spiritual things.
So the coolie ships continue to arrive at Durban, and Natal becomes more and more a land of black and brown people and less a land of white people.
And they stared at the great ships that came rocking in from distant ports, their sides gray with the salt from the big combers which they had battled with.
The coast fisheries might afford a few seamen, but very few; certainly not the number of men required to man her ships of war.
There is also a navy-yard at Pensacola in Florida, which is merely used for repairingships on the West India station.
During my occasional residence at New York, I was surprised to find myself so constantly called upon by English seamen, who had served under me in the different ships I had commanded since the peace.
Blazing fire-ships have passed us, lighting up the midnight river until its ripples seemed of flame.
Since here our traveller saw the sea, He thought these shells the ships must be.
Wait, for the time is Spring and in the trees The early wind his everlasting song Sings low; and in the bay Silent in morning calm the little ships, Ships of a thousand fishers, ride the sea.
Our ships lay by the shore, where night and day The sea-gulls cried and salt waves washed on our sleeves.
At a little distance the shipsof Austria and Russia rested side by side, and between the vessels the bustling little ferry-boats were churning up the blue water.
Thus the British Navy is really national because it is natural; it has cohered out of hundreds of accidental adventures of ships and shipmen before Chaucer's time and after it.
You could not have even Danish pirates without ships, orships without seamanship.
One or other of the native poems describing the first arrival of European ships may refer to this voyage.
Shortly after the shipwreck the visits of ships became frequent, from India, America, and Australia.
If it be true that dysentery, colds and coughs were unknown until foreign ships visited the islands, their opinion that these diseases were imported by Europeans would have a strong probability to support it.
The almost annual visit of ships of war about this time had impressed Thakombau with the importance of doing nothing that would give any excuse for foreign intervention.
The opinion there is universal that they have had tenfold more diseases and death since they had intercourse with ships than they had before.
To those who may contend that tropical dysentery is a malarial disease, and therefore unlikely to be conveyed across the wide stretch of ocean which ships must traverse to reach these islands, the case of Mauritius may be cited.
Twas a bold act then--the English war-ships had just arrived, We could watch down the lower bay where they lay at anchor, And the transports swarming with soldiers.
The sailors strove like demons at the sweeps, but almost imperceptibly the gap betwixt them and the war-ships was narrowing.
The next instant the two ships were drifting without steerage-way.
So for a while, till out of the confusion of ships and wrecks came darting a trireme, loftier than her peers.
That the Egyptian ships would be swung at once across the strait to cut off all flight by the Hellenes.
Ulysses left the main body of his ships at anchor, and with one vessel went to the Cyclopes' island to explore for supplies.
A terrible storm ensued, and the Trojan ships were driven out of their course towards the coast of Africa.
The rest of the Greeks then betook themselves to their ships and sailed away, as if for a final departure.
As they passed the ships of Achilles, that hero, looking over the battle, saw the chariot of Nestor, and recognized the old chief, but could not discern who the wounded warrior was.
Homer's description of theships of the Phaeacians has been thought to look like an anticipation of the wonders of modern steam navigation.
The goddess in retribution visited the army with pestilence and produced a calm which prevented the ships from leaving the port.
They pretended to be making preparations to abandon the siege; and a number of the ships were withdrawn and concealed behind a neighboring island.
The sea is a path meet for swift ships that traverse the brine, but bulls dread the salt sea ways.
Under his guidance the ships at last reached the shores of Italy, and joyfully the adventurers leaped to land.
After his servitude under Omphale was ended, Hercules sailed with eighteen ships against Troy.
As soon as the Laestrygonians found the ships completely in their power, they attacked them, heaving huge stones which broke and overturned them, while with their spears they dispatched the seamen as they struggled in the water.
The bells were ringing, the ships in the harbour were decorated with flags.
Since the United States was denying clearance to ships with such cargoes destined to either faction to the controversy to the south, it was necessary that all the facts be ascertained.
The ships of those pigs of Americans were blockading Vera Cruz.
Gard might communicate with its ships by means of the confederate cipher and that the keyword, rather strangely, was "Russian whiskers.
It was in this way that Special Agent Gard got an opportunity to go most carefully over the docks, through the warehouses, into the ships of the Continental Refining Company.
The ships of the sea, were thy chief in thy merchandise: and thou wast replenished, and glorified exceedingly in the heart of the sea.
The ancients of Gebal, and the wise men thereof furnished mariners for the service of thy various furniture: all the ships of the sea, and their mariners were thy factors.
Now shall the ships be astonished in the day of thy terror: and the islands in the sea shall be troubled because no one cometh out of thee.
In that day shall messengers go forth from my face in ships to destroy the confidence of Ethiopia, and there shall be dread among them in the day of Egypt: because it shall certainly come.
The tombs are set in soil brought in ships from the Holy Land ages ago.
It is said that the city once numbered a population of four hundred thousand; but her sceptre has passed from her grasp, now, her ships and her armies are gone, her commerce is dead.
The big ships lying at anchor made her heart beat fast with their clean beauty and romance; the bare, clean roofs running along for perhaps fifty houses gave her a breath of freedom that brought back Lashnagar and Ben Grief.
And there was no glamour at all--except, perhaps, in the ships that lay at anchor and the barges that glided by; they were glamorous enough with their aura of far lands and strange merchandise.
Through the two big windows she could see the ships in the harbour with rows of shining portholes: ferries were fussing to and fro like fiery water beetles.
She had seen ships pass in the darkness at home, out on the horizon, a glimmering blur of light.
She likes to think hers is 'the face that launched a thousand ships and fired the topless towers of Ilium.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ships" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: argosy; fleet; flotilla; line; navy; shipping; tonnage
