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Example sentences for "shipwright"

Lexicographically close words:
shipshape; shipt; shipwreck; shipwrecked; shipwrecks; shipwrights; shipyard; shipyards; shire; shires
  1. I have said enough to prove that the shipwright of the olden time had to exercise more individuality and skill than is necessary to-day.

  2. The old shipwright with his black wooden toolbox slung over his shoulder, or plying his adze or the caulking iron, is a type of a British artisan unhappily now becoming extinct.

  3. It was long before the old shipwright made up his mind to consent to match his daughter so unequally.

  4. They were also introduced into Russia by Peter the Great, who had obtained their model while working as a common shipwright in Holland.

  5. His father was a shipwright in the North End of Boston, and one of Thomas's brothers, Newman Greenough, became a sailmaker.

  6. On the 17th the vessel built by the shipwright Hatherleigh at Dusky Bay arrived, with some of the people left behind by Mr. Bampton.

  7. Appointed Master Shipwright at Portsmouth in June, 1660, and transferred to Chatham in the same capacity in the following month.

  8. And in September Phineas Pett, Assistant-Master Shipwright at Chatham, was suspended from office on the accusation of having, when a child, spoken contemptuously of the King!

  9. In 1668 Deane had held the office of shipwright at Portsmouth, and afterwards he was appointed a Commissioner of the Navy.

  10. In 1583, Peter Pett, then Master Shipwright at Deptford, obtained a grant of arms from Herald's College.

  11. Mathew Baker our servant and ancientest Master Shipwright to be the first Master .

  12. I bought the boy off with sweets, and told the shipwright what I thought about him and his promises, while he scratched his head like an Oriental tranquilly contemplating the decrees of destiny.

  13. At last I presented the shipwright with an ultimatum, to which he replied by putting a wheelwright on to my work, and a worse workman in a ship I never came across.

  14. Being so large and heavy," the shipwright said, "she will be difficult to launch.

  15. This would be useless to you," the shipwright said, laying the second drawing aside.

  16. The shipwright at once set to work to draw out his plans, and a week later sent to Edmund a messenger with an account of the quantity and size of wood he should require.

  17. In the same year the King visited Woolwich to witness the launching of the Vanguard, which Pett had built; and his Majesty honoured the shipwright by participating in a banquet at his lodgings.

  18. There was a shipwright as came down to look at her, and he asked me what we was going to do.

  19. A shipwright testifies "to his frequent acknowledgment of what others, not so high as himself, tried to do.

  20. You enlist him as one of your companions and a shipwright should be a very useful member of your crew.

  21. Pitt stared at him, and the shipwright poured out his dismal news in a dismal tone.

  22. In March, he wrote that the new shipwright was offended because he had been given corn pone instead of English bread for breakfast.

  23. However, he reported later that the shipwright had returned.

  24. In reply, a letter from the Company, in August, gave the encouraging news, that in the spring, the Company would send an excellent shipwright with thirty or forty carpenters.

  25. Byrd acquired a new shipwright who came from England on the ship Betty in 1711.

  26. After finishing the fort, "the carpenter framed a pretty pinnace of about thirty tons which they called Virginia, the shipwright being one Digby of London.

  27. If she marry the shipwright she will now do it with her eyes open.

  28. But no doubt she has married the shipwright by this time.

  29. As regards possessory liens, the shipwright takes the ship as she stands, i.

  30. It was not an easy matter, as Deane replied to a flattering overture by pointing out that his ordinary business as a shipwright was bringing in to him 'more than double the benefit .

  31. But the rich merchant still dwelt in the humble, almost mean, cottage, and still wrought as an engineer and shipwright with his own hands.

  32. They were the more amazed at this when they considered that the shipwright work must necessarily be a mere driblet, altogether unworthy the attention of one so wealthy.

  33. An ark there is, moreover, which was builded in Rye by a shipwright out of battens and good gummed canvas.

  34. The Master Attendant of the Yard and the Master Shipwright to instruct in Seamanship and Ship Construction, and a Gunner of the Royal Marine Artillery in Small Arm Exercise, etc.

  35. On another afternoon the master shipwright is to instruct them in ship construction, etc.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shipwright" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.