When the first voyagers were disappointed in not finding gold mines, they turned their attention to brazil-wood.
The early voyagers related the wonder and admiration which they felt.
Spenser makes thevoyagers his warrant for his excursion into fairyland.
But the ferment worked outside the actual doings of the voyagers themselves, and it can be traced beyond definite allusions to them.
Cabot and the English voyagers reached Newfoundland and Labrador; the French made their way up the St. Lawrence.
This bond between literature and action explains more than the writings of the voyagers or the pamphlets of men who lived in London by what they could make of their fellows.
It is in the drama that this spirit of adventure caught from the voyagers gets its full play.
VII The sun rose and Telemachus and his fellow-voyagers drew near to the shore of Pylos and to the steep citadel built by Neleus, the father of Nestor, the famous King.
The voyagers brought their ship to the shore and Telemachus sprang from it.
X His ship and his fellow-voyagers waited at Pylos but for a while longer Telemachus bided in Sparta, for he would fain hear from Menelaus and from Helen the tale of Troy.
The detective shoved the boat off, and both of the voyagers took the oars to get the craft clear of the ship, which was accomplished in a few minutes.
When she came alongside the steamer, the accommodation ladder was rigged out, several seamen came on board, and the voyagers hastened to the deck of the ship.
Neither of the voyagers had any doubt that the dark mass ahead was the Chateaugay, and the skipper headed the boat for her.
You and I both have grown a great deal in the last two years, since we first met on this very wharf; but I am Percy Pierson, and you and I were fellow-voyagers in the Bellevite.
The voyagerswatched him make a protesting kick at the leg of the crowd, the while uttering angry groans.
A V-shaped flock of ducks flew towards Barnegat, between the voyagersand a remnant of yellow sky.
Night menaced the voyagerswith a dangerous darkness, and fear came to bind their souls together.
The spray, when it dashed uproariously over the side, made the voyagers shrink and swear like men who were being branded.
When he perceived the voyagers he began to fling his fists about in the air.
The voyagers cringed at magnified foam on distant wave crests.
Here they found a small village of Senecas, attracted hither by the fisheries, who gazed with curious eyes at the vessel, and listened in wonder as the voyagers sang Te Deum, in gratitude for their safe arrival.
Guns, baggage, and provisions were lost; and the threevoyagers returned to the Miamis, subsisting on acorns by the way.
The voyagers thought themselves happy when they gained at last the shelter of a little sandy cove, where they dragged up their canoes, and made their cheerless bivouac in the drenched and dripping forest.
After this they began to shake the copper chain, and the tinkling of the silver bells was so soft and melodious that the voyagers gradually fell into a gentle, tranquil sleep, and slept so till next morning.
And, in short, the voyagers saw that all the animals in the island kept worrying and tearing each other from time to time in this manner; so that the ground was covered far and wide with the blood that streamed from their sides.
The voyagers abode on the island, much against their will, for nine months longer.
When the voyagers landed, one of the maidens came to meet them, and leading them forward to a house, gave them food.
The voyagers saw a venerable grey-headed old man with a harp in his hand.
And after this the voyagers sailed away from the island, leaving Maildun's second foster brother behind.
The voyagerscast lots who should go to examine the island; and the lot fell upon Maildun's third foster brother.
But none the less did the men bend to their oars, and the curragh sailed away; and it was in this manner that the voyagers made their escape from the island.
The voyagers heard also their cheerful, festive songs; and they marvelled greatly, and their hearts were full of gladness at all the happiness they saw and heard.
The voyagers landed, and went through the whole house without meeting any one.
The voyagers now observed several of them approach one of the trees in a body, and striking the trunk all together with their hind legs, they shook down some of the apples and ate them.
Then the voyagers gathered the largest of the salmon, till they had as much as the curragh would hold; after which they sailed out into the great sea.
One of them struck Maildun's shield and went quite through it, lodging in the keel of the curragh; after which the voyagers got beyond his range and sailed away.
We were advised to try a birch-bark canoe, and hire a couple of French voyagers to row it.
Most of the voyagerswere peasants; one or two were travellers going to the fiesta; one was dressed in soldier's uniform, but he seemed to be neither officer nor private.
Our musical instrument caused some attention and our fellow voyagers smiled at us with sympathy and kindness.
The captain of the whale ship very kindly took the young voyagers to his own house until their affairs were settled up.
The wind was tolerably fresh after the boats passed the reef, and in two hours they were near enough to a large island to enable the young voyagers to see the objects on the shore.
Then one day Congress spoke definitely, and the next morning North River ferry voyagers saw lying off the German docks a torpedo-boat destroyer flying the American flag.
It was in vain, that I remonstrated, begged, or threatened: the occasional drowsiness of my fellow-voyagers proved incurable.
Then shall we list to no shallow gossip of Magellans and Drakes; but give ear to the voyagers who have circumnavigated the Ecliptic; who rounded the Polar Star as Cape Horn.
Within several paces of the beach, our canoes keeled the bottom, and camel-like mutely hinted that we voyagers must dismount.
A wonderful recital; but none of us voyagers durst flout it.
What the first and subsequent voyagers found was a people of stalwart frame, strong and lithe of limb, with head and features, and especially the fairness of the skin, suggestive of Caucasian origin.
Snatching up their weapons and food the two voyagers quickly waded to the bank and hid behind a clump of trees.
In a few moments the two voyagers saw that they were being driven right toward the surf which thundered on the sandy beach.
The forests on each side of the river became thinner and thinner, and by the time the sun was sinking below the trees, the raft had come to the mouth of the river, and the voyagers saw before them the wide curving surface of the ocean.
In good time the supper was pronounced ready, Eli having assisted in its preparation; for, with nine hungry voyagers to feed, the amount that had to be prepared made the task no light one.
Finally, when the half hour had about arrived at its conclusion, Eli gave the tired voyagers a pleasant shock by suddenly calling out: "Land here!
Here all the west-bound voyagers felt that their journey to the Pacific was well-nigh completed, though as a matter of fact it was not yet half done.
By the aid of the simple forces of nature, early voyagers reached the American Continent.
A name used by the early voyagers for the manatee.
A well-known Eastern word, meaning a party with camels travelling or sojourning; but it was also applied by our early voyagers to convoys of merchant ships.
A name formerly applied by voyagers to Indians and negroes.
But with our old voyagers mariners were able seamen, and sailors only ordinary seamen.
The name was also given by some of the early voyagers to a large trading-boat of the Philippines and Moluccas.
A name applied by the French to a Quaker or wooden gun on board ship; but it was adopted by our early voyagers as also expressing a movable piece of ordnance.
The early voyagers applied the name to some large barks of India, which were probably grabs.
A phrase among the early voyagers for square-rigged vessels having top-masts.
She was like yonder sailboat, which floats conspicuous by night amid the path of moonbeams, and which yet seems to its own voyagers to be remote and unseen upon a waste of waves.
All agreed to this axiom; but as there was so strong a probability that the voyagers had reached the light-ship, there seemed less cause for fear.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "voyagers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
