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Example sentences for "warship"

Lexicographically close words:
warriour; warriours; warrs; wars; warse; warships; warsle; warsled; warst; warstle
  1. What will your Warship be for ating, come after?

  2. What ood your Warship be for ating when a' boileth?

  3. Your Warship hath had the mooth aw to yosell.

  4. The guns of the warship were laid on the Arab quarter.

  5. Everywhere the news of the arrival of the British warship was hailed with delight.

  6. It was only after prolonged negotiations and a large sum of money that a French warship succeeded in obtaining the freedom of the captain of the Prosper Corue and a few other Frenchmen.

  7. The news of the Kanawha had come to the Admiral at Halifax, and he had dispatched the warship to cruise about the troubled coast.

  8. There was no sign of a warship about, all the implements of trade being hidden.

  9. The earliest and the latest in modern American warship building were presented to the eye.

  10. If there is one thing that impresses the civilian even more than the ceremonies or the peculiar routine of a warship it is the cleanliness of things.

  11. Perhaps a song sung by the Vermont's officers who were towed about the fleet at night in a sailing launch as they called on every warship best reveals the tone of the occasion.

  12. Having a warship escort the fleet through almost the entire length of its coast line, as Chile did, was unusual.

  13. You see fighting a warship is not a long distance race; it's a hundred yard dash, to change the figure.

  14. The luckless newspaper man who is a passenger on a warship does not escape.

  15. The ordinary civilian can scarcely appreciate what it means to a warship to get mail.

  16. Oh, yes, then you knew what a task, a dangerous task it was to brave the perils of Crooked Reach and you were glad you were on a warship with strength enough to scorn nature's effort to hurl it against the rocks.

  17. The result has been that one wonders how a warship ever managed to get along without the mess.

  18. It was popularly believed that one of these bombs striking upon a huge armorclad warship would utterly destroy it.

  19. This belief is that five hundred pounds or so of dynamite exploded upon a warship or upon coast fortifications would destroy ship or fortifications, and that a few of such large bombs of dynamite dropped in a city would lay the city in ruins.

  20. At five o'clock on the evening of November 8 the inhabitants, who were all officials connected with the cable and wireless stations there, noticed a strange warship approaching the island.

  21. The message was imperfect, but conveyed to the Melbourne the fact that an enemy warship was then off the island.

  22. A warship, and an American warship at that!

  23. The captain of the warship was true to his word, and before nightfall all who had been in the cave were safe on board of the Jefferson.

  24. They said they wouldn't give in to anybody, and when they learned the warship was here they rowed away in a boat for one of the other islands, They'll hide away until after you are gone.

  25. So, with this grudging permission, the work of building the warship that was destined to save the Federal navy was begun.

  26. True, in the minds of many officers and men on the American warship there was a lurking and indefinable sense of danger.

  27. Immediately after, the black prow of a warship appeared in the channel coming out at full speed.

  28. No; I am simply going to place him in a position of safety, so that he cannot harm us during the time the warship is in sight.

  29. If, as Browne had the best of reasons for supposing, the warship was in search of them, they would hunt the yacht from stem to stern, from truck to keelson, before they would be satisfied that the man they wanted was not on board.

  30. Supposing a German warship did make a dash while you are down below?

  31. She had been fired on at sight, owing possibly to the tramp signalling to the British warship that she was being chased by a German submarine.

  32. I'd land a strong force under cover of the warship guns, whip together a regular army of navvies and all the steam navvies I could lay my hands on.

  33. He vaguely wondered whether such precautions were necessary, with the Grand Fleet holding the North Sea and keeping every German warship skulking in harbour.

  34. The "Sunderland" was considerably the nearest warship to the descending airman.

  35. A warship was on the coast--so the tale ran; a big warship that was heading in through the reef islands at Langa-Langa.

  36. The warship was not stopping at Langa-Langa.

  37. A feeling of relief and rejoicing therefore passed through the country when this American warship arrived at Key West on the 26th of May, fit for immediate and efficient service.

  38. There its precious cargo was transferred to the warship Baltimore, which then made hurriedly for Hongkong.

  39. They might have got the best of us, but a warship visited the island just in the nick of time and rescued us.

  40. Before the warship left the island a search was made for Dan Baxter and for those who had mutinied with him.

  41. But as luck would have it, a United States warship hove into sight, and from that moment the boys and girls, and the friends, who had stuck to them through thick and thin, were safe.

  42. The Ogden, the Stockton and the Princeton, the First Naval Warship of its Kind.

  43. Princeton, the first naval screw warship built having propelling machinery under the water line and out of reach of shot.

  44. I saw him one time long ago when the warship was here.

  45. To be a pilot in the Isles of the Labyrinth demands many strong qualities, but to be the pilot of the only warship in this sea was the very summit of pilotry.

  46. You might not think it so fine if a Spanish warship should open fire on us.

  47. Harry leaned toward his companions impressively as he answered in an awed tone: "Say, fellows, she's a regular warship down below.

  48. It states that the unrest referred to had already been reported to the British Government, and a warship which left Portsmouth under sealed orders some months ago was instructed to proceed to the port last week.

  49. For what reason, think you, did we order a warship to Agdar and brave the whole wrath of Germany?

  50. Morro Castle and the battery opposite had heretofore been firing alone, but now came shots from Smith Cay, up the harbor, and from a Spanish warship which was bearing down upon the scene.

  51. A Board of Inquiry was appointed by the President, and it was soon settled that the explosion which had wrecked the warship had come from the outside and that Spain was responsible for the loss.

  52. The Iowa has just signalled that she has seen a big Spanish warship showing her nose around the harbor point!

  53. Then a rope ladder was thrown down, and the newcomers clambered aboard the warship that was to be their home for so long to come.

  54. Oh, life on a warship isn't all a picnic," was Si's comment.

  55. I understand a Spanish warship was sighted last night," put in another.

  56. Instantly every other warship present responded in a deafening crash and a shock to be heard many miles away.

  57. Caleb, as the Spanish warship turned southward down the coast, and the Polly spoke up as fiercely as at any time during the contest.

  58. Down in the bowels of the warship the furnaces were at a white heat, and the engineers had long since pushed their engines far past the danger point.

  59. The Iowa lay quite close, and during the day several messages were transmitted from one warship to the other by means of the wig-wag system.

  60. The watch on board of the warship was now more strict than ever, and the men slept at their guns, sometimes not seeing a hammock for several nights.

  61. Soon one of the batteries was completely silenced, and a cheer went up from the warship nearest to it.

  62. The New Orleans was a warship but recently purchased from the Brazilian government, and formerly known as the Amazonas.

  63. It was lucky for us the warship came up," put in a marine beside him.

  64. If the commander of the belligerent warship has reason to suspect that the confidence of the commander of the convoy has been abused, he communicates his suspicions to him.

  65. Until the 17th century the English term was "to waft" and the warship employed to guard the traders on their way was called "a wafter.

  66. Both sides now prepared to give battle, and closed forthwith in a fierce combat, the result of which was that King Halfdan fell with all his host; and Soerli took possession of the warship and everything on it that was of value.

  67. He had such a fine warship that for strength and excellence of every kind it had no equal in all the countries of the North.

  68. And indeed it is generally agreed that there never was a greater treasure of a warship than this in all the countries of the North, except the warships Ellithi and Gnoeth and the Long Serpent.

  69. When Hoegni returned home, he learnt that Hethin had sailed away with Hild and the warship Halfdanarnaut, leaving the dead body of the Queen in his tracks.

  70. Dragon, a common term for a large type of warship in the Viking Age.

  71. A splendid warship will land here, loaded with jewels," said the King.

  72. And when Soerli saw the warship his heart was consumed with a burning desire to possess it at all possible hazards.

  73. Then Hethin went down to the sea-shore, and now was the warship launched.

  74. A Turkish seaman on the fo'c'sle, gazing idly at the water, was the first of the crew of the warship to notice the impending danger.

  75. Carefully screened from observation, torpedo-tubes had been placed in position, so that a direct hit at any hostile warship attempting to force The Narrows was almost a certainty.

  76. In the summer of the year 1750, the British warship "Hound," Capt.

  77. The minute I heard this I set out in a hurry for home, in the hope of having time to pack the extra cases I have on board this schooner, and get them out of the way before the warship arrives.

  78. A warship coming up the coast," she panted.

  79. There is a possibility that the vessel may not be a warship after all, and another that she is not coming to this place.

  80. While they have fought over the case, I have made a sort of a living for the family by running the factory at odd times, when there was no warship at hand to prevent.

  81. While there I got private information that the suit had gone against us, and that the commander of the warship 'Comattus,' then in port, had received orders to destroy our factory during his annual cruise along the French shore.

  82. I only knew it was a warship because it was so much bigger than the 'Harlaw' and had tall masts.

  83. A warship overhauling a merchant vessel could easily take its crew and passengers on board for safe keeping as prescribed by international law; but a submarine ordinarily could do nothing of the sort.

  84. Then the crew of the exposed warship wait and wonder with a sickening cold fear in their hearts how soon the crash will come, and pray that the deadly submarine torpedo will miss its mark.


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