The shallowness of the river near Cairo obliged us to leave the xebec and get on board a djerm.
He had received a wound in the right hand, when on board the xebec 'Cerf'.
Every time one of her boats rowed past the xebec it would be challenged and ugly things said.
Decatur spoke as if he meant what he said, and the officers of the xebec did not want to lose their ears.
That big fellow has got twelve on a side, the polacre has eight, and the xebec six, so between them they have fifty-two guns.
The xebec and polacre are gaining on us, but we are going as fast through the water as the three master.
The small cannon of the xebec had been dismounted, but they hastily tied them with ropes.
The xebec was equipped immediately, and placed under the command of Mr. Powell, who greatly distinguished himself in her against the enemy.
We were, under a discharge of grape from our twelve-pound carronade and a volley of musketry, on the decks of the xebecin a twinkling!
That Margaret who in the Xebec played-- She spent upon his knee her baby life; Her slumbering head upon his breast she laid.
And thus rolled on long days, long months and years, And Margaret within the Xebec sailed; The lulling wind made music in her ears, And nothing to her life's completeness failed.
While it lasted, no boat could push out from the xebec without our perceiving it.
When she cast anchor at Barcelona, she straightway became the talk of the town, and her officers became the lions of the hour, vastly to the disgust of the Spaniards on the xebec lying in the same port.
The cruise of the "Essex" was uneventful, save for a dispute between the officers of the American man-of-war and a Spanish xebec in the roads of Barcelona.
On the Barbary coast the xebec rig was deemed to vary from the felucca, which in hull is the same, by having the fore-mast square-rigged.
Being generally equipped as a corsair, the xebecwas constructed with a narrow floor, for speed, and of great breadth, to enable her to carry a great press of sail.
Equivalent to our hermaphrodite, being a small Mediterranean vessel, between a xebec and a felucca.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "xebec" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
