Fireship

Few who have sailed the Gulf as I have, but have seen the Fireship which haunts these waters, and more than once I have steered to avoid an approaching light, and after changing my course nearly eight pints, found the spectre light still dead ahead.

Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

Lyde went on to express a hope that some day a 'Man-of-War or Fireship' will try to avenge 'the Death of those four hundred men that died in the same Prison of Dinan.'

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

Much of it is taken up with enthusiastic description of Mr. Smith's favorite horses and hounds, of the astonishing qualities of Rory O'More, of the splendid runs made by Fireship and Lightboat, of the notable improvement made in the Suffolk pack by Mr. Smith's judicious system of crossing.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Various

The Fireship is old France, the old French Form of Life; her creed a

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

But indeed that similitude of the Fireship; of our poor French brethren, so fiery themselves, working also in an element of fire, was not insignificant.

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

So soon as History can philosophically delineate the conflagration of a kindled Fireship, she may try this other task.

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

Their Fireship and they, frightening the world, have sailed away; its flames and its thunders quite away, into the Deep of Time.

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

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