Frobishers

Betweene the which two Islands there is a large entrance or streight, called Frobishers streight, [53] after the name of our

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584

Our Generall prooued landing here twice, but by the suddaine fall of mistes (whereunto this coast is much subiect) he was like to loose sight of his ships, and being greatly endangered with the driuing yce alongst the coast, was forced aboord and faine to surcease his pretence till a better opportunitie might serue: and hauing spent foure dayes and nights sayling alongst this land, finding the coast subiect to such bitter colde and continuall mistes he determined to spend no more time therein, but to beare out his course towards the streights called Frobishers streights after the Generals name, who being the first that euer passed beyond 58 degrees to the Northwardes, for any thing that hath beene yet knowen of certaintie of New found land, otherwise called the continent or firme land of America, discouered the saide straights this last yere 1576.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584

Cavendishes, Hawkinses and Frobishers, who had dared to violate that hidden sanctuary of just half the globe, which the pope had bestowed on the defender of the true faith, — a shameful ruin,

Westward Ho! 2007

Frobishers, the stile from which he had watched the Frobisher bedroom.

Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004

Certainly the stranger who sat under the gallery last Sunday next the Frobishers.

Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004

The Frobishers were not at church for either service.

Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004

But in the evening, on the way to church, the Frobishers and their guest crossed the market-square as his string of boys marched along the west side.

Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004

He was the son of an Irish medicus, by a Somersetshire lady in whose veins ran the rover blood of the Frobishers, which may account for a certain wildness that had early manifested itself in his disposition.

Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini 1912

He went up the stone steps out of the lane to the stile that overlooked the Frobishers, the stile from which he had watched the Frobisher bedroom.

Love and Mr. Lewisham 1906

"About this girl that's been staying at the Frobishers?"

Love and Mr. Lewisham 1906