ships

• The intercourse between Spain and Flanders was carried on solely in English ships, and the English flag covered the intercourse of Portugal with its colonies in Africa, India, and the Pacific. —  History of the English People, Volume V (of 8) Puritan England, 1603-1660
• One day, just as the ships were about to make sail, one of the San Salvador Indians on board the Nina_, plunging overboard, swam to a large canoe which had come near. —  Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold
• The circumstance of so many of my own men being in American ships, and their assertion that there were no other sailors than English at New York, induced me to enter very minutely into my investigation, of which the following are the results The United States, correctly speaking, have no common seamen, or seamen bred up as apprentices before the mast. —  Diary in America, Series One
• But if any one going, would call godlike Ajax, and king Idomeneus; for their ships are the farthest off,[343] and by no means near at hand. —  The Iliad of Homer (1873)
• From every officer that I have questioned I have received the same exact testimony: so long as the ships are at sea the men only grumble at the privation; but once they touch port, and boats' crews are permitted to go ashore, drunkenness breaks out with tenfold violence. —  Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General

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