trireme

• The central part of a trireme was always decked, and on this deck, which was generally level with the bulwarks, stood and fought the men-at-arms, whose business it was to engage the similar force of the enemy The weapon of the trireme, with which she was intended chiefly to attack her foe, was the beak. —  The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 5. (of 7): Persia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.
• The long swells of the open sea caught the trireme, and she rode gallantly over them--while the music still played, and her hardy crew, pirates no longer, but pardoned men,--seamen, employees of the honest merchant Demetrius,--sent the good ship bounding faster and faster, as they pressed their strength against the springing oars. —  A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.
• And before it had gone he set up as an offering to Apollo of Actium a trireme, a four-banked ship, and so on up to one of ten banks, from the captive vessels; and he built a larger temple. —  Dio's Rome, Volume 3 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus
• Our trireme was at once turned round, but in our hurry to regain the harbor we stuck fast on a sand bank; the boats were at once put out to save the passengers and Cynegius, the consul Cynegius--on his way here!" —  Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
• The wind was helping them on the water, too, and along came one brown leaf that was shaped like a tiny trireme--its stem acting like a rudder and keeping it straight before the breeze--so that it swept past the rest as a yacht that she was once on had swept past a fleet of fishing sloops. —  The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

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