xebecs

• “At twilight, just before the gates were shut, we entered the little town of Os. It was here that the stream we had followed emptied into Gyoll, and here there were xebecs, carracks, and feluccas tied up along the riverfront.”

  The Urth of the New Sun

• “Mediterranean, -- xebecs, feluccas, speronaras, or however they may be termed, -- with here and there a brigantine which had come from beyond the”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867

• “The sea was smooth, the sky unclouded, but a gentle breeze deliciously tempered the heat, and vessels of every description — square-rigged ships, and coasting feluccas and xebecs — on their different courses, gave life to the scene.”

  Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.

• “Then, one morning, I woke up to find the lugger at anchor in one of the ports of Northern Spain, with dawn just breaking over the olive-trees, and one or two large, queer-looking, lateen-rigged boats, xebecs from”

  Jim Davis

• “Strange, indeed," replied Lieutenant Procope; "and what appears to me almost as remarkable is that we have never once caught sight either of one of the Maltese tartans or one of the Levantine xebecs that traffic so regularly on the Mediterranean.”

  Off on a Comet

• “The two xebecs against the jetty had suddenly cast off, and were working their way out of the harbour under sweeps.”

  Mr. Midshipman Easy

• “A number of swarthy Moors appeared on the decks of the xebecs and gazed down at them, and one or two shouted remarks to them.”

  Mr. Midshipman Easy

• “It consisted of two seventy-fours, two frigates, five xebecs, and a number of galleys and small armed vessels.”

  Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83)

• “On the 11th a great convoy, of about sixty sail -- protected by five xebecs, of from twenty to thirty guns each -- came along.”

  Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83)

• “Two Spanish ships of the line, a frigate, two xebecs, and twenty-one small craft set out to intercept her.”

  Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83)

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