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Thus, though we gird with fires the Grecian fleet,

The Iliad of Homer 2003
Some startled bird, with fluttering wings and fleet,

Collected Poems 2003
From Norfolk, for to take a cruise so handy, O! She did not think, she'd meet any thing in our fleet,

Monitor and Merrimac 2000
Eddington also unveiled the flag carrier of the Olympic fleet,

ANC Daily News Briefing 1997
To mark ould Nelson's victory o'er the French and Spanish fleet,

Nelson's Farewell 1997
January 1943, in an effort to minimize losses to his transport fleet,

Panzer Aces Kurowski, Franz 1992
Thy proud, dark eye will grow less proud, thy step become less fleet,

The Ontario Readers Third Book Ontario. Ministry of Education
Stately purposes, valour in battle, glorious annals of army and fleet,

The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum
It was soon explained, however, by the arrival of a ship's boat bringing an officer who delivered to the authorities a demand for the surrender of the fort and place to the American commander of the Pacific fleet,

History of California Helen Elliott Bandini
But a simple Breton sailor pressed by Tourville for the fleet,

Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys Various