merchant-ship

An only child, Mr. Tsakalis lost his father at a young age and was brought up by his mother and his uncle, a merchant-ship captain who sailed the globe.

Three Deaths Shifted Course of Greek Crisis Marcus Walker 2010

Ha! ha! full of wine and merry with a feast's good cheer am I, my hold freighted like a merchant-ship up to my belly's very top.

The Cyclops 2008

Ha! ha! full of wine and merry with a feast's good cheer am I, my hold freighted like a merchant-ship up to my belly's very top.

The Cyclops 2008

By this allegory then I suppose Ulysses to have been the captain of a merchant-ship, and Circe some good ale-wife, who made his crew drunk with the spirituous liquors of those days.

The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon 2004

But, for Britain, there were ominous signs: new merchant-ship tonnage launched, amounting to 416,000 tons for the last quarter of 1914, fell in the first quarter of 1915 to 267,000 tons and in the last two quarters of that year to 148,000 tons and 146,000 tons respectively.

Castles of Steel Massie, Robert K., 1929- 2003

The news that the German government was conniving to slice off and give away pieces of the United States enraged the American public and in a surge of patriotic emotion the armed merchant-ship bill passed the House, 403 – 13.

Castles of Steel Massie, Robert K., 1929- 2003

Shortly afterwards Captain Ross, who had before visited these islands in his merchant-ship, arrived from England, bringing with him his family and goods for settlement: along with him came Mr. Liesk, who had been a mate in his vessel.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

As he was rowing up and down near the shore, he chanced to spy a large merchant-ship, lying off, just ready to set sail; the master of which was a Roman citizen, named Peticius, who, though he was not familiarly acquainted with

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Shortly afterwards Captain Ross, who had before visited these islands in his merchant-ship, arrived from England, bringing with him his family and goods for settlement: along with him came Mr. Liesk, who had been a mate in his vessel.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

For though the harpooneers, with the great body of the crew, were a far more barbaric, heathenish, and motley set than any of the tame merchant-ship companies which my previous experiences had made me acquainted with, still I ascribed this — and rightly ascribed it — to the fierce uniqueness of the very nature of that wild Scandinavian vocation in which I had so abandonedly embarked.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002