merchant-vessel

Those who escaped from the fortress first captured, getting into a merchant-vessel and some boats which were moored at

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

Demosthenes, who after helping to build the fort on the Laconian coast, had sailed away to Corcyra,34 on his way thither destroyed a merchant-vessel anchored at Phea in Elis, which was intended to convey some of the Corinthian hoplites to Sicily.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

Among the ships in the harbour, ready to take hadjy passengers on board, was a merchant-vessel lately arrived from

Travels in Arabia 2003

After this he embarked in a large merchant-vessel, and went floating over the sea to the south-west.

A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms 2003

Victor announced that he had been engaged on a merchant-vessel and that in two days he would take the steamer at Honfleur and join his sailer, which was going to start from Havre very soon.

A Simple Soul 2003

Not long after, a merchant-vessel arrived, which enabled him to gratify his wish.

The Early Middle Ages 500-1000 Robert Brentano 1964

The Athenian trireme which had been left far behind in the chase, made a sudden sweep round a merchant-vessel anchored at the mouth of the harbour, struck her pursuer amidships, and sank her.

Stories from Thucydides

They were upwards of a month at Fernando Po, whence they embarked, about ten days ago, in an English merchant-vessel bound to Rio Janeiro, on their way to

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 491, May 28, 1831 Various

I was scarcely surprised the next day at receiving a letter from my employers appointing me to a situation as supercargo of a merchant-vessel bound on a three-years 'voyage to America and

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various

In the autumn of 1831 he sailed in a merchant-vessel for Havre, whence he journeyed to Paris in November.

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston