seventy-fours

Here, our old sailors say, in their black seventy-fours great admirals sometimes sit at table, and lord it over rows of captains and lieutenants.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

The dusk was drawing in, shadowing the big seventy-fours that were the workhorses of the British fleet.

Sharpe's Prey Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2001

He required two seventy-fours and eight or ten frigates and sloops; but when he demanded this reinforcement, Admiral Hotham had left the command.

The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1993

Nelson sailed from Gibraltar on the 9th of May, with the VANGUARD, ORION, and ALEXANDER, seventy-fours; the CAROLINE, FLORA,

The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1993

The English ships were all seventy-fours; the French had three eighty-gun ships, and one three-decker of one hundred and twenty.

The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1993

Especially was he made uneasy by a report on September 2 of the arrival at Sandy Hook of six seventy-fours under Rear Admiral Hyde Parker.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

Especially was he made uneasy by a report on September 2 of the arrival at Sandy Hook of six seventy-fours under Rear Admiral Hyde Parker.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

Especially was he made uneasy by a report on September 2 of the arrival at Sandy Hook of six seventy-fours under Rear Admiral Hyde Parker.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

Especially was he made uneasy by a report on September 2 of the arrival at Sandy Hook of six seventy-fours under Rear Admiral Hyde Parker.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

But they would serve his purpose; in his scheme the frigates became three-deckers and the brigs seventy-fours and the schooners frigates.

Hornblower In The West Indies Forester, C. S. 1958