Mariners

Examples

• A fleet of British and French ships gathered around the outlet of Chesapeake Bay, alert to capture the daring mariners and their ship, if possible. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In my first voyages, while I was young, I was instructed by the oldest mariners, and learned to speak as they did. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The master and mariners, knowing this offence, forfeit all their goods and chattels, and suffer three months imprisonment. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Prendergast threw us over a chart, told us that we were shipwrecked mariners whose ship had foundered in Lat. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• It is the Elysian fields of foam where rest the spirits of wearied mariners. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• We were then near the sign of the Three Mariners. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The music rises and whistles louder and louder; the mariners go across the stage staggering, as if the ship was in severe motion. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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