Navies
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Definition
(pl. ) of Navvy
(pl. ) of Navy
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Examples
- You will think more highly of your genus when you have seen its armies and navies, its great cities, and its mighty engineering works. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Pisa was a republic in the middle ages, with a government of her own, armies and navies of her own and a great commerce. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- To-day her piers are deserted, her warehouses are empty, her merchant fleets are vanished, her armies and her navies are but memories. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Of old navies used to stem the giant ocean-waves betwixt Indus and the Pole for slight articles of luxury. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The wooden walls of the navies disappeared as a defence after the conflict between the Monitor and the Merrimac, and muzzle-loading muskets became things of the past. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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