Vessels

Examples

• I saw vessels near the shore, and found myself suddenly transported back to the neighbourhood of civilized man. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Light cruisers are vessels of from 1,500 to 7,500 tons, used in scouting, as commerce destroyers, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The transports were all sailing vessels. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• For safety's sake, all oily cloths should be burned or kept in metal vessels. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• I flew thither and back, bringing the desired vessels. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• There was some delay in getting supplies ashore from vessels at anchor in the open roadstead. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The vessels came in, their officers entirely unconscious that they were falling into the hands of the Union forces. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Vessels of the Monitor type still form useful parts of the United States Navy, in which the Monterey and Monadnock are its most representative types. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Mulhall gives the steam horse power of the world in 1895, not including war vessels, as follows: Stationary. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The watchers upon the larger vessels see to all about them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The submarine next came into practical view during the American Civil War, when the Confederate government built several such vessels, known usually as Davids from their inventor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present in the port of London. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The unequalized internal pressure forces the blood to the surface of the body and causes rupture of blood vessels and other physical difficulties. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• These qualities render it peculiarly serviceable for the stopping of vessels of different kinds, for floats, buoys, swimming-belts or jackets, artificial limbs, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It is stated, that about the year 1787, experiments were made on the river Hull, by Furnace and Ashton, on the propulsion of vessels by steam power. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The rudder was of the pattern used on sailing-vessels, and was moved by a tiller. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• A patent was granted last year for a mode of coating earthenware vessels with copper or iron by electro-chemical deposition. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The earliest, most successful demonstrations of screw propellers and paddle wheels in steam vessels in the century were the construction and use of a boat with twin screws by Col. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• An old tin can or a sponge may serve to bale out water from a leaking rowboat, but such a crude device would be absurd if employed on our huge vessels of war and commerce. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Furthermore, the vessels were enabled to double their number of productive trips. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This image was the background of the eye, and its delicate blood vessels and tissues could thus be observed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• For words, theories, symbols, slogans, abstractions of all kinds are nothing but the porous vessels into which life flows, is contained for a time, and then passes through. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The gyroscope has been utilized to give steadiness to vessels in rough seas, and Sperry has made considerable progress in this country in applying it to give stability to an aeroplane. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• These fishes are reared by the Chinese in small ponds, in basins or porcelain vessels, and kept for ornament. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Such is the story of a pioneer enterprise, that of the use of submarine vessels as commerce carriers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Towing is not ordinarily required in any part of the canal, except in the locks, for steam or motor vessels. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Compasses are sometimes carried on masts in iron vessels as a means of removing them from the disturbing influence of the iron of the hull. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• General Sheridan has been ordered to send a division of troops to Baltimore and place them on sea-going vessels. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• By these improvements he succeeded in raising the speed of steam-vessels to thirteen miles an hour. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• At the battle of Myl? (260 B.C.) the Romans gained their first naval victory and captured or destroyed fifty vessels. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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