Fleets

Examples

• Now the two great fleets closed in a titanic struggle far above the fiendish din of battle in the gorgeous gardens of the therns. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• We have great fleets in the Mediterranean, but they seldom touch at African ports. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Fleets and armies are maintained, not with gold and silver, but with consumable goods. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• His fleets also took Algiers, and inflicted a number of reverses upon the Venetians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The persons employed in the finances, fleets, and magistracy, are instances of this order of men. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The whaling fleets, long after gas came into use, were one of the greatest sources of our national wealth. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• 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.
• A signal legible to every sailor of all the fleets engaged in that fierce struggle was strung aloft upon the flagship. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• There could be little or no manoeuvering of fleets in that crowded, fire-split sky. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The sky was black with the three enormous fleets. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The labours of these three men have illuminated the wildest waters of the sea and preserved a thousand fleets of commerce and of war from awful shipwreck. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• We saw where Agamemnon's fleets rendezvoused, and away inland a mountain which the map said was Mount Ida. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• This supply was immediately cut off by enemy fleets. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Two green Martian communities had been wiped off the face of Barsoom by the avenging fleets, but no trace of Dejah Thoris had been found. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.

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