seafaring

How To Use seafaring In A Sentence

• It was, as far as he could tell, devoted entirely to seafaring novels, from Treasure Island to Peter Benchley. OFF THE CHART
• It is a form of ornamentation that mixes elements of Christianity with ropes, shells, and other aquatic imagery, reflecting the nation's seafaring past.
• Kochi, formerly called Cochin, is a former European settlement with a large Christian population and a seafaring heritage. India's Jews
• It resembled the brool of lions heard afar by seafaring men upon some savage shore on a still night. The Coming of Cuculain
• The whole house of Omer and Joram turned out to bid us good – bye; and there were so many seafaring volunteers in attendance on Steerforth, when our portmanteaux went to the coach, that if we had had the baggage of a regiment with us, we should hardly have wanted porters to carry it. David Copperfield
• He had sole jurisdiction in maritime and seafaring causes.
• By this it was provided that thereafter the captain of a cruiser who should impress an American citizen should be liable to heavy penalties, to be enacted by law; but as the preamble to this proposition read, "Whereas it is not lawful for a belligerent to impress or carry off, from on board a neutral, seafaring persons _who are not the subjects of the belligerent_," there was admitted implicitly the right to impress those who were such subjects, the precise point at issue. Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1
• Such a complaint I read of those isles of Cape Verde, fourteen degrees from the Equator, they do male audire: [1520] One calls them the unhealthiest clime of the world, for fluxes, fevers, frenzies, calentures, which commonly seize on seafaring men that touch at them, and all by reason of a hot distemperature of the air. Anatomy of Melancholy
• Erc taught him seafaring as well, for he had been a sea-bishop, taking the host to the outlying rocky hermitages, and knew the watery desert better than most.
• Howbeit he abode amid his beaked, seafaring ships in utter wrath against Agamemnon, Atreus' son, shepherd of the host.