How To Use Seafaring In A Sentence
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It was, as far as he could tell, devoted entirely to seafaring novels, from Treasure Island to Peter Benchley.
OFF THE CHART
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It is a form of ornamentation that mixes elements of Christianity with ropes, shells, and other aquatic imagery, reflecting the nation's seafaring past.
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Kochi, formerly called Cochin, is a former European settlement with a large Christian population and a seafaring heritage.
India's Jews
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It resembled the brool of lions heard afar by seafaring men upon some savage shore on a still night.
The Coming of Cuculain
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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
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He had sole jurisdiction in maritime and seafaring causes.
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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
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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
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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.
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Howbeit he abode amid his beaked, seafaring ships in utter wrath against Agamemnon, Atreus' son, shepherd of the host.
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The girls spin on; a kind of forewoman, Mary, upbraids Senta with idling and staring at the picture and dreaming away her life ” for the girl is quite open about her sympathy with the accursed seafaring man.
Richard Wagner
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That's fine by me: the saltier my seafaring, the better.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fact that they never developed any seafaring tradition may be a significant factor.
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The Cleveland captains declined his services in such vigorous seafaring language (not unmixed with many unnecessary oaths), that he was glad enough to give up the idea of sailoring, and take a place as driver of a canal boat from Cleveland to Pittsburg in Pennsylvania, the boat being under the charge of one of his own cousins.
Biographies of Working Men
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He returned home to a hero's welcome and fleeting celebrity in the best Orcadian seafaring tradition.
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It was, as far as he could tell, devoted entirely to seafaring novels, from Treasure Island to Peter Benchley.
OFF THE CHART
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It's the jolly times on shore that appeal to me, as much as any seafaring.
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In Kerala, where Islam came through traders, travelers and missionaries, rather than by the sword, the Zamorin of Calicut was so impressed by the seafaring skills of this community that he issued a decree obliging each fisherman's family to bring up one son as a Muslim to man his all-Muslim navy!
Shashi Tharoor: Indian Strategic Power: Soft
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Make sure you visit the maritime museum if you're interested in anything to do with ships or seafaring.
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Make sure you visit the maritime museum if you're interested in anything to do with ships or seafaring.
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He became the slave of old Fanfoa, head chief over a score of scattered bush-villages on the range-lips of Malaita, the smoke of which, on calm mornings, is about the only evidence the seafaring white men have of the teeming interior population.
MAUKI
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The British crown possessed an ancient right to seize for naval service ‘seamen, seafaring men and persons whose occupations or callings are to work upon vessels and boats upon rivers’.
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Much of the music has a seafaring tone to it, with a touch of the heroic, swashbuckling fare you would find from a pirate movie.
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From ancient biremes to gigantic aircraft carriers, from mighty steamers to futuristic submarines, this book is filled with the wonders of seafaring vessels past and present.
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Their venture is an evolution of an industry that is part of a seafaring nation 's history and culture.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even in wartime, seafaring families of the nineteenth century lived in a world apart.
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While on board, the young people will learn about sailing and seafaring and develop their own team working and interpersonal skills.
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Cleveland captains declined his services in such vigorous seafaring language (not unmixed with many unnecessary oaths), that he was glad enough to give up the idea of sailoring, and take a place as driver of a canal boat from Cleveland to Pittsburg in Pennsylvania, the boat being under the charge of one of his own cousins.
Biographies of Working Men
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A flagpole with a yardarm, which is styled after a ship's mast, displays more of Bill's flags; visible from the street, these bolts of color pay tribute to the town's seafaring history and a nearby Coast Guard station.
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That form of male vanity is by no means absent from the seafaring tribe today.
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Raised on their father's tales of a seafaring ancestor, five out of the six studied history.
Times, Sunday Times
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We've lost the solid reputation developed over generations as a seafaring nation.
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In a time obsessed with figures and analyses he slashes away upon the field like an old-fashioned swashbuckler tackling pirates in some seafaring epic.
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To my immense surprise, I got enveloped in the seafaring adventure of the book.
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But remember, all those ropes and winches and seafaring clutter have an important function, and the crew will certainly need to be able to get to them (sometimes in a hurry).
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The Philistines were a seafaring people who inhabited the coast of Israel and Lebanon in the area of Gaza-Ashdod-Jaffa.
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seafaring vessels
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The result is this beautifully written account of seafaring life.
Times, Sunday Times
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It could be a result of our recent history as a seafaring nation, or a by-product of having some of the best universities in the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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Blowin '!" groaned one, as if that single word comprehended the essence of all the miseries that seafaring man is heir to.
The Lighthouse
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Ceuta, which bears the modern English name of Apes 'Hill, was then designated Abyla; and Calpe and Abyla, at least according to an ancient and widely current interpretation, formed the renowned pillars of Hercules (Herculis columnæ), which for centuries were the limits of enterprise to the seafaring peoples of the Mediterranean world.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889
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In his desire to make himself utterly irrecognizable as the seafaring man who had carried the tidings of the murder to Mellish Park, the captain had tortured himself by substituting a tight circular collar and a wisp of purple ribbon for the honest half-yard of snowy linen which it had been his habit to wear turned over the loose collar of his blue coat.
Aurora Floyd. A Novel
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Aeolis, where he was a seafaring trader and, perhaps, also a farmer.
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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Although by 1842 almost all major seafaring nations had officially outlawed the trade, in practice they turned a blind eye to its continuation.
Christianity Today
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But the maritime threat concerns all seafaring nations.
Times, Sunday Times
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The girls spin on; a kind of forewoman, Mary, upbraids Senta with idling and staring at the picture and dreaming away her life -- for the girl is quite open about her sympathy with the accursed seafaring man.
Richard Wagner Composer of Operas
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The next thing Eric Nerhus knew, half his body was inside the shark's mouth, which is kind of gross and also really bad for Eric Nerhus because - as seafaring attack animals go, sharks are pretty much the worst, with the exception of course of the North Pacific Giant Octopus, which is by all accounts a total dick and - under certain circumstances - a major cocktease.
Dave Hill: Shark Attack!
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There's a touch of romance about the sea, given that seafaring created the economies and history of the region before the skies took over as the main means of transport.
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Seafarers on such a register or list should have priority of engagement for seafaring.
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But we now know exactly the same thing happened with a hurricane in 1842, thanks to logs left by our seafaring ancestors.
The Sun
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And as a seafaring nation, what better excuse than celebrating the ocean itself?
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So a new idea was born, sometimes called the "beachcomber express," in which the first ex-Africans were seashore dwellers who spread rapidly around the coast of the Indian Ocean, showing an unexpected skill at seafaring to reach Australia across a strait that was at least 40 miles wide.
Did Early Humans Ride the Waves to Australia?
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The rowing contingent went first, led by four venerable Banks dories, the traditional high-ended, flat-bottomed boats emblematic of Yankee seafaring.
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Serving no seafaring purpose, the lighthouse is a fascinating landmark on the prairies providing a spectacular view of the many lakes, beaches, and resorts in the area.
The First World War Memoirs of Sampson J. Goodfellow, Part 6: Army Athletics
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However the Heritage Association has kept the village seafaring traditions alive through special events.
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A "tired and emotional" Lt Cdr Thomas Woodroffe reviewing the fleetRetired naval officer turned BBC presenter Lt Cdr Thomas Woodroffe had reportedly been royally entertained by his seafaring chums before taking to the microphone just before 11pm to commentate on a 1937 review of the fleet.
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