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Example sentences for "four ships"

  • Unquestionably, he would not have kept long in idle expectancy twenty-four ships, the number he had in mind; but clearly also he proposed to hold them until he saw how things went with Collingwood.

  • It would have given the advantage they wished and brought their whole twenty-four ships of the line against the English nineteen, whereas by watching his opportunity .

  • The King was besought to send a fleet of four ships to the rescue and recapture of Fort Nelson.

  • In the second decade of the century the North-West Association had over three hundred Canadians in its employ on the Pacific slope, sending three or four ships annually to London by way of Cape Horn.

  • Lord Howe, who on the change of ministry was appointed to command the channel fleet, sailed to its relief on the 11th with thirty-four ships of the line and many store-ships and transports.

  • He patiently built up a new navy, until France had afloat sixty-four ships of the line and fifty frigates; and he organised the naval artillery.

  • The channel fleet, thirty-four ships of the line and fifteen frigates, under Howe, sailed on May 2 with 148 merchantmen bound for different parts.

  • On the 30th there was a thick fog, and during the day the French received a reinforcement of four ships, giving them the advantage of one over the British.

  • At first, however, the reports were favourable, and in the following year a new armament of four ships and 1800 colonists left Scotland for Caledonia, as the new settlement was called.

  • The total loss up to this time of the French navy was sixty-four ships, without counting Thurot's squadron.

  • Their navy gradually dwindled away, till it was represented by three or four ships only.

  • The English this day had forty-four ships in action, the Dutch about eighty; many of the English, as before said, larger.

  • Sometime in the year 1578, four ships arrived at Goa from Portugal, under the command of Francisco de Sousa, who immediately on landing went to the archbishop Don Gaspar, to whom he delivered a packet from the king.

  • The messenger sent upon this occasion was answered by a flight of arrows, and twenty-four ships belonging to Calicut and other places put themselves in readiness to oppose the Portuguese.

  • The assertion that the King sent an expedition of discovery, consisting of four ships, in May 1497, is not corroborated.

  • The statement made by Vespucci respecting his alleged first voyage is as follows: He says that an expedition of discovery was sent by the King, consisting of four ships, and that the King chose him to go with it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    four bells; four centuries; four cloves; four companies; four dollars; four fathoms; four million; four points; four quarters; four rows; four sail; four table; four times; four vessels; foure dayes; fourteen miles; fourteen thousand; fourth edition; fourths inches; hardly know; literary education; might appear; securing the; something beyond; steam yacht; till suddenly