Sentence example with the word 'pinnaces'

pinnaces

Last update: September 21, 2015


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Thereupon Claiborne's men, with the shallop Cockatrice, in retaliation attacked Maryland pinnaces and lost both their lives and their boat.   [Please select]

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_--and the third, of twelve men only, to guard the pinnaces.   [Please select]

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A Spanish squadron, however, forced both pinnaces to run back for their lives.   [Please select]

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The 'pinnace' (quite different from more modern pinnaces) was the frigate or the cruiser.   [Please select]

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The wind was threatening, and, the supply of provisions beginning to fail, Howard and Drake determined on returning homeward, leaving a couple of pinnaces to dog the Spaniards past the Scottish isles.   [Please select]

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The entire English navy contained but thirteen ships of over four hundred tons, and including small cutters and pinnaces there were but thirty-eight vessels of all sorts and sizes carrying the queen's flag.   [Please select]

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