Yea, and two other sons of Poseidon came; one Erginus, who left the citadel of glorious Miletus, the other proud Ancaeus, who left Parthenia, the seat of Imbrasion Hera; both boasted their skill in sea-craft and in war. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Tigris – Euphrates land, where sea-craft has not changed since the days of Xisisthrus – Noah, and long before. ❋ Unknown (2006)
In spite of all the captain's sea-craft the ship was being driven nearer to the dreaded, low, shingle beach of the island that stretched along the northern edge of the sea. ❋ Basil Mathews (N/A)
Parthenia, the seat of Imbrasion Hera; both boasted their skill in sea-craft and in war. ❋ Apollonius Rhodius (N/A)
Very few days sufficed to put the rigging and sails in perfect condition; to mount my sixteen guns; to drill the men with small arms as well as artillery; and by paint and sea-craft, to disguise the Saint Paul as a very respectable cruiser. ❋ Theodore Canot (N/A)
By sea and land they come -- rumours of things half seen, half heard -- glimpses of enemy aircraft, sea-craft. ❋ Unknown (1899)
I very soon found out that they knew what they were talking about -- in fact, between you and me, I should have said that they were as experienced in sea-craft as any man could be! ❋ Unknown (1899)
Names are odious, but I remember one of them who might have been their very president, the P.R.A. of the sea-craft. ❋ Joseph Conrad (1890)
The mysteriously born tradition of sea-craft commands unity in a body of workers engaged in an occupation in which men have to depend upon each other. ❋ Joseph Conrad (1890)
Some of them would bring their wives with them for the voyage; uniformly rather pretty women, a trifle dressy, somewhat fragile in appearance, but really sound enough; naive, simple, good souls, loving their husbands and magnifying them, and taking a vicarious pride in their ships and sea-craft. ❋ Julian Hawthorne (1890)
Was not the big, bluff Captain himself, with his unfathomable sea-craft and his autocratic power, a regular old Viking such as you might read of in your history books, but would hardly expect to meet with in the flesh? ❋ Anna Fuller (1884)
He was working patiently and steadily, as men must needs work when fighting Nature, and his half-forgotten sea-craft was already coming back. ❋ Henry Seton Merriman (1882)
From the sea the old brown farmhouse seemed a snug haven of refuge; from the inland road it appeared, with its spreading, sloping roofs, like an ancient sea-craft come ashore, which had been covered in and then embowered by kindly Nature with foliage. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)
Lottie, finding her services were not needed in Miss Martell's room, went down to the kitchen, where she found the half-frozen oarsman-now rigged out in the dress-coat and white vest of the colored waiter -- and the brave coachman who had put his old sea-craft to such good use. ❋ Edward Payson Roe (1863)
This interesting relic, doubtless the oldest ship in the world, once served the Vikings, its masters, as a sea-craft. ❋ Maturin Murray Ballou (1857)
[FN#40] Still customary in Tigris-Euphrates land, where sea-craft has not changed since the days of Xisisthrus-Noah, and long before. ❋ Anonymous (1855)
What remnants of sea-craft, arsenals, roperies, war-navy France had, has given itself to these enemies of human nature, ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
His text was appropriate, -- "He bringeth them into their desired haven;" and as his sea-craft and his theology were alike excellent, there were no incongruities in his allegory, and no defects in his mode of applying it, and the seamen were hugely delighted. ❋ Hugh Miller (1829)
