| 单词 | carack |
| 例句 | It possessed no stately caracks, its business and want of opulence confining all its efforts to the lighter caravel and the still more diminutive felucca. Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay 2011-06-14T02:00:24.670Z Nuala signaled the other carack to bear down with her, and presently they made out that it was a large sailing galley, which headed straight for them. Nuala O'Malley Three days afterwards a sailor on the look-out descried several Spanish caracks to leeward, to which they signalled, and having joined company sailed on together. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 29, May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly She was a large ship of the corvette kind, with something of the carack and something of the polacca about her. Marjorie In a battle of thirty-two hours, against twenty-four Spanish ships, they failed to capture two great caracks which they coveted. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography His ships were scattered, for the sails could not keep up with the oars, and Condulmiero’s huge Venetian carack was becalmed off Zuara, a long way behind, and others were in no better plight. The Story of the Barbary Corsairs The galley came straight for them as if seeking speech, however, and when a falconet was fired from the carack without charge, she lowered her sail and put out her sweeps, coming straight for them. Nuala O'Malley The carack kept her course, but, as Drake drew near, began displaying her colors nervously. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 And desolate, my desolations pity, Thou in thy beauty's carack sitt'st to see My tragic downfall, and my funeral ditty. Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana On August 27, Ralegh and Hawkins had jointly written to the High Admiral, asking for convoy for the carack. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography He likewise brought home the St Philip, a very rich prize, said by the writers of these times to have been the first carack ever taken and brought home to England. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. There came a new burst of cannon, and through the veil of smoke he perceived that Nuala was laying her carack alongside one of the pirate ships. Nuala O'Malley The words of dying men are said to be prophetic, so these his words came to pass, for he was slain not long after by a great shot from the carack. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time The Regent grappled with a great carack of Brest; the French, on the English boarding their ship, set fire to the gunpowder, and both ships were blown up, with all their men. Men of Invention and Industry Through a Dutch captain's over-haste, an 1800 ton carack 'of infinite wealth, laden with the riches of the East and West,' eluded him. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography Face to face stood he now with Rosamund, for the first time since that day before the encounter with the Dutch argosy when he had sought her in the cabin of the carack. The Sea-Hawk Her second carack had fallen behind, a shot having sent its foremast overside, but the other two ships were driving in. Nuala O'Malley A little before night the carack put to sea, when we also weighed and made sail after her. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Sherborne Manor, a rich share in the great carack, a beautiful wife, a child; what more does this man want to make him happy? Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time It chanced that one fine carack had outstripped its consorts and came sweeping along, all red and gold, with a fringe of twinkling steel, a good half-mile before the fleet. Sir Nigel Had he not scuttled a Spanish carack four years ago in the bay of Funchal? The Sea-Hawk In Chapter VII, "which were small carracks" was changed to "which were small caracks". Nuala O'Malley But the carack was still burning, and not a man belonging to her was to be seen. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Also, Nuala had told him herself that her ships had not preyed on the commerce of Galway's merchants, but only on certain foreign caracks which free-traded along the coast. Nuala O'Malley A dozen men in the tops of the carack were balancing a huge stone with the intention of dropping it over on the English deck. Sir Nigel Grief-stricken his corsairs bore him back aboard the carack. The Sea-Hawk That night the two caracks separated, standing well off the land and keeping good watch, but no sign did they catch of the O'Donnell pirates. Nuala O'Malley But, of 700 who sailed in the carack, there came not above 250 to Goa, as we were afterwards credibly informed. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time He remembered little of that voyage, for they met two caracks crowded with men off Innishark that afternoon, found they were the expected O'Malleys from the North, and turned back with them at once. Nuala O'Malley They were huge caracks, high-ended and portly, with red sides and bulwarks carved and crusted with gold. Sir Nigel With the next morning the Bird Daughter said farewell and went aboard Lame Art's carack. Nuala O'Malley He saw that the Dark Master must have sent this galley out to meet the Millhaven men, and that the crew had taken the two caracks for those pirate ships. Nuala O'Malley Goa is their metropolitan city in India, which stands in a small island, being the seat of their viceroy, and the anchoring place of their caracks. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time The two larger ships, which were small caracks, but large for the west coast in that day, bore six guns on a side, and Brian saw that they were being scrubbed and made shipshape. Nuala O'Malley But by an evil chance not a bowshot from the great Spanish carack was a low galley, thin and swift, with oars which could speed her against wind or tide. Sir Nigel If those Millhaven men had four ships driving down before that storm, as seemed probable enough, the Bird Daughter's two little caracks would never land men under the guns of Bertragh. Nuala O'Malley The master of the galley got aboard over the low waist of the carack, and Brian ordered a dozen of his own green-faced men down into the smaller ship. Nuala O'Malley After we had seen the carack set on fire, which was about midnight of the 8th, we stood off and on till morning, to see if we might find any thing in her ashes. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time "Keep a watch to seaward, Yellow Brian, and when you see four sail turning the headland, judge if those two caracks of the Bird Daughter's are like to help you." Nuala O'Malley A great carack was within a bowshot of them and crossing their bows. Sir Nigel Nuala had sent fifty of her men to join Turlough, left twenty to hold her castle, and had ten with her upon the carack. Nuala O'Malley This was clearly the best plan, so Brian sent Teague down into the galley and followed him, as the light ship was faster than the caracks. Nuala O'Malley The dismasted carack, which the King's ship had left behind it, had been carried by the Earl of Suffolk's Christopher, and the water was dotted with the heads of her crew. Sir Nigel Then it was over, and a crowd of weary, overstrained men leaned panting upon their weapons, or lay breathless and exhausted upon the deck of the captured carack. Sir Nigel |
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