Sentence examples for a seagoing from inspiring English sources

Married to a provincial doctor, Ibsen's heroine is fixated on a seagoing stranger to whom she once pledged undying love.

Ms. Fine cast the network's new mini-series "Horatio Hornblower," whose title character, a seagoing man, unfailingly does the right thing.

Discovered by a sponge diver in 1984 and considered the oldest surviving example of a seagoing ship, it probably sank around 1300 B.C., packed with cargo representing a dozen cultures, from Nubia to the Balkans.

Not being a seagoing breed, poets rarely die by water — Shelley drowned in a sudden squall; but he had written 1,500 pages of poetry, while Crane left only two very short books and the shards of a third.

Alaskan Inuits have legends of the kikituk, a seagoing reptile that walks ashore hunting humans, and bone carvings of giant four-legged reptiles confronting men and caribou were cataloged in 1897.

Eventually, but probably not for a week or more, the Navy plans to make the Cole sufficiently seaworthy to tow it from its sheltered position in the Bay of Aden to a rendezvous with a Norwegian-owned ship that is a combination of a seagoing flatbed and drydock.

She was conceived as a small, inexpensive coastal defence ship, but the Navy abandoned the concept in favor of a compact, seagoing battleship with a displacement of 8880 LT.

Admiral Loy, a career seagoing officer who became Coast Guard commandant in May 1998, has said the only way to ensure that it is safe is to take apart the transportation system from "stem to stern" and reassemble it.

The fact that there was no such thing as the State Department Naval Liaison Officer didn't bother him, any more than the fact that his uniform was actually that of an officer in the United States Junior Naval Reserves, a non-governmental organization that was a kind of seagoing Boy Scout affair.

This shows the arrival of an Asiatic princess to be the pharaoh's bride; her escort is a fleet of seagoing ships, probably of the type known to the Egyptians as "Byblos ships," manned by crews of Asiatics, evidently Phoenicians.

To the builders of the 21st-century World Trade Center it is both an obstacle and an engineering marvel of 19th-century New York: the massive granite river wall that opened Manhattan's edges to a world of seagoing commerce.