Sentence examples for black ship from inspiring English sources
Spring blossom; a row of decapitated heads; a black ship on a dark sea.
The black ship mail'd with iron, her mighty guns in her turrets but the pluck of the captain and engineers?
Probably word had come down from Chase for cutters to be on the lookout for black ship masters.
And then there are recycled classics like C. S. Forester's swashbuckling Horatio Hornblower adventures and more obscure novels like "The Black Ship," a 1963 work by Dudley Pope about a bloody mutiny aboard the H.M.S. Hermione in 1797.
Walking behind a mock "black ship," the American playing the part of Commodore Matthew C. Perry held up an ominous-looking document and brandished it at paradegoers here on a recent Sunday.
In my novel "Big Black Ship," I write about a non-human civilization that is not on planet Earth, and this civilization is developing according to its own history.
The Black Ships unite them with Goldfrapp violinist Davide Rossi and drummer Mig Shillace.
But then, in 1854, Commodore Perry and his Black Ships steamed into Yokohama Bay to force Japan open at gunpoint.
On the first day of the module, "Black Ships and Samurai," Miyagawa was set to give the lecture he had prepared with a PowerPoint presentation.
So it is hardly surprising that recent passers-by don't seem at all curious at the sight of tall black shipping containers rising from the sculpture court.
His opera Kurobune (1940; The Black Ships) deals with the opening of Japan to the West and reflects his knowledge of Wagnerian style.
