Sentence examples for brig of a from inspiring English sources

It helped, somehow, that Michael uttered this Churchillian sentiment while wearing plastic handcuffs and shivering in the makeshift brig of a booze-cruise boat on Scranton's Lake Wallenpaupack.

The legal questions include: Does Article 22 apply to Mr. Ruqai, and does the article prohibit a period of several weeks in the brig of a large Navy ship?

The British captain could not prove that the supplies were for the rebels, but he charged John with burning the Gaspee and sent him to Boston in the brig of a warship.

Abu Anas al-Liby, indicted by the US 13 years ago for his role in embassy bombings that killed more than 220 people, is in the brig of a US navy ship somewhere in the Mediterranean, waiting to learn if he will be tried in the New York federal court that indicted him, or face a military commission.

After another broadside in Libertadors direction, two Mexicans lay dead and a few more were wounded aboard the brig-of-war.

THAT WAS NEW YORK about the "intended mutiny" aboard the U. S. brig-of-war Somers, in 1842.

By A. J. Liebling The New Yorker, February 18 , 1939P. 35 THAT WAS NEW YORK about the "intended mutiny" aboard the U. S. brig-of-war Somers, in 1842.

HMS Speedy was a 14-gun Speedy-class brig of the British Royal Navy.

Breeze -- brig, of and from Philadelphia for Galveston, July 2, off Key West.

David produced Adolfas Mekas's first film, Hallelujah the Hills (1963), and Jonas Mekas's record of the Living Theatre stage production of The Brig (1964), an unsparing picture of life shot surreptitiously in a US Marines jail.

Rising to the rank of captain, Surcouf took command of the brig Créole, a four-gun slave ship.