Sentence examples for nautical tale from inspiring English sources
It was originally published as a three-part serialisation in Blackwood's Magazine from February to April 1899 (a commission for the 1,000th issue of the magazine), where it was promoted as a nautical tale by a writer whose work was at first (mistakenly) associated with the sea.
For Children CAPE MAY POINT STATE PARK "Storytelling at The Lighthouse," nautical tales and lighthouse adventure stories.
The book's plot is little more than a set of hooks on which Bastian hangs his garlands of fairy-tale nautical imagery: a sword-wielding girl with mysterious powers searches for her pirate-captain father on "the Omerta Seas," encountering a magical parrot named Pepper Dice, the ringletted daughter of the local governor and various unsavory seafarers.
She has now unleashed her voracious appetite for quaint nautical minutiae on wild tales of women's bravery and bloodlust from antiquity to the 20th century.
So, OK, the plot is a little thin, but there are still some good nautical miles left in this wacky tale about a shipload of colorful characters heading to Europe -- stock brokers; a gangster in clerical disguise; an English lord and an American mother determined to get her daughter hitched to him.
Casting Off, by Emma Bamford (Adlard Coles Nautical £8.99) An accessible and appealing true-life tale of Independent journalist Emma Bamford who gives up her job and her London life to sail the high seas with strangers.
Nautical Nightmares: haunted coastal village, complete with ghost tales and legends from days gone by.
He changed the subject, entertaining the table with tales of bizarre crewmembers and the nautical origin of words.
MYSTIC Mystic Seaport "Eighth Annual Nautical Nightmares," progressive performance through the museum's 19th-century village featuring tales of New England's historic mysteries.
MYSTIC Mystic Seaport "Eighth Annual Nautical Nightmares," progressive performance through the museum's 19th-century village featuring tales of New England's historic ghosts, legends and unsolved mysteries.
