Sentence examples for several voyages from inspiring English sources

The British government showed its interest by backing several voyages.

Shows routes on several voyages and northernmost points of many voyages.

Lancaster remained a director of the company, and he sponsored several voyages in search of the Northwest Passage, the American Arctic waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

He made several voyages to Spain to defend his position in 1515 and 1523 but died without any final decision on his rights.

She stretches from her chair, moving out in several voyages to spin and lunge and squat before returning to the chair.

In 1770 71 Dalrymple published his twovolume Historical Collection of the Several Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean, in which he continued to assert the existence of the continent.

A French claim of 1772 was unenforced despite several later voyages.

Adams was allowed to undertake several overseas voyages between 1614 and 1619, traveling as far as Southeast Asia.

The Free Gaza Movement has organized several aid voyages since the summer of 2008, usually consisting of one or two vessels.

Over several research voyages, oceanographers had collected thousands of samples of sea water from the deep ocean (below a depth of 500 metres) around the world.

Despite the fact that he participated in several buccaneering voyages, the English seaman William Dampier, who was active in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, may be regarded as the first to travel mainly to satisfy scientific curiosity.