Example Sentences

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He asserted that American shippers must combine to remove the discriminating measures, in order to restore the flags of privately owned American Merchantmen to the high seas.

From Time Magazine Archive

Merchantmen were permitted to arm against the French.

From The United States of America, Part 1 by Sparks, Edwin Erle

Merchantmen With trampling horses, elephants, and wains, Made passage of a river, running slow In cool, clear waves.

From Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala by Arnold, Edwin, Sir

We are informd that Eleven Sail of Merchantmen & a Frigate have fallen into his Hands.

From The Writings of Samuel Adams - Volume 4 by Cushing, Harry Alonzo

English Merchantmen of the size and date of the Godspeed 40 tons, Susan Constant 100 tons, and the "pinnessee" Discovery 20 tons maneuvering for anchorage off Jamestown Island 1607.

From The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624 by Hatch, Charles E.