Thesaurus / trireme
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Of the Rhodian fleet two quinqueremes and a trireme were destroyed, but no ship was taken.
THE HISTORIES OF POLYBIUS, VOL. II (OF 2)POLYBIUSThe arrival of this trireme was thus of very essential service to the Greeks.
XERXESJACOB ABBOTTHe describes the sword as like the beak of the ship known as the trireme, which was rowed with three banks of oars.
TALES OF FISHESZANE GREYIt has been like a splendid and richly-dressed trireme sailing, plague-stricken, into a harbor full of ships and boats.
SERAPIS, COMPLETEGEORG EBERSAnd there, in the soft embracement of the bay, a bird with folded wings asleep—the trireme!
THE PRINCE OF INDIA, VOLUME ILEW. WALLACEThe trireme and the assemblage of admiring townspeople had disappeared, leaving the bay and its shores to their wonted quiet.
THE PRINCE OF INDIA, VOLUME ILEW. WALLACEWe must send at once, and ask Theopompus to hire a fast trireme for us, and have it put in sailing order at once.
AN EGYPTIAN PRINCESS, COMPLETEGEORG EBERSAnd from this circumstance that house was called the Trireme.
THE DEIPNOSOPHISTS, OR BANQUET OF THE LEARNED OF ATHENUSATHENUSThe rowers set to work with a will, notwithstanding that the imperial trireme was now disabled.
QUINTUS CLAUDIUS, VOLUME 2 OF 2ERNST ECKSTEINIn two minutes more it was fast to the side of the trireme, and the ladies and the crew were placed in safety.
QUINTUS CLAUDIUS, VOLUME 1 OF 2ERNST ECKSTEINWORDS RELATED TO TRIREME
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